Miscellany 2003

Thoughts on Blogspace

March 5, 2003

I believe I might be attaching a purity to the weblog concept that is misplaced. I wouldn’t place those same ideals on population as a whole, so why should I do it to the blogged world? Freedom to write whatever I want is a fine thing and, perhaps, I imposing concepts of integrity that are incompatible with this freedom?

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Elsewhere: Blogging & Advertising

March 4, 2003

Over on the ukbloggers-discuss at Yahoo Groups, we’ve been having a discussion about advertising, prompted by Tom Coates asking, “Did we ever come to any conclusions about the appropriateness of advertising?” in the context of blogging. In essence we’re saying that blogging is personal and, if you decide that your audience will accept advertising, what does this mean and how iwll it work for a blog?

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Ben Affleck In Tight Leather

March 1, 2003

Looking at the referrer logs for this site, a lot of people are getting here thanks to my mention of Ben Affleck in tight leather. Ben Affleck in tight leather – why are you looking for those pictures?

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Elsewhere: The Kenneth Williams Diaries

February 20, 2003

The diaries are very well written and DaviesÂ’ editing not intrusive. Williams certainly didnÂ’t appear to edit himself and the result is a frank and articulate book.

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Film: Daredevil

February 16, 2003

I really can’Â’t be sure what made this film fail for me. Maybe it was too dark for a super-hero flick or maybe that the story was not compelling. Maybe it was the fact that at least one villain survived for a sequel in a far too obvious fashion.

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Pop

January 28, 2003

I am currently listening to pop. This is a difficult thing to write. Pop is not considered to be a credible music genre by people who listen to lots of music. Pop is considered the home of the boy band. Pop is the cheap and nasty side of music.

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Film: 8 Mile

January 19, 2003

I have no idea if this in any way reflects real life in downtown Detroit. I have no clue if rap culture is, in any way, well served by his film but it is a great movie which I thoroughly recommend.

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Film: The Good Girl

January 18, 2003

Good. But not good enough. While Aniston is good, she is not great. It seems much of the praise is due to the fact that she is playing against the Friends Rachel-type. She an actress for goodness sake, if she only has that one role she has no career. This role proves she can play against type and, I guess, that means she is an actress.

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The Grand Old Duke

January 4, 2003

I decided to go on the backstage tour at The Duke of York’s Theatre. It is a fascinating tour of the old London theatre that was built when the area was underdeveloped and helped transform that side of Charing Cross Road into the entertainment area it is today.

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