Someone in this town
Is trying to burn the foreheads down
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- First Paragraphs From Stories I'll Never Write Episode 2
The nails didn't hurt nearly as much as I'd expected going in, but the pain bombshell blossomed as they dropped the post into the hole and levered us upright. My brother's head was wobbling a bit on our right shoulder...
Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:01:45 +0900
- LOLifornication
I've been downloading and cycloptically watching the new series Californication because a) I quite like David Duchovny b) he plays a hard-drinking writer c) the pilot episode was so chickablock with prettily wobbling breastflesh that, well, how could I say...
Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:32:39 +0900
- First Paragraphs From Stories I'll Never Write Episode 1
They beat him hard hauling him out of St Paul's after he crapped in front of the High Altar, but he barely felt it through the hockey pads and the exhilaration. Light rain was falling in London, and it cooled...
Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:34:15 +0900
- Armageddon Schadenfreude
When I was a teenager, I thought a lot about the end of the world. In particular, the rain of nukes that always seemed just around the corner. I was fascinated and terrified. I suppose that's not an unusual thing...
Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:36:32 +0900
- Emptybottle Version 4.0
Well, I've rolled out the new design to the front page (as you can see if you're not reading this in a feedreader). I'm pretty happy with it -- it's still a bit crufty, but I get excited about this...
Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:06:16 +0900
- SNAFU
Well, I've upgraded to MT4, and it was relatively painless, once I paid attention to what I was doing. I've somehow lost a lot of styling from my arcane crufty old mix of inter-connected stylesheets, all scotch-taped and chewing-gummed together,...
Sun, 19 Aug 2007 16:51:46 +0900
- Installing Movable Type 4 with XAMPP (on Windows XP)
I'm working on a design update for the old 'bottle, and I'm going to do it on Movable Type 4, which is now on Release Candidate 4 as I write this, and looking good. I've decided to use XAMPP, an...
Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:25:29 +0900
- Pownce Invites
Not much to say at any length lately, but I've been posting snippets and amusing pictures and links and stuff to the Glorious Wonderchicken Aggregator Thingy at a rate of knots, so be sure to check that if you're hungry...
Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:31:31 +0900
- Wonderchicken 08
The exploratory committee has come back with a dog-choker of a bar bill, the Portobello market magic 8-ball has come up with a big och-aye, the goat entrails are vermiformally encouraging, and the Voices of The Peoples have been heard....
Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:42:07 +0900
- Movable Type on The Rebound
I'm really pleased to see Sixapart's new direction with Movable Type. I haven't really seen that much talk about it around the blogs (which I only keep half an eye on these days, mostly because I'm busy on my own...
Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:54:52 +0900
- Weird and Fractured
It's all weird and fractured. It's all electrical and chemical. It's all bump and grind. It's all cheese and mustard. It's all time to drink and go to work. It's all fuck you buddy and love your neighbour. It's all...
Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:24:01 +0900
- Wonderchicken-o-rama
I'm screwing around with about 17 different projects at the moment (and one of them I'm actually going to get paid for, woohoo), but here's something that I've always wanted to do, and Tumblr has finally made easy-peasy and pretty...
Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:08:57 +0900
- Conditional Adsense -- In Which I Hop On The Bandwagon
I've spent a lot of words over the years railing against the infiltration of advertising into our weblog world, and enjoyed that righteous glow that comes from standing up for a principle, regardless of how well- (or poorly-) founded the...
Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:14:14 +0900
- Badges (Steenking Badges)
So, yeah, the colossally stupid Kathy Sierra Pantyshopped Trollgate shitstorm is subsiding, and in the wake of the sturm und drang and handwringing, folks are taking up the pitchforks and the duct tape and proposing all sorts of protect-the-fatherHomeland ideas...
Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:51:42 +0900
- Not A Howl, A Twitter
[Some of this seemed to crystallize for me after listening to Bruce Sterling's excellent talk at SXSW 2007. So thanks to him, and you know, grain of salt.] We grew up watching. If you're 50 or 40 or 30 or...
Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:02:15 +0900