Samuel Pepys diary becomes weblog: so who's diary would you like to see online now?

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for pepys they'll publish one diary entry a day for the next 43 years, so it will be the oldest weblog now i guess, where you can read abt daily life in England in the 17th century.

http://www.pepysdiary.com

who's diary would you like to see online in the near future?

― erik, Friday, 3 January 2003 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

b...b...b...but he didn't keep a diary for 43 years!

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 3 January 2003 18:42 (twenty-two years ago)

and it's one of those rubbish expurgated editions. Bah.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 3 January 2003 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Andy Warhol, please!

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 3 January 2003 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Billy Corgan!

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 3 January 2003 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I just finished (on New Year's Eve) a huge anthology of diarists - The Assassin's Cloak. It was organised by the day of the year, so I read it a day at a time through 2002. I have therefore had enough of all such things for a while. The Warhol excerpts were my favourites, I think. Kenneth Williams is good too.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 3 January 2003 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh man this goes on for 43 years? I hope some exciting shit happens to him, but I feareth that the 17th C. was pretty Bloody dull.

― Aaron W, Friday, 3 January 2003 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)

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http://members.rott.chello.nl/e.visser25/Pepys.jpg

― erik, Friday, 3 January 2003 19:22 (twenty-two years ago)

17th C. = boring but nice penmanship!

― Aaron W, Friday, 3 January 2003 19:28 (twenty-two years ago)

pretty Bloody dull

yeah apart from plagues, a fire that burned away great parts of london
and a few sea balttles. but its the daily life interest that seems to be the quality of the diary.

― erik, Friday, 3 January 2003 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

How long do I have to wait for the plauges and fire and sea battles??? And don't tell me "years."

― Aaron W, Friday, 3 January 2003 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Pepys spends time complaining about ulcers, talking about sex with his wife, etc. in addition to chronicling political intrigue and catastrophe. It's all pretty interesting.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 3 January 2003 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I throw in joe orton's diary in then, for its been out of print for some time I guess?

amateurist saves this thread from the plague.

― erik, Friday, 3 January 2003 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Although I have no idea at all whether he has ever kept a diary, I'm going to plump for Richard E. Grant. Stopping, of course, just before he started doing those bloody Argos adverts.

― SittingPretty, Monday, 6 January 2003 11:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I keep meaning to turn my 1990-4 one into a weblog.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 6 January 2003 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

nineteen years pass...

not only was it kept very extremely private it was in a code* they didn't break until the 19th century

Roger Pepys, and I, and my wife, and aunt to see Mr. Cole; but he nor his wife was within, but we looked upon his picture of Cleopatra, which I went to see, being commended by my wife and aunt; but I find it a base copy of a good originall that vexed me to hear so much commended.
— Samuel Pepys (@samuelpepys) January 29, 2022

*actually a form of shorthand that ppl had long ago stopped using: the actual real codebreaker, john smith**, realised this halfway through his decoding labours and was so irritated (bcz a manual for the shorthand was kept right there in his own college library lol) that he just pretended he'd decoded it all himself
**real name? i think not

meanwhile pepys is a poster and that's what matters

― mark s, Saturday, 29 January 2022 15:01 (three years ago)

rockist Pepys prefers the originall

― Reader, I buried him (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 29 January 2022 15:08 (three years ago)

based copy

― mark s, Saturday, 29 January 2022 15:17 (three years ago)

I FPed Pepys just because.

― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 29 January 2022 15:26 (three years ago)

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