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3 new weblogs (plus one coming next month)

7 new articles.

Loads of little things I need to change (eg the kitten)

But fuck it, I'm off to get a beer in. I'll start separate article response threads later, or you can do it yourselves.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

this looks fantastic, i'm going to read it all now. is pumpkin publog taking on new writers? i've always fancied having a go...

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Test Post 2 is OTM

― bunting (zebedee), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

lookin good, nice inter-weaving of everything, hurrazah

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha was Test Post 2 not deleted? That means THE BUZZ is still there.

Yes Toby - ask Pete.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Tom, I heart you...seriously. It was a vacant space without The Trigger. (dry tone)Any one brave enough to actually say they adore The Rapture with a straight face deserves the Purple Heart. The article almost made me feel like I was sweating through Glasto with all of you....without the warm, expensive beer, scary food and falling down drunk face first into rubbish.

(if you are looking for any more articles, I'm open....)

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Kitty!

More thoughts later, for now rah!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't wait to read it! Access to the site is blocked at work (maybe because of the "Freaky" part of the domain name made it sound like a freaky porn site? I don't know...), but I will be reading it when I get home.

― Larcole (Nicole), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

It's tres spiff, Larcole. :-) I must sign up for the Pumpkin blog now...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

That gave me a fright! For a second there I thought you meant that a Smashing Pumpkins blog was part of the new site.

― Larcole (Nicole), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think you should delete the kitten.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Got summat against the Pumpkins do we, Lars;>?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Larcole unfortunately has fallen into grievous error on this point, Nichole, but it is part of the warp and woof of life.

Any, Pumpkin blog = food and drink = the blog of goodness for all!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)

The warp and woof of life?

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Ally, didn't you hear about the packs of roving canines that are part of the UCI subculture?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I keep forgetting that most of Ally's preferred lit was created after the Industrial Revolution. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I've already got another blog entry cookin' up.

― Mandee, Wednesday, 6 August 2003 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it will take awhile to get used to and warm up to. I'm not really sure what to make of it yet.

― Larcole (Nicole), Thursday, 7 August 2003 00:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn, master Yoda, I'm sorry I said anything about your ridiculous manner of speaking.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 7 August 2003 02:14 (twenty-two years ago)

remind me: who do you hafta fuck to write for this dillyo?

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Thursday, 7 August 2003 02:29 (twenty-two years ago)

N. That's how I got in, at least.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 7 August 2003 02:30 (twenty-two years ago)

N.: it's turkey time

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Thursday, 7 August 2003 02:34 (twenty-two years ago)

GOBBLE GOBBLE.

― A. Lo (mlescaut), Thursday, 7 August 2003 02:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Tom, this is magnificent.

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 7 August 2003 02:39 (twenty-two years ago)

That explains a lot.

― Larcole (Nicole), Thursday, 7 August 2003 02:40 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, bravo Tom et al.

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Thursday, 7 August 2003 02:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Well the morning sun has risen on the new dawn of Freaky Trigger.

Pity about that darn cat. I'd like to big up in particular the spectacular Lara Croft article by Magnus.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 7 August 2003 09:04 (twenty-two years ago)

It all looks great but how about updating the links and Urgent and Key?

― robotchant (sine), Thursday, 7 August 2003 09:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Bootiful! In every sense.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 7 August 2003 09:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I started an NYLPM thing last night but was interrupted by some prawns.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 7 August 2003 09:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Roy Keane to thread!
(New FT marvellous- congrats to all involved)

― Richard Jones (scarne), Thursday, 7 August 2003 09:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Aaah! It's gone again! Well, the frontpage has. Or did I dream it?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 7 August 2003 09:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I can still see it Andrew.

Perhaps you've been banned.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 7 August 2003 09:19 (twenty-two years ago)

update the links Tom.

― robotchant (sine), Thursday, 7 August 2003 09:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Is there a frontpage different from the FreakyTrigger club flier? I though there was (with cat photo, and maybe links to articles), but I only get the flier now. Anyway, can anyone give me a link to the Magnus article, then?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 7 August 2003 09:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I <3 Freaky Trigger.

I'm kinda scared of this new one though. It seems a bit more 'no bullshit, back to basics'. Maybe my low self-esteem is projecting again.

― David. (Cozen), Thursday, 7 August 2003 09:25 (twenty-two years ago)

It's just crappy BTconnect propagating Andrew.

David there is plenty of bullshit still required - talking in a pub demands it!

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 7 August 2003 09:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Here: http://www.freakytrigger.co.uk/lara.html

― robotchant (sine), Thursday, 7 August 2003 09:27 (twenty-two years ago)

The new Freaky Trigger is superb and has effectively neutralised any chance I had of getting some work done today. Thanks guys!

― robster (robster), Thursday, 7 August 2003 09:28 (twenty-two years ago)

'Pretty' bullshit?

― David. (Cozen), Thursday, 7 August 2003 09:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm all in favour of prettiness!

I want somebody reading one article to have very little idea what kind of style to expect from the next one.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 7 August 2003 09:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you thinking about adding new links to NYLPM?

― robotchant (sine), Thursday, 7 August 2003 09:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Dear Mr Robotchant

All things come to he who wait. The co-editors are all at work and will get to your request as soon as humanly possible. We cannot all be chanting robots.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 7 August 2003 09:39 (twenty-two years ago)

more's the pity

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 7 August 2003 09:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah I'm going to revise the NYLPM links but it won't be until later - what link in particular were you thinking of robotchant?

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 7 August 2003 09:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry :-( Its not that important.

― robotchant (sine), Thursday, 7 August 2003 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I think that this is a quite specific thread heading for ruin.

― David. (Cozen), Thursday, 7 August 2003 09:46 (twenty-two years ago)

(Oops, that's where that went.)

― David. (Cozen), Thursday, 7 August 2003 09:46 (twenty-two years ago)

The staff of FT do have their antiquarian side mind you.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 7 August 2003 09:48 (twenty-two years ago)

it looks good and I like the range of articles.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 7 August 2003 10:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Skipping 50 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

*scratches head*
Though I think I may only have two ideas per year anyway so that's me done...

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 22 August 2003 09:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Surely Tim H's burgeoning 'views from urinals' series should be in Do You See instead of the Publog. It certainly has crossover appeal.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 22 August 2003 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)

What about pop-up books ?

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 22 August 2003 10:08 (twenty-two years ago)

What was the point of that Lewis Carrol prog that was on last night? I only caught the end of it.

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 22 August 2003 10:15 (twenty-two years ago)

however it is U&K that BW doesn't become a repository for all the poncey stuff...

theatre (if you must) = DYS
experimental poncey art performance = BW

oh dear, i'm defeating my own argument here aren't i....

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 22 August 2003 10:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Opera = NYLPM.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 22 August 2003 10:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh while we've revived this - the next big update of FT is on the 1st of September so write to me now if you fancy writing an article for us! Thanks! (and I will get back to the people who have written, too).

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 22 August 2003 10:45 (twenty-two years ago)

ha. there is little danger of BW becoming all poncey high art stuff. I've just written a little item about stupid old superhero comics that I'll put up soon.

The most awkward demarcation problem is the films that, as Tim H has been known to say, are so bad that they can only get shown in art galleries, i.e. video art.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 23 August 2003 12:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I like video art :(

― David. (Cozen), Saturday, 23 August 2003 12:53 (twenty-two years ago)

So do I, at times, but lots of it is dreary rubbish. But it's on a screen and it moves, so does where it is shown make all the difference as to which blog it goes on? If you see a Cremaster in a cinema, does it go on Do You See? but if it's in a gallery it goes on the Brown Wedge?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 23 August 2003 16:44 (twenty-two years ago)

VIDEO ART:
if it moves DO YOU SEE
if you move BROWN WEDGE
if you eat PUMPKIN PUBLOG
if you whistle or hum NYPLM

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 24 August 2003 10:35 (twenty-two years ago)

three weeks pass...

the comments link from TOO MACHO TO DISCUS seems to link you to a deleted thread :(

i wanted to suggest that the phones straight to the horse's ear wd be used by WHISPERERS not SHOUTERS

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 15 September 2003 09:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Fixed.

You can do this great joke again if you want.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 15 September 2003 09:47 (twenty-two years ago)

if it moves DO YOU SEE
if it moves you BROWN WEDGE
if you move TMFD
if you eat PUMPKIN PUBLOG
if you whistle or hum NYPLM

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 15 September 2003 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)

ten months pass...

Due to faulty hardware FT is temporarily down. When it comes back (soon), all content post 3am will be gone. Apologies to readers and contributors as I am informed this will unfortunately mean you will have to re-do any posts and comments made today.

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Will the She's All That discussion be lost?

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

looks likely

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I hopefully will only have lost a post or two -- we'll see!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

it'll be fine, all the blog posts are on blogger, and all the comments are on Haloscan.

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry for scare-mongering then like...

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

YOU AWFUL MAN

I was about to get in a Blog 7 post but I guess FT had just gone down, I fear that one may well be lost.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 August 2004 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Is FT still publishing articles?

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Monday, 9 August 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I asked Tom about this and the answer is no, not at this point -- it's still archiving the old articles but essentially it functions more as a gateway for the seven blogs, and participants are encouraged to put essay length stuff if they like (thus my Pet Shop Boys DVD review).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 August 2004 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I was thinking of doing a photographic journey around West Ealing for Blog 7, as there isn't really much to say about the place.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 9 August 2004 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

That's what I thought.

From a reader's perspective it is a shame -- the blog format makes the longer essay length stuff a lot more difficult to read and get through.

x-post

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Monday, 9 August 2004 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

the blog format makes the longer essay length stuff a lot more difficult to read and get through

It's a touch hard on the eyes with that font, I've noticed.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 August 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Nicole we're looking at ways to address that, I agree that some blog posts have been on the long side recently. What I've been doing is trying to split posts into a series where possible. We're also after an easy way for contributors to get photos up on the site.

Everything is now back to normal I think BTW.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

will yall plz get yer shit together k thx bye

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

The idea of putting the first paragraph or so of an article in a blog with a link to the rest seems a good idea, if that can be sorted - it's therefore brought to the casual readers attention, gives the writer a chance to grab their interest, but offers a better format without messing up the flow of the blog.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah sfj does that shit too - definitely good to take cues from him

jane dark does it too

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

do it with short entries too, so that you have to click to read like one more sentence. works for allmusic!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah SFJ can do it coz he's on typepad, Blogger doesn't have that functionality unless someone out there has got some bit of ware that imitates it (and pls let me know if so). For 500 word+ posts thats the ideal solution but at the moment we can't do it w/o leaving Blogger. (Which maybe we should do but moving seven team blogs at once would be a bit of a chore).

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

duh, just post the first sentence of somesuchshit and make the last word a link to an article posted wherever the fucks you've posted articles.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

It turns out you CAN do it in Blogger. I'll get Alan to investigate it.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

yall should commission pieces. get ally to write about judd nelson's oeuvre. review more records that don't exist. far out shit.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 9 August 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Rumsfeld in Tap Pants: Blountism Considered

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

yous a bastid

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

put me down fr an 'against' re: the trend towards 'continue reading THIS POST' links in blogs. sorry dudes, irrational hatred I know.

― cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Oops, I Did It Again: Cinniblount Reflects on Poor Dietary Choices

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

seriously though pick ten or so ilxors at random to write something and give them the idea too and also don't actually pick at random pick specific people you think will be good only say you picked at random so people's feelings aren't hurt and then odds are at least one or two will follow thru most likely one of them will be dum enough to fall for it! voila - more reading for the readers!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

more ft ar-ti-cles, plz also.

― cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

A Year of Sunrises and Sunsets: 365 Days Listening to Nothing But Conor Oberst by Ned Raggett

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

You've crossed the line!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm a sucker fr the faux-formalism and sense of occassion of the 'little girl sat at desk scribbling' pic and accessing the writing through the front end.

― cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I just wrote about Acton. It's a little twee, sorry :(

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

dude you should have more actual roundtables not just people chirping in with the same 'witty' remark about some daft track. i remember for fucking ever ago when nate patrin was blogging that mix for everyyear of his life deal he did one year with jbr - DO THAT. pair people off. hook a brother up.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

o man let me and matt cibula who i know wants to write something for yalls only your emails fuckt or something anyhow let me and matt um review a espn jock jams or something.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

shit like that. only better.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

blount, guest editor.

― cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

dude that site'll turn into a poor man's fleshbot if you let that happen

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

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