May 31, 2004
All kindsa shit on the internet
"Did you know?
* The Maine Coon Cat is America's only natural breed of domestic feline.
* Dogs and cats consume more than $11 billion of pet food each year.
* Six-toed cats are so common in Boston and surrounding areas that experts consider it an established mutation."
From Nofleas.com.
I am evil personified
Why else would I have had to spend a sunny bank holiday Monday re-editing someone else's 'Computers for Beginners' tutorials? The high point was writing multiple choice quizzes so that a bunch of teachers can see how much they've learnt from the tutorial. I am the saddest person I know.
No one has bidded in my eBay auction. The bubble has burst.
May 28, 2004
The Dante Club
I read this on holiday and I really enjoyed it. Story set in Boston in 1865 around a series of murders inspired by Dante's Inferno. Now I'm trying to sell it on Ebay. I would have made up a trendy Dante pack and included a Nirvana T-shirt with the Dorothy Sayers' illustration of the circles of hell on the front and the "fudge packing, satan worshipping, etc etc, motherfucker" slogan on the back; the Penguin edition of the same translation and some William Blake Dante illustration postcards. But I couldn't be bothered. You can buy it for 99p. I accept Paypal and will spend the money on this if you buy it. I have decided to be more Chinese. Pirated Diesel clothes will achieve that.
Spookily someone else has listed the same book in the time since I looked and listed it. They went for the seven day option whereas I don't want to keep you waiting and have marked it down for five days. Now I go and do some work to save up to buy new clothes instead of cast offs.
A Special Day
The Lidl on Well Street re-opened yesterday after much work to make it bigger. I liked the fact that they hardly closed at all despite the fact they were knocking down walls and creating dust and noise, such is the Lidl cash imperative. They've also tarted up the website and are on the lookout for new store sites. If you have a suitable patch you can submit your details on the site.
The other big excitement today is the opening of a new Iceland on Mare Street just round the corner.
How will I get any work done today with all the distractions?
May 26, 2004
Momart and the brothers
There was a big fire at Momart, the art storage warehouse in Leyton, and Charles Saatchi lost a load of his Britart. The BBC have done a pictorial guide to some of the works lost but surprisingly have omitted the Chapman Brothers' Hell. I feel lucky that I've seen Hell twice so won't really miss it. One of the brothers used to live over the road from us (when they were less famous) and we used to play a game called 'Is Dinos in?' which combined the unpleasantness of Rear Window with the voyeurism of I-Spy. The game used Dinos's name but I've always had problems telling them apart. White people all look the same to me.
Full disclosure: my neighbour works at Momart but hasn't been there this week. It was nothing to do with him. Also thanks to my talented friend Buster for the BBC News style montage of Saatchi and the brothers in flames.
May 24, 2004
Steve and Ivan. Or should that be Ivan and Steve?
I know that many younger readers of Catfunt believe that the Ivan character aka TheManWhoInventedTheInternet who makes regular appearances here is just some fiction that I have invented by way of explaining the past. But Steve has produced video proof. (Scarily I had my 'puter plugged into the big speakers and hearing the clip was like being with Steve and Ivan in the old days in surround sound).
May 18, 2004
The Bullfighter Part 2
This is a new bullfighter image. The pop up image function on MT wasn't working but Neil came round and fixed it. Neil claims he didn't actually do anything but I wasn't having any of that false modesty and promptly drove him to Ikea anyway as I previously threatened promised where he spent way too much money on compressed woodpulp coated in a thin veneer of respectibility oak.
May 13, 2004
Stella Vine Solo
There's a Stella Vine solo show coming up at Transition. For any new readers joining us post-hacked Catfunt, one of the (unfunny) running jokes was me posting any and all links I could find to the Toronto Times and any other global media outlets that were covering my gallery stable-mate, Stella Vine. It smacked of the sad and twisted bitterness that unemployed thespians would employ when talking about Sir Larry et al despite the fact they never worked with them. Old habits die hard.
May 12, 2004
Cheers Juliet!
Thanks Juliet.
In honour of this fine person we have changed our post-hacked tagline from the pompous 'catfunt: the site they tried to silence' to Juliet's suggestion 'catfunt: the site they should have silenced'.
Catfunt: The Site They Tried To Silence
With Neil's help (OK, I made the coffee) MT has been reinstalled on the hacked server and the All New Catfunt begins. I did try the install on my own which I figured wouldn't be a problem as I'd done it before a few years ago (admittedly with some email help from Phil Gyford). But time hasn't been kind - in the intervening years I've obviously got very very stupid - and I made a complete bollox of it. Anyway, Neil has saved the day. And how am I repaying his kindness? By taking him to Ikea...
You don't need a friend like me.
The Man Who Invented The Internet
I've been reading Ivan Pope's latest retro blog, The Man Who Invented The Internet or as Ivan probably says it, very very quickly, in one of his moments of ecstacy and excitability 'Themanwhoinventedtheinternet', like this. I look forward to the book eagerly.