Everything around here was down again last night and this morning: no PooterGeek, no counsell.com, no loveandbentspoons.com, no email, no nuffink. Apologies to people who might have been trying to contact me lately. It's not my fault—I pay the rent on time. I have a backlog of improvements planned: I want to start a PooterGeek […]
Read MoreJune 2004
Long Live Brenda
God Save The Queen is an excellent, thoughtful, new 'Blog. In contrast to PooterGeek, I doubt its author will ever storm out of the bathroom mid-shower to denounce something he's just heard on BBC Radio 4. The latest two posts there are insightful about the successful exercise of state power through history. Claire [the llama […]
Read MoreBilding A New Tomorrow
The voices in my head break their temporary silence to tell me that, in one place, once a year, the giant lizards that really run the planet can get together, take off their human disguises, and slug down a few freshly-skinned bunny rabbits, away from the public eye.
Read MoreCreative Destruction
In tomorrow's edition, Mark Steyn, The Spectator's token remaining clueful columnist, picks at the rotting corpse of the Saudi Arabian body politic [registration required, no artificial sweeteners, please give your full attention to the safety demonstration]. While I'm telling you what's in tomorrow's papers, Percussionist is going to win the Vodafone Derby tomorrow.
Read MoreBig And Dumb
Never go to the supermarket on an empty stomach. As your blood glucose falls, the bright colours and bleeping will disorient you, the myriad choices will overwhelm you, and, worst of all, you will hear the carbs calling, calling. You will leave with enough noodles to start your own Thai restaurant and three family packs […]
Read MoreUnique
Omigod. Someone has identified PooterGeek as the target of a Googlewhack: “two words—no quote marks with a single, solitary result”. And the magic combination is “fornicating Strepsil“. Enjoy it now while it lasts. (“Strepsil” is hardly a dictionary word, though, so it's a bit of a fiddle.)
Read MoreContains No Sexual Swear Words
At Castle Normenstein Eve Garrard dissects Amnesty's inanities rather more subtly than I did.
Read More“…juicy and delicious”
Whether you agree with it or not, you can't deny that The Meatrix is a superb piece of animated propaganda for organic farming.
Read MoreEng-er-land
I browse Football365, a magnet for poncey, middle-class types like me who watch football twice a year, as well as people who take the game seriously enough to talk crap about it. They have some new shirts for sale in their shop, in time for Euro 2004. This is a good one, and so's this.
Read MoreBigger Than Charles
I have discovered from the referer logs that PooterGeek is now more famous on the Web than the inspiration for its name. Google for “Pooter” and this page is third; George and Weedon Grossmith's “hero” is fourth. The porn starts at six.
Read MoreEnergy
Sorry to resort to the same edition of Private Eye again, but I have to share this with my American friends. It's from a regular column in the magazine called “Luvvies” to which readers submit ridiculous quotes from actors. This week's was from Emmy Rossum, being interviewed in Vanity Fair: “We were doing this scene […]
Read MoreGasp
A few weeks back I attended a seminar by one of the creators of the World's first “knockout mouse”. Such a creature is exactly like others of its species except that a scientist has removed one or more genes from it, for the usual scientific reason: to see what happens. Back in the 80s, creating […]
Read MoreNormal Service
Following on from this morning's database fallover, PooterGeek's backend is back. Expect more drivel some time in the next 24 hours.
Read MoreInnocence
The biggest 'Blog in Britain is written by a prostitute. One of the biggest mainstream US news stories about 'Blogging broke when an intern sleeping with US government employees for money was outed by another 'Blogger. When it comes to Weblogs, the Anglo media have one thing on their minds and it isn't the potentially […]
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