Notes From The Journey
Wednesday, 25 June, 2003
We went to see REM last night.
It was absolutely amazing. The band were on top form - it was so much better than the Monster Tour gig. They did stuff from all eras, including a mini-set from Fables of the Reconstruction (basically the first half the album and a couple of new songs - one of which was 'Okay', the other was great.Hecky also appeared to have a very good time - Candy said it was bopping around to the thrashy stuff. And there was rather a lot of it - they were really Rocking Out last night... We had excellent seats, up on the balony (Neither one of us particularly wanted to be in the crush downstairs - it was hot enough where we were) but right at the front and slightly to stage right. A perfect view of everything.
Got some groovy merchandise - a rather smart top and (the first time I've ever seen this...) a Tour Babygro! Hecky will look ever so cute in it!
When they put it up, I'll put up links to the setlist and to the official pics.
Posted by stephen @ 08:25 AM GMT [Link]
Tuesday, 17 June, 2003
Interesting to see that something I put up just in passing has generated the most comments. And from lots of people I don't know! Which is kind of gratifying. Hello to all of you and thank you for commenting and for giving me the information.
I did kind of assume that it was spam, so I ignored it. I wasn't really prepared to shell out cash t6o find out what someone had said about me. I figured that just about anything worth gossiping about was already up here. I mean, there isn't really much more to say other than I'm a tranny comics SF geek. And I think that's reasonably obvious. And who the hell (with apologies to Sue) would want to pay to hear gossip. Didn't someone famous once say something along the lines of never hearing anything good about yourself by eavesdropping? Ah, accurate quotations. I should set up a Quote of the Day mailing list. Or perhaps not.
Anyway, I'm not sure that there would be anything that the BBB (I am assuming that Jo meant the Better Business Bureau) could do anything about it. After all, if Snopes and Ziff-Davis are both writing about it, then I imagine it's reasonably well known. Pity it isn't as funny as the 'I've got 3 million dollars and no bank account' emails. Hell, it's not even as funny as the 'Enlarge Your Penis, Get Free Prescription Viagra And Check Your Credit Rating' emails. Oh well. Just goes to show, you shouldn't trust anyone or anything...Posted by stephen @ 02:39 PM GMT [Link]
Saturday, 7 June, 2003
I have just received an utterly bizarre email:
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I don't have much to say about it, other than reporting the mild feeling of paranoia it has generated. Just thought I'd put it up here.
Posted by stephen @ 08:51 AM GMT [Link]
Sunday, 1 June, 2003
Back from the hols now and it was a lovely relaxing time. Lots of sitting around doing very little, coupled with going off and doing the odd bit. We didn't take many photos, but, those that we did take, we took with the digital camera. I've now transferred them over onto the computer and uploaded them to the website. Hoorah!
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