Arkham Asylum
Flea reports what I always suspected: that Batman’s creator called it that in tribute to HP Lovecraft. Of the comic book heroes, something I confess I have never been that keen on, Batman is the only one I can stand.
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Both Harry and Oliver watched Newsnight last night and saw, as did I, Peter “Outrage” Tatchell eviscerating Lindsey German, head of the Stop the War and RESPECT candidate. Host Gavin Esler didn’t really have to prime the pump, as Lindsey proceeded to make a complete arse of herself over Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi. Tatchell, like the barely contained doberman he is, went in for the kill, and it was not pretty.
1 commentIs Che outdated?
Viva la “Tech” Revolucion!
1 commentShowcase tour hits UK
Specialising in Dirty Underground Riff Fuelled Rock, built on the sturdy foundations of big fat melodies; the tour made enough noise to get noticed last time out and this time we are looking for the Rock Loving People of the M4 corridor to help us make this run of the expedition even more majestically memorable than the first run back in March
Yes it will be loud
Yes it will be unpredictable
Yes it will be your chance to see some great bands >>>>>>>>
Raven Black Music in association with Tourdates.Co.UK has reached into the promo budget and selected several of the bands they think will break next and thrown them all out on the road to see what happens www.void-music.net : www.murdoc.co.uk : www.stiffkittens.com
Expect Chaos
Expect Glory
Expect to dance around like a fool:
Thur 15 JulKavannagh’s in Llanelli V0iD warm-up with local support
Fri 16 JulCeltic Pride SwanseaMurdoc/Stiff Kittens/V0iD
Sun 18 JulONeils in BridgendV0iD/Local/Stiff Kittens
Tue 20 JulClwb Ivor Bach, CardiffV0iD/SAL/Stiff Kittens
Thur 22 JulLe Pub Newport V0iD/MomBomb/Stiff Kittens
Sat 24 JulBunch of Grapes, BristolV0iD/Bushbaby/Stiff Kittens
Wed 28 JulRiffs Bar SwindonMurdoc/V0iD/Stiff Kittens
Thur 29 JulPurple Turtle ReadingV0iD/Murdoc/Stiff Kittens
Sat 31 JulInfinity Club Mayfair, London Murdoc/V0iD/Local/StiffK
Advertising Age
Via Outside The Beltway:
A year ago, blogger Glenn Reynolds joked to the Tribune that he was making “burger-flipping” wages from the trickle of funds readers donated to his popular Web site, Instapundit.com. These days, Reynolds can afford to order steak. Since he began accepting advertisements on his site five months ago, Instapundit.com has been bringing in several thousand dollars a month.
Interesting article in the Chicago Tribune about advertising on blogs, which is at the moment for me of purely theoretical interest. I wouldn’t dream of sullying the crisp aesthetics of this site with ugly, raw capitalism. Also, those ugly, raw capitalists wouldn’t be exactly tripping over themselves to capture my 50 or so readers.
It’s something I’d consider in the future, though. I think it was Matt Welch who wrote that he averages something like 5,000 unique views a week and makes about $900 a year from ads. Not enough to quit your day job for, but it’d nicely cover server, excess bandwidth (Reynolds blows through about 5GB every couple of days, and he doesn’t post a lot of pictures, either) and DSL costs. Who knows, I might even be able to hire someone to professionally design the thing. (The “crisp aesthetics” notwithstanding, it really only looks right with Mozilla/Netscape browsers. IE is mainly OK, but some of the lines don’t match up. I’m afraid to look at it with Opera. And it’s a mess in the Mac Safari browser. [If you’ve got a blog or webpage and you want to see how it looks on various platforms go here or here.].)
In the meantime, if anyone knows of a good online tutorial on CSS and/or HTML, please let me know. This stuff is driving me crazy. Or at least more crazy.
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