Mar 13, 2006
He: Eat and sleep. Sunday is a day of rest! X
Me: Um… I’m going out! Just dinner but. Wid lots of sake 2 wash down d raw fish.
He: Oh no. Dislike raw fish and hate sake. Very bad for the mental state.
Me: Dats coz u a paddy n me is wise and from d east.
He: I am wise enough 2 knw wats good 4 me and u havent heard of the fish flu. Its worse than bird flu. Dutch would eat their granny and knock back a sake. X
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He: That was a joke!
Me: Sorry, my granny has arrived. Yum.
Mar 4, 2005
Comic Sans walks into a bar and asks for a beer. Says the bartender: “Sorry, we don’t serve your type here.”
(Heard on my new favourite BBC programme, The Culture Show. Must get that new Francis Bacon book.)
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Nov 27, 2004
I was just going over to Plasticbag’s to steal their comment disclaimer for u2log.com when lo and behold, Tom writes:
“U2log.com – one of the first and best single-subject magazine-style weblogs. I’m not a great fan of U2, but it’s still an impressive site – and more importantly was created way before Gawker media and the current fad for commercial webloggery. I wonder if it makes any money…”
Finally, someone recognises U2log.com. I always feel it’s been ignored by web pundits — probably because they find its subject matter distasteful. I think I entered the site into the Webbies twice without being short listed while the much younger and more derivative Whedonesque got in without problems.
Do we make any money? No, we don’t. We don’t make any ‘big’ money. We make pocket money. Enough for me to buy my many editors a Christmas gift. Enough to pay for bandwidth over-usuage. We’re probably in the Top 5 U2 fansites, but nowhere near the largest. We get 5000 to 7000 (front)page hits per day and just had our busiest day last week at 23000 page hits.
We started this site as a joke, just some old IRC friends mucking about. Our style reflected this. We were irreverent, with a Brit/Aussie type humour – unlike any other U2 sites. Always taking the mickey out of the band. These days we’re rather professional, with press accreditation and access to big events, old skool reporting and what have you, but we’re still doing it because we’re obsessive about documenting the band and still in love with the music.
