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| Friday |
the First of August, 2003 |
Right, we're off for a week's holiday in a part
of France that isn't on fire. If you've absent-mindedly reloaded this page more than
once this week, go and read Joh and her
amazing
Kaleidoscopic exploits instead. She'll keep you informed as to
any giant squid sightings in my absence.
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| Wednesday |
the Thirtieth of July |
The writers of the ten o'clock news's ambiguous two-word headline summaries
are increasingly having to resort to three - they really should bring
in the 35-letter thesaurus genius from the Ceefax team and get
some haikus up there. (cf. Headline Haikus)
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| Monday |
the Twenty-Eighth |
"We've got a few ideas for Edinburgh already. When people
walk in, we'll have someone checking their bags for comedy terrorist
material, fake beards and dresses! We'll ask them, 'Did you pack your
bags yourself?' We're playing with ideas like that."
Jon Ronson confirms all our suspicions that the Royal-hijacking
"comedy terrorist" Aaron Barschak
is more terrifying than comical, and not even very terrifying. I was
hoping there might be some intelligence or point behind it, the stunt
being a platform for some genuine anti-monarchy or context-of-terrorism
politics but no, it's just a man with a beard who thinks that all
Taliban and Osama puns are automatically funny. Annoying.
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A visit from
Alice,
Matt and
Isabel,
with appropriately symmetrical sleep deprivation. A good weekend.
To focus predictably on the brief and wine-fuelled
bits of gaming (for the benefit of my hypothetical half-mistrusted
parallel-universe clone, who is more or less the only person I write
these things down in public for) - Matt dragged me into the Hive, an insectoid game of hexagonal wooden
tiles; one of those games where your appreciation of the different
pieces' values continually flips and readjusts, until you fully
understand the game. Very elegant thing. I also managed to enrage Alice
with Zendo,
and became enraged myself with Lunch Money for
being too precious about its artwork to include any useful card
text (there is a PDF summary
on the web page, though).
But yes, a good weekend. One to try to repeat with different weather, at some point.
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