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TFFKAMG* is going to be held for the first time in one of London's royal parks: London Gay Pride Party in the Park (entrance fee: 20 GBP), Hyde Park, 26 July 2003.
*The Festival Formerly Known As Mardi Gras

Fist is back!

Same venue, only now it's called Deviant, and has no playroom.

Next couple of dates: March 8th and April 12th.

Searching for "Madonna" and American Life (her forthcoming single) on Kazaa, I was not surprised at all to find it there, tagged as "demo", "unreleased", "new track" etc.

I downloaded a few of those files on the off-chance that it would not be a hoax, but every single one of them consisted of 3:49 of a [...]

G. the flatmate left last night for a three-week holiday in Australia. I had planned to take this opportunity to stop smoking, his absence meaning no cigarettes around the flat.

He is one of those lucky bastards who smoke half a cigarette after dinner and that's it, and perhaps half a pack if he goes out [...]

I had my best friend from Italy over for the weekend, and I could finally take her to the Royal Vauxhall Tavern after so many months raving about it via e-mail.

I especially wanted her to see the D.E. Experience show, and unsurprisingly she enjoyed it (she's my best friend, she obviously shares my sense of [...]

G. the flatmate had a date at the White Swan last night and, being a White Swan "virgin" just like me, asked begged me and Dr Bitful to go along in case it turned out to be boring.

Well, boring it certainly was not! Although I was very tired from lack of sleep, I made an [...]

After years of frequentations with the Icelandic community, I can very easily spot an Icelandic accent whenever someone speaks English (and I'm rather good at making the accent up myself).

I was watching the latest episode of The Book Group, where Swedish footballer Lars has more lines than usual in English (he often speaks Swedish with [...]

Had a great night out yesterday. My flatmate asked me to got out clubbing with him and our friends "like the old times" and so I did, leaving Dr Bitful sleeping in my bed after promising him to wake him up when I'd be back.

Substation South was different than usual. Not very crowded (probably because [...]

My boyfriend? No, too teenage-like, and we're not sixteen any longer.

My lover? Not too bad, it sounds a bit too much as "a bit on the side" though.

My long-term partner? My life companion? I certainly wish that to happen, but it's perhaps a tad too early to say.

My significant other?

No, to me he's simply… Dr [...]

3 bad things about last night's Brit Awards:

Davina McCall speaking like a normal human being, then regularly punctuating her speech by suddenly shouting "IT'S THE BRIIIIIIIIIIIIITS!" - enough already, Dav baby;

Sugababes singing ("singing"?) live - my illusion of their maybe being credible was shattered;

Robbie Williams' slurring his eulogy to Tom Jones - the man looks [...]

One more reason to watch Footballer$' Wives (in addition to the far-fetched storylines and the inevitable gratuitous locker/shower scene in each episode): him there on the left.

Only two lines, but delivered with such power, such thespian pathos, such a deep introspective journey into the life of his character.

OK, he looks good.

Belgium, nil points!

This post about Faustus' father made tears well up in my eyes, in amazement at how enlightened a human being can be. It also made me wonder once again about what it would be like to have my own father around these days, if he had not died when I'd just turned 18, long before [...]

I've just got back from seeing The Hours at the Electric Cinema.

The Hours: I approached this movie with eager anticipation and I was not disappointed. It was not the kind of film that leaves me all "wow", marks me immediately and becomes my all-time favourite on the spot. It's more the kind of picture that [...]

I am not paranoid, nor hypochondriac, but I woke up in the middle of the night after falling asleep on the couch (on my left arm apparently) with the aforementioned limb completely numb. It has happened before, and I did not think much of it, but ten hours later I still feel ants crawling in [...]

Hats off to Mike for another of his compelling initiatives: Which decade is Tops for Pops? The perfect chance for me to hear songs for the first time, or to put names and titles on tunes.

Today's songs? Never heard them, not even David Sneddon's (not entirely at least, as I find it so excruciatingly painful [...]

After the surge of blogger's birthdays around my own, here's another one, after a few days' respite to give him all the attention a proper (troubled) diva deserves. Happy birthday Mike!

I want to be at the RVT
Rivers of booze at the RVT
Wall-to-wall tits at the RVT
Plastered and high at the RVT!
(To be sung to the tune of America from West Side Story)

I stayed home last night, to give Mr Visa and my own poor aging body a break. Did loads of things around the house [...]

No, I did not go to the peace march. Yes, I am concerned. Yet, I can't come up with any plausible reason for not going.

But hey, I managed to haul my big fat ass to the gym instead!

Uhm, not feeling very proud at all.

From today's "Pyrgic Puzzles" in The Guardian Weekend magazine:

What gets a) bigger b) weaker when you cut it?

My immediate answer, jumping with excitement as it would have been the first time I managed to answer one of their very cryptic questions:

Drugs!*

The correct solution, as found on page 141:
a) a ditch;
b) a drink.
Darn.
*Or so I've been, [...]

As of yesterday, I have twice as many piercings on my body. All right, I have two now (not counting left ear lobe, probably sealed shut from underusage). I got one as a birthday present from the b/f (I try not to use the b/f word too much, I'm afraid to use it up). Left [...]

If you are partnered, be nice to your other (and probably better) half. Flowers, chocolate, bling-bling and / or dinner are quite appropriate today.

If you are not, you have every right (and my full support) to be obnoxious to the rest of the world. Go send an anti-valentine e-card from not so soft, or create [...]

There is a delicatessen shop about a five minutes walk from where I live. I walk past it almost every single day, and I was convinced it was Italian. I never paid much attention to it, but for a while they've had panettone and pandoro (Italian Christmas cakes) in the window.

I am more of a [...]

There definitely seems to be a connection between my choice of regular blog reads and the days around my birthday. Do I have to start believing in astrology then?

Yes, it's yet another birthday, and for once the birthday boy is (if only ever so slightly) older than me. Happy birthday Michael. Carpe Mañana!

This morning I got the best birthday present ever: waking up next to my boyfriend, watching him wake up and his sweet sleepy* light up as he whispered "happy birthday". I am VeryHappyTM

Even with all their money and celebrity, I doubt that Jennifer Aniston (34 today), Sheryl Crow (41), Burt Reynolds (67) Kelly Rowland (22), [...]

We met last summer at the RVT
We both were drinking, and it wasn't tea
…

Forget it. I thought I could write some poetry as good as the one today's birthday boy writes for his friends' birthdays. This morning I'm in no state to do that, my head feels like bubble, and the two brain cells that [...]

"K" is Michael Jackson's sweat. Totally weird, and yet it does make sense.

Another blogbirthday to be celebrated today, over at leather egg, with a particular significance. Ron had pledged to quit smoking before his 40th birthday (today) and managed to kick the habit four days ago.

Happy birthday and best of luck / willpower to stay quit!

Given that:

I'm sort of squeamish when it comes to dismembered human beings;

I'm now officially broke, in dire need of a job and living on credit;

I often fail to grasp the fine distinction between certain things that can be called "art" and others that aren't;

I was not particularly impressed by Professor Gunther von Hagen's public "autopsy" [...]

It has to be Friday, judging from the number of funny emails all my friends are sending from work (work? I seriously doubt any of them are getting any work done today).
Here's my pick of the day so far, purely for educational purposes: