What Ernie said. 100%. It’s not just as fun as it was in 2001.

I was telling one of my boss at work this morning that I was really surprised to learn that Enid Blyton was not a man. Whoa, she exclaimed, you have to write about it. So I did.

I forgot to add: here’s my latest blog for Comment is free. There was a lot of arguing but I loved every second of it. Resident troll even said I looked like Jar Jar Binks - whom I had to Google. I replied with something similar and my ass got deleted by the moderator… which was well deserved but I mean, Jar Jar?

“As many readers have pointed out, it was misleading of Laura Agustín to imply that Faiza Silmi was not granted French citizenship solely on the account of her wearing the niqab. [read the rest here]”

I e-mailed 20th Fox Century’s press office, entered every competition I could think of, even added pictures of my kitten to my e-mails as proof that I am a dedicated fan and prayed - atheist style- for a ticket to the official screening this Wednesday but nothing, no premiere for Jess. And all this after Mark told me that he thought I was England’s most deserving girl when it comes to being invited to see the movie.

I mean, who are those cold hearted people resisiting pictures of kittens, anyway? Jeez, I would have blog positively about the movie for free! Even if it is a disaster!* Ah, PR people are stupid.

Well, at least some people’s genius are cheering me up. I really need that embroidery pattern.

* My friend Matt says the movie is “potentially the most tarnishing crack at a legacy ever”.

I have a new blog entry up on Comment is Free re: Jezebel. A bit late to the game but whaddyaknow, still trying to make a point.

Here’s a recipe for a good blogosphere scandal: take two sassy, trendsetter bloggers writing for one of Gawker Media’s most popular sites. Invite them to a comedy show that will be broadcast online and have them interviewed by a ruthless and nosy host eager to discuss their sex lives. Add a lot of free alcohol to the mix, and you have the perfect ingredients for the viral equivalent of a car crash. [read the rest here]

Strangely accurate, according to my delicious tags:

Less accurate, according to my blogs keywords, but how much do I love the massive PASTRY  tag?

Last week I received an e-mail from a nice researcher working for The Listening Post, a tv show broadcasted on Al-Jazeera english. She had read my blog entry about Sarkozy and the media and wanted to know if I was interested in talking for a few minutes about his influence on the French media. I said I was of course interested in principle, but when she phoned back the next day and had me spend 10 minutes blabbering away about my hate for the president, I thought she’d never call back. Too often, I am an embarrassment to no one but myself (see also: Bicycle Mark’s podcast).

But I was asked back today and said I would spare the team the commuting pain and pay them a visit in person. As it happens, the show shares a building with CBC Canada (droll), and I was welcome by a lovely and very interesting intern and a very funny cameraman/producer, who was in panic because he forgot his pregnant’s wife wedding anniversary. We chatted for a few minutes and they told me to speak for a couple of minutes, in front of the camera, about my opinions. And how do I put this? I am horrible at being interviewed for podcasts, and even worse on camera. I was thinking about the poor editor who would have to work on the footage, deleting my ‘errrs’ and my awkward pauses, and I ) blushed 2) wanted to stab myself in the eye. I profusely apologized but they both said it was absolutely fine and what they were looking for.

As I left, she said she’ll let me know when the footage is online. I thought, fuck me, I hope I’m so bad it never airs.

Lesson learned: stick to blogging.

Friends - I am notoriously bad at keeping in touch via Facebook because the site never really did it for me, but I (surprisingly) like Twitter more and more. You can find me here. Wanna join?

Because this is one of my favourite topic to discuss, I found this remark by Tony (who is currently having fun / working hard at SXSW) to be quite interesting:

“This thing that im in, this sxsw thing, is not just about the future its about the present. there were two big huge keynotes over the last two days. the first was on sunday with the twentysomething yr old founder of facebook who was offered a half billion for his site and said no and was offered over a billion for his shit and said ha and today his site is allegedly worth 15 billion dollars and he still isnt selling out.

gen y taking a chapter outta the book of gen x which is fuck you and your fucking money.”

Funny since I am still a sucker for half-understanding a generation via clichés relayed by the media, and Gen X to me still is about slackers. But it also is about a whole generation which didn’t quite get and feared the transition between the late 90s official way of doing business and the so-called revolution that ensued.

Now let it be said that I don’t doubt Mark Zuckerberg will wait and capitalise on Facebook before finally letting it go (who wouldn’t care about the money?) but to be honest, why would he sell it right now?

When the Youtube founders decided to finally sell their product to Google, part of me thought that it was too early for them to do so. But hey, with 1.65 billion in their pockets, I’m not sure that the Gen Y is not about the money, as Tony suggested. As people pointed out at the time, “if I had sold my company for a billion, I would probably be would have uploaded a video showing myself and work sporting a shit-eating grin on my site, too”.

Finally, someone understood how to successfully release music online - and under a Creative Commons license, no less. For some reason if feels way more natural than Radiohead’s first try. It might be because Reznor produced Saul Williams’ latest album, which was released in the exact same way (albeit with less options). Mark - always the devil’s advocate, but most often than not right [argh] - pointed that the decision is easy for a multi-platinum artist, but i can see how this would also work for smaller bands too. Thoughts?

me: Saw the NIN? If you buy the deluxe package you get an LP signed by Trent - awesome. It’s way more clever than radiohead to give people options like that - also it’s released on a CC license. Love Trent.

mark: Yeah, but it’s all stupid… It’s all well and good if you’re a multi platinum selling rockstar who is already a millionaire, but it hardly helps new bands.

me: Well, duh - but his job is not to help new bands. Also, saul williams is not massive, and he did the same.

mark: It was with trent reznor though!

me: Yeah but even so - it’s not the entire cd - The new NIN is 9 free tracks only. Small bands can use this model: release an LP of 5 free songs, have people download the rest for 5 quid, they’d still earn more than with a contract.

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