http://blog.disappointment.com If Only I Updated More Often, This Might Not Be Shit Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:51:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thanks to Jammus for starting the excellent Near-Miss Heroes and Villains list over at Listopia, a list which reassured me that it doesn't all have to be about famous people who sound like cheese. Also check out Can I Get A Widnes?, the latest list to be imported from Idiotica's ... http://blog.disappointment.com/archives/342 I have watched this video about fifty times. I don't know how to stop watching it. I think posting it here will probably help. Fucking hell. I can't wait to post this, so I can watch it again in my own website. It'll be like I wrote it. (Better quality sound on ... http://blog.disappointment.com/archives/341 Everyone loves a list. If a list could hit someone in the balls, they'd be the funniest thing in the world. If only someone would compile a "most traumatic nutsack impact videos" list, perhaps I could truly laugh again. To that end, allow me to point you towards Listopia - a ... http://blog.disappointment.com/archives/338 If anyone here reads the Guardian, then hello! You're probably aware of Charlie Brooker. And his column, Screen Burn. And how good it nearly always is. So you'll probably be fucking appalled to see this image, across which I have brushed the word "Wahey". It's only for a week, but still, I'm ... http://blog.disappointment.com/archives/336 I have just been up an attic. There were cobwebs, translucent red insects, and boxes. Some of the boxes contained old games, which I'll probably post soon as part of the "wasn't 80s box-art awesome" shit you'd expect of a fucking games journalist. I found old issues of "The Zine", a ... http://blog.disappointment.com/archives/325 Heyup - brief hiatus there, as a slow Wordpress upgrade got the site infected with Belgian Furniture and a javascript redirect to wp-stats-php.info. If you found yourself beset by Worms, then I can only pull my legs apart and offer you a free kick on my poor, asymmetrical nuts. In ... http://blog.disappointment.com/archives/313 I wrote a piece in today's Guardian about affirmations. I've never been comfortable around affirmations. This is because I've always had the idea that I should live life as though I'm being watched by a studio audience, and shouting at yourself about how exactly you're awesome is the kind of ... http://blog.disappointment.com/archives/311 ...of how my trousers fell down and I laughed. If you're thinking "that's all very well, but's I very much doubt if it's something The Guardian would print in their Comments & Debate section" - if that's what you're thinking - then I can see your point. But you'd be ... http://blog.disappointment.com/archives/309 Synthetic Opinion is my attempt to weave a strong opinion out of something I know nothing about. This one was suggested by Rob, who writes the excellent Internets Dairy. He asked: "Log, do you think the Large Hadron Collider MUST BE STOPPED in case a tiny black hole swallows the ... http://blog.disappointment.com/archives/302 I believe in fate. I believe that the universe bends itself around me, because I am important. Nothing is trivial, once it has been perceived by me - when I clap eyes on something, it becomes a part of my destiny, because I am... well, I'm an intergalactic nexus. So, when ... http://blog.disappointment.com/archives/304 I promised to write a 700-word opinion piece on any shit you care to suggest. The only rule is that I can't research a single thing. The first suggestion came in from Adam... "What about that hot button topic for 2008 - the US Presidential election?" No sooner said than done, Adam! ... http://blog.disappointment.com/archives/299 A few weeks ago, I wrote 700 words for the Guardian. It was a glorious exercise in public self-castration, in which I exposed myself as the ill-informed prickwit that I quite frankly am. Since then, I've written a piece about how much I love progress bars, which I hope ... http://blog.disappointment.com/archives/298 Here's how to enjoy St David's Day - first go out with a Welshman, then go to the pub. http://www.disappointment.com/welsh There's a 12-page booklet in there. It's a pdf, if you fucking please. Also some photos, which you won't be interested in unless you're a mate. Which, I admit, is probably all ... http://blog.disappointment.com/archives/295 Whenever I have an opinion, I tend to find it pretty embarrassing. Being wrong's humiliating enough, but when you're wrong about something you were dumb enough to frankly care about, it's like pressing a heart-shaped cookie-cutter against your chest and making a noisy display of ripping yourself slightly open. I've done ... http://blog.disappointment.com/archives/293 When someone decides to tell you their dreams, it's usually a sign that you've got a minute of listening to someone trying to offer you massive clumsy insights into their precious, hidden psyche. "I dreamed I was falling down a pit, do you think that means I am not keen ... http://blog.disappointment.com/archives/286