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'My Corduroyed Life' - Mark A's Journal
And I deserved it too.
The other day, it was raining and I saw a bloke get drenched by a bus going past and hitting a puddle. I laughed.
Three steps later, I trod on a loose paving slab and drenched my leg making it look like I'd wet myself.
Damn you, karma!
M x
Current mood:
amused.Current music: Control by Metro Station.
I live in a country that has elected 2 racists in the European Elections.
I am a proud British person, and in general believe that I live in a good country with good people.
But this has shook me to my core. The BNP actually got seats. I am very saddened by this, and ashamed of my countrymen.
I just don't know what to say. There are no words.
Current mood:
sad.
Sorry I've not updated this blog in over 2 months. I know I promised I wouldn't neglect it having started my other blog, but it appears that I have.
Don't forget 'the other blog' though! That's updated three or four times a week:
http://queenandlatifa.webs.com/apps/blog/
I do have some things that I want to write here, so please do keep checking.
Cheers,
M x
Current music: Death Dies Hard by The Deathstars.
But I promise not to completely abandon this one...
I have a new blog:
http://www.queenandlatifa.webs.com
My new blog is about life as a big queen living with my diva kitty, Latifa. ‘Tifa provides me so much delightfully cute and/ or silly material to talk about, and I have been having great fun blogging about it.
One thing that I have always bemoaned about with this blog is that there is no direct subject or focus. And it makes sense that my new blog has a very direct focus: stories about my cat.
My Corduroyed Life is not dead. In fact, I don’t expect the update rate to be affected at all considering that I only write a couple of times a month now anyway. So keep checking in here, but also check out Queen and Latifa as that will be updated much more regularly.
Cheers,
Mark x
Current mood:
optimistic.Current music: Thieves and Liars by Daler Mehndi feat. The Wolfmen.
Bloo… Dy… HELL!
I met a rather hot guy when I was in the London for a conference on Monday, and as you do, we swapped MSM IDs. I casually mentioned, as you do, that he shouldn’t type my hotmail address prefix into google as I use the same ID everywhere online. He, of course, joked that he would. This made me think: what if he actually did?!
So I typed kingghidorah123 into google, and I was absolutely stunned. There is a hell of a lot of results, and not all of them things that I want to be immediately apparent. You really can find out a hell of a lot out about me with very few clicks.
The search leads you to this blog, an old blog that isn’t a particularly flattering depiction of me (even less so than this one), my gaydar profile, links on websites/ forums that I’ve not used for years (and some current ones), a truly awful youtube video of a 20 year old me (with Jesus style hair and facial fur) behaving like an drunken idiot, my myspace profile, lots of links to stuff I sell on ebay, and quite shockingly a link to something I wasn’t aware of: an unprovoked, homophobic comment about me (well, this blog) on a blog of someone I don’t know.
Now none of these things are too worrying in themselves: there is nothing there that I’m particularly ashamed of or that I mind people knowing. It’s just that it is so very, very simple to find out a lot about me with one google search and an hour to spare. I am also worried that too much of eccentric, peculiar me in one go will put of any potential suitor. I get the argument that someone should fall for you for who you are, but I’d prefer potential suitors to learn that through interaction with me and spending time with me rather than the weirdiness that there is on me on the net. I’m an honest guy, and there isn’t anything on the net that I wouldn’t show someone that I was seeing, but the idea of someone being able to see it all in one go before they’ve properly interacted with me seems a little worrying.
Not that I think that looking someone up on google is wrong! Far from it! I know damned well that if I were given a free pass to get to know stuff about someone I was interested in with one easy google search, I’d definitely take it. Who wouldn’t?! It’s human nature to want, for want of a better phrase, a ‘head start’ when it comes to these things. I guess to some extent that I’m a little paranoid that too much information too soon will put people off as I really am quite, quite peculiar. I hate the idea of this happening before I get a chance to interact properly with someone I’m interested in. I'm also a bit unsure of the idea that someone that I’m meeting for a date knows loads about me compared to me knowing very little about them: I know that it’s not a competition, but it does seem a little unfair. Although saying that, I guess I generally give people that advantage anyway as I’m generally a deliberately transparent person.
However, the more I think about it, I’m not actually that upset with my own foolishness/ lack of internet savvyness re: privacy. After all, I am the guy who has been blogging and including very silly pictures of myself and my real name on said blog for 5+ years. It’s not like I’m an introvert! ;)
But if you’ve done the same thing as me and care about what silliness might have been put on the net by either you or other people, you might want to google yourself!
Have fun,
M x
Current mood:
weird.Current music: Thunder by The Prodigy.
I do love irony...
I drove to Halfords to buy a Satnav on Saturday. I got lost on the way there... twice.
Hehe!
Have fun,
M x
Current mood:
amused.Current music: Take Me To The Hospital by The Prodigy.
Apparently the number of worldwide WoW subscribers has just exceeded 11.5 million.
This means that we are roughly 0.17% of the whole world population. Or, indeed, 1 in 580 people in the whole world play WoW.
It also means that we have more players than there are people in Greece, Cuba, Belgium, Portugal, Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland, Jordan, Norway, Ireland, Jamaica, Samoa and Israel. In fact, there are more players of WoW than the population of 149 countries. If we formed our own country, we’d be the 72nd largest population in the world (only 50 places lower than the UK!).
Seriously though, when you think of the implications of this unprecedented, concrete number of people playing World of Warcraft, it brings into question the traditional stereotypical image of freakish, emotionally stunted, socially inept, subversive loners being roleplayers/ gamers/ internet aficionados. When you think that there are more WoW players than there are Greek people, and then think that it’d be a horrible and racist thing for someone to accuse all Greeks of being freakish subversives, then perhaps WoW players should no longer be seen as freaks and loners any more than all Greek people should be. Just a thought…
Have fun,
M x
Current mood:
contemplative.Current music: Set Me Free by N-Trance.
This one is the real one - the other one was the more generic, restrained version for work colleagues...
Dear everyone I care about
Seasons’ Greetings!
As I have done for the last few years, I’m not doing paper greeting cards for a couple of significant reasons (beyond the fact that I’m a bit lazy!). Without wishing to sound too right on or a bit of a recycling nutcase, it is better for the environment to send an electronic card rather than chopping down trees to say what can be said here. Beyond this, as always, the money I save by not paying for paper cards is given to a charity. This year, I have decided to buy a goat from the Oxfam Unwrapped website. So you may not have a pointless card from me that you’ll throw away in January, but you do have part ownership of a goat! That’s pretty damned cool, eh?
Go tell your friends that you own about 0.5% of a goat! Hooray for you!
Another thing that using this medium allows me is the opportunity to write a lot more than I’d ever be able to write on a card. Also, new for this year is a lovely theme tune: check out the Death Metal version of Silent Night on my myspace profile.
Now that I am 30, I look back at my life and see that I probably could have done more with it and that I probably could have tried harder to achieve important things. But that simply isn’t me, and as you know me, I’m sure you know that. One thing that I have achieved that I am extremely proud of is a network of truly amazing, fantastic friends. That’s you. I am humbled that I can consider so many decent, wonderful, and diverse people my friends. Thank you for being one of those people that make my life amazing.
I’m very cynical about people who feel they have to buy huge presents to prove they care for someone, and I value friendship much more than trinkets. Thank you for giving me something I really value that money can’t buy.
So all that is left for me to say is that I genuinely hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable seasonal break, and a prosperous and happy New Year.
Big love,
Mark x
Current mood:
good.Current music: Death Metal Jingle Bells - Yay!.
Seasons’ Greetings!
As I have done for the last few years, I’m not doing paper greeting cards for a couple of significant reasons (beyond the fact that I’m a bit lazy!). Without wishing to sound too right on or a bit of a recycling nutcase, it is better for the environment to send an electronic card rather than chopping down trees to say what can be said here. Beyond this, as always, the money I save by not paying for paper cards is given to a charity. This year, I have decided to buy a goat from the Oxfam Unwrapped website. So you may not have a card from me, but you do have part ownership of a goat! That’s much cooler, right?
So all that is left for me to say is that I hope that you have a relaxing and enjoyable seasonal break, and a prosperous and happy New Year in 2009.
Mark x
Current mood:
good.Current music: Something appropriately seasonal!.
Okay, here’s a challenge…
I challenge anyone to find anything on the whole of the tinterweb that is cuter than this:
http://www.funtim.com/dgb.html
Awwwwwwww!
Have fun,
M x
Current mood:
pleased.Current music: Slam by Pendulum.