Jimmy0010’s Weblog


The National Press.
January 30, 2008, 4:01 pm
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This morning has been surreal. So surreal in fact, I need to write it down; and I have only 6 minutes to do so; So this ‘aint gonna’ be nothing fancy.  

Today I got an e-mail. This e-mail to be precise -  

Jimmy! Hello. Just dropping you a line to see if you’d be up to talk to the press about the User Partner Programme at any point.Well.. I say “at any point”, but in reality I mean THIS AFTERNOON. We have reporters lined up — all you’ll need to do is talk.Fancy it? If so, drop me a line pronto (preferably with a contact phone number) and I’ll feed your details to our PR team. Time is of the essence, sir! Jamie  

It’s from Jamie, the editor of UK YouTube. I of course replied excitedly, proclaiming “yes!” and thoughtlessly throwing him all the contact details I have. 

Within a few minutes I was chatting with ‘Ollie’ the PR guy of UK YT, then the Daily Mirror, then the BBC who I did a recorded webcam-chat with; then The Guardian and finally The Telgraph.   So by this time tomorrow, my name will be in print all across the UK. My God. YouTube is a wonderful thing.  

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Scratch Card.
January 18, 2008, 11:53 pm
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A fanastic thing happened today.
 
Seein’ as im in a fairly socialst mood latley, I decided to go and purchase myself the finest copy of “The Guardian” money could buy. This left-wing mood even stretched to me WALKING to the local news-agents to buy it; what with the enviroment in pieces and all that. On the way however, I caught a glimpse of a two-pound coin (my favorite of all the coins; it combines silver and gold, looking as though its worth far more than the sum it signifies) grinning at me from a pile of leaves.
 
I liken the discovery to that in the original ‘Charlie and The Chocolate Factory’, where poor old Charlie Bucket discovers that fateful coin in the snow, which, rather than handing into the Local Authorities, selfishly uses to buy himself a Wonka Bar, winning a Golden Ticket and building a better life for his penniless family. Like Charlie, that coin would be my ticket out of this shit hole.
 
I hurridly made my way into Londis, any socialiast leanings out the window, as I demanded the shinest looking scratch-card available. I wasnt going to share my millions with whiney Guardian-readers. Scratchcards are often condemed as sleezy, a favorite with the working-class, conjuring images of drunks stumbling out of newsagnts, clutching a card in one hand and carling in the other screamin “Warra looad o fuckin’ shitt.; but I think they’re alright.  
 
I immediatley won £20. Twenty of them good ol’ British Pounds. Gambling sureley does nothig but good.
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“Happy New Year”
January 3, 2008, 2:48 pm
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I apologize to the people who must be thinking I’ve given up on this already, but no; I’ve just been stupidly busy with Christmas etc. Im glad its all over. I don’t know why it has to all be so chaotic, Its only two days ;- Christmas Day and New Years Day, the latter being a total waste of fucking time. Christmas Day’s all right, seeing family, organized gluttony etc. but I honestly don’t see the point of New Year.

Celebrating the passing of time is ridiculous;  If anything we should be bereaving that another year has passed, edging us that little bit closer to the inevitable black abyss. But no; people go out, get pissed, kiss strangers and get beat-up. Im not trying to be all moral about it, I enjoy a drink, but I despise the necessity for it all on this one stupid evening. 

I didn’t even go out for New Year, partly due to the flu, partly due to rebellion against what I see as ‘organized fun and drunkenness’. I actually hate it. Im not going to pay forty fucking quid for a ticket to get in somewhere I don’t want to go and celebrate something I couldn’t care less about. Its not a ‘New’ year anyway. Nothing in my life has changed. Its not like you have to make new friends or start a new job with all past commitment and Criminal Convictions wiped-clean. I’ll just be writing an 8 instead of a 7. Its a shame. I like 7. 

Apologies for the extreme cynicism. Deep down Im bitter and hateful person. :D  

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