What is goth?

It's a state of mind. And it was invented by Lord Byron. On absinthe.

Here is the shovel that dug the hole.

"He's so up himself he can do his lipstick from behind."

But my baby's so vain she is almost a mirror.

• God Bless America (courtesy jwz). Just wait till they get on reality TV, it'll be wall-to-wall this sort of thing.

• You are obviously not SUPPORTING THE SCENE and are PERSONALLY ATTACKING THE WGW ORGANISERS if you show unwillingness to gobble their holy gothic faeces with a big enough smile. Jesus fucking wept. Is there any reason to let these people near your money ever again?

arkady is back! Happy, relaxed and utterly buggered. We came home from Paddington last night to pizza and collapse. She went straight to work this morning (only five days of her eleven off were paid). Silly girl.

Today appears to be hay fever day. It's FUCKING NOVEMBER.

Tonight we go to see Neil Gaiman being interviewed by Lenny Henry, who apparently did the audiobook version of Anansi Boys. I really hope the signing queue isn't as awful as Pratchett's. (Some hope.)

Saturday night I went to Slimes, showing off the waist clincher, which got nice reactions from sxxy deth chyx I didn't know with fabulous breasts. Spent ages talking about relationships with ali_anarres. She and daneel_olivaw were being cute again. Also long geek babble with melston and a chat with crystalfayre. I left around four. Sunday I was half-trashed all day, but did manage to get at least a bit of stuff done.

Who is going to B-Movie on Friday?