You're so vain.

[reddragdiva]

• This thing really stretches my tolerance. I wonder if they have an entry. (courtesy xandraius)

Life is domesticity. Is good.

Down the pub with pndc on Friday. First some Soho wanker pub with off Old Peculier, then one of the zillion Sam Smiths thereabouts, then the Kings' Arms, a bear pub. We felt odd being clean-shaven. Probably the only gay pub you'll find them giving two hoots about the real ale.

arkady has gone to Wales for the week, so Freda can meet her sisters.

My mother Helen is visiting London for a fortnight. She visited Antarctica at Christmas and showed us photos. THOUSANDS OF PENGUINS.

MySpace fills the vast consumer demand for the opportunity to make home pages that look like a smurf on acid threw up. Its core audience is the same people who twenty years ago got a Mac and used nineteen fonts in every document.

Comments

[secretlondon.livejournal.com]

WANT THOUSANDS OF PENGUINS

I reckon you have MySpace wrong. Teenage girls aren't really a key Mac demographic. Teenagers are MySpace.

I always see Mac users like middle class liberals. It's a fashion thing - being different and more intelligent and generally all round better people than the Hoi Polloi who use windows. They use Macs because they CARE dammit. The next generation of Macs will come with a free tree to hug, if the fashion hasn't moved on in the meantime.

[reddragdiva]

I'm talking about the '80s-'90s, when Mac = DTP. And certainly the teenage girls I saw near Macs at that time (typically at university student papers) went hog fuckin' wild with the font vomit.

[secretlondon.livejournal.com]

I certainly remember the thing that allowed people to put text on a curve etc. Nasty.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

And/or the Geocities rotating skulls/dripping logo demographic. Powerful demographic that, the colourblind mexicans on acid(/Sayle). That's a smart move on Murdoch's part. Plenty of consumer dollars in the design-free teenage rebellion market. Big market sector there.(/Hicks)

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Actual Latin Americans think the colour sense of those people is laughable. My Spanish teacher thought it was hilarious.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

You may imagine my absolute surprise.

When Geocities was properly popular, I could about stand to view most of the less vom-worthy pages.

These days I have to be very careful - MySpace and migraines are not a cheerful combination. I'm having to adblock certain animated LJ icons now - it's all getting a bit depressing.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Ooohhh ow. I will try and remember not to use my flashy icon if I am replying to you.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Don't worry overmuch - I'm getting good at stabbing `esc` w/o having to think, and if it were a serious problem I'd hack up an icon-free custom style.

(Why yes, I don't like having to admit I'm getting on a bit...)

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

Geocities: The Next Generation

That's all I'm gonna say...

[strangedave.livejournal.com]

I agree. Even when Macs where all about the DTP by hideous amateurs with no taste, it was mostly small business people and such - they were too pricy for teenagers.

Myspace is the virtual equivalent of covering the walls of your room with posters torn out of Smash Hits, playing heavy metal music loudly, and painting the walls ugly colours because it annoys your mum.

[shimgray.livejournal.com]

"Teenagers are MySpace"

In passing, I note that "Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace" turned up on today's reading list...

[secretlondon.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry. It's not even a proper academic article - it's just a random essay. You have very lazy teachers..

We had a whinge about it yesterday. Twas all over the news..

[shimgray.livejournal.com]

Not so much lazy teachers as indiscriminate ones...

In my defence, yesterday was a day of power outages and internet outages and chavs-coming-through-the-back-door-to-find-a-laptop-and-taking-it, er, out-ages. I think I missed the interesting stuff.

[skulks away]