Ah, nearly forgot!

[reddragdiva]

Prisoner FF8282 is still in jail. And he doesn't like the food. And is no longer welcome at the cricket.

Update: Now active: ff8282. Remember to stay in correct style. There is also a handy icon.

Comments

[frou-frou.livejournal.com]

thanks david, I was missing the regular updates on Jeff - glad to hear he's still with us

[benton.livejournal.com]

kindly translate for the slow and usian.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Jeff Archer is a British politician of the right-wing and reactionary bent, who was put away for perjury and attempting to pervert the cause of justice due to some dodgy dealings a few years back. He's unctuous, a well-known philanderer and purveyor of truly trashy 'political thrillers' His wife was famously described as 'fragrant'.

General consensus is that he got what was coming to him, and we're all taking a certain schadenfreude in the chronicles of his adventures behind bars.

[reddragdiva]

Jeffrey Archer. A schadenfreudorama, courtesy of The Guardian. Arrogance, stupidity, a life of abuse of privilege, small comeuppance. It's a heartwarming tale in many ways.

I don't care especially, but it is a cheering hobby.

[giolla.livejournal.com]

On which note I observe:
There is no user ff8282 at LiveJournal.com.
perhaps someone has the wit for another secret diary.

[reddragdiva]

Oooooooooh.

I just might have sufficient motivation for this one. I can't promise it, obviously. But if anyone else wants access to such a journal, I have the c0d3z to create one ...

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

ff8282 is a .

I need a life

[sliding-loopz.livejournal.com]

you're enjoying this aren't you? ;) *g*

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

appropriate for someone so famously pasty, greasy and lily-livered, then.

[reddragdiva]

Right. How easy is it to create a journal more than one person can contribute to? Does it have to be done as a community?

[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

I thought you could create a shared journal, but I can't find how to do it now. I'm sure I did it for the journal I use to test new colour schemes and code.

[reddragdiva]

Well ... YES!

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

There is now

ff8282

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

A plan forms in my head.

Updates on bad food and towels everyday, in super-bad prose. Not sure if it should be an archer-esque telling of someone else's day, or a mock-up of his own.

I rather like the idea of relating a standard day's happenings in the clipped, mostly bare, sometimes overblown sorry excuse for prose that ff8282 summons from the depths of somewhere really nasty.

" I travelled to work on the tube this morning - deeply unpleasant. I understand from Carole that a phone number on the site is incorrect. I strived to find it, but to no avail. Lunch was bland. "

[reddragdiva]

You realise what the background colour has to be.

I have just had a pile of work drop on my head, but will do my bit to add to the schadenfreudorama tomorrow.

[reddragdiva]

Should have a link to the relevant newspaper article.

You realise of course this would require actually reading some Archer to get the style right. *shudder

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

I read some choice extracts in Private Eye. I could probably manage to read a paragraph at a time, but any more than that would see my brain leaking out my ears and onto my rather pretty cardigan[1].

It's not that difficult a style to emulate, judging from what I've read. Y'see, he's not all that good a writer.

1. A really nice beige with copper-gold lace trimming.

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

And now horribly pink, with bad contrasts.

Oh, THAT guy! Yeah... we know 'im...

[(Anonymous)]

And here I was, thinking you may have been referring to a certain Mr M. Chapman. He's also still in jail, I am happy to note. ;)

Ah, blessed be the parole panels...