(ir)regular service will be resumed

Just a quick note here to anyone interested - if you're waiting to hear back from me on something, I've now finished working on the play (the run finished last Saturday) and I will be attempting to catch up on the enormous backlog of email, phone messages and whatever. But feel free to drop me another line if I've been neglecting you.

Oh, and just for the record - if I'm ever in the situation where I'm brain dead and hooked up to a machine to keep me alive, you'd better make sure you pull the fucking plug. Otherwise, I'll figure out a way to come back from the dead and deliver you a zombie arse kicking. That's not a life, and I don't want anyone I care about to have to go through that.

That is all (for now).

so I said irregular service

It's been strongly hinted to me that I should actually post stuff to LJ, just so that people know I'm alive. I'll have a go at this, see if I can maintain it (he says, looking at the string of previously abandoned blogs).

So we'll see how it goes. For now, I'd like to point everyone to this piece:

MOBILE phone users around the world spent $US400 million ($504 million) on pornographic pictures and video in 2004.

The figure is expected to rise to $US5 billion by 2010, despite the tiny screen sizes, a new survey has found .

For some strange reason, porn on a mobile phone seems somehow... pointless. I mean, it's not like porn is overly blessed with beautiful use of language, but porn in SMS-speak would be so, so much worse.

Feel free to offer your own versions of SMS-porn.

random linkage for the day

From Ananova:

A German who persuaded doctors to give him a second penis has lost his wife after he showed her the result.

Angry Bed Positions (from the author of Things My Girlfriend And I Have Argued About)

And finally, via Pandagon, this post from last year on civility and the male tendency to talk over the top of women made me stop and think - bloody hell, do I do this? It's honestly never occurred to me, but now that it's been pointed out, it's something I'm going to be watching for. I find people interaction generally fascinating anyway (well, ok, when it doesn't drive me utterly bugfuck mental, that is) so I'll be curious to see if I do it, or if it's something that happens in the social groups I inhabit.