Tuesday, March 20th, 2001
I stumbled into another recruitment agency’s reception last week for an interview. Nobody was in attendance at the front desk, so I pressed the bell in front of me.
Suddenly, the enormous vase full of plastic daises in front of me violently divided itself into two in a cacophonic snap. A small head meekly poked through […]
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Sunday, March 18th, 2001
(No more Napster journal entries after this, I promise)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WEDNESDAY: Napster Inc. would like to announce that our snotty little teenage CEO has been replaced by a figurehead of the industry.
Mr Lars Ulrich is now our new Chief Executive Officer. We would like to welcome Lars on board.
Mr. Ulrich has much experience in pretending […]
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Tuesday, March 13th, 2001
To celebrate the ’success’ of Napster, Shawn Fanning is having a party at his apartment for the (disgruntled, but never turning down free alcohol) music industry.
7.30pm Shawn warns the party attendees that no bots are permitted at his party - if anyone is found running one, they will be permanently banned from his apartment.
7.42pm A […]
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Sunday, March 11th, 2001
The morning after the Mardi Gras parade, I made a concerted effort to peel myself away from the comfort of a warm bed at 6am and crawl down to Oxford Street, to take a look at the wasteland of a party and resultant scruffy denizens.
Certain regions of the street were near inapproachable due to offensive […]
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Wednesday, March 7th, 2001
Having succesfully relocated to the city, I’m now trying to meet people around here. It’d be nice to actually know people that don’t require a train trip to visit.
The only people I really know around here are Rick the Pimp, who lives a few blocks away and our miscreant neighbour upstairs. I only encounter this […]
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Monday, March 5th, 2001
Adam was right when he said straight couples tend to be rather protective of each other at the gay Mardi Gras parade. We watched the parade on Saturday night, but seemed to be surrounded by a lot of straight people.
We squeezed ourselves into a little nook between a crowd of people standing on milk crates […]
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