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Well, I hope you enjoyed this; a bumper crop of posts on the theme of Angry Chimp. The only input I had was some graphics work on a couple of them.

I've really enjoyed receiving all these ideas over the past week and hope you guys enjoyed creating these posts as much as I do (Most of the time anyway).

Thanks again to everyone that took part, or dropped by to read. (and comment, don't forget to comment on your fav's)
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Blog hits are down...

Sadly, Angry Chimp has hit hard times. Comments are down, hits are down and originality has bottomed out.

I am certain that you all are feeling as I am, that this blog has become tired and somewhat lacking in creativity.

So, if I decided to keep the blog going I have a couple of options open to me. These are,

A. I can dig deep inside and strive to come up with a series of new and exciting posts that will entertain, excite and educate all at the same time.

This will be hard work for all of us. We will have to say goodbye to some old friends like Dalek and Borg and some other stuff I cannot remember now. However, ultimately it will be worth it, because this blog will finally become what I always hoped it would be...something special.

B. I could just post some more cute pictures of my doggie, Dixon.

So here it is folks... my decision...

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Dixon enjoys some hydrotherapy to strengthen the back legs.

Dressing dogs up is weird - this photo proves it. Plus, the dog is clearly not enjoying the experience.

She may be able to walk again, but longer treks, like those on the Malvern Hills mean Dixon does need help, from time to time.

More recently, Dixon had a claw removed (it had broken up at the quick - ouch) She had a bandage for a week - it was massive as you can see. She was not a happy pooch.

Dixon, now well used to seeing me point my camera phone at her.

I hope that was enough to keep me going for a bit, and get some comments.... we'll see...

Oh, and don't forget folks - its 'Over to you Friday' (or Ver2UFri as the texters are now calling it) this Friday...

Stephacockaliticus - The Movie. Producton Diary 1

What's known as a 'teaser poster'. Builds anticipation in morons.

It has only been a couple of days since I heard that my brave and dignified struggle with the ‘very nasty indeed’ condition of Stephacockaliticus has been optioned and now ‘green lighted’ for a big budget Hollywood adaptation.

It may have been only a couple of days, but to me it feels like it has been a fortnight.

I am, of course, very excited that my diary is to make it to cinema screens, partly because I feel this disease has been brushed under the carpet for far too long, and sufferers have suffered in silence… alone, but bravely and with the utmost dignity at all times.

However, I am mostly excited because it will get me tons of attention and I will be on TV and interviewed in the Guardian weekend magazine and that.

I am particularly excited about being interviewed by Lauren Laverne on that little pop show she has on late night ITV. She is dreamy, and I am certain that my dignity and bravery will impress her, and she may date me whilst I am still in the public’s eye. I do expect to be dumped mind you, just as soon as the public get pig sick of me.

At which point I will probably have a breakdown, losing all dignity and bravery I have built up over the years.

Anyway, that is all in the future – hopefully.

I met with the producer of ‘Stephacockaliticus and me’ this morning at a swanky Worcester Hotel (The Alexandria – famous for having had Churchill once throw up in the bar).

Marti Pellowstein, who previously worked on the teen comedy series ‘Jerking off and tits’ assures me that my material will be handled with sensitivity and although the film will have elements of comedy, this will only be used to juxtapose the intense drama of my struggle with Stephacockaliticus, and will certainly not be overall style of the flick. I believe him; he seems very trustworthy.

Although Marti is in the very early stages of casting the main characters, he has come up with an acting dog to play Dixon in the movie.

The real Dixon - small, weak, stupid - German

The movie Dixon - big, strong, intelligent - Still German though

Marti told me that his audience research into the type of dog I should own suggested that a Mini Dachshund would suggest that my character was less than masculine, which would seriously undermine my heroic battle with my illness.

He went on to say Dachshunds were gay and that I needed a proper dog,

“This is going to be a serious date-movie, not a fag movie”. He said.

I am not certain what he meant by that, and I pointed out that I have never smoked, and that I had in fact contracted the illness after eating a McDonalds Cheeseburger that an employee had previously used as a hanky.

The filming starts in a week’s time, with a release slatted for the end of year. Marti said that in the old days movies would take years to make, now it was months with the only causalities being the story, the performances and the overall quality.

“The Godfather took Coppola 3 years to make” Said Marti,

“American Pie was shot, cut and released in 8 weeks, I think you’ll agree that’s an improvement”.

Can’t argue with that.

Over to you Friday... UPDATE

So, what’s in store so far for 'Over to you Friday' (or ‘O2UF’ as the kids are now calling it)

Booked and completed;

Dalek and Borg by Dr Max
What’s yr take on… by MHN for Short
The Monday Interview by Invisible Lizard
We love eachother by Cakesniffers
We love eachother by Faltanus

In the pipeline (come on guys!)

Dalek and Borg? by Cali
Never trust a Dalek by Lord Bargain
Your mate Dave by Spirit of Owl
Something from edwaado and mrs edwaado

We still have a bit of time to pull this thing together and make this the best damn show this town has ever seen – erm… I mean if you have any ideas, give me a shout by Thursday evening.

Remember, you can have a stab at any of the nonsense I’ve ever posted, including;

The truth via greeting card
The Dukes of Hazard
Stephacockaliticus Diary (Disease Diary)
Toy-Fu (oops, hold on, that ain’t one of mine)
The Librarian Degree (limericks – although I do have a bunch I may take from the comments)
Missing scenes from Star Wars
Strangeways, here we come
DALEKS DALEKS DALEKS!!

Simply email your ideas to me and I’ll do the graphics.

Email me at hergesmith@yahoo.co.uk

I’m looking forward to having a few days off from blogging, erm… I mean getting your ace ideas.

Stephacockaliticus to hit the big screen.

LONDON (Reuters) - ‘Stephacockaliticus and me’ – the so-called disease diary featured in Herge Smith’s Angry Chimp blog site, has been optioned for adaptation as a feature film by New Line Cinema.

New Line Cinema are best known for the ‘Hellraiser’ films and ‘Bridges of Madison County’, as well as the lesser known feature, ‘The Lord of the Hobbits’.

Stephacockaliticus is the deadly gum and viral condition which has recently caused the deaths of brain box Carol Vorderman and militant Andrea Dworkin. It was also a contributory factor in the death of Pope John Paul the 2nd, the former Pope.

Herge Smith’s heart breaking daily diary on his ‘weblog’ or ‘blog’ has frequently attracted as many as ten visitors a day. Who lap up his harrowing struggle with the fear, pain and often prejudice that surrounds the disease.

The Blogger.com movie division will co-produce, ‘The Stephacockaliticus Diary’, which is expected to appeal to the same movie going demographic as the Bette Midler weepy, ‘Beaches’ and the Ann Widdecombe, romance/horror/disease flick, ‘Love Tory’.

Blogger.com hosts Herge Smith’s Angry Chimp blog along with a million similar self-centred, egotistical and more than often, just plain piss boring blogs.

Other stories and articles in the Angry Chimp blog have include Crap Animals, an expose of not-that-great-and-sometimes-small creatures, extensive coverage of UK election – ‘Which bastard ‘05’, and an unending look at the world of TV games shows, including, ‘Celebrity Circumcision – The Final Cut’, ‘Celebrity Prolapse: LIVE’ and ‘Let’s Hunt and Kill Celebrities – Celebrity Special’.

It’s not been plain sailing for Herge Smith; along with contracting Stephacockaliticus from a dirty toilet seat at a Chris De Burgh comeback gig, he was as recently as last month sued by the BBC, Paramount Studios and the Terry Nation estate for his unauthorised use of their intellectual properties. He also faces libel action from up to thirty people featured in his ‘We love each other’ column.

“I’m hoping to buy my way out of trouble”, Smith told reporters following this mornings announcement, and “The fifty quid I’m getting for the rights will help with that”. He continued.

The movie version of ‘The Stephacockaliticus Diary’ is scheduled for a spring ‘06 release.

We will bring you further news from this exciting new movie as and when we have it.

Stay tuned folks.

The Monday Interview - Trillobites

Some of you may already have seen this interview with Trillion. It was originally posted last week over at Ship Creaks.

However, it would be fair to say that I felt that Ship didn't quite treat the interviewee with the respect she deserved.

I have had an informal discussion with Ship about this. After presenting my case he reflected for a moment, took a thoughtful swig from his pint and then said with a world weariness that was surprising in one so young;

"Christ Herge you're a tit".

So, in light of this, his blessing, here is a second stab at the interview with Trillion of Trillobites. (as conducted by Ship, but completed by Herge the tit).

1. How long have you been blogging?
Since about 8:45...oh you mean other than today? Erm, I don't know without checking. 3 months or so? Hang on....right, first blog was May 16th but I guess I started commenting about a month before that.

(That first post here)

Originally anonymously on Cakesniffers but then as Trillion a little later (first on Herge's, then later on Tina's - set the record straight on that once and for all).

(that first comment right here... here)

2.What type of blogs do you like best?
It varies but in general anything that's honest but interesting. I like the personal stuff that creeps in - Herge talking about Dixon (here) and Edwaado's kids (here and here) - but I guess I like people to retain an air of mystery too. I don't really bother with blogs that are too heavy-going, political, religious or just diaries. I think the journal-type blogs are great to share with close friends if that's what you feel you want to do but not very entertaining if you don't know the person. For me the beauty of blogging is that you can be more honest than you can in 'real life' but I'm not the sort of person who'd keep a diary anyway. Never write anything down that could be used in evidence...

3.Are those really your eyes?

Yeah. I think they can't decide whether they want to be blue or green. They're also pretty useless to see through (I wear contacts). Bizarrely, some people get very uncomfortable when I look them in the eyes; Tina (for obvious reasons) and other people 'cos they say that they feel like I can see inside their mind and find out too much about them. Weird, eh?

4.Why did you start blogging?
I guess I wanted to join the gang. I was reluctant at first because it was something that Tina had got into and was enjoying and I didn't really want to gate crash. She seemed to be encouraging me to get involved though and then Herge started badgering me and I thought I'd give it a go. I was worried I wouldn't have enough time to dedicate to it though and there would be pressure to do something different and amusing ever day. I've realised now that by neglecting my job and my family I can generally manage to keep afloat. You lot have made me feel very welcome (except Herge when he's being a right queen).

5.Where does your inspiration come from? Is it all old ideas come to fruition, or on-the-spot witticism?
On-the-spot witticism, I wish! No, I guess modesty aside (I have flashed my boobs after all!), I guess I can be quite witty. It tends to come out when I'm at work and usually I have to bite my tongue so I don't either offend someone or show my true colours (I have a tendency to be quite smutty). If I see something funny I try and remember and blog about it but sometimes I wish I had a live video link-up because often you have to be there to appreciate how funny something is and it doesn't translate well at a later date. I find that people often do or say the most hilarious things, totally unaware of what they've done. MMT is my tribute to these times!

6.How many posts have you done now?
49. Not nearly enough. I'll take this space if I may to apologise for being a bit slack sometimes. No disrespect to the likes of Tina and Herge but I'm willing to bet they have more time on their hands than I do (I know Tina does - she makes time to go to the gym for fuck's sake!). I have over an hour 's drive to and from work each day. I generally work from 8-8:30 'til around 5 (but often quite a bit later). So often, much to Tina's disgust, I don't get to eat until 9pm or so.

I'm also busy doing up my 1930's house which I bought in 2001, which takes up a lot of time on the weekends that we don't have the kids. Every other weekend I have to drive from Manchester (where I work) to Chorley (where I live) to Nottingham (where the kids live), back to Chorley (for the weekend), back to Nottingham (to take the kids home) back to Chorley (to collapse into bed on Sunday before my alarm goes off at 6am on Monday). That can easily mean 10+ hours driving in a weekend, not counting any time spent travelling if we take the kids out somewhere. For these reasons I do tend to feel pretty knackered most of the time.

7.Whatever happened to Trilladvice?
It's not gone away, I've just been biding my time I guess. I did answer your specific question as a comment in the prelude to Trilladvice post (Pissed as an aunt) that I did but I'm guessing you either didn't see it or you weren't satisfied with the response! Do not fear, I will revive Trilladvice next week but my postbag wasn't bulging with letters as much as I would have liked!

(So, if you have a problem, if no-one else can help, and if you can...be arsed to email Trillion, she'll do her best to answer - here)

8.Which post are you most proud of?

I'm my own worst critic, so it's hard to say. Most of the time I'm just happy if people get what I'm talking about. If I have to choose, then I'd probably go for the first MMT (here). People seemed to find it amusing and I think it was quite well received. I did like the reactions to MMT15, particularly Ed's 'passing on breakfast' (here) comment. That made me LOL!

9.What would you rather have: visitors or comments?
Comments, 'cos I'm not clever enough to be able to detect if anyone's visited my blog if they don't leave a comment. I also like the sort of close community thing we have going on. I don't really care if a hundred people read something I've written, so long as a few familiar names leave a few words that makes it all worthwhile.

10.Have you ever considered posting something that is so close to the knuckle, you couldn't go through with it?
Yeah I guess so. I've often been tempted to publish real names and photos of people that have really pissed me off but I've held back on that. I was a bit nervous about the 'My family and other problems' post 'cos it was a bit personal. I didn't think about it too much at the time but afterwards Tina rang and said she thought I'd been very brave and that made me panic a bit. I was a bit nervous about posting a photo of my vibrator in all its glittery glory (here) in response to Tina's various photos of things buzzing in her bedroom, but I had to for its comedy value.

11.Do your friends/ family read your blog?
With the exception of Tina, no. At least I sincerely hope not. My best mate at work (had to add those last 2 words before Tina threw an eppy) knows I blog and he occasionally tries to see what I'm up to but I always minimise the screen. He's cool though and I wouldn't mind him reading it - he knows as much about the real me as anyone else - but I'd be worried he would tell other people we work with about it.

Update: Tony, my other best friend (okay, I have three!), the person who's known me the longest (we used to go out together when we were both 11), nagged me all evening until I gave in and told him the address. Fortunately he texted me with a positive comment. He has a blog himself but it's incredibly professional, really flashy and impressive and not at all rude. Still having known me for so long, seen me drunk more times than I care to remember and walked in on me having a wee, I guess he wasn't gonna be too shocked by anything I'd written. I really should learn to lock doors, shouldn't I???

12.How many blogs are there in your links list?
Not enough. There are actually quite a few people I'd like to add to the list but I have to be honest it was Tina who added that bit for me and I've never bothered to update it.

13.Which blog do you check out first and why?
Are you just trying to get me in trouble here? Okay, I always check out Herge first because it's the best obviously! Then I go straight to Cakesniffers before doing the rounds of Piss Off, Connielingus, Edwaado (nothing new for ages - said pot to kettle!), Ship Creak.... I'm shamefully bad at leaving comments though. If I get to something and everything's been said already, I often think I've missed the boat and don't comment myself. Sometimes though, if I'm first to comment, I still shy away 'cos I think the first comment to a blog should be of a high standard and I don't want to let people down. Shit, I'm really showing my low self confidence now!

14.If you had one morsel of advice for someone starting out blogging, what would it be?
Don't let the Chimp and his drama queen ways get you down.

(fucking what!?! - Bitch! - and I really didn't find this funny - at all!!!! Scared the shit of me, thought Tina had gone for good.)

15.In a conversation about your blog, how would you like it described?
I can quote Tony here in his text from last night:

"I thought it was really amusing and it didn't shock me at all"

(Top posts, in my opinion - some of which will hopefully offend)

My Mate Tina - Specially Extended

Desperate Monkey

I actually find incontinence a turn on

For those days when a finger of fudge is not enough

My Mate Tina 3

16.When was the last time you laughed out loud at a post?
Genuinely really laughed out loud it would have to be Ed's comment to my MMT blog that I referred to earlier. I am a huge fan of comedy and usually I am fairly easily amused and find humour in unusual places but it actually takes a lot for me to laugh out loud. I may giggle or smirk to myself but to actually snigger uncontrollably is quite rare. Ed achieved that and for that I salute him! Before you all start on the offensive, that doesn't mean that I don't find many other things that people have done extremely amusing, 'cos I do. I really, really do but I'm being honest here so live with it!

Right, that seems to be everything. I've probably offended everyone without meaning to and sent the number of visitors to my blog through the floor (but I won't know about that until the comments stop!).

the truth via greeting card no. 40

The Librarian Degree 7

It’s over to you...

Next Friday (19th) I am handing over the reins of Angry Chimp to you, my beloved visitors.

What I would like, is for those of you that want to, to create a post based on the stuff I have been doing here for the past 7 months. (Sorry, that got a bit Tony Blair there for a minute).

So, for example, you may want to put your own words into the voice synthesizer of Dalek or the mouth of Borg, or you’d like to have a go at a ‘We love eachother’ (either a new couple, or an existing couple).

If so, then go for it.

Maybe there’s a topic you want discussed on ‘What’s yr take on’ or have an itching for a deleted scene from Star Wars that I’ve missed out or not covered (Mr Dix, I will finally be publishing one of you many great suggestions), is there a limerick which deserves to be aired? Or perhaps you would like Wyndham to finally stretch his legs...

It is up to you.

Seriously, if you have been increasingly frustrated by the direction Angry Chimp's being going in, now is your opportunity to stop the rot (temporarily).

Obviously, I will retain editorial control – and have set some guidelines for this event -

1. I will not print something if it is blatantly funnier than my stuff.
2. I will be inserting spelling and grammatical errors in accordance with my own lazyexia.
3. Dalek material will be attracting preferential treatment.
4. The penguin type creature from Strangeways is out of bounds – I will not have anyone disrespect Edward Gorey on this blog. (Other than me.)
5. No original work please – goodness knows I’ve strived to avoid original work for the past 7 months, I’m not about to allow any on my blog now.
6. Submissions by Thursday evening-ish; around tea time (6pm-ish
GMT)
7. Everyone is welcome - old and new visitors alike.

What do you need to do?

It’s simple really, you can either:

A. Send me a written explanation of your idea, which I will then add the required graphics.

Or...

B. Create your own text and graphics, which I will then simply drop into the blog (PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!)

So, get thinking – and send your suggestions to hergesmith@yahoo.co.uk

(If you need any help please don’t hesitate to give me a shout.)

P.S. If next Friday it is business as usual here, this will mean no one actually suggested an idea and I am just pretending this post never happened. In which case, please don't mention it - it'll only upset me.

Have fun.

WE LOVE EACH OTHER - The Guardian Magazine 13/08/05

Reprinted with no permission from The Guardian Weekend Suppliment 13/08/05

THE WEEKEND MAGAZINE: Shades of Night Porter me thinks...

Hsien Chew & Simon Wilkinson

Hsien He was at a party held by friend of a friend of a friend. The first thing I noticed about him was how he pronounced pain au raisin; he put far too much emphasis on raisin. Therefore, I told him how it should be pronounced. He shot me a vicious look with those beautiful blue eyes, I thought he was about to strike me and then I recognised him. I would have put his mispronunciation down to a state school education, but it turned out we went to the same public school. I was victimised horribly when I was there. Sadly, this continued when I attended Cambridge.

Simon He has this little horse like laugh, which I find adorable. Sometimes when we go on a Sunday hunt together I hear him laughing aloud and I remark that I can never tell whether it came from him or his steed, and then he laughs some more. We still talk about our time at school together; they were after all, formative years. For me they were the happiest of times, particularly when I recall abusing him with a poker before prep in our dorm room. As I say, happy times. Craig Taylor

Dalek and Borg 17

Check out previous Dalek and Borg at their own blog

Friendship is nice...

Its okay y’know, that feeling you get inside when things are going really badly for the closest of your friends.

You know the feeling; excitement, joy, pleasure, whatever… it’s all natural, honest.

The thing is, none of us really like each other, we just have an over riding instinct to form a pack, rather then go it alone.

This can be only explanation for all the groups of cunts you see at the pub on a Friday night.

As a society, we fear the solo, in fact we hate them. That is why we make them figures of perverted evil, perpetrators of violent crimes, murders of our children and worse still, meddlers of our dogs.

They are loners, kiddie fiddlers, Unabomber’s, outsiders, miscreants, foreigners, whatever...

Think about it for a second.

Go on…

I know its painful, but give it a go.

I know you hate thinking for yourself these days, it just seems so unnecessary doesn’t it?

I mean, why think for yourself when we have all these things to prevent the act of independent thought; television, the obvious main culprit, movies to make you forget who you are for a couple of hours (why do you think theatres go black? makes us focus more – ignore the outside world). Booze, to shut it down thought entirely, and if we do feel like having a crafty think, we tend to put on some tunes, which react with the conditioning we have received from childhood to create artificial emotional reactions.

You what?

Okay simple example;

Beethoven’s - Ode to Joy – Wow, suddenly I feel jubilant. I’m great!

The Smiths - How soon is now? – I feel like killing myself, I’m shit.

Any Weezer tune – I feel like dressing well, ain’t The Gap grand?

Anyway, what was I ranting about? Oh yes, friends.

All friends are evil fuckers waiting for you to fail so they can feel useful for once in their lives.

“Oh that’s awful, he didn’t call you for a week? Well you know what? It’s his loss.”

“She was old, her time had come, she had a full life and she died knowing she was loved by you and the family.”

“No, that colour suits you.”

“You should go to the hospital before the Police, what with it bleeding like that, you’ll need medical attention. Otherwise how will you be able to sit and watch Big Brother with me?”

They fucking love it. It gives them a purpose. It makes them feel better than you and better about themselves.

“I may be a child molesting, crack peddling, homicidal manic, and Tory MP, but at least I’m not my mate Dave; he really is a loser”.

You fail they glow; they fail you glow.

They have some success, win money, get a promotion, or go out with that good-looking guy or gal and you feel sick to your stomach with jealously.

Stop lying to yourself; admit it. Scratch the surface and there you have it; you really hate them and you want them to fail.

But, they never do, at least not as much as you would like.

And why is that?

Because we shed ourselves, pretty fast of friends who do fail, because after the first couple of schadenfreude moments we are sick of them;

“I always thought he was to good-looking for you; you look like a raped asshole with your retarded application of foundation barely covering your boil ridden cheeks”

“She was an evil old witch who outlived her welcome the instant your child molesting Father came in your pig thick whore of a Mother”

“No colour looks good on boiled flesh skin, other than death shroud black, and even then most people will assume you are the resurrected dead”

Do you get it? Do you see the truth in what I say?

Huh?

A letter to my Guardian - UPDATED

Dear Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms Guardian visitor,

You’ve been visiting my blog regularly for a while now (host name: n-230-a.guardian.co.uk) In fact yesterday was your 16th visit, which means you haven’t just looked once and thought, ‘what utter shite’ and never comeback; you’ve returned for more (of the shite?).

Naturally, I would love you to comment, as I do all visitors, but that isn’t the reason for my open letter to you.

It is this...

I read the Guardian, obviously, hence the ‘We love eachother’ posts.

(erm. please don’t tell anyone about those – I don’t want to get into trouble).

Anyway, I was wondering if I could have a little column, or maybe one of those weekly cartoon/things you have in The Guide on Saturday?

It’s not that I don’t find spending all my free time creating blogs for half a dozen people to read, fulfilling. Don’t get me wrong, I really appreciate the time each and everyone one of them takes to leave comments, it’s just that I want more, a lot more.

So a little column or strip would be perfect. I definately feel I can do something like that.

Honestly, it would be great.

In fact, here are some ideas for you to consider;

'Never trust a Dalek' is a natural first choice -

Or perhaps both 'Dalek and Borg' can discuss an up to the minute cultural issue in their now typical, 'oh-so-amusing' cybernetic way.

Although thinking about it, there may be copyright issues with the Terry Nation Estate/ BBC and Paramount. Bugger.

Alternatively, how about I resurrect ‘My Mate Dave’ – he’s young, he’s smug, he’s more than likely a good representative of the Guardians target audience.

No? Shit.

Maybe we can look at a talking point strip/piece like ‘What’s yr take on?’ – It’s punky, spikey, it’s got attitude and it’s not very original – Perfect.

Maybe I get a ¾ page like the thing about overhearing conversations – and you could print my new series of poems/limericks - 'The Librarian Degree'.

Actually that’s not a good idea. Most of them don’t scan at all well, are badly written and are an arse to prepare. Plus, I imagine your average Guardian reader will get funny about poetry. (if it's not done proper n'that)

Hmm… there must be something… anything… 'Dukes of Hazard'?

N’ah, boring, erm… 'What say you?' Hmm… that didn’t work out at all well.

I could write a one-off article. I could do one on Daleks, or masturbating, or interviews with other bloggers, about why they do it, and what they get out of it – that’s human interest isn’t it? – plus, so far the coverage of blogs outside of Internet section in the guide has been extremely snide and narrow-minded (Are you by chance the enigmatic JD?? – Judge Dredd? James Dean? of the Internet section?)

OH OH!! My comic, what about my 'Strangeways' webcomic? It’s weird, it’s post-modern...

Hold on- forget that. I was hoping to sell that idea to the BBC.

Hmm… Well that’s about it. No weekly feature for me I guess. I’ll just have to continue to attempt to entertain my few daily visitors. (Gawd bless 'em, one and all!)

But if you could just say ‘hello’, that would be something, wouldn’t it?

It was just a thought. I hope at the very least you keep visiting, reading and hopefully, enjoying what I do.

Yours sincerely,

Herge Smith.

UPDATE

Well, Guardian person came and went. From 12:58 to 13:06 they had a bit of read, and then moved on, no comment left, nothing. Did I expect more? No, not really.

Perhaps they just aren't fans of Ultravox?