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The increasingly inaccurately-named blog of journalist and futurist Chris Taylor. Either the most sporadically brilliant amateur blog, the most brilliantly amateur sporadic blog, or the most amateur sporadic brilliance on the Web since 2001.
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Daily Blah FAQ
Who are you?
I'm the newly-appointed Future editor at Business 2.0 and the former San Francisco correspondent for Time Magazine.
Wow, so does this mean everything you write reflects Time Inc's opinion? Or do you perhaps have some sort of standard disclaimer to the effect that it doesn't?
Naturally, the opinions contained in this blog are not those of my employers. In fact, some opinions may be the polar opposite of my employers. Some may be the same, for all I know. Hey, it's not like I ask my employers their opinions about everything in the news, okay? Let's just say that if this were a Venn diagram with one circle marked "my opinions" and the other one marked "my employers' opinions", there would doubtless be some overlap. But neither I nor my employers are able to pinpoint exactly where that overlap is.
What is this Daily Blah thing?
An experiment for a column I wrote about blogging back in December 2001. All these years later, I haven't been able to kick the habit.
Do you write any other blogs, by chance? Could that have something to do with the fact that Daily Blah isn't always Daily?
Yes -- the Future Boy blog for Business 2.0. And yes. If you want true, editorially-mandated daily coverage from me, that's probably the best place to look.
Mister, you talk funny. Are you one of them furrners?
Why yes I am, as it happens. I was born, raised and educated in Great Britain. I've been living in the U.S. since 1996 and identify as British.
I say, old chap, you forgot the "u" in "colour."
No I didn't. I may identify as British, but I am also an American journalist writing for an American audience about mostly American issues. These two different sides of me are a constant source of tension. Nevertheless, Daily Blah will adhere to American English grammar and spelling.
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Daily Blah for... Monday, April 04, 2005
Call it 'Sporadic Blah'
You are such a patient readership. Thanks for waiting. Here's another one of those updates: I spent much of the last two weeks showing my sister around San Francisco. We went to the Robo Games at SF State and watched robots beat the crap out of each other. Threw a fabulous brunch party on Easter Sunday that ended up more of a brunch-dinner, which I suppose you'd call "brinner." If you had such a shindig at Christmas, would it be Yule Brinner? [Sound of tumbleweed blowing through ghost town] I would like to apologize unreservedly to my overly patient readers for the preceding pun and any pain it may have caused.
I interviewed Gavin Newsom for the third time, and drank more of his Kool-Aid. I'm increasingly convinced that this man is the only Democrat in America with any backbone, and that his hero-worship of RFK is not just for show. Nor is it an entirely inappropriate comparison. Oh! And I saw "Wizard People, Dear Reader." It's a screamingly funny monologue that, if you're quick-witted, you can find, download, burn to CD, and play as an alternate soundtrack to Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone. The narrator, one drawls out his twisted, profane version of the Potter legend in a tone that sounds something like William S Burroughs, had Burroughs been born in Queens and snorted way too much coke. I don't know whether the combined forces of Warner and Rowling are on the warpath here, or whether they're laughing as hard as I was, but it would really be in their financial interest to let the poor guy be. After all, you have to go rent or buy the Potter movie to have the full Wizard Reader experience -- and I thought wild horses would not drag me back to that film again.
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