BREAKING NEWS

I thought X didn't like it that I added that main header and changed the wording so I made the change and sent an apologetic request for him to let me know if his text is sacrosanct.

X said he is only to happy to let me sub away as it makes his job easier, and he had said to "put it through my magic machine!" and thanked me for the rapid turnaround.

TOTALLY PISSED OFF

Tripped coming out of the trough and landed in the Slough of Despond. This pilgrim is making very little progress just now.

C has jacked in both his jobs and I am not speaking to him. K, on the other hand, has just paid the £1500 she saved to pay for her Thai trip.

Boss ohas me making an email flyer-type thing announcing the next publication, which is good news tho'

Anyone wanna come round and wait on me hand and foot in a tu-tu?

ZOMBIE

Still around but just finished one project, will zombie next two days before starting on next. Chaos reigned from 8am til 8pm yesterday. They had to stop the press for late adverts. I even had to make one of the ads for a client myself with just a pic and a logo!

THANKS RAY!

WAYLAID

Got waylaid today. Forgot I was to take K (my daughter) to nurse for her medical for Thailand. Too late so had to make an appointment for tomorrow at 2 when she's supposed to be at work. Hope she doesn't get the sack...

Press day is now wed so we only have tomorrow to finish the mag.

Anyone know how to add a logo/image to a website that includes a live link so when you click on the logo it goes to the logo's website?

UPDATE ON MY SON

He's just finishing off the cheescake and cottage cream so I guess OK. He's got a new job: he takes to the streets to drum up income for a Christian charity. He now earns more than I do.

ALEXANDER HLEB, ARSENAL

Unsettled Arsenal midfielder Alexander Hleb looks to be Barcelona-bound after Jose Mourinho's arrival at Inter Milan kiboshed his hopes of a move there. Vincenzo Morabito, Hleb's middle-man, claimed the Belarussian had been a Barca target for a long time. (Guardian: 5/6/08)

MY SON

My son (lives with my ex) got his head kicked in on the weekend, by a gang of 20 chavs when he tried to stop them attacking his pal. Paramedics were called and he was ambulanced to hospital, but he's OK. He'd been kicked and stamped on repeatedly about the head and knocked unconscious. He couldn't see for a while. 4 1/2 hours wait in casualty.

He's sore today! and it's his birthday! I'm not included in any birthday celebrations. Sniff.

KING MOB

For years the graffiti emblazoned along a west London Tube track issued an angry challenge to the deadening conformity of urban life:

'Same thing day after day - Tube - Work - Diner [sic] - Work - Tube - Armchair - TV - Sleep - Tube - Work - How much more can you take - One in ten go mad - one in five crack up'.

Its authors were a group of anarchic anti-artists named King Mob, whose stunts and visual manifestos flowered briefly during the late Sixties and early Seventies, in opposition to both the Establishment and the commercialised counter-culture of the Beatles and Carnaby Street.

King Mob's physical manifestations on the walls of Notting Hill have long faded with its gentrification. However, their leaflets and posters, recently acquired by Tate Britain, serve as a reminder of the bitter artistic and political clashes which then seemed commonplace, but are mainly absent from today's celebrity-driven pop culture.

POE: THE TELL TALE HEART

"Villains!" I shrieked, "dissemble no more! I admit the deed! - tear up the planks! here, here! - It is the beating of his hideous heart!"

RANDOM MUSIC THOUGHTS

I have been listening to a lot of the music that got me into music in the first place, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Marley, Muddy Waters.

What makes a good album? For me it has to be cohesive , have a begining, middle and end. Also the sounds used need to fit together across the whole album. Blood On The Tracks comes to mind, an album that uses a minimum amount of instruments, textures and song structures, but still manages to devastate on each listening.