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Thursday, July 27th, 2006

Proofs

Oooh, it’s very exciting. That photo above you, that’s proofs that is. If you squint, you can see where I’ve stuck some biro on the page to change a bit of the text. Anyway, here’s an update.

Sickipedia

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

Sickipedia logo

Yay. I’ve just launched sickipedia

It exists for the following reasons:

  • Once I thought of the crappy sickipedia / wikipedia pun I couldn’t resist it
  • I closed the QOTW on B3ta and got lots of email going, “please keep it open, we love reading and adding jokes”
  • However, the list has become huge and unmanageable with gazillions of duplicates
  • I’ve never run a public wiki before and I’m interested to see how it goes
  • Assuming the book gets even a small bit of attention, then a lot of people will be emailing me jokes. I’d rather direct them to a website where they can sort it out themselves.
  • I fancied re-drawing the Wikipedia logo with extra cocks
  • I imagine we’re going to get a lot of vandalism, but hopefully it’ll all work out ok in the end. Anyway. Have fun you crazy kids.
  • We have a publisher!

    Monday, March 13th, 2006

    Woo hoo. Huge woo yays to The Friday Project.

    There’s loads to say about this so here’s some bullet points of doom:

  • The Friday Project impressed me over the publicity they generated for the Holy Moly book.
  • Doing all this ‘properly’ meant that I had to get a literary agent. I am now represented in these literary matters by the same chap who does Jimmy Nail.
  • Apparently some other fucker is doing a book on sick jokes but thankfully it looks like they forgot to stick the jokes in.
  • I’ve been borrowing a desk at The Friday Project to give my day more of a 9-5 structure so I actually get some work done.
  • It’s going to be interesting to see who much stuff I can get published, as I’m writing the draft without censoring for taste, as I figure that should be done in second pass in conjunction with the publisher.
  • The publisher put together a document saying the book is 192 pages, which scares me slightly as that’s a bit longer than I anticipated.
  • It’s quite nice being in an office and having a window to look out from.