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:: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 ::

I call Taylor. "Hi killer," she says. "Do you wanna borrow $600?" I go to the Acapulco Western Union. "Surprise," she goes. She takes me back to her hotel and peels off her shorts. "Tell me you killed them for me." What the hell. "I did it for you."

"I got it on tape," she shouts, pullin up her shorts. "I'm gonna be famous."

High-school massacre story wins booker prise. First chapter. Vernon God Little digested.


I heard this morning that Bristol is leading the way with an ingenious new solution to the problem of fly-posting. The council are using poster proof paint. Somehow I can’t see that working. Adhesives exist that will stick two diamonds together, so is there really no glue that will stick paper to a tar like paint? I doubt it. And once one poster is up more will just get piled on top of it with whatever cheap glue was used previously.

It seems typical that less that a week after someone offers to put up some posters for me the council is making a stand against cheap communication for the cities young entrepreneurs such as myself (tongue firmly in cheek). I like fly posters. They are the single most effective way of finding out what is going on in a city. A quick drive through Stokes Croft /St Pauls/Easton, and you can be sure you know about all of the most interesting events coming up in Bristol in the next month. It is a shame however that a lot of big record companies seem to have realised this and will cover a whole building in identical posters for the new Madonna album or similar. It looks like some kind of half arsed attempt at recreating a Warhol painting. Perhaps there is some kind of half way deal, owners of some buildings allowing fly posting, this should be encouraged. I’m all for legitimising it somehow but it’s not a problem that will simply go away with a few coat of paint, that will just lead to posters being put in more intrusive places where people/residents/shop owners are even more likely to complain.

:: Dan 15.10.03 [Arc]    ::
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