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WTF? Where is my Blog?

Regrettable Juvenilia

19:57 / 02.07.03

If it says 'The New Hip-Hop, PC Trend', it's been fixed. If it says 'Loopy Librarian', it's been stolen.

Who do I have to kill to get my blog back? Blogger? Blogspot? Tom?

mixmage

20:00 / 02.07.03

Sorry Dude... You been jacked.

Kit-Cat Club

20:10 / 02.07.03

Yeah, I think you've suffered a coup there. How odd. I suppose you would start be emailing the support people at Blogger/Blogspot (which is owned by Google now, so I don't know whether they have many support staff or not). If it helps there's a Google cache of it here which clearly shows that you had it last year...

rizla mission

20:38 / 02.07.03

whatever the thing is that's replaced your blog it's remarkably strange..

Kit-Cat Club

20:48 / 02.07.03

It only looks that weird because the person using the url can't use the html template properly - I had a look at the source code and they've completely farked it, by the looks of it. But how could they have registered the name anyway? Doesn't make any sense.

Mazarine

21:30 / 02.07.03

Have you tried changing the password, etc?

Matthew Fluxington

21:42 / 02.07.03

Jesus.

Fucking hell. Now I'm paranoid.

I'm sorry this happened to you, Flyboy.

Do start this up again soon, okay? You were on a roll.

Matthew Fluxington

21:44 / 02.07.03

I suspect that this may not be a "hijack" so much as a terrible, terrible internal error that sent this guy's template to Flyboy's blog by accident.

Can you still log in, Flyboy? If so, are all of your entries still there, or have they been deleted?

Tryphena Absent

22:49 / 02.07.03

Ahem. Flyboy's blog seems to be fine to me and a whole lot better than Jade's face.

Rather more importantly Scatman John is dead.

Matthew Fluxington

01:05 / 03.07.03

Wow. It is back now.

I *promise* you that his URL was hosting some bizarre thing a few hours ago. This is not a dream, an imaginary story, or a hoax.

I'm very glad that things are back to normal.

Spatula Clarke

01:13 / 03.07.03

Very odd. Loopy Librarian has hir own blog, which is obviously the one that temporarily replaced Fly's. Most recently, ze mentions how ze's been trying to get a new template working. Don't think ze's aware that it created a portal to the Other Side.

Tryphena Absent

01:17 / 03.07.03

I think it might be something to do with the fact that flyboy and the loopy librarian posted at the same time. Is anyone surprised that blogger just can't cope?

Will no one talk about the Scatman with me? Must I suffer alone? And when's Jade going to be horrible to me for switching sides? I'm on tenterhooks here people, come on!!!

Ellis says:

08:01 / 03.07.03

I too mourn the death of John 'The Scatman' Larkin.

But I don't wish to 'jack this thread.

illmatic

08:15 / 03.07.03

"Scatman" John, eh? Oh, he's a singer. I thought you meant... something else.

Jub

08:29 / 03.07.03

Loopy Librarian's given you a big up, Flyboy.

rizla mission

10:29 / 03.07.03

Fucking hell, the Scatman's dead???

That's..

so sad.

I was discussing him just the other day. A friend saw his album in a second hand shop for £4. "And you didn't buy it?," I chided, "you fool!"

I've always wondered by what bizarre processes he came to be a one-hit-wonder pop sensation - I'd like to think that he was a geniunely jazz performer following in the 'scatting' tradition of Cab Calloway etc., and he was maybe playing at some late night club, and a coked-out-his-brain record company exec. in the audience decided "this guy's fucking amazing, man!! I'm gonna sign him!! I'm gonna make him a star!!"

I have particularly fond memories of the video to 'Scatman's World', the flop follow up to his big hit single, in which he attempted to lure people into his 'world' - a psychedelic Teletubbies type place where happy children endlessly dance in circles to the sound of his scatting and euro-pop beats..

I will light a candle for the Scatman tonight!

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