Blogwatch

Welcome...

Wandering Scribe - A law graduate currently living in a car in woods somewhere near London writes about her experiences of being homeless (this is a recent and very worthy recipient of the Blog Of The Week award over at Swiss Toni's Place)

This Blog Will Change Your Life - "My year-long adventure following the daily instructions presented in This Book Will Change Your Life by Benrik Limited as closely as possible without getting arrested or dying..." (via Parallax View)

Scarecrow - A .blogspot site, but more a fully-fledged literary site featuring reviews, short fiction, poetry, essays and interviews (via one of its contributors, Wan)

Meanwhile...

No competition for most powerful post of the week: Reluctant Nomad is confronted with the news of regular reader / virtual friend Felicitas's suicide, and her spiteful yet somehow affectionate parting shot.

Elsewhere...

On a tangentially related note, Gordon writes about making sudden discoveries about those whose blogs you read avidly - "As you read you start to build mental pictures of people, their opinions and their pet peeves, yet we don’t know the person at all".

Forksplit is writing a book - "The first time I started writing the book, I opened a new Word file and sat staring at the blinking cursor. I smoked a cigarette and stared at it. I ate a microwaved Amy's Organic Breakfast Burrito and stared at it. I couldn't write. So I went into my blogger account and opened a "New Post" window. And immediately started writing. There was something about that format that just felt right. I wrote just like I always do on the blog".

Jonathan catches the NME Tour in Brighton - "As great as the Arctic Monkeys were, it's plain that the right band are headlining tonight; Maximo Park, unlike the young whippersnappers, have simply honed their act to perfection, and the extra few years that they've put in have rendered their songs as tight and lean as you could imagine".

Kenny reports back on gigs by Broken Social Scene and The Magic Numbers.

Alex and Valentine's Day involves a trip to see an Anglo-Italian horror movie - "The plot of 'The Night Evelyn Came Out Of The Grave' is as convoluted as the title, and centers around one 'Lord' Alan Cunningham. He's a millionaire playboy type character - sort of a cross between a less-charismatic Lord Summerisle and Bruce Wayne, except where Bruce has a batcave Alan has a dungeon, and where Bruce fights crime, Alan likes to pick up red-headed prostitutes, take them back to his castle, and murder them while babbling about his late wife Evelyn".

Jonathan kidnaps a new friend and takes him "on an impromptu whistlestop tour of [Manchester's] night-club queues".

And finally...

Laura tries speed-dating for what may have been the first and certainly is the last time - "'Well, I'm really good in bed. Really good. I can go all night'".