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Looking for the Anti-Valentines?
Meg,
I love your site. I found it through a search for strapline writing on google (?!) Your 404 page, made me laugh then I started reading the site. I think it’s totally fab.
ditto to Daisy’s comment! a brilliant site Meg, and very funny to boot. I have forwarded the Valentine’s card page to dozens of friends so I think you’ll be getting lots more hits…. Keep up the good work! x
Simply Splendid……..
Great site!
And I’d love to send you some of my shirts to iron, but you understand that I have to make sure you’ll do it right. Could you please send me a shirt so I can judge your ironing skills?
Nah, forget it. Just keep up the good work.
love it!!!
the valentine cards rock!!!
Happy suck-day-for-single-people!
If I see some bastard dragging a bunch of flowers into work for some bird, I may not be responsible for my actions!
No really, very nice site. Like it all, the pics, the typefeace and the layout. none of that guy bullshit on how many little thingees can I stuff into one website!
Lots to think about and much to absorb, love the site.
Master.
A true Master.
I love the anti-valentine cards! Good to see someone lampooning an imported event foisted on us by jewellers, florists and greeting card companies.
Are you planning on having anti-Halloween cards?
your site is making my vd bearable. thank you! although vd is how i first found out about it, i have done more exploring and have come to the conclusion that your website is awesome.
cheers!
What an absolutely wonderful site. More, more, more!
Thanks - and may you continue for a long time!
hello meg.
happened upon your site because some body sent me an anti-valentines day card.
so i sent a few myself, started stomping around in your site, you are a funny girl.
i am inspired to work on my own site.
thanks for being out there and sharing.
u are freakin hilarious,
you should be on tv, even with a face for radio ( just kidding)
come for tea ….and bring a bottle
seriously though
u are a genius
thanks for making me laugh
This simple (complex under the hood) yet stunning site, is too good looking . . .
VERY INNOVATIVE INDEED !
SHAMIT@
http://shamitbagchi.blogspot.com
Your site is sexy as hell.
Wonderful site, Meg. Great VD cards!
Your website is brilliant - you must have a creative, light hearted personality to create such a fun and warm site.
Well done! Love it. Best wishes from Australia.
Like the blogs! Haven’t had a chance to suss out the rest. Thought you might like to know I found the blog page via the ODTAA (one Damn Thing After Another) site. It was recommended as a great example of blogging by someone who knew what they were doing!
Keep up the good work.
hi meg
i found yr site by mistake, but it was really funny and sarcastic aswell!
i was supposed to do this brief ..but instead reading yr stuff…avoiding syndrome….
oh well……Good luck in the future
Jox
Amazing website. Beautiful pictures, especially of the Isle of Iona! I am sure I will be back. (I arrived here through the mirror project.)
This site is truly amazing. There’s enough content here to keep me busy for months!
Meg,
You have excelent taste in music.
Your site has also kept me sane over the last month, I am eternally grateful. Thankyou!
I saw your url mentioned in an artical in INSTANT
Randomed on in here…I’m from Seattle, but spent most of December in London…Chiswick, to be exact! Small world. Great site.
Gee i wish I loved ironing….i used to have no clothes to iron, now i have to do it everyday…
Love your site though, i visit daily.
Your site is unbelievable :D
So plain and simple, yet elegant.
I really enjoyed this site.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Yang Kuang
Hello Meg,
Got here via Anita Bora’s blog. You have a brilliant web site. Uncomplicated design, loads of words, posts on diverse subjects, and great sense of humor. [Just read your “about” section]
Keep the stylish site going.
very inspiring !!!!
Meg,
I was looking for bass guitars and ended up at your site. At first I didn’t know what to think but then I started looking about and was quite impressed with all that I saw and read. Your photo’s are great, then when I read your random words about trying to capture wind on film I was stunned by your use of language. As an American I’m not use to such beautiful prose. You should think about becoming an author and publishing.
Cheers.
Your site is possibly the best personal site I have ever seen. I can’t remember how I found it.
I registered veganator.com a while ago, but haven’t got around to creating a site yet, which is pretty typical of me, I must admit.
Ee lass, tha’s not so soft (cod Northern for
“pretty damn bright” - as a Northern cod I’m
allowed to say that). Anyway, I hate you
- you done it all so well… or maybe I love
you, I’m not sure yet.
Just when I thought (good) writing was dead, you proved me wrong.
Brilliant writing. Truly an inspiration.
…I think you’ve bagged yet another regular reader.
-Sujit
http://www.geocities.com/being_digital86/
When I feel cr*p on a Monday (note to self : get a new job), your site never fails to hearten me. Thank you.
Meg,
I came across your site last night (late late last night) and I couldn’t stop looking at the pictures. You do wonderful work! I have yet to check out the rest of the site, but from what I have seen so far, I will definitely be checking it all out.
TO finally see someone who doesn’t curb to someone else’s ideals is like a breath of fresh air. Thank you!
-Sioux
TodaysMom.com
You site has been a pleasure to stroll through, Meg. I especially enjoyed the pictures, they were very beautiful!
-Brian
hi. i already left a comment thinger on something else in your website but i found this section so i think i`ll comment again, lol.
your photography amazes me, as does your writing. i am into photography and writing also… you make me look like a preschooler. ;[ haha.your webdesign is brilliant. i`m also into webdesign. ugh. i suck. lol.
but really though you seem like a .beautiful. person. i`m in love with your website. it inspires me, in a way. your talent does. though i don`t know quite what it is..
i just know that when i read your writings, when i look at your photos, i feel something in my stomach. something i would feel if i were standing face to face with the person i`m in love with. and he does inspire me moreso than anyone else….
oh my that sounds a bit cheezy. but it`s true, homie, it`s true. =oP
i don`t think i have to say this because you seem completely motivated already but– keep up the fabulousness.
I liked the old one but this one is great too.
I especially enjoy your pictures. I just got MovableType installed. I would like to know how you create a random image. Is it in the source? May I view it for instructional purposes?
Keep up the good stuff!
Meg-
Great to have you back! It’s unfortunate that spam (due mostly to sketchy histories of notsosoft) led to a migration, but I’m glad you’re indulging us all some more.
Much Appreciation!
The idea of saying ‘fuck that I’ve had enough of you low-life spammers’ and doing something to completely stop them ie make a new start - is strangely attractive.
Yay! Good to have you back again.
I used to visit your ‘notsosoft’ page from time to time and now I found this New place! Very nice, I enjoy your photography very much. Just thought I’d leave a note..
Hello there,
I’m researching online fanzines and weblogs on behalf of the publishing group emap. Emap is running fanzine awards this year, and I’m helping to put together a shortlist for the competition.
I would be extremely grateful if you give me some information on your publication so I can submit it for consideration. Could you tell me:
How long your site has been running? Brief history?
How frequently is it published / updated?
How many hits do you get per week / month / year?
How is the site staffed? How many contributors do you have?
How do you cover costs?
How do you promote your site?
Give me a 150 word pitch for your site, describing the philosophy behind it, what you think makes it different, the readership you are targeting and why you think there is a need for your site.
What other websites / fanzines are you a fan of / have inspired you in the past?
And finally: what has been the best / most satisfying article in your site so far?
Oh, and can I have full contact details – email, phone number and mailing address?
Thanks very much for your help, and I’m sorry for all the questions. Take care,
Chris Bourn
hi meg,
got here via the going underground blog, and i love your site. just posted an entry to the quiz… hmmm tough one! hope you had a great holiday…
I keep finding myself coming back here.
Help.
Never knew you’re a pisces! Me too! ;)
Meg,
You rock,I only wish i had the time to put together something half as interesting.
x
Hello Meg.
Your website is so nice ! Don’t change anything. I love the design very simple.
Thanx give us such nice things.
hehe. Meish has gone into my favs right away!
hello meg.
skipped across your site and i think its amazing.
you are gifted within your photos and your writing is well crafted. well that is my opinion anyways.
was wondering if i could possibly use a photo or two in upcoming projects i am working with. contact me, if this is something to speak about.
thanks for working hard on such a loveable site!
ps- i have news for you within some titles in your wishlist!
- noel.
Meg!
I enjoyed my visit at Meish. Thank you. Perchance you saved the old rant and stuff on “Under Construction”? Couldn’t find it here. :( I so much loved it.
sodaigakko
i too live on the flight path and near a river. in fact the Town Wharf is my local.
wireless network huh? might have to try finding that.
The design of this site has life, clarity, optimism.
Keep on keepin’ on.
So, Meg, when you started blogging did you ever think you’d get the comment ‘your site is making my vd bearable’? I found meish through a link to your album cover quiz, which by the way is very well done (although I did wait an *awfully* long time for number 52 to load before I realised how stupid I was). After a while I realised you were also behind notsosoft, which I used to look at a lot a year or so ago before I moved jobs and lost a lot of my links (remember the fake ‘poems on the underground? I sent you some pics). Your piece about being 7 minutes from Heathrow brought back some memories for me - I used to work in Richmond, and I remember reading about that poor guy who landed in the car park at Homebase. For weeks after I used to glance up vervously every time a plane went over (ie about every 40 seconds) just in case there was a plummeting body heading my way. Gruesome. Anyway, keep up the good work…
To say “I’m a pisces, but I think astrology is bollocks”
just sums astrology up perfectly- & the site is the
dogs B’s too! great stuff, love it- I’ll be around for
more later, ya toast is getting cold btw :D
f
Dear Meg,
Thank you for such a wonderful web site. I reached it from a recommendation on Harry Stone’s Blog (ugly word) and am glad I followed his advice. I love your acerbic but friendly style and the many interesting corners you manage to illuminate.
All the best to you and Paul,
Brian
meg, i came in thru the album cover challenge then started looking around. your site ROCKS! pic’s and text kept me occupied for a couple of hours. i especially like the lack of clutter. be back soon to dig a little deeper.
kk
I live under a flight path as well. My wife and I love it. : )
Excellent site, both in design and in content.
With your permission and, maybe, some help on your part, let me introduce myself via the Google search engine. After pulling up that search engine, insert with quotes and all the following phrase “A. Alexander Stella”, and then hit ENTER. In less than a second, the monitor screen will fill with quite a few references.
Anyway, the hyperlinks that lead to my piece on Yoko Ono are hi-lited and crown references that mention John Lennon’s widow. If you’d rather go straightway, then click on this underlined azure HYPERLINK.
warm regards
\
A Alexander “Bogey” Stella
One more item, it may happen that the aforementioned hyperlink is neither azure nor functional. In which case, try this expedient, using your browser. After inserting the following U.R.L, namely, http://www.bcvoice.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=175 in the address field, then hit ENTER.
Can’t wait for this year’s mayfly project…it will be my third year for it.
Hi Meg
I’ve never been moved to comment on sites before (apart from “what S***! I could do much better” - but of course never do!) but from my experience, nobody does it better… makes me feel sad for the rest…. blah blah bad bond songs.
Got to your site looking for Album covers for a student quiz and found yours truly superb and rather taxing (still haven’t got 22 of them) keep up the extraordinarily good work - but take time to consider a falmily. I’ve a wee 15 month old boy who would be absolute gold for content if I had my own site…. not that I think you need much stimulation!
Cheers, Meg
Iain
unless i’m spectacularly stupid, this seems to be as close to a guestbook as i can find.
all i really wanted to say was that i love your site - it’s one of these places i keep coming across (including notsosoft) and end up exploring, but always forgetting to bookmark.
i haven’t forgotten this time :)
Wicked site. This is what the internet is for, not spam or porn! The pages come down the line really fast, look unfussily pleasant to the eye, the content is witty and human and the outlook is not perverted by any form of corporate lameness. Gwan girl!
im in love!!!
but but but but, dan!!!!!!!!!!!!! what were u doing online at 9am on xmas morning????
enuff sed… i am left speechless
*bedazzled*
Umm, can I ask that you make a V-Day card that says “Stop asking about our wedding”
just like the ‘Stop talking about your wedding”
??
don’t know whereelse to make this comment.
hey, just to say i’m one of the neil gaiman converts, and i *loved* the valentine cards and the rest of the site too. also, i live in scotland and am a native of the north east of england, so anyone who likes those places automatically gets my vote! good luck with the aisle day and with the turning thirty (i do that in november - v scary concept).
You have made me grin and chuckle lots, thanks.
Good luck and keep it up.
Got to know about this site through a friend. Its truly hilarious. I sent its link to almost all the friends I have. VD cards are wonderful; I wish I could have more people to send all of these cards. :-)
Your naughty sharp brain does reflect in this simple looking site. I wish your server may never explode.
Hi!
With all the email addresses going through your card send ANTI-V-Day I was wondering if you had a stated privacy policy?
Thanks!
Dan