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10/07/02 @ 11:14 p.m.
Well this is all rather embarrassing. After inadvertently starting a guestbook war the other day, review-world took down my review and put up an ass-kissing one with an apology. I’ve had to use a crowbar to fully uncringe myself... Now back down to business. Remember a while ago I complained that a page I wrote for a magazine was edited to fuckery? I decided I’d have another go, so I made some of the changes the editor had made to the last one, except for the bad grammar she’d added, because I decided to keep with the whole not-sounding-illiterate thing. I hoped it’d persuade her to leave it alone, and I joked to friends and associates that she’d probably just fuck it up in other ways because it was only about her showing her authority. The new issue came today. It turns out she’d fucked it up in other ways because it was only about her showing her authority. Initially, my favourite change came from her decision to change the font so that the text didn’t fit on the page any more. I particularly liked the way it meant she had to completely change the layout to something uglier, so that it gave the impression that a blind monkey had been given a copy of Microsoft Publisher, and been told to shove the mouse and keyboard up his arse and wriggle around until something appeared onscreen. But that subtle piece of editing was narrowly beaten by her decision to change the phrase "Ten Sci-Fi Movies To Avoid" to the more concise "Ten Avoid Sci-Fi Movies". I like the way it makes no sense, and makes me sound like a hick who’s heard about the Learning School on the other side of the county, but who has decided not to go on account of not being able to read the bus timetable and on account of Ma needing him to whitewash the barn since she can’t do it herself since she fell off the roof of the chicken coop where she’d been trying to catch one of them stars what been shining in the sky. So because I know there’s a few people who read both that magazine and this diary, I want to make it clear that I’m really not as big a prick as that article makes me look. I’m only as big a prick as this whiney entry makes me look.
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