13/07/2004 – Is This Thing On?

On Blogging

By Matt Armstrong | 13/07/2004 by Matt Armstrong

In a moment of distracted boredom earlier this afternoon, I stumbled across this article from the Guardian back in April, in which 3 bloggers talk about why they do it. Ignoring for a second the slightly surreal but probably-seemed-better-in-context-in-an-issue-edited-by-Franz Ferdinand quote at the bottom, “Franz Ferdinand say…”, the article is worth reading if only for the following quote: “What tends to happen with me is that I’ll meet up with someone I haven’t seen for…

“Everything Involved in Travelling is Bad”

By Matt Armstrong | 13/07/2004 by Matt Armstrong

Reading the Independent travel supplement over the weekend, I couldn’t help but notice their interview with French designer Philippe Starck. I supposed he’s entitled to his opinions, but he doesn’t half come across as a bit of a twat. Apart from telling a travel magazine that “the secret to travelling is to never read magazines – they wash your brain and depress you”, “everything involved in travelling is bad”, and “only stupid people travel”, he…