Blog posts! In a book!

Am back from the high seas. Lots of pix on Flickr, and some new books in the reading list… all of which I’ll get around to writing about sometime, I’m sure. Really.

But first: the exciting news that Tim Worstall’s anthology of the best of the British blogosphere, 2005: Blogged is published later this week (ignore, I’d say, Amazon’s rather pessimistic view of when it’ll be available - it’ll be sooner than that, I’m sure).

Now, I’d normally come over all cool about such a development, of course - “blog posts? In a book? Pah! What’s the point of that?” - but since the dear chap’s gone and stuck this post in as the first entry of January, he’s bought me off. Not my best post of the year, I’d argue, but I can see why he wanted to use it - you know: agent of MSM goes postal in blog post. And it does, after all, feature the word “fuckwittery”.

The other bloggers’ stuff is really good, from what I’ve read so far. Even the index, which shows the Guardian to be the most referenced newspaper, and Polly Toynbee to be more talked about than the whole Daily Telegraph. And, it should be noted, he’s referenced around 100 blogs in here: plenty that even the most ardent UK blog scourer will not have come across before.

So: click on the Amazon link without delay: buy now, buy often, your Christmas present problems sorted for another 12 months, Completetosh’s trickly revenue streams swollen to an almighty gush. Go on. If you don’t my sickly kittens will starve*.

And disregard the fact that the “other customers also bought” link for 2005: Blogged currently includes The Big Book of Masturbation: from Angst to Zeal.

Mrs Completetosh would say this is an apt title to sit alongside a blogging anthology. But the rest of you would, I’m sure, agree it’s a jolly unsporting Amazonbomb by some bitter blog types whose posts didn’t make the cut.

You would, wouldn’t you? Oh.

* this is a lie.