So, as much as I enjoy the idea of keeping an invented person's blog in my link list, we all know the JT LeRoy thing is way played out, and sadly, 'his' truly insane blog hasn't been updated in forever. Time to scratch it from my sidebar, but I definitely encourage everyone to read that thing while it's still online. Choice quote: 'dude, you DO not even compete with this ape.' Ref to? Peter Jackson's King Kong movie. 'I saw King Kong and it just hammered me.' Aw.

So yeah, today I added Ollie's blog/journal to the sidebar as the link Commonpeople. I met Ollie on Livejournal and happened to notice his blog because he had especially pretty drawings of Morrissey and Egon Schiele as his avatars. Far and away, he's got one of the best blogs on the web. He lives in London and writes about things like the Hampton Court maze, the current performance of John Cage's Longplayer, and one memory for each country he's lived in. He also writes a lot about theatre, TV, film, and his boyfriend Kevin. Fantastic shit. Check him out.

Incidentally, since I've never introduced the other fine kids in my sidebar, this is probably a good time to do it. Ship Erect [livejournal rss feed shiperect] is my boyfriend Steven's blog. Epicly Later'd is Patrick O'Dell's photo journal, one of the prettiest sites on the web. I met Patrick at a Morrissey concert in Oklahoma, and we both live in New York City. And Dennis Cooper's belongs to the esteemed American writer of the same name. He and I grew up in the same part of L.A., at different times. We've never met in person. He lives in Paris.

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edit: whoa, not five minutes after i changed the link list, i came across this AP story ['Writer behind JT LeRoy comes clean']. weird. synchronous.