Fidel Gastro’s

That is not a sentence. I know a Detective man said that he stabbed someone down the lane (a licky boom boom down) but I’m not sure what this crucial scene setting statement means at all.

Nevermind, anyway I’m making this 1980’s white rap reference for two reasons. Firstly I have had my first and probably only gentle brush with minor league fame much like our patois-rhyming canuck b-boy and secondly this appeared in the local ‘I won’t read it but only use it to wrap broken wine glasses in it’ free rabbit-hatch paper - the London Informer.
After getting an email from a journo a while back and hearing nothing for weeks, Fidel Gastro’s has just appeared as London Blog of the week! Succcess! Traffic has exploded to a Myspace-esqe 7 readers a day and my AdSense revenue is running at a whopping Vince Chase scale paycheque of $3. A month.

Scans of the article after the break…

What is quite amusing is the fact this guy has read quite of a lot of my site - citing articles from around 3 years ago, and also the heavy level of censorship he had to apply; removing all swearing, references to gun manufacturers and any household brands terms. He also starts his article with

“Cian clearly has too much time on his hands.”

Which is patently not true - he refers back to a social experiment I did where I emailed several exam boards to ask if you can use slang words in your answers (e.g. poop instead of faeces) and got back fully featured replies (you won’t get marked down). What he doesn’t appreciate is that this is hard qualitiative research, in fact it’s almost science and I should put it in wikipedia and be citied by educational journals across the world. My academic fame was clearly snatched cruelly from me so here are links back to my masterful research in question from heady 2003 to enjoy.

Part 1: I pose the question.

Part 2: I get the answer. and the fear.