Stillbop

Noodlepie, as you know and tolerate it, will become something of a museum as of summer 2006 when we split town. With this in mind I've been putting acres of thought, days of discussion and a pot or ten of elbow grease into planning future blog endeavours. Following a vicious bidding war I can now report that I was victorious in procuring the fiercely contested domain name Stillbop. So www.stillbop.com is the future and the future is now, but in reality it will be more then than it is now - oh and don't follow that link, you'll just look thick.

It's exciting to buy a new plot on the internets. So, why the name and what's the plan??

Well, my best ideas - like the name Stillbop - cool innit? Motionless (still), yet moving (bop) - come to me in the sauna. Therefore, my immediate plan is to start taking more saunas. Beyond that it's open prairie. Meanwhile, in equally unfood related news; last night I downloaded Lost in Edit by Magnetophone - from the PopTones MP3 blog I think it's a very, very good, free 16 minutes+ of aural entertainment. I am so putting their The Man Who Ate The Man album on my Amazon wishlist. In fact I just have.

Comments

[BM]

This makes me unhappy, only because I foresee a future of never, ever getting the Hanson song "MMM...Bop" out of my head. If you have any kindness in your soul, you'll reconsider.

Otherwise, sounds like a plan.

[ms_nguyen]

Oh nohhhhh, you are saying good bye way too soon. Don't you have until summer of 2006? That is more than 6 months away. Six months of food blogging is still sufficient for me to drool and salivate whenever I read your food blog.

But then again, life shouldn't be static and it needs to move on to a different phase, a different scene. I know this is early, but good luck with new endeavors or wherever life will bring you.

[pieman]

I really wish you hadn't said that Brett... Actually Hanson did spring to mind briefly while meditating on this. I' coughed up yesterday and I love it. However, I will confess I was tempted by dropbop, blipbop, goshfrog. Did you know blipbop was a genre of music? Well, it is apparently. Google says so.

Not sayign goodbye Ms. Nguyen, just mentioning a future plan (without a plan). it's just like when you buy a nice dress, you wann show it off. Same with stillbop. Although feeling affection for dotcom names is probably the saddest thing i think I have ever admitted to. That and absolutely loving 'Steal my Sunshine' by Len. there I've said it now. I also used to have a crush on Betty Boo - a fine musician:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/entertainment/questionofpop/interview_betty.shtml

[omih]

Mmm Bop is a classic example of good music by oh so embarrasingly bad artistes.

Other songs in that category include "Romeo and Juliette" by Dire Straits, "Back for Good", Take That and "Better the Devil you Know" by Kylie Minogue.

Awful bands - great tracks.

[pieman]

Ouch... OMIH. That ain't music to my ears. "Back for good' weren't so bad though, granted.

[omih]

Nahhh - as I admitted that are all incredibly awful. But they're all good tracks.

One of the great things about Ipod culture in a country where cds are all cheap and pirated. You can buy bad albums just for one track. stick it on your Ipod, ignore the rest and sling the disk.

I mentioned music recently is a posting but just wanted to expand on it to say that the greatest music to listen to while travelling through Vietnam is Mercury Rev's Desserters Songs. One of the finest CDs of the last 20 years.

[BM]

As the proud owner of the, likely-forever-to-be-unused "thebigbm.com", I understand the acquisitional urge.

[omih]

See now I've caught the big. www.ourmaninhanoi.com just been bought by ME!

[pieman]

OMIH, I dunno why I thought you already owned that .com - what was the damage? Brett... thebigbm is hilarious. You're kidding me, right? Does Nicole agree? On second thoughts, don't tell me.

[omih]

Nah I didn't - just blogged about why it didn't seem necessary before but it is now. Namely I'm stopping for sometime yet whereas before I only every thought it would be two years here.

Was delighted to hear it was.

Just paid £20 for it. Seems like a good investment.

[pieman]

I'm not allowed to divulge the cost of stillbop, but what I am allowed to say is that it was a 'sizable amount'.

Good luck with it and good luck getting the DNS mapped over to your blog and/or migrating everything to Typepad. Once I did that for noodlepie I lost the ability to use an @noodlepie.com email address for in/outgoing email. Such a headache trying to sort it out I just gave up.

[omih]

Never quiet worked out the dns thing. Is there any reason why I shouldn't just use redirect to the old blogger/typepad page?

Oh and I meant to say before "I was delighted to hear it was still available".

It's that kind of attention to detail and fast accurate copy that will really make my name is editorial circles.

[omih]

Damn it...that should be "in editorial circles".

Okay maybe I should just leave.

[pieman]

Mapping is relatively easy to do in Typepad. You can point the URL at the blog, but that won't map it. If you look at noodlepie these days it's mapped www.noodlepie.com/blog/..... That's what I think you need to do. if you look at my old and out of date site www.grahamholliday.co.uk it's not mapped as dotmac won't allow mapping. So, it looks shit. I will replace it some way down the line, prob. on Typepad somehow. And mapped with same url.

[BM]

No joke. I do own it. Though it was unclaimed, so it only cost $15. Actually that was the name of my old column at Time Out until moments before it first went to press, when a cowardly editor changed it.

And, yes, I think Nicole sometimes agrees. I don't ask how often.

[pieman]

Changed it to what? themediumsizedbm?

Good for Nicole

And BTW - did anybody actually listen to that Magnetophone song? I seriously haven't heard anything quite so fresh in a long time. But then I do live in a country that thinks Boney M are hip.

[angkor]

Am losing track of your future directions Graham, but noodlepie has captured me, completely.

We are on the precipice of adoption, which may keep me on the Delta for long periods of time next year (I hope).

If all works out and you keep NP open, I'll give you a more detailed exposition on Lau Bo in Chau Doc, which included large chunks of bo oc. Yummm..

[pieman]

Oooh - keep me informed. This blog will always be here, at the www.noodlepie.com address. However, when we leave Vietnam (summer 06) I can't exactly keep doing it in any meaningful way. I;ve pondered letting someone else take over, but for my thinking at the mo' is it'll go into museum mode. Nice museum though I hope and a decent little resource.

Stillbop is still in the planning stages. Actually it's not even in the planing. i just have a domain name and the vaguest design at the mo...