Archive for April, 2008
April 30th, 2008 | 
Author: (you can still win my bubbler, along with many other prizes, click here to find out more!)
Hey kids, I’ve got something cool to share with you!
A friend of my has produced, directed and edited a music video for her husband’s band and it is fucking amazing! This really deserves a wide audience and I’m aiming to do my part by posting it here. If you’ve got a spare three minutes, I implore you to watch the following video.
So without further ado, here’s the video for “Ah Woohoo!” from the band, Sushalini!
I’m blown away by it! I think she did an excellent job on a very low budget with a shoestring crew. I hope you all liked it too…Tell your mates to check it out!
The entire month of April slipped quickly and effortlessly through my fingers. I say “effortlessly” because that is precisely how much effort I’ve put into my site this month and for that I am ashamed.
You shouldn’t have to pay the price for this and you won’t, which is why I am extending the deadline on my “bubbler contest” until the 1st of June, so there is still plenty more time to enter. And don’t worry if you’ve already entered, your email still counts very much so and you will continue to have an equal chance with everyone else.
I’ve had loads of emails with questions about the contest, which I will answer here in a mini-FAQ:
Is the contest for real? YES
What’s in it for you? SELF PROMOTION
Do I just send you an email to enter? YES
Will you really post me the bubbler if I win? YES
How will you choose the winners? LITTLE PIECES OF PAPER WITH YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS WILL BE PUT IN A BOWL AND I WILL WITHDRAW 16 OF THEM, ONE FOR EACH PRIZE, FROM 1ST ON DOWN.
Will you announce the winners? JUST THEIR INITIALS AND WILL CONTACT EACH ONE INDIVIDUALLY TO ASK FOR THEIR MAILING ADDRESS
And that’s it for now. Get entering!
While I’m here, a quick update on why I haven’t been here. I’ve been working too much, I’ve been distracted by other things, most notably a book which I will review at some point here, because it deserves to be read and I’ve been sorting out the usual bullshit at my north London lair.
My SKY+ box died a couple of weeks ago and I thought it was gone for good, but I was able to give it a master reset and getting it going again…for about 2 more weeks before it well and truly went to that great gadget shop in the SKY. It was around 5–6 years old, an original V1 Pace box and I’m surprised it lasted as long as it did.
I booked a call out with SKY, which costs £65 and included a replacement box and I really didn’t have a choice. Well, I did, I could have used this as an opportunity to upgrade to SKY HD, but I’m still not convinced its worth the extra dosh with so little proper HD content available.
The SKY engineer was cool and it took him all of ten minutes to swap the boxes and pair the new one up with my card. The box he installed is a PACE V3, with an 80gb hard drive, though I think that some of it is partitioned for SKY Anytime, which is where SKY choose programmes they think are the best of the week and record them to your hard drive in the background. It can be disabled if you don’t like it, but I thought I would give it a go and see what its like. I’m not convinced if you switch it off that it will free up the other half of the hard drive for my recordings, but its worth looking into if the SKY selected shows are crap.
The new box is about a third the size of my old one, its really dinky. It’s also a bit noisier than the old one, either because of the fan or the hard drive and I’m not certain which. It seems to work well so far and isn’t much different from the old one, except for the aforementioned ANYTIME feature.
It’s not just a device that died, but I found out last night that one of my mother’s sisters, my favourite aunt passed away over the weekend. She was nearly 84 and it sounds like she was surrounded by loved ones and went peacefully. Whatever the fuck that means.
I don’t like many of my relatives, and to be honest I downright despise quite a few of them, but not this particular aunt. She was really special and yes, I know people always say nice things about the dead, but I would have said the same last week, when she was among the living. She was consistently kind, generous and loving and was beloved by many, myself and my younger brother among them.
I hadn’t seen her in years, as is true of 99% of my family and its probably been 4–5 years since I spoke to her on the telephone. I would have liked to chat with her, but she’d become quite deaf and the telephone wasn’t really an option.
One of my earliest childhood memories, which is vague and hazy as I would expect of a minor event prior to my 3rd birthday, over 40 years ago to be, is of my aunt visiting us in a house we lived in, in 1965. She took me for a walk up to a nearby supermarket and I can just remember being excited by this unusual outing with an aunt that I loved and trusted. It’s just a small memory, but I still carry it around with me to this day.
Good bye my dear, sweet aunt, you will always be remembered fondly by the many people whose lives you touched, including mine.
(deadline for entry now extended until the 1st of June 2008)
Attention: Hippyfans!
As previewed in a recent post, I am pleased to announce my latest and dare I say greatest contest, ever!
Better than when you gave away your old bong?
Oh yes!
Better than when you gave away your old car?
Nobody won my old car, so I swapped it for an ounce of skunk.
Better than when you gave away even yourself?
Oh come on, a gift-wrapped turd would be better than that!
This time, I’m going to be giving away a brand new, shiny, Midnight Blue Bushmaster Bubbler, just like mine!
I’ve had one of these Bushmaster Bubblers for quite a while now and it is genuinely one of the sweetest pieces I own. It’s perfect for chilling out on the sofa, watching TV and getting pleasantly toasted. You can smoke your favourite herbal mixture in it.
Personally, I prefer pure skunky bud.
Not only am I going to give away this amazingly well crafted piece of glassware, but I’m also going to include 10x glass gauze, because I know you’re going to end up losing them.
But there’s more…
Five very lucky runners up will receive Smiley Face — Head Case — Pop Tins. I have a couple of them and they are very useful. And you might have noticed, the classic smiley face makes an appearance in the banner at the top of this page. So, we’ll be like, just so, you know, connected!
And ten “we didn’t lose, but we’re not huge winners” will receive one pack of Dragonfly Kingsized Premium Flavoured Rolling Papers, which come in Blueberry, Chocolate, Cherry, Coconut and Strawberry — yum! The flavour you receive will be chosen at random, by me.
Actually, everything I’m giving away in this contest is being provided by me, though clearly from the links provided, I’m buying it all from my friends at EDIT. In other words, EDIT aren’t responsible for this contest in any way, so if you have any questions about it, please contact me directly.
Oh and I’m paying for the postage too, but if you have problems with your mail delivery, please don’t contact me.
So just to recap:
1st prize :
– a Midnight Blue — Bushmaster Bubbler, just like the hippy smokes
– 10 x glass gauze — jack style
– an autographed photo of me***
2nd prize (5 of these)
– a Smiley Face — Head Case — Pop Tin for your stash, just like the hippy uses
– an autographed photo of me***
3rd prize (10 of these)
– Dragonfly Kingsize Premium Flavoured Papers, because they’re yummy
– an autographed photo of me***
4th prize
there is no fourth prize, sorry.
Entering my contest couldn’t be easier, simply drop by my north London lair and perform an extended act of oral love upon me and you’ll have a good chance of winning.
Perhaps that’s not easy enough, as not that many of you can get to north London, so lets simplify it a bit more…
Entering my contest is as easy as sending me an email, there’s no cost at all. Just shoot one to:
and make sure you put:
Gimme your bubbler you crazy hippy!!
in the subject line!
You can do that. Your granny could do that, though why she’d want my bubbler, I really couldn’t say. At her age, a vape is probably a better bet, anyway.
Now the boring, tedious, legal disclaimer bit. Such a bummer, what a bring down, I wish I knew how to shrink the font so it could be proper “fine print”, but I can’t. I’m stoopid. Anyway, here goes.
1) The contest is open to residents of the United Kingdom (including NI) and the European Union only. Sorry, but I don’t want to be filling out customs declarations for water pipes.
2) You’ve got to be 18 years or older. For real, and a fake ID won’t do it. If you’re under 18, you probably shouldn’t be here anyway, though I guess telling you that will make you want to stick around even more. You still can’t enter the contest. Don’t worry, there will be other contests and if I keep running this site long enough, eventually you’ll all be old enough to enter.
3) Entry closes at midnight (BST) on Thurs 1st May 2008 and any entries received after this time will not be considered valid. I am giving you nearly a month and how long does it take to send an email?
4) If you are selected as the winner, you will need to supply a valid postal address. You can use a fake name if you like, but you need to use an address where you can receive it, especially the bubbler, because that won’t fit through your letterbox, even if the other prizes will. I won’t be using a real return address, so if it doesn’t get to you, it doesn’t come back here either.
5) It’s my contest and they’re my rules and what I say goes. I’ll pick the winners and I’ll let you know by email if you’ve won. If you haven’t heard back from me, asking for your address, then on this occasion your entry was unsuccessful, but best of luck in the future. (last sentence lifted from every rejection letter I’ve ever received, mainly from ex-girlfriends)
6) I’m the judge too and the judge’s rulings are final
7) Purchase not necessary…it’s not even possible since I don’t sell anything directly!
8) The rules are subject to change without notice and everything is at my discretion. (this is number eight)
9) Participating in this contest does not effect your statutory rights
10) Your mileage may vary
11) This contest is void in your area if prohibited by local law
12) No guarantees will be undertaken in the delivery of the prize, if the postal service loses it, we all lose!
13) The hippy is in no way responsible for anything that might happen as a result of you winning the prize or what might follow after any possible use of the prize. If you get in trouble with your parents, your partner or the police, it is your responsibility, not the hippy’s in any shape or form. The winner is solely responsible for everything! You can’t blame the hippy for jackshit, so don’t even try, fuckers!
14) If I think of anything else, it counts and you can’t sue me for it. I’m just trying to do something nice for my fans, don’t hate me for that!
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***There are actually not going to be any autographed photos. Would anyone really want one anyway?