{"id":15,"date":"2008-11-10T19:30:05","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T19:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomathon.com\/mphp\/?p=15"},"modified":"2009-09-22T22:37:26","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T03:37:26","slug":"about-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2008\/11\/about-this\/","title":{"rendered":"About this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>My Pathetic Homepage <\/strong>was first created in mid 1995 so I could hotlink <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.celticfc.net\/\" title=\"Celtic F.C.\" rel=\"homepage\">Glasgow Celtic<\/a> photos, post scans of people shooting nautical flares at one another, tell people what to think about politics, convince them to buy my <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fanzine\" title=\"Fanzine\" rel=\"wikipedia\">fanzine<\/a>, and get dates. The first two succeeded wonderfully, the third got dull real quick, and the last two never came off at all. Ah the dreams of the springtime of my life!<\/p>\n<p>Between then and now there have been several iterations of this thing. Most have been shortlived (the boredom thing). Most have been green in color. Most have featured a picture of <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Hooton\" title=\"Peter Hooton\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Peter Hooton<\/a>&#8216;s rare original 1970s Stan Smith all green colorway I ripped out of a copy of <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theface.co.uk\" title=\"The Face (magazine)\" rel=\"homepage\">The Face<\/a> sometime in the mid 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>One thing has remained the same: a self-important, if jokey, response to  &#8220;company  name&#8221;  on my pirated copy of Photoshop 3: <strong>The Tomathon<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Slouching into steady employment,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Tommy<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\" class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/747829f4-f033-4653-bac0-57e7b746a3d2\/\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\"><img style=\"border: medium none ; float: right;\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?w=560\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Pathetic Homepage was first created in mid 1995 so I could hotlink Glasgow Celtic photos, post scans of people shooting nautical flares at one another, tell people what to think about politics, convince them to buy my fanzine, and&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2008\/11\/about-this\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3],"tags":[4,6,5],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":631,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/01\/afp-west-african-body-presents-road-map-for-niger\/","url_meta":{"origin":15,"position":0},"title":"AFP: West African body presents &#8216;road map&#8217; for Niger","date":"January 16, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"This is the offer which has been floating around opposition circles for several months: a transition to a seventh republic which resembles the 5th. 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