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TFT RIP

My beloved The Friday Thing was put to sleep today. It is no more. It’s proved impossible to run in any viable manner and so the decision was made to close it.

This makes me inordinately sad and not just because I’ve been one of its writers for the last year. I feel genuinely bereft. I was a devoted reader from almost the beginning and will miss very much its freewheeling wit, cynicism and imagination.

If you’ve never read it I suggest you get across there and have a swim in the archives. I defy anyone not to get something out of TFT’s five years of consistent brilliance.

Self-referential and out of context as they may be, I’m reproducing my final TFT pieces on Chicken Yoghurt to complete the set and to prove that ‘I did that’. (You can read the rest of the stuff I wrote for it here.)

I’m very proud to have been asked to write for TFT. It’s been a personal highpoint for me and I think I’ll go along way before I feel the same pleasure and satisfaction again. I worked hard at trying to match the quality of the writing that had made me such a fan of it. I hope I came close on the odd occasion.

It’s melodramatic, I know, but a bit more fun went out of the world today. Cheer me up, somebody?


Posted on March 30th, 2007 at 5:45 pm

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6 Comments

  1. rabbit strike (1 comments.) on 31.03.2007 at 00:55 Permalink | Reply

    I find a bit of Spike Milligan does the trick.

    So sorry, chap.

  2. Tim Worstall (14 comments.) on 31.03.2007 at 11:18 Permalink | Reply

    Ach, sorry old boy, know you loved writing for it.

  3. Ben (5 comments.) on 31.03.2007 at 12:20 Permalink | Reply

    Hell, I only signed up to it a month ago (and was very proud to be a Neologists Corner runner up last week!), what a kick in the crotch. Off to the archives…

    This always cheers me up

  4. Rachel on 31.03.2007 at 21:51 Permalink | Reply

    boo hiss.

    You and Bee were the best bits of the long walk to the slow start to the weekend

  5. Larry Teabag (66 comments.) on 31.03.2007 at 23:06 Permalink | Reply

    Commiserations Justin, I came to it quite recently but liked it a lot.

    If you want cheering up I suggest obtaining a copy of J. Archer’s new book.

  6. tyger (10 comments.) on 02.04.2007 at 07:15 Permalink | Reply

    It will be missed Justin.

    But thanks for the music while it played.

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