Friday — January 1st, 2010
Morning, all.
I literally didn’t sleep last night, and will be falling into bed as soon as I’ve posted this, so this may not be the sentimental essay you perhaps expected. But yes, this is the last Behatted strip to be published in the current run. It could end up being forever, although I’d rather it didn’t.
But regardless, thanks to all who’ve supported it, read it and done whatever else to it. Further things by me involving speech bubbles can be seen at The Confessions. And do come back for the final Weekly Hat on Sunday.
Other than that… goodbye, I suppose. Hopefully not forever.
January 3rd, 2010
The last content to be posted on Behatted.com, then. At least for a while.
The comic, I remain hopeful, will return. But this probably is the last Weekly Hat forever. I’ve enjoyed the structure and feeling of having a deadline (and, more importantly, of just about meeting it every week), but I’m not sure there’s a huge audience for UK-centric news digests attached to webcomics. And this does take a fair few hours work by the time I’ve finished researching, writing and publishing it.
So, this be it. Thanks to everyone who has read and/or commented. If you like reading text pieces by me, Feeding The Black Dog will be powering onwards.
In the final Weekly Hat…
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December 27th, 2009
Good morning, everybody. And welcome to the penultimate Weekly Hat.
I must admit, it has been somewhat of a chore creating this, due to various technical/internet connection related problems. This intro will probably be quite short, in a bid to get it saved an published before anything else has a chance to crash. However (returning to this now that I’ve finally finished the bulk of the tasks), I will mention that I will miss the Weekly Hat in a way, mostly because it’s been fun having a deadline. More sobbing nostalgia next week, along with a fair bit of Doctor Who.
So, contents…
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December 20th, 2009
Good evening. And, indeed, happy Christmas!
Yes, this be the last Weekly Hat before turkey day on Friday. I am viewing next week’s as the big Christmas Special, as that will go out the day after Boxing Day and feature such festive things as the Christmas Doctor Who episode and, um, something else. But today is the last one before it, so have a good day.
It’s also a bit later than usual, partly because I didn’t start it until eleven this morning and partly because I wanted to wait for the result of the Rage/McElderry chart showdown. As luck would have it, said results leaked at about half three, so I’ve done all the writing by half four and, presuming the leaks are correct, will just click publish shortly after they announce the number one at seven.
That’s probably enough preamble. Contents!
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December 13th, 2009
Good morning, all.
The news hasn’t been particularly inspiring me this week, I’ll be honest. I was almost tempted to just blow off news entirely and do an all-media column, but I was put off by the fact I couldn’t actually find that much media stuff either. So instead of doing a piece moaning about a perceived lack of news (which I think I’ve done before), I’ve just done quite a short Weekly Hat. However, as news gets increasingly thin in the run-up to Christmas, the all-media week may yet happen.
Oh, but you should totally check out my new speech-bubble related fun blog thing, The Confessions. In case you haven’t already.
However, today’s lot…
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December 6th, 2009
Happy Sunday morning, everybody!
I say that with such emphasis because I’m writing this intro on Friday lunchtime, having produced all the proper material on Thursday night. So if anything planet-shattering takes place on Saturday, apologies for my seeming omission. I will thereotically be in reach of a computer, so in the event of genuine Earth-smashery, I’ll find a way to mention it. But I am away in Essex this weekend, and this seemed a good way to make sure the updates happen.
(Plus I had Friday lunchtime free, and I rather liked the idea of getting the process of actually posting out of the way. It’s not too bad, but does involve a bit of tedious HTML jiggering)
Your contents this week are…
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November 29th, 2009
Good morning, readers, and happy Sunday morning.
This is the 26th Weekly Hat, and technically I think this makes it our six month anniversary! Happy half-year! Mocking the media and being ill-informed about world affairs since the 6th June!
With that in mind, today’s episode features… both of those things, really. To be honest, the news was a bit boring, hence the banality of my lead feature. Sorry about that. Now that I’ve built your anticipation, here are the contents…
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November 22nd, 2009
Good morning once again.
This is the twenty-fifth Weekly Hat, which is another nice round number. Not that I’m planning anything to mark it. Business as usual, pretty much. Well, there is the triumphant return of the sports section, if you like that sort of thing.
Oh, I should probably mention the recent engagement of long-time friends-of-Behatted Ali (of Aliventures fame) and Paul (not really of much fame, but has a Twitter account). Congratulations, folks. Just so there’s some sense of occasion to my 25th.
And now, contents…
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November 15th, 2009
Good evening. Well, it’s the morning right now, but I’m not posting this until later, when I will come back, add in a single bullet point about Doctor Who and finally click ‘Publish’, with a sense of great satisfaction. So, for all reader intents and purposes, here is the slightly delayed Weekly Hat. Hope you enjoy it.
And, lest ye forget, Behatted #100! Tomorrow! A ridiculous triple-length special! Why not re-read all previous episodes to prepare?
Weekly Hat contents time:
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November 8th, 2009
Weekly Hat time! It wasn’t too difficult to write this week, happily. Stuff must have been easy. Plus I’ve had the whole week off, so I’ve been fairly calm and work has come easy.
Just for the record, in case a big news story breaks and I appear to have ignored it, this is being written on Saturday morning, as I’m back in Essex for this evening and most of Sunday. Hopefully the auto-post will serve me as well as it did on my holiday. Oh, and if you want more writings by me, I have a new blog thing which is called Feeding The Black Dog. Just one more quick plug for anyone who doesn’t read the Behatted newsposts.
But the Weekly Hat will continue, because I like it. This week…
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November 1st, 2009
Today in the Weekly Hat, a special piracy-themed edition. Since it was quite easy to draw a line between our two main news stories, I decided it may as well be deliberate. So, we have piracy on both the high seas and the internet, in two large chunks. Plus the usual other stuff.
Oh, and if you like my bloggings (someone reads this, right?), I have another venture coming up in the next few days that might interest you. Announcement to follow, probably on my Twitter, or the next available Behatted newspost after the launch. And next week’s Weekly Hat. And anywhere else I can fit it in.
But today:
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