As a spotty girl-shy teenager thrust into the internet boom of the late 1990s, I created a website to showcase the humourous writings me and some of my friends had done. We were rather a funny bunch. I had dreams of stand-up comedy, and of being the first black James Bond.
One of these dreams was tragically to remain unfulfilled, as I am white. But the comedy was like the glimmer of truth in my dowdy little existence. And I had to share this gift with the world, through the internet.
I built the site up over time, adding the Kha'bij which I'd co-wrote with my mate Anthony, and some pages about my band (the Eurosexuals), amongst my own writings.
The site garnered a small cult following amongst friends and friends of friends, even though it wasn't that good. I even had one of my articles published in Viz magazine (issue 109, Autumn 2001), earning me my first 50 earth pounds as a writer.
Eventually my enthusiasm waned and I pulled the plug on Bondynet. But it's still out there, trapped in the cybernetic ice of an internet archiving machine:
http://web.archive.org/web/20030130154154/http://www.bondynet.demon.co.uk
So go ahead and enjoy, but beware - if you change anything, the present as we know it will be destroyed! (Just kidding)
And now the time has come for me to resume the online splurging of my many works of genius. Friend, I wish you godspeed in our quest.
Bondynet is dead - long live Bondynet!
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