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Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:52:57 GMT

Patrick Stump wrote a nice letter to me commiserating about how much scalpers and sold-out shows suck. Me and everyone on every social media network ever, that is, but hey, it made me feel a little better. Someday I will make it to a FOB show! (Also, Patrick, those are not bullet points. That is an ordered list. You can tell because the number one does not have a bullet.)

Incidentally, do you know who desperately wants to corner the market in scalping? If you guessed Ticketbastards, you are of course correct. They seem to also be working to overturn anti-scalping laws in various provinces of Canada, boldly offering the argument that everyone knows scalping goes on and it's not fair that Ticketbastards can only get a piece of the action on the first sale. They are certainly not lacking in chutzpah.

Last night my parents and I communally watched the last episode of Lewis and there was a great deal of mourning. My mom made two predictions at the last minute—( one of which was correct and therefore spoilery ). Before we've even had a chance to finish mourning properly, however, me still in my black armband and everything, it seems that ITV are planning on at least another episode if not another series, so whee!

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Sat, 09 Feb 2013 18:40:56 GMT

I knew, of course, that Ticketmaster are a monopolistic pricegouging tick swollen with the blood of performing artists, but what I did not actually realize owing to not really going to concerts is how astonishingly crap they are at what they do.

Their website is useless. Their mobile website is worse than useless, as it is explicitly designed not to sell tickets. Their mobile app is, at best, approximately a quarter baked, will let you set up an account with a mistyped email address but not let you change it (God help me if I had actually managed to buy any tickets with a .bet email address, as I'm certain I would never have been able to retrieve them) and makes you type in a captcha just to find out if there are tickets available, responding with the enigmatic message that no tickets are available but tickets may still be available. (So far as I have been able to ascertain, this is a lie. Tickets are not, in fact, available.)

Operation: Save Rock and Roll has thus come to an early and ignominious end. I guess the saving grace is that I don't actually have to give those Ticketbastards $10 for the privilege of inconveniencing me.

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