Goodbye MOG

(As previously (partially) posted on Tumblr)

MOG.com/Jo

Goodbye Mog may be one of my favourite books of all time, at least that still exists. Sadly, the blog is no more.

Its removal happened around Thanksgiving 2012, with no prior notice given to bloggers other than a tweet mentioning “that only very few MOG members would be affected” or something to that effect, less than 24 hours before deletion. I missed that update at the time, so my blog has gone and I don’t have a full back-up of it other than bits and pieces that I hope to restore here over time. But I’ll forever miss my personal bit of MOG and everything ‘the old’ MOG stood for.

Note: For other original MOGgers of years gone by, there is of course a Facebook group and a Tumblr blog.

About this website…

This post was last updated in September 2023

This is an old personal blog with content that covers way more than one topic. Use the categories and/or tags mentioned at the bottom of individual posts if you would like to filter certain types of posts. More recent posts can be found on my Substack.

Some of the content on here goes back many years and may as such be hopelessly outdated, not to mention mismatching in terms of colours and formatting, and don’t even start me on the dead links… On any professional website I’d be meticulously cleaning and fixing issues like that, on here I’m not. Please be mindful of this if you decide to scroll back far into my internet past.

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London, disturbed

(Previously posted on MOG)

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Ron and Mike

Sometimes – not often – I bump into something so good that it would be bordering on criminal not to share. On this occasion, I felt that just passing on a link would be insufficient, as the original piece was in a language that only a small portion of the world’s population is able to understand. So I approached the author with the question if I could reproduce his piece in English, and he kindly gave me permission to do so. I really hope I’ve done his work justice. (If at any time and for whatever reason he chooses to withdraw his permission I will remove this post. This is, after all, his work, not mine.)

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In loving memory

(This post follows on from ‘Ready for goodbye?’ posted 04 June 2012)

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Calvin had a horrible night last night. It was clear she was in pain, and stressed, and in her desperation she sprayed on the rug. Other than cuddle there was not much she seemed to want to do. Then she kept me up all night, retching and vomiting. This morning she finally fell into a deep sleep and I hoped that might perk her up (it normally would). (more…)

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