MARK SIMPSON.com

This Sunday the magazine supplement of the Greek daily ‘Eleftherotypia’ is running a major interview with MetroDaddy by Spyros Chatzigiannis.

In case your Greek isn’t up to scratch, or you happen by some chance not to be living in Greece at the moment (the Sunday edition isn’t available online) - Read the interview in English here .

Whilst I’m blowing my foreign trumpet, I hear that the December issue of Russian GQ is running a short piece about me in a list of ‘27 Things That Changed Men’s Lives’.

Probably in a section called: ‘Why You Now Have to Wear Swim-shorts in the Steam-room’.

If, for some reason, you find yourself missing The Queen is Dead, the out-of-print doom-laden and bleakly humorous fin-de-siecle transatlantic epistolary romance with a martial theme between myself and ‘military chaser’ Steve Zeeland, or fancy the idea of being the owner of an extremely rare double-signed copy of an extremely rare book, or would like to find out why letter-writing died out - or would just like to help out Mr Zeeland - copies are available from Steve via PayPal and international money order.

Apologies for any disruption to service you may have encountered in the last week or so. Things have been a little frayed at marksimpson.com towers.

I’ve been having an, ahem, steeply educational experience moving to a different hoster. And then to another. In the course of all this unbridled fun, links may have gone dead for a while, and worse. If this is Web 2.0, all I can say is roll on Web 8.0.

Fingers tightly crossed, things should have settled down now and returned to what passes for ‘normal’ round my way.

A thousand wet-lipped thanks to Dermod who held my online hand through this harrowing experience and laboured hard and long to save me from my own stupidity - a battle which was, like Waterloo, a damn close-run thing, strewn with headless corpses, horse entrails, the groans of the dying, and empty Domino pizza boxes.