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Thursday 30 March 2006

The genius idea of the week — a blog of Warhol’s monotonal memoirs.

It suggests that legendarily boring diarist Andy Warhol may well have been the world’s first blogger. The ‘about’ explains:

This is Andy Warhol’s diary entries posted exactly 29 years to the day after they were first recorded. All text is taken directly from the publication The Andy Warhol Diaries, edited by Pat Hackett. All notes and comments made by the editor have been removed. The Diary spans just over 10 years, bringing this project to completion in Febuary, 2016.

Our favourite entry from the diaries:

Said hello to lots of people who said hello to me.

Via WOW.

Posted by Anne-Fay | Tags: Andy Warhol, blogging

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