As I started writing this, a bolt of lightning lit up the sky, and the thunder followed. The weather outside is depressing, gloomy and angry, and I cant help but feel that it is the death rattle of 2006 as the son of a bitch gets dragged kicking and screaming into the good night ( Read more... )

No, really.

Merry Christmas everyone

Older than sin, and his beard could grow no whiter. He wanted to die ( Read more... )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkagpLGYAJo - There is nothing about this advert that isnt awesome.

That will be all.

I've had the good fortune to be called a gentleman. Maybe its my love of jimmy stewart films, or clark kent admiration, but I'd always thought that it was a noble attribute. Treating people with respect, and keeping your cool, not talking people down, grace under fire. Gentle-man. A man who is not rough, nor harsh, not hard or threatening. Only the ( Read more... )

Two in as many days! you lucky buggers ( Read more... )

Today I had a meeting with my dissertation supervisor. My dissertation will be comic based, and I have quite a few ideas for it. One of them was superheroes as modern mythology. We talked about it, and during one of my stream of consiousness explanations, I said I wanted to know the relevance of certain myths at the time they emerged. I know what ( Read more... )

I seem to have an obsession with time. Its passage, its effects. Looking back, looking forward, and trying desparately to halt it in those rare moments that everything seems as perfect as it could be for that precise moment. Funnily enough, there havent been too many of those ones lately.

I saw Superman Returns on friday. Now, i'm pretty sure that ( Read more... )

Your heart is beating faster. Why is it beating faster? And come on, why the hell is your mouth so dry? Its been just that long, hasnt it? You've forgotten. You actually forgot that this is what its like, stupid boy. This is how it always goes, how it starts, and how it ends, how could you have forgotten that? Well now you know again, and dont ( Read more... )

When you get taller, you dont notice it. You dont wake up one morning and realise that your line of sight is now a few milimeters higher, the ground doesnt seem farther away and you quite simply dont feel any different from one day to the next. One day however, you wake up and realise that you are, in fact, taller. You cant hide in small spaces ( Read more... )