100% Lampshade

A twitter from earlier in the week: AboutThisLater: Just invented a new superhero: the Lampshader 6:32 PM Jul 3rd from TwitterMail He’s like a cross between Deadpool and the parodically thinly-conceived Midnighter from The Authority. I’ve been reading a lot of TVTropes lately (thanks to Stubby43 for the link), so where before I already knew [...]

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Metamorphosers

Just got back from watching the hypnotically disappointing Transformers 2. Now, I’m going to try to keep this short, partly because I need to work on getting my post length down and count up, and partly because I don’t want this to become a movie blog, since I have little to no opinion on the [...]

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PS My wage doubled today, retroactive for this month, and I got to talk about the internet for an hour. Score. we’ll talk about this later

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You touch everything you destroy

He: “A lot of these girls have fangs…” Me: “Yes, or are in some unobtrusive way demonic.” Introduced my friend BPL to Danny Choo’s figurine reviews, in the course of an hourlong skype conversation. I’ve missed talking to him, because it’s always refreshing to find someone who shares a lot of my interests, but approaches [...]

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Rum, sophistry and the lash

Tea ceremony practice yesterday morning, then scripting and magazine work and avoidance work. I bought some chalk and started using my windows as blackboards for Iland plotting, A Beautiful Mind-style, and now I can’t really see out. Not that there’s much to see in my dim construction-aesthetic zoned residential. Then to school to practice my [...]

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Via 4th Estate and The New Shelton Wet/Dry I’ve been thinking a lot lately about cult, and whether it can unduly privilege or emphasise creators because they seem isolated from a main cultural canon. Of course, their obscurity has a rich heritage all its own, though the connections may not be so obvious. I wonder [...]

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Endorsionists

Photo post finally up at If it has a name know it. I would have loved to build up a portfolio of examples of Indian advertising, which is simultaneously more primitive and more advanced than anywhere else. The wit, the sex, the ubiquitous dead-eyed celebrity endorsionists, the absolute clarity of impulse; it all walks the [...]

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Cloudside

Apologies are well and truly due. I completely failed to mention that I would be incommunicate for about three weeks while in India over Christmas and New Year.  Woops. Mea Culpa. Also Mea still untanned and sickly. Only I could go to India and return as milk-white and snotty as when I left. India pictures [...]

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Talking Cats

In case you’ve made it back this far and are interested, the original page which inspired the name and concept of this blog is here. Though the question it asks isn’t the same one I do. Also, this.

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