Monthly Archives: February 2012
It sees us…we become snacks!
The scene of the travesty was a run-down, ramshackle gym on the outskirts of town. Little did the slightly overweight, balding man know, but on that day, on that street, cruel fate had no intention of allowing his fitness regime to … Continue reading
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The future, and still no levitating chairs…
Goddamn you ‘Tomorrow’s World’! Where is the sweet-smelling utopia you promised me in the late 70′s? In its place is a vision of dystopian angst where a man sits in traffic being bombarded by moronic tweets. He could have made something … Continue reading
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Inappropriate One-upmanship
Some monumentally bad planning from Channel 5 saw a recent documentary on Whitney Houston cut from a distraught looking Aretha Franklin to an advert for Wonga.com where an elderly puppet uttered the immortal words ‘She looks better in a body bag.’ … Continue reading
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Mish-Mash
My pet chickens need feeding and all I have in the fridge is a spicy chicken pizza. Mmmmoral dilemma. It’s probably no one they know, but best to be on the safe side. In the absence of any grain I … Continue reading
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Writing about ‘Baddies’…
‘Rapscallion’ – surely a contender for best word ever (closely followed by ‘nefarious’ and ‘skullduggery’) – all synonymous with villainy. The starting point for all this was a short story competition about bad guys. I’d decided to come at it from … Continue reading
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Auroring success…
It’s a little known fact, but it wasn’t the extreme cold that caused vikings to venture south to Angle-land a-raping and a-pillaging, it was the high cost of living. £19 for two pints! It’s no wonder they started hacking people … Continue reading
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