April 2011
26 posts
“Ball Boy artist Dave Eastbury lives in a perpetual autumn, where the trees are...”
– The Beano Review
Diary (2010), by Tim Hetherington →
Star Wars Vs. Star Trek
Wrote this for a piece of work whatnot:
Whether you prefer Star Wars to Star Trek, or vice versa, largely depends on how willing you are to accept that the world is a cold, horrible and empty place that hates you. For aside from all the superficial differences — the lightsabre battles versus the crappy raygun pistols, the lame white uniforms of the Imperials versus the lame red, yellow and...
The Daily Star: now with added me →
You know, for good or ill.
This Week: The Beano Made Me Sad →
“We used to joke that if we weren’t having fun at work by...”
– Martin Baker, friend and colleague of Muppets creator Jim Henson
Exploring the River Fleet →
In praise of … Yuri Gagarin (Guardian)
“It is difficult for heroes to remain untarnished, still less Soviet ones, but on the 50th anniversary of the first human travel in space, such a fate is reserved for Yuri Gagarin. The 108-minute flight itself very nearly ended in disaster. The hatch had to be taken apart to mend a faulty sensor shortly before takeoff; the combined weight of Gagarin, his spacesuit and chair was 30lbs over...
Republican "Not the Royal Wedding" street party... →
My Favourite Book: Italo Calvino's "Invisible...
I was asked to write a book review by work for a new lifestyle site. Here it is.
As the editor of Asylum, a website for men which specialises in zombie defense advice, videos of skateboarding animals and LEGO reviews, it seems entirely appropriate for my favourite book to be a work of 1970s Italian historical-cubist psycho-geography, in which Marco Polo describes the cities of a magical,...
“The Beano changed its paper stock this week as well as its price, and the result...”
– The Beano Review on the comic’s recent change in paper stock.
officialbeastieboys:
Beastie Boys — Make...
Huge Asteroid to Pass Near Earth in November →
itsfullofstars:
The near-Earth asteroid named 2005 YU55 — on the list of potentially dangerous asteroids — was observed with the Arecibo Telescope’s planetary radar on April 19, 2010 when it was about 1.5 million miles from the Earth, which is about 6 times the distance to the moon.
Neil Buchanan of Art Attack is now in this band →