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Things are going fairly well. I've made no grievous errors so far, and while there's still a fair bit to learn, I think I know what I'm doing.
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As you know, the flat's sorted out, and as of tomorrow, I'll also be working... running the very hostel I've been staying in these past few weeks. Bizarre.
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Well done to Lordi, who totally shook up the Eurovision Song Contest last night. You can't go wrong with a bat-winged lead singer and guitars that are on fire. They were, of...
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Begorrah! 400th post!It's been a while, hasn't it? Things have advanced somewhat. I've finally had a stroke of luck, and we have a flat to move into on the 1st of June. It's a...
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Right then. I'm in an internet cafe type thing on Western Road. I'm still staying in a hostel, and I still haven't become gainfully employed as yet. However, I may have lucked...
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I'm flying back to Blighty today, to have another go at moving. This is the "do or die" part; we have a better plan this time, but it has to work, as I won't be coming back...
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Those pesky Two Guys (well, just one of them) recently put out a call to all and sundry on the comics blogothingie (of which Brainsplurge is an honorary member). "Tell us about...
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Now I'm not ridiculing anyone's beliefs here, but this has to be the first time I've ever seen a church trying to pass of the crucifiction/resurrection story as a popular...
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From Ye Olde Comick Booke Blogge:Due to diminished readership and rising paper costs, it has been decided only fifteen comic titles will be published from this day forward. You...
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For a long time now, I've been wanting to get stuck into drawing a regular comic, as it seems to me to be a great way to practise; the need to get at least a page done a week...
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...of these so-called "comedies" about the soul-crushing ennui of life. Or at least, if they have to be made, let's see about putting something funny in them, so they actually...
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In my twenty-odd years of video gaming, I don't think I've ever used the SELECT button on a game console's controller. Has anyone? Or is it some vestigial remnant of something...
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Today, I have been mostly submitting some new comic reviews to SBC, adding a new page to my website, and failing to find our copy of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
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The move didn't go well; in fact, it could be considered an utter failure, as we didn't in fact move anywhere, and we're back exactly where we were two weeks ago, occupying the...
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The move is not going well. Plans A and B have already gone tits-up, and plans C and D look like going the same way. Guh.
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Right, we're off. With luck, I'll be posting on the road (as it were), and I'll perhaps be able to set up some internet at the new house/flat/bedsit/cardboard box.Until then, a...
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Well, we're moving back to Blighty on Wednesday (yes, this Wednesday), and it's about as hectic and insane as you might imagine. But I think I might have become desensitised to...
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Okay, so hands up who expected the story to end like that? What the heck was all that about?Mental.
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Oh, I've been crap again. It's because my life of late has consisted of either slouching about the house, or doing boring organisational things in preparation for The Big Move...
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Just so you know, Guitar Hero is fantastic.
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So yeah, it's been a while. Nothing of particular interest to report (well, I did have a good laugh at this, mainly because Warren Ellis once tried to beat me up...), which is...
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Following Garen's lead:(Click for a bigger version. No need to squint!)
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Is this the first time that a comic, not a comic character, or a film based on a comic or whatever, but an actual ink-on-paper comic, has had a theme tune?With this and FIN...
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It's Friday, it's 10pm, and it's time for...KRULL!Fantastic. SciFi are cretinous for not jumping all over the new Doctor Who, but they get points back for randomly showing...
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In Power Man and Iron Fist #79, a comic from the March of 1982 (and thus one that outlives both the blaxploitation and kung-fu fads that spawned the characters by a number of...
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Last night I dreamed that I was doing an undergraduate degree in baking, as taught by Richard Gere.What's that all about then?
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The people in the house across the road have had, of late, a lot of builders in, and an awful lot of wood delivered. No one seems to know quite what they're up to.My theory is...
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Hang on...If everyone's favourite comic-book terrorists HYDRA are (is? Someone check that for me) named after the many headed serpent of Greek mythology, why is their logo an...
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From the Image Comics solicitations for next March:COLOSSUS GNMarch 8 o 224 pg o BW o $17.99written by MARK ANDREWSart by MARK ANDREWScover by DOMINIQUE LOUISforward by...
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I read a review of Peter Jackson's King Kong that said it was "surprisingly heartbreaking". Now, the "heartbreaking" bit I get, but really, how "surprising" can it be? It's...