Posted on March 18, 2010 by Andrew Hickey
Shame about Alex Chilton. One of the greats gone…
Via Tez Burke, here’s a five-CD set of ‘toytown music’, that style of English baroque pop which combined piccolo trumpets and lyrics about toy soldiers and childhood. Follow the rapidshare links but also have a look at their notes. This contains all the usual suspects (The Move, [...]
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Posted on March 16, 2010 by Andrew Hickey
Firstly, an update on Print PEP! for those who are wondering why it’s taken so long:
Simply, my Scribus problems escalated – at some point a system update replaced a load of my fonts with similarly-named ones, and confused it enough that I didn’t just have to redo the last 15 pages and add in a [...]
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Posted on March 15, 2010 by Andrew Hickey
It’s Zom’s fault.
In the comments to my Doctor Who Pop-Drama post he wrote:
Andrew, I’ve been thinking about heroic hyping the X-Men pretty much all year, but have been put off by the horrible facts of Morrison’s experience on the book. In conversation with Amy yesterday it occurred to me that, fuck it, we should go [...]
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Posted on March 14, 2010 by Andrew Hickey
If there is one person who I wish had never been born, it’s Joseph Campbell.
The concept of ‘the Hero’s Journey’ has done more to ruin fiction and popular culture than any other concept I can think of.
I’m not talking here about its role in ‘the Men’s movement’, though it’s hardly surprising that a narrative [...]
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Posted on March 13, 2010 by Andrew Hickey
Apologies for the radio silence for the last few days (Tilt, I’ll try to get that track to you at some point…) but I’ve been suffering from exhaustion – not just tiredness, but proper unable-to-function-in-any-coherent-way, barely-able-to-stand,unable-to-focus-the-eyes exhaustion – for the last week. For that reason today’s post will just be linkblogging. I hope I’m coherent [...]
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Posted on January 30, 2010 by Andrew Hickey
Well, that was unexpected… I never realised Norfolk Blogger was such a popular blog, but thanks almost exclusively to his link to my iPad post I got a thousand more visitors than usual on Thursday…
I’ll be doing one of the book club posts later tonight, and another tomorrow, (and replacing the comics post I *was* [...]
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Posted on January 25, 2010 by Andrew Hickey
I’ve spent the last week working on PEP!-related stuff, but I’ve now sent the final text out to all contributors. All that remains is to get any last-minute changes from them, and get it typeset, so I can start posting here again. Today’s only going to be a linkblog, because my wife is a Vikings [...]
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Posted on January 17, 2010 by Andrew Hickey
Racist UKIP in racist policy shock. I’ve actually seen racist UKIPers on Twitter saying they want UKIP promoted as a libertarian party. Because when I think ‘libertarian’ I always think of denying people the freedom to dress as they like for racist motives.
Alex previews the Peladon Tales boxset.
Google and China in battle to enslave you.
An [...]
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Posted on January 16, 2010 by Andrew Hickey
While I’ve been mostly offline, I *have* read a few things in my Google reader…
Marc Singer is returning to comics blogging!
Sean has a list of Comics Of The Decade that would serve as a very good primer. I’m planning on doing my own one of these sometime soon…
I can’t believe I’ve never come across comics/horror [...]
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