attack of the political bizarros
by jebni on March 31, 2004
After more than ten years, I happened to come across Kultur Documents on the web. Caution: it’s a fairly big download for scans that are so shite, but it rocks. Back in the early ’90s, such stuff was a major (…)
the funk soul pda right about now
by jebni on March 31, 2004
Scooters stowed, they stride darkly down a scalloped pedestrian tunnel to the platform, in perfect formation, infrared goggles down, headphones pumping their own soundtrack through their local peeda network. Fucking kings. I wrote that six years ago, and have been (…)
feeding the beast
by jebni on March 29, 2004
In New X-Men #117, Cassandra Nova taunts Henry McCoy: You’re a devolver! Where will your ‘gift’ take you next, I wonder? Will you become an insect? A worm? A slithering, incoherent slime mold still trying to charm women with its (…)
sugababy
by jebni on March 25, 2004
On 8 April 1983, Steve Jobs said to John Sculley, “Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to change the world?”. (Sculley was then CEO of Pepsicorp, and Jobs was (…)
oasis vs blur, with hamas and shimon peres thrown in for good measure
by jebni on March 25, 2004
Today I had a really weird argument with a friend from work about Blur vs Oasis. He’d just seen the Britpop documentary Live Forever, and made the casual observation that in the interviews, Oasis came off sounding rather clueless, with (…)
uncle w
by jebni on March 17, 2004
Went to the Disney preview/briefing today. The Incredibles looks quite good — Holly Hunter sounds cool as Elastigirl (who has a great elastic setpiece involving evil henchmen, a long corridor and various sets of blast doors), and there’s a great (…)
tha man
by jebni on March 16, 2004
Flyboy, for the rest of the week, the content of my work can be summarised in three words: “STILLER”, “WILSON” and “DOGG”. Yeah.
the guts of the last billocrat
by jebni on March 13, 2004
I am, officially, an imbecile. I only just realised that the following things were in any way related: yesterday, one of us got retrenched as a direct result of losing a certain Powerful Corporation as a client;last night I had (…)
from the frontlines of… the loungeroom
by jebni on March 13, 2004
The paint fumes at home are intense, and yet there’s so much to do. At least my evil Israeli Defence Force gasmask has actually come in handy!
petunia consciousness articulation
by jebni on March 12, 2004
Hey, you can get limited edition prints of the stunning (pre-digital) motion graphics from the 1981 Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy TV series. Right on. The guy behind the magic: Rod Lord. Praise be.