April 2011
2 posts
March 2011
1 post
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October 2010
1 post
The Wall Potato
There is a potato on our front wall. I first knew of this from Sj’s tweets yesterday.
@essers: What’s that on our wall? http://twitpic.com/2yscgb
@essers: Well, of course. It’s a potato! #Duh http://twitpic.com/2ysczi
@M4rkm: @essers an apple?
@essers: @M4RKM An apple of the ground, yes…
@essers: @M4RKM Somehow, an apple would have made more sense...
September 2010
1 post
My (first) Influence Map!
Picture meme! Picture meme!
(click upon to embiggen)
This Influence Map meme (created by fox-orian of Deviant Art) has been filtering through all my favourite illustratey twitter-mates of late (if you want to have a go, you can get the template here). It’s made for some very interesting viewing, and some very pretty viewing indeed. It’s also an excellent way to stumble across...
June 2010
1 post
March 2010
1 post
WRITE OR DIE! WRITE OR DIE!
Today Sj went to a site called Write Or Die, which she found via a link posted on Twitter. Write or Die is good. You write, and if you stop for too long, it plays a very disturbing noise (like babies, but wronger), or an irritating noise (banaphone song! Joys!), or - in Kamikaze Mode - starts deleting what you’ve already written, one word at a time.
I put my setting at 500 words in 10...
January 2010
1 post
A place for Mom
I have been getting a lot of spam emails from a company that calls themselves “A Place for Mom”. They tell me about their lovely rest homes that I could put my mother in.
I decided to email my mum & let her know that some mystery internet spamming company were wanting me to put her in a home (which is a shame, because her house is REALLY nice).
Here’s the email I wrote...
October 2009
3 posts
The Breadmaker Cometh
Sj is overjoyed and in awe for, yea, her parents have either got a brand new lovely breadmaker, or grown weary of breadmaking. In these special circumstances, the white goods are passed on to us (see also: slightly faulty electric water filter, electric tin opener).
She stood next to me, reading through the magical things that our brand-nearly-new Zygonoptic 3000 YEASTOMATIC breadmaker can do. I...
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A day that starts with a game of Good/Bad
BAD Woken up by postman knocking at door. Bedroom cold. Have to fall out of bed & stumble downstairs.
GOOD Knock at the door rescued me from a vivid ‘you should have got up when you woke up two hours ago’ dream just as I realised that the desert rat moccasins I was half way through putting on weren’t actually dead, and the one I was holding in my hand had just started to...
How to complain about Jan Moir's nasty article
Hello, and welcome to the latest unpleasantness from the Daily Mail! First, here is the dirty little article in question which, if you haven’t already heard about, you surely will soon & lots. Clearly published to be hurtful and reactionary, and thus not at all deserving of any space.
The sad thing is that I fully expect this to have been printed in full knowledge of the hurt &...
September 2009
3 posts
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Did I tell you about my Derren Brown dream?
Hello everyone,
Yesterday, Derren Brown tweeted a picture of himself in a car chock-full of books, heading off to go cruising (ho ho!). At the moment I have a cold, so I am doing some hard core napping, and had a quite excellent dream featuring Derren Brown and his cruise, which has stayed in my head rather nicely.
Usually I share my quite excellent vivid dreams with Sj who, upon hearing the...
Your First Melange
A Melange: A collaborative story, containing words and pictures, told over a series of oblong bits of paper, by Laurie & Sj.
There are two types of Melange.
The type where Laurie draws a picture and hands it to Sj. Sj writes the story under the picture.
The type where Sj writes a bit of story and hands it to Laurie. Laurie draws a picture above the writing
Melange has a two most important...
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The Bath Fairy Chronicles
I first became aware of a bath fairy opportunity upon retiring to my studio while Sj had a bath. I had plans to start making a book. Instead, I realised that the bathroom window was JUST round the corner from my studio window.
What an opportunity! I could hear Sj splish splashing away in the bath, having a nice Sunday wash. I suddenly realised that it was within my power to make this Sunday...
August 2009
1 post
New T-shirt! →
Yo ho yo ho,
I have finally started to use this tumblr beast. Here’s a new redbubble shirt that I am very fond of. It features my new drawing thing: String Cat.
He plays with string. Sometimes he gets tangled.
April 2009
1 post
February 2009
61 posts
“I believe your firearm is not your friend, infact i think its about to really...”
– @mrhaytch #badmovieclub
“We’re going to live on! We’re going to survive! Today we celebrate...”
– @cosmosboy #badmovieclub
“I have an image of him crushing walnuts between his eyebrow ridges now for some...”
– @cowfish #badmovieclub
“62% of all movies are about calculus”
– @steveroe #badmovieclub
“I’ve got it. This is Tremors with hedges.”
– @gavinions #badmovieclub
“Why do films have to have little cute kids in them? and is it wrong to want her...”
– @mrhaytch #badmovieclub
“I’m diggin those frown lines on Marky Mark, they’ve gotta be...”
– @harbonaut #badmovieclub
“Calculus. Calculus. Calculus. Calculus. More maths references? Maths is evil....”
– @sarahfloss #badmovieclub
“Air can’t penetrate normal buildings or cars.”
– @gavinions #badmovieclub
“Nature is evil. I knew it all along. Damn treehuggers.”
– @jimlynn #badmovieclub
“Cheese and crackers!”
– @shatbass #badmovieclub
“Is it time for them to stop for a hotdog break yet?”
– @angryandcliff #badmovieclub
“Trees kill people using air. Moral is: trees are evil, burn them all.”
– @grabcocque #badmovieclub
“This is no time for mental maths problems you strange little man”
– @jocassels #badmovieclub
“I don’t think she’s even trying to work out the maths question.”
– @derekfme #badmovieclub
“Maths, nature’s sedative.”
– @jmcd #badmovieclub
“It was Maths! Maths caused the killings!”
– @theskoot #badmovieclub
“I EAT YOUR HOTDOG.”
– @gracefulstalker #badmovieclub
“So it’s a conspiracy between bees, lions and plants?”
– @joecassels #badmovieclub
“you like hot dogs? how bout swinging? I wear trousers made of hemp.”
– @baggysnowman #Badmovieclub
“Mustard is all you need! Colmans shares rocket.”
– @davidwhittam #badmovieclub
“please let someone kill themselves with a hotdog”
– @corblimey #badmovieclub
“One of his eyes is trying to walk off set in disgust”
– @gavinions #badmovieclub
“If Ingmar Bergman had made Day of the Triffids, it would literally be nothing...”
– @chrisblohm #badmovieclub
“Oi I have a big beard like that dude! Would you like some candy? It’s here...”
– @kearneykd #badmovieclub
“Lions, bees… I know this… it’s Earth’s last album!”
– @oneinchman #badmovieclub
“Fools! You can’t run from the plants! They’re everywhere!”
– @theskoot #badmovieclub
“quick to 90 miles away!”
– @richmorgan81 #badmovieclub
“That lion just had your arm off!” “No it didn’t!”
– @sammcginty #badmovieclub
“Is it a new type of dogging?”
– @leeprobert #badmovieclub
“Parks, that’s two now!! It’s got something to do with cottaging”
– @pmccourt #badmovieclub