As the cold of winter starts to bite, I thought that I’d show my evil side by posting a picture of the beach in the Dominican Republic where I was recently lazing and reading and writing.
Mind you, as I’m back in London now, I’m tormenting myself as much as you.
But still: lovely, isn’t it?
(All images copyright their respective owners, of course; no copyright infingement is intended.)
The first image there is from the ‘The Adventures of God: The Ultimate Super-Hero’ in the Spitting Image Giant Komic Book (1988), and is illustrated by Steve Dillon. The second panel is from ‘SuperGod (and The Son Of Man Wonder)’ in the latest issue of Viz (170, coverdated November 2007), and unless I miss my guess it’s drawn by Davey Jones.
Rather similar, I think you’d agree, but I have to say I genuinely don’t think it’s a case of plagiarism – the issue of free will and God is one which is endlessly discussed (and is a bit theologically awkward, really), and I don’t think that Mr Jones is exactly short of ideas: he came up with the Viz strip The Vibrating Bum-Faced Goats, after all, which hardly suggests a paucity of imagination.
Still, an amusing coincidence, I like to think.
Last (lah-st) a., n., and adv. After all others, coming at the end.
Captain America is, like, totally stacked! Check out that rack!
(Actually, that’s not fair; Captain America only has a chest like Mount Rushmore when Rob Liefeld draws him. In current continuity, he’s dead, I think. And oddly enough, I suspect he has more dignity as worm-food…)
A good friend of mine (Hello, Red!) has been invited to attend a fancy dress party – in a costume which, according to the invitation, must be of someone or something beginning with the letter ‘E’.
Amongst other suggestions, I put forward that she might want to go as Elvira, until she pointed out that… well, I think you can guess from the accompanying pictures what she feared the misinterpretation might be.
Fair comment; one is a creature who only seems to come out at night, and the other…
Clever bit of wriggling from Sainsbury’s there.
What they really should have put was:
‘Paying by cheque?
Oh no you’re not!’
As these are so rarely seen in real life, I thought it was only fair that I share: behold, the lesser-spotted Parcelforce card.
According to Parcelforce’s own procedures, they drop these off when they’ve knocked on the door to deliver an item, but you weren’t in.
However, given that Parcelforce claim that they’ve tried to deliver a parcel to m’lady five times recently and on none of these occasions has a card been left, I have but one thing to say about Parcelforce’s claim that this is their standard operating procedure: REALLY, PARCELFORCE? I MEAN, REALLY?
Spotted in Holborn, a rather extreme bit of graffiti.
As a Vegetarian, I often worry that I look a bit half-hearted by not being a Vegan, but on the basis of this it looks as if Veganism’s all gone a bit hardcore, so I’ll continue to eat dairy products, I think…
*As Fathers Ted and Dougal put it in ‘The Passion of St Tibulus’
Spotted on a Central Line train recently – alongside some discarded newspapers – a copy of a slim book, left (I like to think) for someone to find and read.
Which book is it, you ask? Well, it was none other than the Tao Te Ching by Lao-Tse, a frankly terrific read if you’re looking for a more meaty read than the usual papers dished out to London commuters.
I’d like to think this was my first encounter with the BookCrossing phenomenon, though as I didn’t peek at the book itself (I already have a copy), I can neither confirm nor deny…
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