Man, 29, Posts Considered Lunchtime Blog Entry

[alexsarll]

...which will likely become rather rare from here on in, but I'd booked this library slot before I found the hotspot. So it's farewell to the slightly sticky keyboards and smelly fellow service users. I shall miss them, in a way - the 'not missing them at all' sort of way, that is. Dear heavens but I'm feeling drained today; after winding down 2006 with those four- and then three- day weeks, going back to five is a real slap in the face. Haven't we been doing five-day weeks for more than 60 years? Shouldn't there have been another reduction by now?

I didn't really register when I was buying it, but the bread I've got at the moment is 'invisible crust' - in other words, there's no crust, but it doesn't go stale. On top of which it's 'best of both' - ie, tastes like white but healthy like wholemeal. And to my shame, I find myself feeling a little guilty about this, as though somehow there must be a catch. Seems like in spite of my best efforts I'm not entirely free from our culture's puritan strain and its associated progress guilt.

Reading a DJ Hell feature in Mixmag, I learn that Jake Shears and 'Babydaddy' were inspired to form Scissor Sisters by a Fischerspooner show. My scepticism regarding Scissor Sisters has always been rooted in my feeling that they were a toned-down, less interesting, 'just gay enough' version of Fischerspooner, tooled for mainstream success - but I'd never suspected that this was actually a matter of record.
(I was also unaware that Hell's birth name is Helmut Geier. Two cheap innuendos for the price of one!)

I'm still finding it hard to believe that Marvel have now turned Speedball grim'n'gritty - and even harder to believe that Warren Ellis is writing him. Wasn't his Vertigo issue of Planetary one of the definitive skewerings of the ridiculous excesses into which this whole dark trend had fallen?

Got me a Chrysler, its carbon footprint's big as a whale...

Comments

[icecoldinalex.livejournal.com]

yes but yes but!

Evil Dead vs. Marvel Zombies!!!!

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Yeah, saw that was coming. I quite enjoyed the Marvel Zombies' original appearance in Ultimate Fantastic Four, but I never bothered with the miniseries because it was written by Robert Kirkman, who is the very definition of 'passable'. I guess I might read it if it turned up in the library...
Then add to that 1) I was never a huge Evil Dead fan and 2) there have been very few inter-company crossovers that have been any cop (because the creatives have twice as many worried shareholders interfering), and I'm shrugging.

[icecoldinalex.livejournal.com]

fair points i guess, but Army of Darkness vs. Re-Animator was awesome, so i'm in!

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I was totally unaware such a thing even existed!

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. I mean, clearly they're aiming for 'horrific', but that's not the sense in which they've achieved it. Still, in fairness Thunderbolts is otherwise looking pretty promising.

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

Ah, well. I have "Best of Both". The only catch I've found so far is that, for reasons I can't bear thinking about, probably related to wheatgerm, it grows white mould rather than green, so it's harder to tell at-a-glance if it's off yet.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I've never encountered that problem. Do you not keep yours in the fridge, or do I just get through bread quicker?

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

Bread in the fridge? The end times are upon us. How vile.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

How non-stale (or indeed moldy), more like.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

No - you're a freako.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

This is a classic internet argument, and one, might I say, that is one of my personal favourites. The best internet arguments are the ones that turn you into a howling savage fighting for your convictions that you wouldn't have said you even held not five minutes before the post. This ultra-lightning topic is fun for all ages - why not invite your gran to join in? 9/10!

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

It's the Middle East problem of foodstuffs and no mistake. Everybody gets riled, nobody changes sides, and pointless bad blood is bred* all round. Result!

*Do you see what I did there?

[rentaghost31.livejournal.com]

my parents are fridge-ites but I am a reformed room temperaturarian

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

And now you're talking about in public! Are you *trying* to derail the peace process?


rentaghost31 putting the bread away, yesterday

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

I had thought that the white mould stuff was a development brought about entirely for the purpose of long-life bread - ie it still goes mouldy but you can't see it as much and it's still percieved as being edible for longer... BLEEEE!

Anyway, I can never get through a loaf of bread before it goes off so I've mostly stopped buying it. I bought a loaf a while ago and haven't checked it for the past couple of days, I'm sure it's just a quivering green mass barely contained by yucky purple plastic by now.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

The worst is BLACK mold, though. Last time I tried supporting a small local shop instead of going to Tesco, I got that. See also - the pesto with plastic in it.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

HEIN?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Precisely. Which is why I am now back to being a happy supporter of megacorp hegemony.