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The ‘Bradford millionaire’ with ‘the silk...

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:30:14 +0100

The ‘Bradford millionaire’ with ‘the silk hat’ in the Waste Land is (I think!) Sir James Roberts, second owner of textile mill turned model village Saltaire, in - well - Bradford. Saltaire was founded by the wonderfully named Sir TITUS SALT.

Port Sunlight and Bourneville get most of the big yucks as model villages go, but I reckon Saltaire is better than both of ‘em.

Charmingly, you can send a Saltaire e-postcard from their website! Go on, why don’t you send one to your very own personal Tiresias or Phlebas today? Or at least, send one to me. Oh go on, you might. tumblr name at gmail…

My entire Scrabble playing life has been leading up to this...

Sun, 19 May 2013 11:09:08 +0100

My entire Scrabble playing life has been leading up to this moment.

austinkleon: 1961 letter from Groucho Marx to T.S. Eliot: “I...

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:30:18 +0100

austinkleon:

1961 letter from Groucho Marx to T.S. Eliot: “I had no idea you were so handsome.”

MUSSST WIIIIIIIIN

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:57:40 +0100

MUSSST WIIIIIIIIN

Damn! Where was this macro when we were kickstarting The Waste...

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:30:30 +0100

Damn! Where was this macro when we were kickstarting The Waste Land for Babies a fortnight ago!

Not that we needed actorly approval to make the funding target anyway, although I DO wish I had managed to get a quick thumbs up for the project from him at the London premiere! Perhaps he’d be on board for part 2, the Game of Chess! I’ll get onto the agent.

Shall we make today TS Eliot day? Or perhaps I can queue up TS Eliot week… the auld fux0r.

pippaalice: deluminator: debatable I do not understand this at...

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:09:00 +0100

pippaalice:

deluminator:

debatable

I do not understand this at all. Is there a context? I hope not!

I suspect it is cos he R being SMAUG (the Chiefest and Greatest of Calamities) in thee Hobb1t?

You can see where the Serkis style motion capture suit might be slightly more tricky if you are being a grebt big flying wurm…

ARGH! ARGH! New Phoenix Wright game! Coming in Autumn! eShop...

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:30:09 +0100

ARGH! ARGH! New Phoenix Wright game! Coming in Autumn! eShop only, no cartridge release. To be honest, I find it hard to be super upset about that. I’m just thrilled it’s coming. Time to block out my diary… to PINPOINT MY FEELINGS!

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies Trailer (by CapcomUnityVideos)

thoroughlygood: Bonnie Tyler clings on to Maltese singer...

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:30:10 +0100

thoroughlygood:

Bonnie Tyler clings on to Maltese singer Gianluca hours before the first Eurovision semi-final.

A NEW TERROR AWAITS: Jamie McCrimmon - Gallifrey’s Next...

Tue, 14 May 2013 12:30:20 +0100

A NEW TERROR AWAITS: Jamie McCrimmon - Gallifrey’s Next Top Model.

with grate delight i note that

Tue, 14 May 2013 12:29:00 +0100

my cumberporridge analysis was post no 666 to waywardbiro. exxxxcelllent….

SOMEONE's been reading the LRB! ;)

Tue, 14 May 2013 12:15:00 +0100

I have an ancient and dusty A-level in media studies and one of my favourite books is Ernst Fischer’s “The Necessity of Art” ∴ I <3 writing this sort of thing and could frankly keep it up all day w/o too many problems given a decent dare :) It’s been too long~~

(Also, yes I have been reading the LRB, but alas I still don’t understand the Greeks, the Romans, the vast majority of poetry or the world of high finance above a very simple level. Otherwise I’m just reading Dorothy L. Sayers and you can’t stop me!).

pippaalice: waywardbiro: cumberporridge: ...

Tue, 14 May 2013 12:01:00 +0100

pippaalice:

waywardbiro:

cumberporridge:

I’m not sure how to feel about this picture of Benedict with David Cameron :( That man on the right seems sceptical of their association too though.

I’m taking this as a metaffur for drowning out arts funding?

I wish I understood this but I do not. Even after you carefully explained it.

It’s hauntology, m8!

To expand. For me, it subverts the dominant tumblr discourse of idealised adjectives to describe British actor Benedict Cumberbatch by applying the overused and essentially meaningless terms such as ‘beauty’ and ‘perfect’, and ‘cheekbones’, by applying them to something generally considered universally mundane i.e PORRIDGE. Thus a series of non-sequiturs on the unintentional hilarity of the objectification of celebrity which leads to such neotenic results such as the ‘Really’ channel. And no doubt something about mocking today’s ideals of masculinity in a hypermediated and hypersexualised society that shows no signs of stopping.

This one in particular adds in a little bit of politics! It supposes a surrealist juxtaposition - the hauntological, illogical presence of Cumberporridge in the illogical and jarring setting of Cameron in the werks canteen. Cameron’s action of drowning the symbolic Cumberporridge (who we can assume to represent the current state of British the-AY-tre) is an obvious reference to the ongoing Tory arts cuts to suppress the - ahem - creative industries.

There are of course, layers of class inherent in this too! The proletariat (represented by the worker), the ruling class (sadly represented by Cameron) and then the symbolic world of ‘the arts’ with its inherent suppositions of poshness and luvvie-ism. Look at the relations going on here! Note that the cumberporridge is currently inaccessible to the worker, and in fact in the entire CONSTRUCTION of this surrealist praxis, Cameron is physically and symbolically whiting out and denying the working mans access to a world of ‘beauty’ and ‘perfection’ (whilst implictly claiming those as everyday values of the ruling class)!

Further, porridge itself can be read as the representation of a more traditionalist value - probably the craft movement vs the ‘arts’ movement - and thus we can conclude that its appearance in the works of cumberporridge is the spectre haunting contemporary culture, a ‘mush’ of incoherent funding strategies and failure to engage with the varied communities of today…

There are also lots of pictures of porridge, and I really like porridge? In fact, I had some porridge today (with jam)!

I hope this has helped! It has certainly helped me waste a bit of my time in which I could have been doing some long overdue filing :)

I really wanted to get the word ‘ontology’ in here somewhere but alas I’ve never had a particularly good handle on what it means. Could anyone else work this in? Is kpvnk on tumblr?

jawn-imbored: god-particle: twoshotsofhappyoneshotofsad: Road...

Tue, 14 May 2013 09:40:56 +0100

jawn-imbored:

god-particle:

twoshotsofhappyoneshotofsad:

Road Trip

Two college graduates decided jobs can wait.

#that would be the kindest road trip ever #they would probably stop the car to help old ladies cross the street #and stop at all the lemonade stands they see #and they would just leave a wake of happiness and niceness everywhere they went

Perhaps this is relevant to piratemoggy’s interests?

Furthermore, DO people have lemonade stands outside of Anastasia Krupnik books and that HBOS advert? I doubt it.

Nice tupperware though.

‘Chupacabras’ by Super Furry Animalsdear thisismyjam: STOP...

Tue, 14 May 2013 09:18:02 +0100

‘Chupacabras’ by Super Furry Animals
dear thisismyjam: STOP TELLING ME WHAT TO WRITE. ‘total #magic’; or ‘hey @name’! Anyway, I remembered this song for no particular reason on Saturday and have been listening to it at least 3 times a day since. ¡Soy super bien!

cumberporridge: I’m not sure how to feel about this picture of...

Tue, 14 May 2013 09:14:06 +0100

cumberporridge:

I’m not sure how to feel about this picture of Benedict with David Cameron :( That man on the right seems sceptical of their association too though.

I’m taking this as a metaffur for drowning out arts funding?

みねうち Strike with the Back of the Sword

Mon, 13 May 2013 15:25:00 +0100

thevidsarealright answered: WHY CANT I CATCH A BLOODY MARACTUS

Right! Here are Sarah’s TOP TIPS for pokemon catching!

1. HEALTH! There are several moves useful for catching pokes. First thing you want to do is get its health into the red. Best move for this is FALSE SWIPE. FALSE SWIPE is an offensive move which always leaves the opponent pokemon with 1HP, thus avoiding knocking the little fuckers out. The only downside is if a/ something like Hail or Sandstorm is in effect and b/ that it affects the opponent pokemon, like the rock beggars in Desert Resort aren’t affected by the sandstorm. (Or whether your poke knows and uses a move with recoil effects - but this is relatively unusual. Zebstrika’s WILD CHARGE is an example you may have encountered already?).

2. SLEEP! Once you have FALSE SWIPED and got HP down to 1, using Hypnosis will (if successful - it is not that accurate so may take a couple of turns to hit) put the wild pokemon to sleep. A sleeping poke is x2 more likely to be caught than a non-sleeping poke (x1.5 if poisoned, paralysed).

3. POKE BALLS: if you can be bothered. I rarely bother using ‘special’ pokeballs until late in the game. This is stuff like if you’re in a cave, a Dusk Ball has a higher catch rate than an Ultra Ball. There isn’t really a special pokeball that stands a better chance of catching a Maractus though over and above an Ultra Ball.

Of course, if your problem is that you are just not FINDING a Maractus… you can investigate obtaining a pokemon who knows the move SWEET SCENT! That releases a pungent odour and you are more likely to encounter beasties.

If you would like, I can trade you a lowish level poke who knows False Swipe/Hypnosis, I believe I’ve got the TMs for both…

SIGILYPH (cannot remember what you called your Sigilyph) learns Hypnosis quite early I think?

What?

Mon, 13 May 2013 12:30:38 +0100

What?

arabela25: Terry Vision meets Gianluca [X] How can you...

Sun, 12 May 2013 12:30:26 +0100

arabela25:

Terry Vision meets Gianluca [X]

How can you not love this lovable Maltese LUG!

piratemoggy: :(

Sat, 11 May 2013 22:20:48 +0100

piratemoggy:

:(

We have just been to see Star trek and are JSL.

Sat, 11 May 2013 19:56:14 +0100

We have just been to see Star trek and are JSL.