I remember playing Tetris for hours on end as a youth – to the point where I developed a Gameboy-shaped withered claw and began to experience Vietnam style, terrifying flashbacks about trying to put a square piece in a hole designed for the dickhead zig-zag piece that everybody hates. After some pretty intensive electro-shock therapy, […]
To be quite honest, I don’t really suffer from writer’s block. I think this is an affliction that effects those who actually think about what they’re writing and worry about people reading their work. I, however, just write whatever shit that comes into my head, care not one jot about the grammatical errors that are […]
I love skateboarding but, conversely, I’m not the biggest fan of gravity and hurting myself repeatedly. Therefore, I have a bit of an ontological quandary (thanks, Calvin & Hobbes) insomuch as, however much I’d like to take up skateboarding professionally (and God knows I’m good enough), I just can’t do it because I will, without […]
I’ve been made many offers that I couldn’t refuse in my life. Said offers include: Hello, sir, would you like a Guinness? Do you want fries with that? Flake with your Mr Whippy, young man? As you can see, the majority of offers that have been made to me are not from a Mafioso like Don […]
Charles Eames is a bit of a legend in design circles because he designed some mightily impressive pieces of furniture during his pomp and given that the majority of his pieces look exceptionally contemporary, it is clear that he wasn’t just an accomplished furniture designer but also a time traveller to boot. I think this […]
Whilst it goes without saying that Batman, Superman, Spiderman et al do a pretty good job of giving the impression that they are bad-ass all the time, the truth of the matter paints a considerably different picture. Sure, Hollywood would have us believe that Spiderman is swinging from to building to building the whole time […]