h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I asked for a Stella at the pub yesterday. My boss Ed said "a half of wife-beater".

I've been told that the Ladybird link is now being circulated around Glasgow CID.

Your mother sucks bears in the forest

Thanks for this dude. My pub banter kudos is going to skyrocket.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKAmvHM8Mfc

I think I actually prefer this to the original


http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=22658838
Terrifying chaos at my electro night

Fantastic! I'd have loved a night like that. Got to love Squarepusher too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RonM2AUS2Y

http://www.disapprovingrabbits.com/

This guy paints snails! I shit you not! Lol!!1!

http://www.innercitysnail.blogspot.com/

Put Patrick Bateman on 24-hour watch... it's

http://reencoded.com/2008/05/20/42-awesome-business-card-designs-with-links-to-100s-more/

http://www.hughsexey.somerset.sch.uk/visitors/

I've been getting disapproving rabbits in my feed aggregator for ages. (But can't view or display at work, like most blogs) Some of them are SO cute.

Those snails are sooo good!

Also...I totally get the Patrick Bateman reference. Isn't it an amazing book? I've just sold a copy to a colleague after enthusing about it. So now he's going to think I'm well . Have you read 'Lunar Park'?

Hmm. Now I have an incredible craving for a goat's cheese pizza with leeks and sundried tomatoes. That or a microwaved jellyfish.

Sorry Ed. I haven't read American Psycho, though I was encouraged to by a flatmate (a Satanist, possibly the foulest individual I've met since childhood - which might have a bit to do with it). I didn't even make it through the film. Lunar Park sounds interesting though.

There's a Phillip Pullman comic in today's Grauniad magazine, would you like me to send it to you PC?

Actually scrub that, it's only a 4-page teaser for http://www.thedfc.co.uk/

Instead I'll let you have this, which had me in tears.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguide/tvradio/story/0,,2281573,00.html

Meanwhile...

http://www.blog.ethanbodnar.com/2008/05/08/the-day-there-was-no-news/

and

http://www.manbabies.com

This is amazing.

http://www.cyberthing.net/video-play.php?id=89

I read "American Psycho", and at the time, I thought it was rather poorly written. I think I "got" it, but it did turn me off. Never bothered with the movie. Nor have I gotten around to "Lunar Park".

Enjoyed the 3-D animation there (and want to watch again later with the sound on, when everyone's awake).

What am I doing up at this hour? I'm going back to bed...

Something silly I did in Fruity Loops with a recording I got this morning.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/12503053fe218213/

>>I read "American Psycho", and at the time, I thought it was rather poorly written.



I do always say, though...that although I love it, I never recommend it. During the Lady Chatterly trial, an elderly Oxford Don testified under oath that he had been 'depraved and corrupted by the book (the legal definition of obscenity) and was a worst person for having read it. Similarly...Ellis has thhis trick of writing a stereotypical porn scene, then - at just the point of maximum tumescence - the slashing starts. Very clever. Very manipipative. Very disconcerting.

'Course, I don't feel any hesitation about recommending it to you guys. You're already depraved and corrupt.

John Mortimer's definition of 'obscene':
Anything that will give an elderly High Court judge a hard on.

>You're already depraved and corrupt.

Who, me? I'm the epitome of wholesome goodness.

I can't get back to sleep. It's too sunny out, and both K and Herman are snoring (more so Herman).

I wonder what the legal definition of "obscene" actually is here nowadays. When I was doing my radio internship, "obscene" included most "rude" words for body parts or functions. Also "taking god's name in vain". Hell, we couldn't even say "ass" on the air at the time.

I did fine, though- there was only one incident, where I'd inadvertently left the mic live and reached too far over the turntable with the headphones on, nearly strangled myself and scratched the record at the same time, and dropped a single, muffled F-bomb.

uhhhuhh uhhuhh...she said 'ass'.

The UK position is fluid. Things can be shown in mainstream cinema nowadays that wouldn't have been possible in the past. Artistic context is considered. We're one of the few countries worldwide where we can't buy images of erect penises for the purposes of sexual self-gratification (although you can in licesed emporia or on teh interwebs)...but stiffies can now be shown in mainstream cinema (eg Nine Songes; Baise-Moi)

While I'm here...saving an e-mail...(Scuse, C):

More Gore:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/frontrow/ Not quite as on form as on The South Bank Show. (Grumpy, in fact - possibly didn't get on as well with mark lawson as he did with Lord Melvyn - possibly just having a bad day) - but always good value.

Also:
Can't find the link on the Grauniad site just now, but there's an interview with him in today's. Maybe they'll also podcast his Hay Festival appearance.