Phon Du, Oriental Manservant and Sidekick, was being inscrutable; however, it was a quiet moment down on the Wisdom City waterfront, so he didn’t think anyone would mind. He felt it was important that he should be inscrutable on a regular basis, since this was the sort of thing that was expected of an Oriental [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Zen And The Art Of The Number 13 Spanner
Published by December 29th, 2008 in Burnt Offerings and Wisdom City. 9 Comments
Norman Harold Wells, born 19 March 1925, passed away early this morning. He was my Father, my hero and my friend. He was the best man I have ever known, and he has left me in a world that is less bright and less beautiful and less full of wonder because he is no longer [...]
As Midnight muttered to me “This year Santa Clause is comin’ to town and has only one list… pray you ain’t on it..mwaaa haha haha” Disturbing. Both of them. It’s the costumes and loitering around Bambi that puts me on edge.
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Newsflasher: Illuminated Dan Hitched
Published by December 15th, 2008 in Dispatches from another world. 0 CommentsConsider yourself news-flashed! Some may not beaware but recently Illuminated Dan, a lovely English chap, a sensational lighting designer, inspired inventor, robust Voodoo caption champion, and renowned electronics tinkerer has married his Australian sweetheart… at last. Darren Satruday was very sad and dissappointed in himself for not better organizing his flights from Hong Kong and [...]
Gygax – Looking for a Cleric with ‘Healing Hands’
Published by December 15th, 2008 in Saturday Night Drive-by. 0 CommentsAs we start edging our way to the close of 2008 – many will remember it as the year of the great economic meltdown (thanks Fannie and Freddie!) or perhaps that we all in non-America hold to the hope of a new world order promised by incoming presidency of Obama – but 2008 was also [...]
A coward dies a thousand deaths, a brave man dies but once. Weeeee, here comes death number 612!
Published by December 14th, 2008 in Burnt Offerings. 2 CommentsThe following clip, lifted from a post at Lifehacker.com, makes me want to run out and do all sorts of silly things, from resisting the English to winning one for The Gipper, whoever he might be. Just about every movie nutjob with a cause, a speech and a wooden crate on which to stand and [...]
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‘Terror’ Charity – Buy the Cookies by Grod!
Published by December 11th, 2008 in Dispatches from another world. 1 CommentI read this article in the South China Morning Post and I am ashamed to say it kinda made me laugh. Okay before we go on, terrorism is bad, it is evil, and it needs to be stamped out and so on. We all agree…. it’s more the slug line or title that prompted my [...]
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