Archive for the 'Dispatches from another world' Category

Not Often You See Male Health TVCs

Great Ad but before you clickplay – don’t if your under 18 years old and or are sensitive to relatively explicit imagery. For all others – click away and remember to do a regular reach and roll check.  

Miss Universe/s Tackle the Big Issue of Maths

Awkward ‘Word’ to Your Mother

I am losing my hair. Once it was full and magnificent and now… not so much. My father has a full head of hair, salted and ever so slightly peppered. My mother has thick fabulous hair that frames her face and makes swishy sounds when she turns suddenly at unexpected noises. Like an air rifle [...]

Kindle my desire

So, I have to admit it. I’ve been lusting after an Amazon Kindle ever since I heard about them, and now that Amazon have released a 2.0 of the device, I want one twice as more. Don’t get me wrong, I love analogue reading. There’s something satisfying about holding a real book in your hands [...]

Stephen Fry’s Podgrams

Okay, quick question before we begin: have you ever heard of Stephen Fry? If you answered, "Yes, Mister Midnight!", then your name will be crossed off the list of people due to be sent to the ‘Voodoologic Re-education Centres’ [1] we here at the High Command intend to establish, once we have been popularly elected [...]

I, for one, welcome myself as your new Alien Overlord

Weekly World News, a publication that does for truth in journalism what FOX News has done for, well, truth in journalism, has a timely and useful article on how to tell if one of your co-workers is really an alien. No, not the type of alien that might have snuck across a border from another [...]

Case File 0001: Rosenberg, J

Lurking somewhere beneath the mouldering edifice that is Voodoologic Headquarters can be found our often-controversial-but-always-interesting Behavioural Sciences Division. It is within these heavily sound-proofed basement walls that the Voodoologic Team conducts much of its human experimentation research into the challenging question of exactly why the hell do people behave the way they do? We are, [...]

Short conversation with a coworker

Murray @ Midnight (getting off the phone): “You know something? I’ve never met a person called Murray that I like.” David W (after a short pause): “I have, but you wouldn’t know him.” Murray @ Midnight (after a longer pause): “Wow. Why do you have to be such a hater?”