From the monthly archives: March 2011

Of Banks and Unicorns

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The 21st century is well under way by now. While a box on wheels hurtles us along the landscape at previously unthinkable speeds, we can use a tiny little magic trinket to communicate with someone on the other side of the world while we watch a moving picture film on the same trinket. This frequently baffles me. I think it’s fair to say that most people in the “western world” today have a pretty easy-going yet co-dependent relationship with the internet and the devices we use to connect to it. With the help of the “Information Super-Highway” (titter), we play, work, masturbate and organise our lives.
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Archive Dive: BulbSquad Chronicles Episode 2

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The past few days have been great for me in terms of writing. For the first time in a while, I’m constantly getting new ideas and revamping old ones, and themes, character arcs and plot points are slowly but surely being put down in my Moleskine (Yeah, it’s a bit pretentious, but it’s such a nice notebook!).

Right now, I give you the SECOND of the two and a half episodes I originally wrote.
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Archive Dive: BulbSquad Chronicles Episode 1

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In the summer of 2003, I had a summer job scanning inspection reports on pipes. Yeah, I know. Exciting. So exciting, in fact, that this job that was projected to take me four weeks was over in five days. I still had three weeks left on my contract. What can a man do with his time? I read four Discworld novels, played an old dog-fighting game for DOS, wrote a short crime story with my bosses as the main characters (My immediate boss was the hero-turned-killer), drank an inordinate amount of cocoa, and started work on a comic about how the sun went out and a team had to go out and find new bulbs for it. Silly, I know.
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The Wager Between Jones and I

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I should preface this by telling you that this is a narrative I’ve cooked up based on the strangest game of Jones In the Fast Lane I have ever played. Click that link if you’ve never heard of it before. I just now discovered there’s even an unofficial Flash port of the game, so go have a look or download it from one of the abandonware sites out there if you want the authentic feeling. The Flash port has voices, though, which is pretty cool!

Jones and I were on the cusp of adult life. We had no job or education, and we were both determined to leave our dingy, mouldy apartments behind and make an impact on the world. We felt equally confident in our own potential and just knew that we could climb the social ladder quicker than the other.

So we made a wager.
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