still here

Seems I've fallen victim to that all too common dry spell that new bloggers often suffer from. The problem is that I have lots of ideas about what to post, but then I start thinking that they're all really lame. Well no more. Here's what's going on.

First of all, I no longer keep my phone in a sock. Han got me a case for Christmas, but people have been calling it a phone bra.

Second. Lex has been on at me for ages to post my recipe for "super fast excitement rice". I had big plans for this, there was going to be a great long list of ingredients, step by step instructions and maybe even some photos. But of course that's not going to happen, that would involve some forward planning. Anyway, here's the basics of the recipe as I'm currently making it.

Stir fry loads of veg, add a spoonful of curry paste (I like goldfish brand chinese curry sauce concentrate), a little water to make it a bit saucy and throw in loads of meat. Any meat, I've made it with chicken, turkey, roast ham, sausage and various combinations.(I normally use meat that I've already cooked to save time.) Or you can use fish and prawns. Then mix in a load of cooked rice, it should go all golden from the curry sauce. That's pretty much it. You can make it as simply or as complicatedly as you like. I like to make a lot of it in one go, at least three meals worth. That way I can have some for my tea and take some to the pub with me to parade around in front of everyone when they're all drunk after work. Jealous.

Third. Inspired partly by a page I saw that had been torn out of Viz and the "why not try writing a sit-com?" page from Lee and Herring's 1995 Fist of Fun annual, I have been trying to invent potential comic strip characters. So far I have come up with:

"Pierre Pressure" a French kid who either pressures other kids into doing stupid stuff or is easily pressured himself, I'm not sure which one yet.

"Harm's Way" Tommy Harm shows you how to do things his way. His way is normally very dangerous, hilarious yet painful results ensue.

That's all I can think of for now, smell you later.

Welcome to the 20th Century

As if starting a blog wasn't futuristic enough for me, I can now claim membership to another popular, technological club. That's right, I am now the proud owner of one of them mobile telephones.

I held off for as long as I could, wearing my uncontactability like a badge of honour. But it couldn't last forever. I can now be reached at any time of day or night, whether I like it or not. My brother definitely likes it though, as he no longer has to act as my personal message service. I think he'd had enough of people having to ring him when they wanted to talk to me. Jeez.

All I have to do now is get used to carrying it around with me. It's a pretty nice phone so I'm constantly paranoid that I'm going to lose it, break it or get it all scratched up. That's why, thanks to a stroke of stylish genious, I am currently carrying it around in a sock. Not a sock that I'm wearing you understand, just a spare one that I can keep in my pocket. I am so cool.

I wonder what'll be next for me, maybe one of those 'full time' jobs people are going on about. Mind you, that might cut into my laying around time. I guess that will have to wait a little longer. Besides, I need all my spare time to figure out how to use that predictive text.

In News: Nerd Sanctuary To Close.

Fellow nerds, dark days are upon us. At first I refused to believe the rumours, "it can't possibly be true" I kept telling myself, "they've got it all wrong". But true it was. Comic Showcase is to close and we sickly fanboys shall have to fend for ourselves.

I've been a fan of comics ever since I was a kid. Through good times and bad, through clone sagas, costume changes and variant chromium covers. Getting the bus into town every Saturday morning and heading for the tiny 'Demon Comics' shop in Hereford with my cousin Tony. Then lying on his living room floor all afternoon trying to draw our own comics. None of them ever got past about two pages though, because we could never be bothered to finish them.

Even if we had finished any they never would have sold, being mostly obvious rip-offs of other characters. The one that looked like Batman but with Wolverine style claws springs to mind as one that probably would have attracted a few law suits.

Anyway, time's a wastin'. I've got to start gathering up those last few kernels of comic book goodness. There's going to be a long, harsh winter ahead.

in the beginning

I generally consider myself to be something of a techno-spaz, odd then that I should find myself trying to cobble together a blog. It's really because getting to read so many other interesting blogs has persuaded me that I should at least try to give something back. Where once I was like the guy who turns up to the party empty handed and starts rooting through the fridge for cold beers I can now hold my head up a little higher, like the guy who arrives with a £2.49 bottle of wine and then starts rooting through the fridge for cold beers. Anyway, enjoy my cheap wine, and maybe next time I'll bring something a little tastier.