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Kiwiburn Doco

Here’s the trailer for Combust In Unity, a doco about the annual Kiwi “burning man”-type festival by the other moose. See also: official site

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2010 08 25 morgue Comments (1)

Harvey Pekar RIP

Another independent visionary, gone sooner than anyone would’ve liked. You’ll know him from this film if nowhere else: Check out these Pekar web comics for a taste of his distinctive, self-examining style.

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2010 07 13 morgue Comments (1)

I like to be / Under the sea

Paul the Octopus has a perfect prediction record in the World Cup. We all live in the octopus’ garden now. [Octopi are very smart creatures. You present it with two boxes labelled A and B, and it goes to A and finds food. Then you present it with A and C, then A and D, [...]

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2010 07 12 morgue Comments (5)

Frank Sidebottom RIP

I didn’t know what the hell to make of this when I was a kid reading Oink! comic. One of those inexplicable British things that, as a Kiwi kid, you encountered from time to time in the UK’s pop-culture output. Frank Sidebottom was the creation of Chris Sievey, and it was somewhere between comic genius [...]

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2010 07 07 morgue Comments (5)

Saramago, Portugal

Been thinking about Portugal in the last couple of days, because of the death of Jose Saramago, and the impending departure from work of visiting Portuguese academic Rosa. I travelled through Portugal in October 2002 and it made a huge impression on me. I stayed in the country much longer than I intended, and was [...]

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2010 06 22 morgue Comments (3)

Oceania beats Eurasia 1-1

Oceania loves roundball. Oceania has always loved roundball. Lovers of ovalball are to report immediately to re-education centres.

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2010 06 21 morgue Comments (9)

Belated Bloomsday

Speaking of Ireland: yesterday was Bloomsday. I forgot. At least Marilyn didn’t. (Story behind pic at Dangerous Minds.) Last year on the day after Bloomsday I linkied Ulysses Seen, the outstanding webcomic + discussion version of Ulysses. It has been in the news a bit lately for being available on the iPad only in censored [...]

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2010 06 17 morgue Comments (0)

Broader, not higher, please

Another few hours invested in tech support for the parents, and it always inspires the same feeling: massive resentment. Not at the parents, of course, who are lovely and patient and appreciative. No, at the stupid Microsoft-led home computer industry that still, 30 years in, hasn’t worked out how to make it easy to work [...]

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2010 06 03 morgue Comments (8)

Facebook will win

“Facebook is my pick for the social networking site that will still be thriving in five years when MySpace and Bebo and Hi5 and all have succumbed.” – me, June 4, 2007* You almost can’t surf the interwebz these days without coming across the Facebook backlash. It’s a deserved backlash – Facebook, seemingly under the [...]

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2010 05 25 morgue Comments (14)

Pantheon of Plastic: #6 (tie)

This is the last PoP feature I’m going to run. As popular as this feature has been (??!), it’s time to wind it up and move on to other distractions. In fact, I was going to stop at the top 5 but I know that all those PoP-lovers out there (??!) have been waiting for [...]

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2010 05 12 morgue Comments (7)