But if they were, they might be doing something like what you’ll see in the video below. It’s a response to BnL’s ‘Bathroom Sessions’ in which Ed Robertson, and sometimes Steven Page, sing their songs in front of a webcam, then upload it to YouTube. All in Ed’s bathroom.
This is my first attempt at a long animation using Creatoon (freeware animation software), and I think it isn’t TOO bad for a first go ’round Let me just disclaim that the video quality is pretty shite, but that’s compression for ya.
I won’t be giving up my day job just yet, but stay tuned.
Dedicated to all those so-called journalists who mistake ‘weather’ and ‘climate’ and don’t know the difference between ‘proof’ and ‘evidence’. May that populist rag, the Adelaide Advertiser, keep giving you column space because I don’t want you to starve and thankfully, no one with half a brain takes it seriously anyway.
I’ve been at a lot of long, boring meetings at work in the last few days. Today, for no good reason at all, the subject of astrology came up. As I didn’t have access to a computer right then and there to record my thoughts on the matter, I had to resort to pen-and-paper. I don’t think this would have gone down too well if I’d tried to explain it, anyway:
This is heartening news. It certainly has not caused the overwhelming outpouring of religious, anti-evolution crapola I was expecting. It also bodes ill for the film’s release anywhere outside the US. I think with what works out to be 37 people that turned up to each screening in the US (thanks BCS for doing the calculations), the producers of the film might just have made enough money to mail a copy of the film Australia. And I’m confident our well-trained sniffer dogs would locate the bullshit way before it ever got near a projector. I do want to see Expelled, because I am a masochist at heart, but I’ll be more than happy if it never gets an official release here.
Ma is the publican at the Errant Alewife Hotel in Adelaide. She is two months away from turning 80, and after a lifetime of serving drunks, mentoring musicians and being a shoulder to cry on for depressed office workers, she is leaving town. But don’t tell anyone, as she doesn’t want to make this a big deal.
Ma’s dog, Darwin, died a couple of days ago. He’s buried in the beer garden. Ma never married or had any kids, and most of her lovers are dead. The only people who hold her to Adelaide are the patrons of her pub, but she knows they will be left in good hands.
So, with only the belongings she can fit into a backpack, she jams her battered fedora on her head, steps onto the footpath and shuts the door behind her.
I’ve lived with this character for over a year and a half, and I thought it was time to let her out into the world. I hope you enjoyed this brief meeting with Ma, the main character in my upcoming novel. She’s very cool. Oh, and she’s admired James Randi for a long time, and would still be up for it, if he is
I’m staying with my weasel words theme for this post. I am in the throes of writing a short film, which is basically the “to be or not to be” scene from Hamlet, but done entirely in weasel words.
Hamlet, in Act 3, Scene 2, speaks thusly:
Hamlet: Do you see yonder cloud, that ’s almost in the shape of a camel?
Polonius: By the mass, and ‘t is like a camel, indeed.
Hamlet: Methinks, it is like a weasel.
Poetic, isn’t it? Rolls off the tongue… completely unlike the spirit-crushing emptiness of the language I come across every day at work. I’ve often considered writing emails to my colleagues and clients in verse, but instead, I will seek a more constructive outlet.
I started thinking… what would Shakespeare have written if he were a public servant in 2008?
The weasel reference from Hamlet himself, combined with the fact that most people recognise “to be or not to be”, drove me to pick this play to make my point.
Has anyone come across any fabulously cringe-inducing weasel words or phrases that I could use for the film? Any suggestions are welcome!
Let me just disclaim that the video quality is pretty shite, but that’s compression for ya.
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