Category archives: Art
O the goodly years that might have been — now desolate and bare!
After recently revisiting the retro/manky charms of “Old Maid” and its catalogue of ineligible bachelors, I did a quick search to see how the Old Maid herself, that icon of socially-unacceptable spinsterism, had fared down the years. The resulting image… continue reading »
The Image at the End of the Multiverse
A few years ago – back when I was notionally engaged in the non-writing of a doctoral thesis – I would pass the below painting several times a day (as I journeyed back and forth from the office). Part of… continue reading »
Your House is on Fire and your Children all Gone
In those dark days before the internet became ubiquitous – when only the mightiest sultans, emperors and corporate zillionaires had ready access to WebCrawler and Infoseek – finding out stuff was an onerous task. If the information wasn’t located in… continue reading »
Fear Factor and Killing Power
Look, I know that Top Trumps, as a game, has most likely always been shit – interminable, tedious and requiring practically no skill whatsoever – but I can’t wholly shake an enduring affection for it. Or the cards, as objects,… continue reading »
Every Day is a Gif(t): Mr. Kipling’s Orgy of Cake
A companion piece to my Werther’s reimagining. This is why ad agencies should be paying me the big massive bucks. But they’re afraid. Too afraid… The damn spineless & hidebound fools! No more gif(t)s for you tomorrow. You’ve had enough.
Every Day is a Gif(t): Thomas Magnum Sleepy Time
Final gif(t) tomorrow.
Every Day is a Gif(t): Creamy Werther’s Goodness in a Universe that Doesn’t Care
The universe may be little more than a chaotic and unfeeling soup of neutrinos, quarks, gluons and dark matter that’s barely (if at all) aware of our fleeting existences, but (even in this flux & emptiness & horror) there are… continue reading »
Every Day is a Gif(t): Shitty Cloud Munch
Clouds – though occasionally cute, fluffy and given to floating on high o’er vales and hills – are, generally, a bit of a nuisance. They enshroud the earth in suffocating blankets of grey. They empty their contents onto miserable wage-slaves… continue reading »
