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See you Friday!
M.
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Hullo all! Wow, it’s been a busy weekend – Not only have I had to contend with additional workload ahead of my couple of days in Manchester this week, it’s also been the time for the traditional Chinese New Year dinner with family. This year, particularly special because two of my cousins are over from Hong Kong studying, and it was really nice to see both of them! I did, however, manage to sneak in an hour or two of the newly launched XCOM 2, and let me tell you, it’s something special. So far, I’m finding it even more tense than Enemy Unknown, and the storyline is fascinating; I think they managed to hide away enough from the teasers they released ahead of the game to make the story totally compelling, even for someone who has followed news of the game in development. Definitely worth a look in.
I’m not going to give him too much publicity here, but a certain well-known ‘pick-up artist’, famous for publishing books detailing ways in which one could coerce women into sleeping with them, and for his horrendous stance that rape of a woman should be legal on private property, has been forced to flee with his tail tucked between his legs.
He had been organising meetings of his lunk-headed ‘neo-masculine’ followers, secretive, childish affairs involving passcodes and laughable threats of retribution against ‘non-believers’ where MEN could discuss and share ideas about being MANLY and tips on how to force women to sleep with them. One of these meetups was (very unwisely) situated in my good ol’ hometown of Glasgow.
Hi all, no time to write something substantial here – number f things piled up and now I’ve only got a couple of hours before I have to get up for work.
See you Friday!
M.
Hullo folks, just a quick post today – I’m afraid I’ve been ground down a fair bit this evening with politics and people scoring cheap shots. Between the looming possibility of President Trump and the constant siege Scottish pro-independence supporters seem to be under from the government and the media… It amazes me how we have survived as a species when we have shown ourselves to be so resistant to change, so unprogressive, so utterly tribal, greedy, and vile a species. The ratio of times I am impressed with our achievements versus times I wish we had a reset button keeps on getting smaller and more depressing.
Happy Burns Night, a’body, and fair fa’ yer honest sonsie faces! Stuff yourselves with haggis, enjoy a dram or twa, and most important of all, spend a rowdy, raucous time with those nearest and dearest to you in the company of the songs and poetry of Ayrshire’s favourite son, Rabbie Burns! I know I will be!
M.
I promised you a couple of articles – one silly, and one a bit more serious. This is the silly one.
After much study and academic thought, I hereby declare Friendship is Magic’s Princess Luna as Best Pony. Why, you ask? Because she strikes an almost perfect balance between being impressive and insecure.
I mean, yes, she is a living goddess who could enslave all of Equestria to do her bidding – but she doesn’t exercise that in the present. Rather, the time in the past when she reigned as a dark queen was marked as the result of jealousy and an ill-deserved sense of inferiority. And who hasn’t been in the position where they have done something they regret because they felt they were being neglected or underappreciated?
Ahoy thar maties, it’s been a busy weekend – despite my body’s attempts to be ill – so I’ll keep this brief! I’ve got a couple of more in-depth articles planned, which I’m actually going to have to spend some time on, but I hope you’ll enjoy them both; Even though one’s definitely a bit sillier than the other.
While we wait for the essay tree to bear its fruit, however, I offer you this – in cooperation with a colleague, I have constructed a new cocktail that is just bursting with complex flavours:
Joy unbound! Gotham starts back on UK television tonight! Nevermind the fact that it’s been resumed in the US for… What, almost half a year now? But it’ll fit my Mondays nice enough; University Challenge at 8, Only Connect at half 8, and now Gotham. Just as well I don’t need to do any heavy lifting on artwork on Mondays, though I might squeeze in a bit of writing nonetheless – I’ve got a good story about a train journey through a wintery German forest that needs an ending…
Welp, by hook or by crook we all somehow made it through the first week back at work. Kudos, everyone! I’m sure I’ve already undone all the good work I did during the holidays getting back into a normal sleeping pattern… C’est la vie if you’re a part-time creator, I guess!
Anyway, have a great weekend, everyone, and I’ll catch you all again on Monday! Toodleoo!
M.
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