http://www.sunnyblue.net/mm being a complete and accurate record of divers things Sat, 09 Jan 2010 10:04:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This morning I've been re-reading bits of Ridley Walker. No links, it's exquisitely planned revelations can be spoiled too easily. The basics though: Ridley Walker is a 13 year old boy living in post apocalyptic Kent, the story is written by him. It's the first work of post collapse narrative, ... http://www.sunnyblue.net/mm/2010/01/09/ridley-walker/ Bono being a f***ing tool is not exactly news but it's worth noting that in protecting his own (un taxed) interests he's now promoting the surveillance of everybody's internet traffic. Presumably if people were sending copies of U2 cd's around in the post he'd be happy for the post ... http://www.sunnyblue.net/mm/2010/01/07/oh-dear/ The problem highlighted by snow, originally uploaded by toffeemilkshake. They've recently re layed out our road to be more friendly to pedestrians (dissapointingly the didn't adopt the scheme where they were to put in chevron parking and make the whole road a chicane also reducing the amount of on-street parking ... http://www.sunnyblue.net/mm/2010/01/06/our-road/ The blog's title was always supposed to remind me of that. Anyway, inspired by renewed blogging by Alex F and Dan I'm back. Delayed festivity: My favourite Christmas carol is "We Three Kings" mainly because of the Myrh verse Myrrh is mine, its bitter perfume Breathes of life of gathering gloom Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying Sealed ... http://www.sunnyblue.net/mm/2010/01/04/little-and-often-thats-probably-the-key/ An old lady my mum knows died and people only found out after 16 pints of milk were sitting on her doorstep ... Her neighbours didn't care because they didn't know her. They were all probably watching science fiction on the internet. from here http://www.sunnyblue.net/mm/2009/10/08/danger/ Bothering me at 6am, where did I read this story? Here's the plot: There's this unemployed guy, all he does all day is play this incredibly complex baseball league simulation of his own devising, it involves paper and dice and reams of stats and folders and it's his entire life. After ... http://www.sunnyblue.net/mm/2009/10/07/memory-failiure/ Still haven't got my scanner connected but I've got a deadline looming so needed to step up the procrastination by writing something here. This is related to a couple of posts back about reading comics. close up. Above is the first page of Acme Novelty Library #18. Our heroine (on the ... http://www.sunnyblue.net/mm/2009/09/16/more-comics/ I was reminded of this dish that Simon G's mum made us once by a tweet from @inavaccuum mentioning Mississauga. I'm guessing the name comes from evacuee kids during WW2. It's kind of a war type meal with ingredients including (presumably cheap) ground beef, ketchup and Heinz spaghetti, the kind ... http://www.sunnyblue.net/mm/2009/09/03/the-mississauga-evacuation-special/ [though let's be honest I'm never going to manage more than one part] Just read a big long PDF article on Watchmen by Andrew Rilstone that Alex F sent around. I didn't think there was anything really new in there with regard to Watchmen but it's a really great synthesis ... http://www.sunnyblue.net/mm/2009/08/24/how-i-read-comics-1-of-n/ JAMES TIPTREE, JR. The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon. By Julie Phillips. I often find when I finish a book that there's half a dozen or so pages with the corners turned over for future reference, half of these I can't figure out what it was precicely that struck me and ... http://www.sunnyblue.net/mm/2009/08/11/bits-from-the-book-i-just-read/