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Category Archive: Grumpy 4 Kidz
Jul
03
Jun
19
Grime
I saw this photo essay by Simon Wheatley (before clicking – be aware of your volume – autoplaying music!) years ago, when grime was both late and current and what I was listening to. Looked for it a while back but couldn’t find it then just bumped into it today. London’s public housing projects are …
May
13
Friday the 13th Nintendo
When I was a kid, this game really frightened my friends and I. Doesn’t seem quite so bad now. But, back then, let me tell you, this game required nerves of steel to play without turning off.
May
12
Mexican Pointy Boots
Ridiculous? Sure. But any more so than high heels?
Feb
13
Deer
When I have my ideal life, my back garden will be full of these. They will not be allowed to speak. Make whatever you want out of that.
Oct
28
Hedgehog in the Fog. Ёжик в Тумане. Ezhik v Tumane.
VIA The Nouveau Shanty
Oct
26
Sep
21
Dancing DNA
Who says scientists don’t like to have fun? Einstein was a terrible violinist and Hawking has been known to release the brakes on his wheelchair and go flying down the hills of San Francisco like a madman. Feynman plays the bongos and Dawkins pokes religious people. Some have even been drunks or drug addicts. Now …
Sep
12
Stuffed Animals
I remember mother sitting at my bedside, telling me stories about animals who needed rescuing and the brave little boy who rescued them. I remember the jungle print wall paper, some poster on my door that had pictures of lions and tigers and elephants. The tagline: “It’s a jungle out there.” I remember the very …
Aug
21
Aug
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Aug
19
Bogeymen
Are there monkeys in shoes? I don’t know. There are bogeymen, laying eggs in spectra. WEAR PROTECTIVE GOGGLES! Do you sneeze in sunlight? You’ve caught one in the eye. Your face is trying to reject the egg as it sneaks through your pupil and into your brain. In there, it rewrites your neurology. If you hold that sneeze …
Aug
09
Feb
08
Naming Colours . . .
Naming colours makes about as much sense as numbering orgasms.
Nov
14
Podcast 5: The Talking Moon
Just a short bedtime story I wrote a few nights ago. Click To Play
Nov
01
The Monster and The Green Hill
pic nicked from here Once upon a time, below a blue sky in a yellow land, a monster named Albert lived on a green hill. Everything in the land was yellow. The trees were yellow, the ground was yellow and the buildings were yellow. The teeth, the eyes and the hair: yellow, yellow and …
Oct
05
Define Define
pic nicked from here In the first chapter of my imaginary book, How to Hack Like a High School Illiterate: Earning High Marks from Morons While Destroying Prose, I advise the reader to start every essay with a dictionary definition. Not only does it add needless verbosity, it also shows that you either had no …
Aug
02
Tickle Monsters Are Robots!!!!!
YouTube – Tickle Monsters Are Robots!!!!! via Way of the West This epic sci-fi rock opera springs from the mind of Alexander Abel, age five. When earth is invaded by people-drinking aliens armed with devastating tickle lasers, humanity’s very future hangs in the balance. Will the super heroes prevail? Who will be left standing when …
May
12
In Terror of Cocks, We Create Dicks (Maybe NSFW)
There is one thing that you will not see in Star Trek, Terminator or any of the summer blockbusters; One thing that is perfectly natural, usually harmless and a subject of great interest to most people on the planet. That one thing is not shit (you will see a lot of that this summer) it’s …
Aug
03
You Might Get Punched in the Face
There is an oft repeated sentiment in Homer: That the next generation is always weaker than the former. That if you keep going back in time, you will find men who could move boulders with their bare hands; men who were heroes, possessing the strength and apprehension of Gods. But Homer operates on the level …
Jan
04
Perversion for Profit
I’ve long had the feeling that most of our propaganda is done in reverse. If a video is telling you not to do something, it’s often saying do it. Do it now and do it often. This anti-porn flick from 1965, “Perversion for Profit” by a group called “Citizens for Decent Literature” confirms my suspicion. …
Dec
16
Ice Cube
Hey look at this. I was cleaning out my nest and I found some old Ice Cube. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU8H9_YBM3A&rel=1] The above song is one of my favourite songs from one of my favourite albums of all time: “Death Certificate.” Until the other day, I hadn’t listened to it in about ten years. Brings back some memories. …
Although Ryan Oakley began his career as a simple rake (drunk) he has since become Toronto’s most renowned flaneur (no car) and notorious dandy (overdresses). A misanthropic composer of psycho-geographical fictions (sci-fi), he is also a server of food, a tender of bar and a washer of dishes. While performing all these functions with efficiency and elegance (disdain and malice), he somehow finds the time to publicly criticize friends, strangers and cultural crap.
