November 27, 2003
Off The Edge Of The Net
I suppose I should make some excuses regarding my absence last week. Really I'm just curious as to what MT would do with my blog when it realised that in its current setup it wouldn't have any entries to display.
I was busy discovering a cure for cancer, winning a nobel literature prize and estabilishing peaceful contact with an extra-dimensional alien species. Important stuff, and the blog just had to go whilst I developed a suitable communication interface that wouldn't cause the average human synapses to fuse entirely to porridge due to the sheer enormity of the information being translated from one set of dimensions to ours, and then interpreted and retransmitted using only words from the Sesame Street theme tune. I went through 6 cages of hamsters, two giraffes, and a hammer-head shark.
*sigh*
Then, of course, I had to go on the run from the nspca, which I managed by taking full advantages of my connections with the Japanese mafia. I managed to convince the person that mattered that my cure for cancer was in fact a deadly (and only newly engineered) virus that he would be able to sell to Osama bin Laden extremely profitably. I carried all this out dressed in a black pvc catsuit due to the truly inoppurtune timing of the nspca and accompanied only by my trusty manservant, a truly remarkable Ben Browder lookalike.
I'm really quite exhausted, you're lucky I'm back at all.
The important things in life. Absinthe. Cointreau. Bulemia. The Sandman. Signal To Noise. Farscape. Ethernet. Showers that don't drip. More Farscape. More Vodka. Donnie Darko soundtrack. I've been a not-so-busy girl, and I have absolutely no idea how or why I managed to fall off the edge of the net.
Posted by Missiedith at November 27, 2003 4:46 PMOoh... I read Signal To Noise recently too - my first graphic novel.
Isn't it amazing? (And bleak, and dark, and depressing, and uses an incredible quantity of black ink...)
Posted by: Cathy at November 27, 2003 7:44 PMUm. That is, assuming it's the Neil Gaiman / Dave McKean thing... if not then you can just discard my previous comment as random witterings :-)
Posted by: Cathy at November 27, 2003 7:45 PMIt is absolutely the Neil Gaiman / Dave McKean thing, and there goes my plan of force feeding it to you. I am completely in awe of this book. Completely wow, wow, wow to it. It's even getting added to the favourite books list, and you know how often that happens. Maybe once every two years or so. I'm doing an entry on my discovery of the Neil Gaiman empire soon, so I won't blather on too much more here. But we have to meet up and wax lyrical over it all sometime soon. And you have to read Sandman.
Posted by: Missiedith at November 28, 2003 7:25 PM