tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52325512011-04-22T02:31:28.365ZSurvival LogJust a MunkieRonanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comBlogger1051100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1132328690298375482005-11-18T15:42:00.000Z2005-11-18T15:44:50.326ZPeople have bin asking where my new blog is. It can be found at http://ronandodds.blogspot.comI may, some day, get round to adding it as a link on the sidebar here. Please send me url's for your own blogs, and I'll add them here.Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1129843682603347972005-10-20T21:21:00.000Z2005-10-20T21:28:02.610ZWowBig Wow!I posted this picture of Fiona Bruce, entitled Remembrance Day, which I created using photoshop a while back, and thought nothing more of it, until hitting Google Image Search for some more pictures of Fifi to doctor. Much to my utter glee, the second result was this picture!!!It's fitting that it is fast approaching remembrance day, Nov 11th. I was thinking of mebbes doing somethingRonanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1127478980865728742005-09-23T12:21:00.000Z2005-09-23T12:36:20.870ZI've been pretty fascinated to watch the coverage of the New Orleans disaster over the last few weeks. When the hurricane first hit, it was, like, 'meh! just another storm in the USA', and then the news reports continued, basically showing a city slowly drowning and dying - broadcast livethe world over. As it went on, it just turned into a sicker and sicker joke. Today, I found this article Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1112840877489844332005-04-07T02:27:00.003Z2005-04-07T02:27:57.490Zmonkachu Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1112840856271290402005-04-07T02:27:00.002Z2005-04-07T02:27:36.270Zlemming Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1112840844037530732005-04-07T02:27:00.001Z2005-04-07T02:27:24.036Zwot it says Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1112840824985363902005-04-07T02:27:00.000Z2005-04-07T02:27:04.986Z"The BNP? I don't have a problem with them: I'm White." Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1112840730620743602005-04-07T02:25:00.000Z2005-04-07T02:25:30.620Zsantised for your protection Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1112840654021288622005-04-07T02:24:00.000Z2005-04-07T02:24:14.020Zcute! Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1112840599002429442005-04-07T02:23:00.000Z2005-04-07T02:23:19.003Zthree wise gods? i dunno Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1112840479234202492005-04-07T02:21:00.000Z2005-04-07T02:21:19.233Zthe captain's fishtank Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1112839998866774522005-04-07T02:13:00.000Z2005-04-07T02:13:18.866Zor, rather: hitman, sketch Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1112839951553602212005-04-07T02:12:00.000Z2005-04-07T02:12:31.553Zhitman, sketch Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1112839919590582662005-04-07T02:11:00.000Z2005-04-07T02:11:59.590Zme, Heaton park Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1112839802705660622005-04-07T02:10:00.000Z2005-04-07T02:10:02.706Zuwillb3tasimulated Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1112839604675889112005-04-07T02:06:00.000Z2005-04-07T02:06:44.676Za motortrike, tynemouth Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1103826459920843762004-12-23T18:17:00.000Z2004-12-23T18:27:39.920ZHave some special Seasons Greetings
this is something i call Fiona Bruce: Remembrance Day
and this is cropped to make a damn good desktop wallpaper
Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1102463652531918592004-12-07T23:52:00.000Z2004-12-07T23:54:12.530Zhttp://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/nintendogs.php
if they can do it with dogs, they can do it with 8 year old boys
Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1102418270217712722004-12-07T11:16:00.000Z2004-12-07T11:17:50.216ZThis 1941 story from the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry appealled to my sick sense of humour. You gotta love the language that these psychiatrists use. This is from an article called 'The Effect of Comic Books on the Ideology of Children' by Bender, L. and Lourie, R.:
Kenneth, age 11, came to the hospital with a background of life-long rejection, first by his unstable mother and alcoholic Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1099413380027560822004-11-02T16:33:00.000Z2004-11-02T17:04:44.256ZThat ant colony never happened, in case anyone out there is wondering...last i looked, the fruit we left for them had gone mouldy and the soil just looked far too arid. Back to farming words, then...
My mate Jack, who i never see these days but MSN to a fair bit, has recently started up a blog, found at http://seemedlikeagoodidea.blogspot.com/ . Once again, this (and a munkie from Mohammed Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1090276827543398022004-07-19T22:39:00.000Z2004-07-19T22:40:27.543ZToday was anty breeding season!
Myself and Luke went for a walk yesterday and noticed two particularly busy spots under the path in Heaton Park, heaving with the little beggars, loads of tiny winged ants. Today the big mamas came out, huge compared to the puny males, though a lot fewer of them. The ants had obviously been busy preparing for the big exodus, as they created little piles of Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1088612027184248772004-06-30T16:10:00.000Z2004-06-30T16:13:47.183Zhello people and welcome to another sequence of ascii characters...I've had rather a successful hunting trip to town today, finding plenty of goodies with which to research my dissertation. My so far vague and fuzzy idea is to study the process of reading as a shamanic practice, pulling on the ideas in Grant Morrison's Invisibles and Animal Man, and Alan Moore's Promethea and From Hell. AmongstRonanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1083674390551720742004-05-04T12:39:00.000Z2004-05-04T12:43:38.903Zhi folks
i thought i'd log on to the blog and put something up seeing as it's been a while, and noticed the munkie from Selina re: all that Heaton Manor stuff we were talking about a while back. Thanks for the message, Selina, and no worries about where you place the reply...I'd probably never have seen it if you'd put it way way back with the relevant entry. You asked to know more about whereRonanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1080043795079261212004-03-23T12:09:00.000Z2004-03-23T12:13:16.403ZThe Hug in a Mug has sold to the cripple with the welsh accent...I've also managed to sell a couple of DVD's that I found around Nick's dad's place and made about a ?5er off them. I'm quite suprised they went at all, actually, because they only came free with newspapers. I suppose somebody somewhere must really like The Ipcress File and Brief Encounter, altho The French Lieutenant's Wife only Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1079618767600371702004-03-18T14:06:00.000Z2004-03-18T14:09:22.500ZI've been developing a few ideas on the Tory Party front for Simon Kitchen's possible manifesto; I'm wondering whether we can't get him nominated for the upcoming elections; maybe he could even run for a seat in the Commons. I've been chatting to some of the local prospective voters (Nick's sister), and they seem quite keen on clearing out these immigants. Luke showed me the website Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1079462560073111512004-03-16T18:42:00.000Z2004-03-16T18:45:52.250ZThe following notice has appeared on a poster up around our uni (northumbria):
ATTENTION
OVERSEAS STUDENTS UNDERTAKING EMPLOYMENT
Dangers of Breaking Work Conditions
The United Kingdom Council for Overseas Student Affairs have informed us that a number of Students from overseas have been arrested and are facing 'administrative removal' from the United Kingdom because they have been found to Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1079116636968730052004-03-12T18:37:00.000Z2004-03-12T18:42:08.950ZA celebration post, as the munkies are back up! Three cheers for munkies!
A little advert i composed today...
A great big hug in a mug
hey all you radical yoof muppets. Got enuff CHEESE in yor diet? Well grab yorself a wedge down the offie and dunk it in this mug of tasty. Only yokin'! it's actually Batchelor's tomato flavour goop. It's postirony, innit? Crap or wot? *[Not responsible Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1078785582841938532004-03-08T22:39:00.000Z2004-03-08T22:47:11.763Zto blog or not to blog...best get this over with, i need to get into a more of a blogging habit again.
News:
Newcastle City Library is now hosting a Graphic Novel Reading Group the first tuesday of every month. April's meeting we'll be reading 'Gone' by Nigel Auchterlounie, a book published by local underground publishers 'There Goes Tokyo'. Anyone who fancies coming along to the next meeting Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1076252639188219272004-02-08T15:03:00.000Z2004-02-08T15:06:22.543ZWindswept TOPMAN Platt 1
Windswept TOPMAN Platt 2Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1071234251618639192003-12-12T12:14:00.000Z2003-12-12T13:08:39.640ZWow. Woke up this mornin' (after one of the mintest nights out ever) to foil a burglery taking place in the flat underneath us. We heard a load of banging (he broke in through the door to wor back yard) and then heard someone breaking the window, and becky says 'Check it's not a burgler' and i said 'how do i tell, from his swag bag', and then there he was, this bloke who couldn't have looked Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1068575893034999262003-11-11T18:38:00.000Z2003-11-11T18:38:38.043ZEcce Robot, 6/8/00
Acoustic CyberspaceRonanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1066951748874470472003-10-23T23:29:00.000Z2003-10-23T23:29:08.670ZHaiku
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Some haiku wot i
wrote for creative writing
classes at uni;
nanites
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words scuttle, carry
packets of information
machines for thinking
barbelith
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type to distant friend
clatter of keys like cockroach
running on tiled floor
untitled
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steady symbol flow
livestock sit in battery
information graze
untitled
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TRS-80
hardware archaeology
infested wiringRonanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1066752084733738192003-10-21T16:01:00.000Z2003-10-21T16:01:24.953ZDodds's'ss's''s Log, Stardate Somewhere in the Late Medieval
I think I'm finally hitting my stride at university. I have a Chaucer essay due in on 17th November which has spurred me on to begin researching, so I've spent a bit of time in the library reading The Chaucer Review, a journal. My initial idea was to go mental and start spouting about the fairies, as there's a mint description of Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1066061775087141592003-10-13T16:16:00.000Z2003-10-13T17:24:37.010ZI'm casting around at the minute for something to get interested in and excited about. I seem to have just gotten pretty bored with everything over the summer; nothing seems to be piquing my interest, although I did find Salty's latest blog very interesting, if only for the wench-carving ('Armoured women coming soon!!!' says her sketchbook)
I met a socialist today, in my english lecture, but Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1063372136164152812003-09-12T13:08:00.000Z2003-09-12T13:08:56.203ZI thought I'd better get back into the routine of blogging, not because there's anything interesting to blog about, but because I figure if I blog, then others will blog, and then there'll be more blogs to read and thus more to blog about, etc, etc.
A while back Owl had an idea to start a collective blog for when we're all at uni, just to help us keep in touch with eachother, so I've started oneRonanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1062630191395075342003-09-03T23:03:00.000Z2003-09-03T23:03:11.403ZBarbelith:
Video Game Characters with a soul?
Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1062629489755092052003-09-03T22:51:00.000Z2003-09-03T22:51:29.630ZAlso, if anyone has tried opening the picture of the Rydal Mermaid on the binah site, clicking the text only brings up the small version. Click the picture for the larger link. I tried correcting this, but nick appears to have changed his FTP password. Just a hint.Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1062629159891879652003-09-03T22:45:00.000Z2003-09-03T22:45:59.783ZAh, back to the blogverse. It's been a while, but glancing at the other blogs I'm not the only one out-of-date. I have excuses; Grasmere Assmasters, telephonic hell doing market research! (A big narcissism trip working for that great UFO BT blimp, with me supplying the hot air), then a stint at the university offices during clearing which was very easy, very well paid, but long hours. And, Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1059476094753480392003-07-29T10:54:00.000Z2003-07-29T10:54:54.716ZI haven't written my blog for a while, because I've been staying off the net till we sort out either a broadband connection or till we get some cash. I've managed to find a job, eventually, doing market research over the telephones. I feel like one of the little guys in the death star, sitting in my little booth mediating the relationship between my tiny monitor and the consumer on the other Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1057721012777899152003-07-09T03:23:00.000Z2003-07-09T03:23:32.743ZA very worthwile site
Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1057586395504778842003-07-07T13:59:00.000Z2003-07-07T19:28:11.473ZHi all, back from my adventures in Grasmere already, not sure what was going on there. The bosses seemed to want rid of us immediately, and rather than being straight and telling us (no, that would be far too sensible and honest) we were just constantly criticised and told we weren't doing a good enough job. That wasn't so bad, well used to criticism, but we had to put up with this really weirdRonanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1056824688608453042003-06-28T18:24:00.000Z2003-06-28T18:24:48.590ZRonanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1056824519760299292003-06-28T18:21:00.000Z2003-06-28T18:23:08.606ZRonanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-1056748534176434062003-06-27T21:15:00.000Z2003-06-27T22:31:47.120ZI have posted something on barbelith called 'My brief flirtation with newcastle's local slave trade', a true story which i'm still not sure i believe myself.
Becky has just been out getting some shopping, and was subjected to a load of crude sexist abuse from male guests at the Roseberry Hotel, the place on that corner with Rehill's. This isn't the first time it has happened, so I thought I'd Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-959822272003-06-24T14:48:00.000Z2003-06-24T14:48:19.536ZbINAH gUN pORN has been added to the binah section of the petri dish. Enjoy.Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-959482502003-06-23T15:33:00.000Z2003-06-23T15:33:33.650ZI thought a cheerful post might be in order, so here it is! Had a great time at the solstice, lots of intoxicants passed my way, and i got absolutely shloshed. I felt a lot like a cross between Neo and the borg as I stole Dev's culture to service mine, and slipped Darren a copy of the Animatrix (Quiet, Owl!). Becky's barbecuables were also might tasty, and a lot of spare beer has ended up at Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-959475232003-06-23T15:11:00.000Z2003-06-23T15:11:59.160ZSimon Carter's Web LogRonanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-959236332003-06-22T20:46:00.000Z2003-06-22T20:46:50.390ZThe Commodified Self is a fairly interesting discussion on Barbelith.Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-959234452003-06-22T20:38:00.000Z2003-06-22T20:38:36.800ZI had a great time last night celebrating the Solstice, once i got over the initial irritation at the accompanying frothiness. I really dislike people who babble incessantly. Judgemental? Maybe people need to be judged a fuck of a lot more often.
The Sun King wasn't too pleased last night, and I suspect he was pissed off on Darren's behalf. I think we all need to agree that what happened to Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-958911902003-06-21T13:04:00.000Z2003-06-21T13:04:20.866ZJust to make things easier, I've designed a page in the petri dish with all the links that my friends and i use a lot. You can set your browser to open on this page automatically. I've also included a comments box so people can suggest other links to add.
The page is at;
http://www.cwne06850.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/petridish/home.htmRonanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-958793512003-06-21T00:37:00.000Z2003-06-21T12:19:52.000ZA student at Northumbria has started up a forum for his fellow students. You can join in via the following link;
http://www.seanyg.com/forums/Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-958356982003-06-19T18:26:00.000Z2003-06-21T11:35:03.000ZI've added this essay on the baltic and local culture to my petri dish (now upgraded to HTML), and would appreciate any comments.Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-958070982003-06-18T22:47:00.000Z2003-06-18T22:47:44.080ZMy petri dish has moved to a different site because Geocities is, quite frankly, utter shambles. I am now squatting Nick's webspace with the following URL: http://www.cwne06850.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/petridish/
Please let me know what you think via my munkies, i'll try and sort out some form of munkies for my petri dish.Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-956859682003-06-15T15:08:00.000Z2003-06-15T15:10:34.000ZI have started up a website for my petri dish, which you can see over at http://www.geocities.com/calvinballronan/. Go and take a look.
If anyone wants to rip images from there, feel free, there's nothing too important there. However, don't link directly to the site otherwise geocities shuts it off, B@strds.Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-955151182003-06-10T18:00:00.000Z2003-06-10T18:00:33.180ZNews just in; a reply to this query from John Dryden, Head Teacher of Heaton Manor School.
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Dear Ronan
Thank you for your email about the school hosting the TV programme about the war in Iraq. As you are aware this was (and still is) a highly sensitive issue which caused much debate in school. The school decided to take a proactive approach to this issue and encouraged students to express Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-955143322003-06-10T17:37:00.000Z2003-06-10T17:37:34.010ZBack to other matters.
I returned my copy of New X-Men #142 today, with no problems at all. The staff of Newcastle's Forbidden Planet were polite and saw my point immediately and agreed that the advertising was excessive. I'm really glad they didn't take advantage of their position as the only comic shop in the city, and refuse me my refund. Yay for FP staff. They're nothing like the fat Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-955083112003-06-10T15:11:00.000Z2003-06-10T17:41:47.000ZFoolishly i posted this before adding the links, that has now been remedied.
Before any of this school stuff becomes any more silly, I want to get things off my chest.
This whole argument started as a result of this site, which motivated me to make this reply to the school. This became a point of discussion in the pub amongst five people who I considered to be good friends. I'm still willing Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-954874872003-06-10T00:51:00.000Z2003-06-10T00:51:25.586ZHaving re-read that x-men comic, making an effort not to allow the adverts to influence my reception of it so much, I don't find the story any worse than his other X-men stuff; i won't try and compare to the others any more fully than that, though, as I don't feel I can really judge this issue properly. The excessive advertising has pissed me off, and does affect my reception of the story. I Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-954820022003-06-09T21:51:00.000Z2003-06-09T21:51:57.580ZTalking of adverts, I've now been targetted by blogspot as a good host for peacenik advertising, and catholic advertising.Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-954813922003-06-09T21:34:00.000Z2003-06-09T21:34:05.390ZI'm sick of talking about school.
Today I bought New X-men #142, story by Grant Morrison. The cover bears the title 'Assault On Weapon Plus - 1 of 4'. It opens with a leatherclad mutant lapdancer dancing for Scott Summers aka Cyclops, trying to turn him on with her shenaniganspeak. Cyclops replies with "It's just your job to create a fantasy...you're not my girlfriend and all we're really Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-954357172003-06-08T20:45:00.000Z2003-06-08T20:45:53.040ZWow, and now it has started to advertise hotels in Newcastle. So, blogging is being used as a more effective way of targetting adverts.Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-954329862003-06-08T19:29:00.000Z2003-06-08T19:29:06.926ZWow, I'm editing my blog layout at the minute, and have noticed that they've targetted my site specifically for advertising the Matrix.Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-954313582003-06-08T18:44:00.000Z2003-06-08T19:03:09.000Z
It's an exciting time in the Blogverse at the moment; controversy has hit regarding Heaton Manor, and we're duking it out to decide just who gets to have the definitive idea of what the fudge went on there. I'm sure we'll arrive at some consensus view which represents the complex reality of life in such a mad place, but in order for it to be anywhere near accurate it must take into account the Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-953906842003-06-07T00:10:00.000Z2003-06-07T00:31:55.000ZRonanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-953815392003-06-06T19:00:00.000Z2003-06-06T19:00:16.870ZIf you have a question to ask of Heaton Manor School in Newcastle, go here. I suggest that students and ex-students make intelligent and polite use of this facility. The following letter was sent by me to the school via the above link.
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Open letter to Heaton Manor school, published on http://www.survivallog.blogspot.com
Dear Heaton Manor,
I'm an ex-student of Heaton Manor school, and was Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-953649632003-06-06T10:38:00.000Z2003-06-06T10:39:19.000ZI've got a lot of spare material to type up from tapes and notes at the minute, plus a lot of stuff I haven't recorded in any way which is just hanging around in my head. Yesterday I tried sending something to the tabloids about knowing Ray Shah, the irish/asian guy off Big Brother. It was about 650 words of real crap, but I thought there might be a chance of it being used, but they're really Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-952847072003-06-04T14:29:00.000Z2003-06-04T14:29:17.576ZI am HAPPY!Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-952788802003-06-04T11:23:00.000Z2003-06-04T11:29:17.000ZI am ANGRY!Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-952782182003-06-04T10:53:00.000Z2003-06-04T11:04:26.000ZI'm using this blog entry just to store links for my next stab at employment. I had a quick zoom thru Rocky Horror Picture Show before leaving the house (i'm typing this at uni), and I can't help identifying myself and Becky with the two staff, the hunchback and the witch, from Transylvania. That film is incredible.
http://www.lakesliveinjobs.co.uk/; seems the likeliest candidate; i think thisRonanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-952420992003-06-03T16:11:00.000Z2003-06-03T16:11:37.510ZOnly two hours left to get the living room in a livable state, and I've eaten nothing all day, because I've only just got the kitchen in a fit state for life. Am currently waiting for Aaron and the Stoker to come round so's we kan go eat korma.Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-952419852003-06-03T16:08:00.000Z2003-06-04T14:19:12.000ZROAR!
am i pissed off with Becky. Fancy fudgin' off to Holy Island after pulling down all the boxes of comics and magazines, claiming she's "tidying up" and then leaving it all for me to clear up.
I'll give her an earful tonight when she rings to tell me "i lurve you soooo muuuch, i'm missing yooooo-hoooo".
Grrrrr!Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-952331952003-06-03T12:14:00.000Z2003-06-03T12:14:38.246ZMust have slept for about 12 hours, went to bed around half twelvish, one o'clock and got up for one. Big day today, have to polish the magic mirror. There is a bowl of bulgar wheat sitting in the kitchen for the gods only know how long and which is giving off a nice earthy smell, and has flowered into three different types of mould. There are nice sky-blue spots, and large patches of lovely Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-951913422003-06-02T14:08:00.000Z2003-06-04T14:21:11.000ZCame into town this morning to see Becky off to Holy Island. Haven't been in the city centre for a while, but i've quite enjoyed the day so far. Things that have caught my attention; two lads doing maths on the bus, looked like probability stuff, and this reminds me of my promise to get back into maths again. As Denis says, it is more relevant than the kaballah, but then so is 'Who wants to beRonanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-951507072003-06-01T12:34:00.000Z2003-06-04T14:22:09.000ZI found an interesting website yesterday [http://www.techgnosis.com], the place where I found that last Matrix link. There's a lot of good ideas on it, and honest discussion of psychoactives, technology, etc. Not that I'm about to get into psychoactives, I'm more interested in it because of the matrix themes. I've been thinking more and more recently about how astounding a change the internet Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-951325462003-05-31T22:10:00.000Z2003-05-31T22:10:00.546ZTop quality article here, it has class lines such as "But The Matrix Reloaded would have been lame if it had simply followed its Gnostic bodhisattva superhero around as he kicked ass in Jesuit robes. Instead, to keep the cognitive sparkle, the Wachowskis altered the conceptual maps of the two worlds that Neo moves through: Zion and the Matrix."
The Demon Signature of Julie Burchill
Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-950791312003-05-30T13:28:00.000Z2003-05-30T13:28:58.403ZI came online to try and figure out how to change my 'archives' page to display a description of what is actually in each archive section, rather than the date, as it makes it easier to find what i'm looking for and the ideas are more important than the dates. I can only get to the archive template page, and can't edit the archives page directly. Anyone know how i can do this, and would be Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-950242532003-05-29T05:34:00.000Z2003-05-29T05:40:08.000ZHave just been to see the second Matrix film again, and will probably end up seeing it again, again. Still keeping an eye on the Barbelith thread, but have decided not to bother posting anything unless people start being cheerful/reasonable/friendly. There seem to be an awful lot of aggressive and stupid people online, who seem to want to cut dead any discussion by making anyone who is in the Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-948977172003-05-26T14:36:00.000Z2003-06-04T14:23:03.000ZOn saturday I attended my sister's wedding. Clare Dodds, one of 'the five' siblings i grew up with, has now become Clare Ho, matriarch of the Ho House. The marriage took place at Minister Acres, a monastery near Derwent Water, and was peformed by two priests who are family friends, Fathers Colm Hadyn and Patrick McKenna, who also married my parents. The Gospel reading chosen - presumably by myRonanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-947563902003-05-22T21:55:00.000Z2003-05-22T21:55:42.150ZLol; hahaha; see this, where do they all come from?
more matrix madness; a link to remind me to go back to Matrix Reloaded: The Architect's Speech Analyzed (LONG)
Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-947477202003-05-22T18:15:00.000Z2003-05-22T18:15:05.850ZYaY! YAY for Gun Porn! YAY for Keanu! YAY for homoeroticism! YAY for long black coats! YAY for Rubber Suits!
I've just seen The Matrix! [reloaded, and all that crap. It's actually just an upgrade]
I put a rant about it up here, on Barbelith.
I'll be going on about this for days, weeks even, perhaps months.
Get me this on disk, won't you, someone, please? Haha, there is no spoon.Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-947087482003-05-21T23:12:00.000Z2003-05-21T23:12:30.443Z!ITEM!
Becky has posted to her blog!
HOMOSEXUALITY! EXTINCTION! PANDAS FROM WHITE RABBITS! Whatever next?
Zoom to her blog hereRonanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-946810202003-05-21T11:58:00.000Z2003-05-21T11:58:54.016ZYesterday while I was out my Dad dropped in the post that still gets sent to his place, among them a letter from George Galloway MP. I will reprint here some extracts from his 'Imporant and Personal Message';
"I have launched the GEORGE GALLOWAY LEGAL FUND which will be handled by my lawyers DAVENPORT LYONS, 1 OLD BURLINGTON STREET, LONDON, W1X 2NL. This is to help finance my legal costs in Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-945757152003-05-19T11:47:00.000Z2003-05-19T11:47:09.646Zthere is no spoon
there is only an unreliable cybersphere which loses my posts
as i was saying; The Matrix 2 seems to be up on kaazaa. Anyone fancy downloading it?Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-945750362003-05-19T11:22:00.000Z2003-05-19T11:22:00.720ZHad a rather heavy night last night; went to the Free Trade pub [I may get round to a rant about yuppie trendy dreadlocked bastards at some point] with Becky and Nick, and went back to Nick's place after last orders. We got chatting about 'serious stuff' at Nick's, and some fairly significant events from my childhood came up, which I don't want to put into print but which is important enough to Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-944535812003-05-16T15:23:00.000Z2003-05-16T15:23:58.886Zmy god, they've imprisoned Kyle and Cartman and Stan on some sort of repeater loop over hmnya: http://www.comedycentral.com/tv_shows/southpark/
And there's a great design-your-own-Southpark-character generator hmnyah: http://southparkstudios.com/games/create.html
Nobody has threatened to eat my family, but it has been noticed that I haven't blogged for days. I have an excuse, I have been ill Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-941897182003-05-12T07:01:00.000Z2003-05-12T07:01:32.460ZEgad! Up at 7am for an exam this morning;'Inequality and Diversity'. It's a good job I'm on a retard course or I might be stressed. I'm managed to strum some tuneful pleasantries out of the guitar that has been sitting under the bed for the last two years since i bought it in Thailand. How decadent and western and wasteful, do i feel a cunt. Unfortunately I managed to snap the E-string on Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-941527152003-05-11T16:07:00.000Z2003-05-11T16:07:12.016ZWoke up around 11-30 am and was presented with a cup of tea at some point, after which i managed to make a tasty lunch of toast with melted cheese and spicy tomato mackerals and worcester sauce (NOT to be used as embalming fluid) and somehow found myself viewing Magneto and a band Northumbrians from the year 2020 teaming up with Agent Smith from the Matrix and having a bit of a larf. I've also Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-940153182003-05-08T22:04:00.000Z2003-05-08T22:04:47.860ZPhotography and is it just a crap version of art for the untalented? and, via this, The Fake Puma AdRonanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-940127462003-05-08T21:14:00.000Z2003-05-08T21:14:16.850ZA lost entry from t'other day (lets do the time warp again):
The vampires have just woken up in Dusk till Dawn, which reminds me of last night when me and Nick got thinking about Vampires in Starfleet, and how they would fit in. Obviously, because no-one seems to be a Christian in the 24th century, they're safe from the crucifix, though one wonders if the Bajoran faith would protect against Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-939395512003-05-07T17:53:00.000Z2003-06-04T14:23:58.000ZMagic mirror 'strange new worlds' report;
two turnips, suede or other vegetable; wrinkly, rotten, and fuzzed.
One bag of what might once have been spinach; purple
3 bits of ginger; two appear alright, and one is growing grey-blue fuzz.
Safeway double concentrated tomato puree, in a foil tube; green fungus rimmed with white plugs the nozzle.
One half a red pepper, growing black stuff.
One Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-939211342003-05-07T11:39:00.000Z2003-05-07T11:39:00.726ZI've woken up with a headache, so I'm watching a movie instead of tidying up the kitchen or doing my university work; I'm also avoiding looking at my timetable in case i realise just how much work i have to do - not that I've got much, it's mainly polishing up the essays I've already done, and reading about three more novels and annotating six.
Having a bit of a vampire theme at the minute; we Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-938620672003-05-06T13:57:00.000Z2003-05-06T14:03:12.000ZWeblogworthy news: Batman's chickened out of a date with Diana but she's giving him a second chance. 'That kiss on the battlefield was more than just a goodbye kiss between friends,' Rebecca Martin quotes Diana. 'It was just kind of Bruce Wayne standing there and he was sniffing and he thought "I hope she isn't wearing perfume" and she wasn't! And, well, that was it. Next thing you know Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-938185842003-05-05T19:56:00.000Z2003-05-05T19:56:22.893ZNothing new to say, but a handful of interesting links. First of all is linkmachinego, from which i got some of these other links.
There's news here about Alan Moore and Grant Morrison; Moore is quitting comics to concentrate on magic, and Grant is just being insane again. Also, part one and part two of a new Alan Moore interview; not as good as some of his other madness, but he discusses Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-937093032003-05-03T16:51:00.000Z2003-05-03T16:51:05.903ZJust bought this month's Fortean Times because it had a thing on the Angel of Mons, and other WWI angelic sightings, which i'm interested in because of the Promethea comics, as one of her former incarnations was that of an angel in the trenches. It also has something on Yogic flying, which is relevant to the Museum of Fantastic Lies comic idea that Denis and I were working on a while back, and Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-936788942003-05-02T23:46:00.000Z2003-05-03T00:54:29.000ZAh, before i forget, i found some great websites on demonology when i was searching for Promethea info; you can read descriptions and, even better, get gif files of their signatures. Meet Asmoday. If anyone reading knows how to use these as emoticons in MSN messenger, please let me know.
zx spectrum top trumps
This guy also is worth a look, and I'll hopefully get round to reading him in more Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-936786612003-05-02T23:40:00.000Z2003-05-02T23:40:15.620ZThe Magic Mirror
I have a memory of an old dream (or a dream of an old memory; whatever, it got in here somehow). In this dream i owned a petri dish of a silver-blue fuzz type material (which, now i think about it was about the colour of blue biro and pencil, which links in nicely). This blue fuzzy stuff in the petri dish was some sort of nanobot which could absorb entire items, and to Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-930586342003-04-22T17:49:00.000Z2003-04-22T17:49:15.126ZHaven't got the energy to write anything, but here's something to keep any readers i have busy.
Got the following email from Denis. I've been swinging between cheerfulness and depression recently, and this was on the 'cheerful' side, so thanks for the good words, Denis. The Munkies seem to be working again, give them a try when you see this.
"Just reached your blog following my weekly check Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-926504872003-04-15T14:15:00.001Z2003-04-16T00:09:17.000ZSpent a few days in keswick with the lads, which seems to have gotten me out of whatever rut i had felt i was in here in the city, although it involved a short bout of shouting which, while i felt it cleared the air a bit, was regretable, though it served to remind me just how important friends are. I love you guys.
Had a good chat with Nick yesterday, just about how to struggle on with life inRonanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-920832042003-04-06T10:09:00.000Z2003-04-16T00:10:00.000ZCheck out Evil Wesley Crusher (with a beard) vs. Good Wesley Crusher. And we know what he was getting up to, all those days spent in the labs, alone, that nanobot scare, tutut...
And yes, Becky is now known as my fiance.Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5232551.post-920439242003-04-05T16:02:00.000Z2003-04-05T16:05:52.000ZAh, have been reading the invisibles...i always feel better when i've got invisibles...even soldiered on into the Early Learning Centre, got a presentation to do on friday, which messes up my plans to go the lake district with the lads. It isn't even assessed, so if i hadn't turned up i would have got away with not doing one, but now i've committed myself and the others in my group will be Ronanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109281519289887969noreply@blogger.com