Have I anywhere publicly expressed my loathing for Star Wars? I am not sure that I have. I feel the urge to do so now. Why? Because my children have the Star Wars Lego computer game and the sound of R2D2 screaming like he is being introduced to twelve inches of wookie meat is driving [...]
April 29, 2008
Categories: blogging, blogosphere, culture vulture, facts, film, ideas, ramblings, ranthead, sci-fi, science fiction, tinternet, updates . Tags: blockbuster, childhood memories, film, george lucas, star wars . Author: insomnihack . Comments: No Comments
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twitter now has its own charts to tell you who the most read people on there are. warren ellis is in the top 100 and seems simultaneously pissed and happy about this. seems like the whole service might be ready to enter a transition phase and go overground. it’ll be interesting to see if this [...]
April 3, 2008
Categories: blogging, blogosphere, ideas, news, ramblings, tinternet, updates, warren ellis . Tags: news, tinternet, twitter . Author: insomnihack . Comments: No Comments
it’s odd, when i first started writing under the skull cull logo it seems that the search engine terms that dragged people to this page were somewhat weirder. perhaps the more content you get the better quality of surfer gets directed at you? like internet karma or some such bullshit. i don’t think that can [...]
April 2, 2008
Categories: blogging, blogosphere, emotions, ideas, ramblings, ranthead, theories, tinternet, updates, words, writers, writing . Tags: rambling, ranthead, search engine weirdness . Author: insomnihack . Comments: No Comments
a whole day swamped with the efforts of stupid people with unfunny jokes. i never did like the kind of pranks that april fools tend to plump for, and seriously, the guys who push the whole agenda of that dumbass day are the april fools. at least i suppose it is not as commercialised as [...]
April 2, 2008
Categories: blogging, emotions, ideas, ramblings, ranthead, theories, tinternet, updates, words . Tags: april fools, rambling, ranthead . Author: insomnihack . Comments: 1 Comment
Please check out our sister site — it houses some older pieces that were culled from a scattering of poetry and writing blogs and some newer pieces. All of it is worth a read and I would appreciate any comments that you have — there is something for everyone: poetry (free verse, haiku, sonnets, etc); [...]
March 27, 2008
Categories: art, artists, blogging, blogosphere, culture vulture, facts, ideas, news, paul grimsley, pay it forward, poetry, ramblings, sci-fi, science fiction, tinternet, updates, words, writers, writing . Tags: all about me, new website, paul grimsley, poet, poetry, writer, writing . Author: insomnihack . Comments: No Comments
It led the way in a lot of respects — taught people what a culture magazine could be and it taught with style. At one point The Face could have been considered a setter of trends, a creator of them, but there was some kind of imperceptible shift and suddenly it seemed to be running [...]
March 25, 2008
Categories: art, blogging, culture vulture, ideas, magazine graveyard, magazines, papershop, ramblings, theories, updates . Tags: culture magazines, magazine graveyard, the face . Author: insomnihack . Comments: No Comments
OK, so it’s not dead yet, but God, considering what it’s become it should be. I used to love this magazine then we had a run where they had Cliff Richard, Ronan Keating and the Spice Girls on the front cover and I would cringe with embarassment walking out of the shop with the bloody [...]
March 20, 2008
Categories: blogging, culture vulture, magazine graveyard, magazines, papershop, ramblings, ranthead, rebellious jukebox, updates . Tags: culture, magazine graveyard, magazines, music, q . Author: insomnihack . Comments: No Comments
God, how I miss this magazine. I had to hunt for it — weirdly Suffolk was strangely backwards when it came to stocking anything thought of as vaguely dodgy. How do I know that they thought of it this way? Because, as with almost every publication I bought, they would start giggling when they talked [...]
March 19, 2008
Categories: Obscenity, art, artists, blogging, culture vulture, ideas, magazine graveyard, magazines, papershop, political, ramblings, updates, words, writers, writing . Tags: cher guevara, culture, magazine graveyard, magazines, sleazenation . Author: insomnihack . Comments: No Comments
I know that as soon as I sit down to write this rant, no matter how many times I look at it there will be a typo that is going to make me look like an arsehole. That aside though, I would just like to say, that if you are putting out your first issue [...]
March 19, 2008
Categories: blogging, facts, ideas, magazines, ramblings, ranthead, theories, updates, words, writers, writing . Tags: proofread, ranthead . Author: insomnihack . Comments: No Comments
You find the beats, you find Fante, you’re gonna find Bukowski. As a writer how can you not be drawn to him? It is arguable that he is one of the most influential out of any of that type of writer — the ones taking their real life and fictionalising, drawing a thin veil between [...]
March 13, 2008
Categories: Turn The Page, beat generation, blogging, bukowski, film, ideas, poetry, ramblings, updates, words, writers, writing . Tags: beat generation, books, factotum, ham on rye, post office, Turn The Page, writer, writing . Author: insomnihack . Comments: 1 Comment