Tears, Transformers and Tentacles
So yeah. Strange goings on with fire alarms, and suchlike. Life is pretty good, been given websites to make so I'm a happy bunny. Don't know how much I'm getting paid but hopefully it should tide me over until either I or the agency find a job for me. The posts I was going to apply for at the millennium galleries have closed (bastardbastardbastard) but hopefully there should be something at Weston Park coming up soon. Which brings me to:
Weston Park Museum rocks. I was horribly horribly afraid that it would become the thing I despise the most, the New Mini of the museum world (cleaner, safer, lighter, airier, more modern and less fun in almost every respect) but after the opening, I can say that it is just as you remember it, only cooler.
For those who remember how it used to be: you will find yourself getting misty-eyed and nostalgic. I assumed that in the 15 years since I was last there, most of the exhibits would have slowly drained from my memory. But really they just get a patina of muck, look upon them again and all of a sudden there's the memory wiped clean, leering at you like a creepy uncle. Highlights:
- They still have all of the stuffed animals - lots of them. The same ones you remember.
- Joey the moth-eaten lion! That victorian stuffed lion that was incredibly mucked up, almost bald from people stroking it and stuffed in such a way it only vaguely looked like a lion? He was there, in pride of place with a whole group of people around hin all bottom lips a-quiver.
- That saxon helmet made of bone with the boar on top? Still there, and there's a replica you can wear too...
- Snowy! The big stuffed polar bear (okay, last time I saw him I was eight and he seemed about twenty feet tall) is still there, and has actually been given his own section. Kinda burst into tears when I saw him.
- The beehive (with Bee-Cam!)
- Eeh, you get the picture. The only things I didn't see were the two lifesize carved sumo wrestlers, and the bits of actual mummy (there was a hand, and a really creepy head that looked like it was screaming).
So yeah, well worth a look.
Wot else? Not much. Been upgrading the computer again, I've broken the half a terabyte mark so I'm pretty chuffed. Current hard drive space: 610Gb. Free: 230Gb.
The Transformers game will run on Saturday at 12:30. Be there or be a rhomboid. Players in no particular order: blazingskies (Starscream), artharsil (Grimlock), novawulfen (Wheeljack), ohnefeuelen (Jazz), tehexile (Blaster), agent_garibaldi (Ravage / Circuit Breaker).
There's a Top Trumps deck of The Da Vinci Code? How does that even work?
Eeh, I was going to do Ten Really Horrible Things You Wish You'd Never Found Out About Transformers but I can't be arsed. Let's just end it on:
Transformers Tentacle Porn.
EDIT: I did include an LJ-Cut to the manga in question here, but it's gross. Not actually porny, but deeply unpleasant, in the kind of "No, seriously, they're all over 18, it's not our fault the artist keeps drawing them like they're 12" way. Pisses me right off. If some sense of macabre fascination draws you to want a look, try doing a Google search for "kiss players manga".
Byebye all, and may your trawlings of the soft white underbelly of the net not screw you up too much.
Weston Park Museum rocks. I was horribly horribly afraid that it would become the thing I despise the most, the New Mini of the museum world (cleaner, safer, lighter, airier, more modern and less fun in almost every respect) but after the opening, I can say that it is just as you remember it, only cooler.
For those who remember how it used to be: you will find yourself getting misty-eyed and nostalgic. I assumed that in the 15 years since I was last there, most of the exhibits would have slowly drained from my memory. But really they just get a patina of muck, look upon them again and all of a sudden there's the memory wiped clean, leering at you like a creepy uncle. Highlights:
- They still have all of the stuffed animals - lots of them. The same ones you remember.
- Joey the moth-eaten lion! That victorian stuffed lion that was incredibly mucked up, almost bald from people stroking it and stuffed in such a way it only vaguely looked like a lion? He was there, in pride of place with a whole group of people around hin all bottom lips a-quiver.
- That saxon helmet made of bone with the boar on top? Still there, and there's a replica you can wear too...
- Snowy! The big stuffed polar bear (okay, last time I saw him I was eight and he seemed about twenty feet tall) is still there, and has actually been given his own section. Kinda burst into tears when I saw him.
- The beehive (with Bee-Cam!)
- Eeh, you get the picture. The only things I didn't see were the two lifesize carved sumo wrestlers, and the bits of actual mummy (there was a hand, and a really creepy head that looked like it was screaming).
So yeah, well worth a look.
Wot else? Not much. Been upgrading the computer again, I've broken the half a terabyte mark so I'm pretty chuffed. Current hard drive space: 610Gb. Free: 230Gb.
The Transformers game will run on Saturday at 12:30. Be there or be a rhomboid. Players in no particular order: blazingskies (Starscream), artharsil (Grimlock), novawulfen (Wheeljack), ohnefeuelen (Jazz), tehexile (Blaster), agent_garibaldi (Ravage / Circuit Breaker).
There's a Top Trumps deck of The Da Vinci Code? How does that even work?
Eeh, I was going to do Ten Really Horrible Things You Wish You'd Never Found Out About Transformers but I can't be arsed. Let's just end it on:
Transformers Tentacle Porn.
EDIT: I did include an LJ-Cut to the manga in question here, but it's gross. Not actually porny, but deeply unpleasant, in the kind of "No, seriously, they're all over 18, it's not our fault the artist keeps drawing them like they're 12" way. Pisses me right off. If some sense of macabre fascination draws you to want a look, try doing a Google search for "kiss players manga".
Byebye all, and may your trawlings of the soft white underbelly of the net not screw you up too much.