• 15:13 RT @ifdestroyed: MTV reports Michael Jackson's death will "almost certainly" impact his London tour dates. tinyurl.com/kqeuvd #
• 15:18 HSE Fun Fact! Liv had her knee operation 3 months ago. This week she walked the city without crutches. The HSE wheelchair arrived yesterday. #

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• 16:39 Transformers 2 gave me a headache. Whether this was from the loudness of the wanton crapitude, I honestly don't know. #
• 16:40 Worse though was the very creepy and leery attitude it took to women in the first hour (old and dumb as rocks, or young, hot and slutty). #
• 16:41 It's a world in which Maxim Magazine has populated the earth. Also a world where tigers live in darkest Africa... #
• 16:43 And then there are... the twins. Hill-billies, wiggas or intensely racist portrayals of blacks? Either way, I looked forward to their demise #
• 16:44 Mind you, I don't think there was anyone in that movie I wanted to see survive. Occasionally, this gave me joy. Short-lived joy. #
• 16:44 Correction: I liked Jetfire, as played by Warren Ellis. #
• 16:45 It's been a long time since I felt as angry at fiction as Transformers 2 left me. It really does feel like a death-knell of narrative cinema #
• 16:47 On the other hand, there is a new volume of Empowered out today. yea, good it is. #
• 16:48 And look! Adam Warren can present attractive ladies with depth! It's like he has met, spoken with and enjoyed the company of the Fairer Sex. #
• 23:05 As if anyone needed further reason to love Dame Judy Dench: news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8116208.stm #

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• 11:45 Show support for democracy in Iran add green overlay to your Twitter avatar with 1-click - helpiranelection.com/ #
• 11:46 So that's what all the green icons are about. I spend a few days away and I fall completely out of the loop... #
• 11:47 And now my icon is a green box. Is my cartoonish visage so hideous? #
• 11:59 Olivia received a call about a mysterious package being delivered later. Her first guess? My sister being sent back from Paris. In a box. #
• 12:00 The woman, she disturbs me some times. #
• 12:01 She now claims it's because Aoife (the sister) is so small. In fairness, she is smaller than the change of a Dublin Bus ticket, so... #
• 12:03 So very, very wise - RT @DaveGormanReTweet: What she said ---> AllieRaymond Instant coffee is to coffee what porn is to sex. #
• 12:48 Olivia's package has turned out to be the Gaymar Waffle Cushion. That is one of the greatest names ever... #
• 12:49 The new craze that will sweep the twitter nation for the next few lunch breaks... tweetbricks.com/ #
• 12:53 If one were to seek a new disc 2 of Mac OSX 10.4.2 for his G4 stuck in mid-install, where should he look? Of whom should he enquire? #
• 18:57 Every time I calm on organised religion, I then see something like this: bit.ly/hAKHa #
• 18:58 Fun fact: Questions & Answers, the show that the previous clip is from, has since be cancelled. #
• 19:00 Separation of Church and State and State-run Public Broadcast Service Television Station? Forget it Jack, it's Dublintown... #

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• 18:12 The new Glen David Gold book is out. Clearly the world shall end soon, and so long as I get to finish this and Infinite Jest, I don't care. #
• 18:14 Hey Europe, you didn't need to do this: tinyurl.com/mfbw5l After recent Government performance, we're happy to cede power. #
• 18:17 My Mac is inexplicably working again - this pleases me. The mouse being a git, less so, but not so much as to sully my mood. #
• 18:21 Koizumi, I did not play Mario Galaxy for the plot, I played it to jump about in gravity-weird fun space. tinyurl.com/mk5p5t #
• 18:23 Scribblenauts however stands to be the finest game a boy with an overgrown vocaublary could wish for: tinyurl.com/kj55xh #
• 18:30 RT @McKelvie: Worst Daily Mail poll ever. VOTE YES to skew the results and pass it on! bit.ly/w4b6Q #
• 21:36 2 months out of knee surgery and Olivia is trouncing all comers at Dance Dance Revolution. The doctors have given her a dancing robot knee. #
• 23:03 Tramore, empty with the funfair and lights turned off: eerily reminiscent of The Warriors... #
• 23:03 Warriors... come out and play-ee-ay... #
• 23:04 Clink clink clink... #
• 23:05 And now for something completely different (in the tradition of Garfield without Garfield): tinyurl.com/lhxyr8 #
• 23:05 I AM the storm! But NOT a wedding. Hahahaha haha!! #
• 23:23 Aaaaaaaand it seems I spoke too soon about the Mac. What the what?! #

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The reason the comics stopped is thus: A little over two years ago, I was offered a promotion to management which I duly accepted. And then another one, which had significantly more money and, as I would discover, a huge chunk taken out of my free time. Since only so many things could be kept up at the same rate, the comics went by the wayside. First, they were not posted, then the time to ink them vanished... You get the idea. I've been doodling at least once a day ever since, but the flaw of not posting them has been that they became increasingly tangential while other things took priority.

Said priorities are legion, and beginning to be sorted out and will eventually be catalogued when there's enough distance, be it practical, emotional or just plain temporal.

But yes, the comics will eventually be coming back as I face into some tough decisions about where my career goes, childish things are put away and I find myself irrespective of and because of those decisions in need of some creative output. Those personal issues will need to be funneled in some way, shape or form, and comics are cheaper than therapy! For those who have been waiting... Er, sorry. Thanks for being patient, though.

(This of course will totally be a prelude to discovering my scanner no longer works, won't it?)

• 09:07 One Piece 21 - in which the lead makes no appearance, but it affects the ludicrously high quality not a jot. #
• 09:08 Mind you, given that Sanji is my favourite character and he dominates the first half of the book, this shouldn't be surprising. #
• 09:10 Please note Naruto: if you're going to have the extended cast fight, this is how you should do it. #
• 09:11 Don't worry, you're still better than Bleach. At least your fights matter. And have consequences. And end. #
• 09:13 Oh Bleach, you were doing fine until you decided to have a 15 volume rescue mission. And then another one. #
• 09:15 Meanwhile, Uncanny X-men finally finishes up Greg Land faux-porn art right in time for a price increase which forces me to abandon it. #
• 09:18 I like Fraction's writing, but Casanova is better; I like the cast - particularly the X-club; the art's improving now... #
• 09:20 ... But I'm not paying a fiver for 22 pages of disposable content and 10 pages of adverts. #
• 09:22 Joe Kelly writing Spider-man again brings a speck of joy into the world though. Cough cough Deadpool cameo cough oh please cough cough... #
• 09:26 Sad but true - I always pronounce "Baroque" ba-row-que rather than ba- rock. I don't know why my mouth organ fails me thusly. #
• 09:40 Ooh - The Unwritten is very good. With King City being serialised and Greek Street looking interesting, comics may have hope yet. #
• 09:43 King City is, of course, the best sci-fi spy comic about the usefulness of cats going. #
• 09:46 I suspect Livvie's act Sushi would prove equal to the task, even without training. Sasha, not so much, even with private tuition. #

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• 11:34 @lastyearsgirl_ Yellow! #
• 13:01 The economy of superheroism and or villainy: eco-comics.blogspot.com/ #
• 13:50 I shall dub him Dude of Fighting: bit.ly/8qkdR #
• 21:20 @keviz We do not quote Bender when we know that Bender is the worst damn character in Futurama! #
• 21:22 Birthday presents bought - one quite late, the other slightly early... #
• 21:38 11, 6, 2, 4, 8, 7, 3, 5, 1, 9, 10 #startrekrank #
• 21:40 Actually, I haven't seen 5 and 3 since I was a teenager, and I am old and decrepit now... Not dissimilar to Trek, really. #
• 22:58 Hey kids! Don't forget about great music (and this is that...): bit.ly/mK8KJ #
• 23:14 They are (and let's be honest, I by association) Bad, Hilarious People: bit.ly/ER9xk #

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• 22:48 Certainly apporpriate for Twitter... RT @andydiggle - Enter Procrastination Loop: bit.ly/Zg4qF #
• 22:54 RT @sadbearhandbook - Nobody panic, but there's a new season Futurama coming next year: bit.ly/tbFJi #
• 23:13 RT @infinitesummer - David Foster Wallace's essays and stories, freely available online. infinitesummer.org/archives/118 #
• 23:13 That's my ebook reader about to get that much fatter then... #
• 23:20 RT @nicklocking - Street Fighter II bonus stage live re-enactment. bit.ly/85XlD TATSUMAKI-SENPŪ KYAKU! #
• 23:21 But if it's filmed by the SAMSUNG SSD Camcorder H106, then what films the shots of the camera itself? Trickery! #

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• 18:15 RT lastyearsgirl_ Retweeting @antonvowl - Nick Griffin elected to Brussels means he is in effect a migrant worker #
• 18:16 For those outside of the UK, this is Nick Griffin and why his successful election is a problem: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OSzAtxnAJU #
• 18:18 @evilmonk I liked Green Yonder the best of the four movies - but my God, how did they think Bender's Game was worth pushing? #
• 18:21 @lastyearsgirl_ It could be worse - the Irish are feeling pretty stupid about rejecting Lisbon last year right about now. #
• 18:25 It occurs to me - how many hours back is it considered okay to respond to tweetings? My glut-of-reading-and-responding may cause confusion. #
• 18:27 Anyhoo - Europe is clearly about to simultaneously implode explode in a flurry of mixed metaphors. So where should I move to? #
• 18:28 Right now my gut is telling me Canada - where everyone is nice and a mountie - or Japan - where everyone is polite and attractive. #
• 21:00 RT @andydiggle: Glen & Gary & Glen & Ross - bit.ly/QRt5B #
• 21:10 Two men, one shark, lots of love! bit.ly/3RIm7 #

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• 00:45 @evilmonk Irish National elections and also for the MEP positions in Europe. #
• 00:45 @evilmonk The former will have heavy repercussions for the current government as the new majority plan on a vote of no-confidence on Tuesday #
• 00:46 @evilmonk The latter is concerned with who we send to the EU, which has the added importance of last years rejection of the Lisbon Treaty. #
• 00:48 @evilmonk Our current goverment has had such trouble that the new referendum is now weighted near 60% in favour of the LT. #
• 00:49 @evilmonk (the wacky fact is that the man in charge during the period in which problems percolated got out *right* before they fully brewed) #
• 00:50 @evilmonk (which isn't to let our current Taoiseach off the hook - he was the Minister for Finance during that very same period...) #
• 00:50 @evilmonk Anyhoo - here endeth the excessive lesson is Irish Soc-Pol. You've been a great audience! Enjoy the pie! #
• 15:18 80's hits, ragtime-style: bit.ly/iOxko #

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• 12:23 @evilmonk I know who you are! #
• 12:24 RT @McKelvie - I can't believe this man has to advertise for sex. Ladies of LA, what's wrong with you? tinyurl.com/q39mlb #
• 12:57 Church? State? It's time you guys realised it's not going to work out. tinyurl.com/msm8vd #
• 22:07 Fine Gael has 50% of the local election votes - that has to hurt Fianna Fail... #
• 22:08 That Fianna Fail have to fight for the third MEP seat is salt in the wound. Has FF ever had to fight for power before? #

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• 14:51 Once you've read Ultimatum, you can't unread Ultimatum. #
• 14:52 Thanks to Fine Gael, I have a handy checklist of my candidates. A part of me is tempted to give them a pity vote as thanks... #
• 14:53 But then I think the magic words "Enda Kenny" and that motivation keels over and weeps for the future. #
• 14:57 Hello #followfriday. How do you do? Today I would nominate @antonvowl and @sadbearhandbook, pleasing committers of bloggery both. #
• 15:06 Halfway through season 1of Burn Notice. It's perfectly adequate, but it feels like it's capable of more than a modern day McGuyver / A-Team. #
• 15:07 Breaking Bad is the business, though. I am clearly in a very angry temperament of late. #
• 15:09 Is it because of society? Electoral dismay? The recession? Flighty standards? My intense capacity of suck at (in?) Team Fortress 2? #
• 15:20 Hello followers I know not - why not introduce yourself? #
• 15:23 Batman & Robin - proof positive that I will buy anything drawn by Frank Quitely. Also, "Crime is doomed." #
• 15:25 Seaguy: Brazil by way of The Prisoner, but with a more decisively happy ending. Hopefully it won't be another 4 years for the next series. #
• 15:27 Do you 1101000100111011101 often? #robotpickuplines #
• 15:29 Tim Schaefer, hero: "Hey, if Activision liked it, then they should have put a ring on it. Oh great, now Beyonce is going to sue me too." #
• 15:30 So Activision are suing Double Fine over Brutal Legend - shades of the 20th Century Fox / Warners lawsuit over Watchmen, much? #
• 15:33 Brutal Legend will, of course, cure cancer, stop war and bring greater longevity to man, so you can't blame them for wanting a piece. #
• 15:35 More importantly, it will mean growing up in the eighties with a love of ROCK had a greater purpose. Beyond ROCKIN' OUT, naturally. #
• 15:36 @grantimahara Insert disk here? #robotpickuplines #
• 15:39 Is that a phased plasma rifle with 40 watt range in your torso compartment, or are you just happy to see me? #robotpickuplines #
• 15:49 And the commendation of services above and beyond the call of nerdery goes to tinyurl.com/qrhths (Note: Star Trek spoilers) #
• 16:50 Gay scientists discover the Christian gene: bit.ly/12FOH #

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• 00:22 RT @brunobatista - This is THE BEST THING I'VE SEEN TODAY!www.dailymotion.com/video/x9gcyi_total-eclipse-spoof_music #
• 00:25 Egads! @skottieyoung needs 15 brave twitterers for a desperate, last ditch mission to save mankind - volunteer and show him the love. #
• 12:37 20 brilliant bookcases: bit.ly/nOYiR #
• 12:40 RT @DaveGorman - Please sign up to help keep libel laws out of scientific debate... it's a freedom of speech thang: bit.ly/ifLVF #
• 19:49 RT charltonbrooker - Voting BNP gives you cancer. Pass it on. Save lives. #

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• 14:17 RT @chaptersbooks - A summer of David Foster Wallace's INFINITE JEST, anyone? is.gd/N1IB #
• 14:25 RT @nicklocking - Unspeakable genius: batteriesfeelincluded.blogspot.com/2009/05/309.html #
• 14:32 @froodie Oh God, here also it's now ten years since my own leaving cert? I'm even older than I let myself believe... #
• 14:33 @keviz If you truly had man-flu, you couldn't be heard to complain because your teeth would be grit too hard. Gritted? Grote? GRR! #
• 14:35 I have discovered an amazing power - if I get in touch with someone I haven't spoken to in more than a year, they will be getting married... #
• 14:37 It's getting disturbing, and now I fear to call my single friends from college lest they too be inadvertently cast into an impending union. #
• 14:39 @froodie The doctors are the worst - you can't help but feel all your achievements are for nought against them. Damn their altruistic hides! #
• 14:45 @froodie Mind you, I decided against a secondary school reunion long ago. A college reunion is the one that would really screw my brain... #
• 14:47 @froodie ... as they're the ones whose opinions matter (and by whom my brilliant-but-utterly-lazy self would feel embarrassed ) #
• 14:48 @froodie Egads! Angst! Wangst! I do apologise, the sun is clearly getting to me. #
• 14:48 RT @Wheeler - New blog post: All the Pixel Ladies. On Pixar and females. www.thepostgameshow.... #
• 14:50 Utterly behind the times: The Orange Box really is great, isn't it? Team Fortress for Brian, Portal for Olivia... #
• 14:51 It's a rare case of our following gender norms - typically she likes the mega-violence while I play the slow-thinkers... #
• 14:53 Is this an Adam&Joe Song War? bit.ly/2q1gt #
• 15:10 RT @jock4twenty - paxman at it again. tinyurl.com/oqgtjq. And he's right - still not as good as this one: tinyurl.com/or6cof #
• 15:15 Day 2 of trying to find an MEP candidate that meets my unreligion requirements. I suspect this may be a Sisyphean task. #
• 15:35 Along completely different lines now, for hither be the story bible of The Wire: bit.ly/aNVDv #
• 16:31 Zuh? RT @jock4twenty RT @Robwilliams71: Star Trek. Strange bit.ly/Ne4Ev HOLY CRAP! #
• 16:43 RT @Wheeler - This is awesome: Betty Bowers on the Biblical definition of marriage. bit.ly/hVnuC #
• 16:43 Today really does seem to be a filthy day of retweeting. #

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• 00:50 Time to laugh? Time to Cry? Monkey Island returns... bit.ly/Ic159 But why is the sequel on the Wii and not the remake? #
• 01:11 It's like the videogame world seeks to mock my console ownership. It's the Sega-Nintendo Wars all over again & I'm still on the wrong side.. #

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• 16:00 He used his fight money to buy two of every animal... then he beat them all up! www.teamfortress.com/soldier.htm #
• 16:05 OBJECTION! bit.ly/fbcjg
  (My love for Phoenix Wright goes beyond reason...) #
• 16:09 Goddamn you Brandon Graham - stop giving reasons for me to give you money... bit.ly/p2glI #
• 16:11 @radiomaru Do not question your sanity - the font pain is real, and must be avenged. #
• 16:28 He punched out all my blood! www.teamfortress.com/sandvich.htm #
• 16:43 euprofiler.eu/ puts me closest to the Socialist Party and Labour. I did not expect that. #
• 16:45 Sinn Fein follow them, but as ever they shall remain without my vote I can live with it. There are lines that won't be crossed. #
• 16:45 Political Parties of the future - if you blow someone up, you lose my vote! See also Fiaanna Fail, Fine Gael, etc. #
• 16:46 Alternatively, you could be the Greens, who just annoy me irrationally. #
• 16:47 (and so, I break a promise I made to myself long ago that I would not air my views political in the public domain quite so casually) #
• 17:15 Damn my shoddy memory - what is the name of the group that were protesting the Irish Church&State issues a month or so back? #
• 17:16 (Said issues included the fact that all Irish government & legal officials were to swear allegiance to God...) #
• 17:19 (The funniest thing was the christian who complained that atheists should just swear anyway, safe in the knowledge they didn't mean it...) #
• 17:23 One day, someone will run on an atheistic platform. And they will ruin it form me by having a policy of anti-coffee or something. #

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• 01:09 He's like Gandhi, but better. He likes puppets. #
• 14:19 @froodie The complete musical would be fantastic - I was sitting in awe at how they had managed to make an expected quiet ending EPIC... #
• 14:19 @froodie (The main reason I checked it out was due to I Love You Man, which I loved and only saw due to my lack of a life in Waterford...) #
• 14:20 @froodie (So, invigilating exams CAN make a difference!) #
• 14:46 The big shame about Sarah Marshall is that they cut the airport goodbye - it would have really balanced the movie. #
• 14:47 But of Criticland I must ask: what movies were you watching? Because like In Bruges before it, Sarah Marshall was completely underrated. #
• 14:50 Did I actually just see a political party message that read "Tired of that other shower...?" This country wants to break me. #

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• 11:48 Cunning lady! Have your tiny child give me religious pamphlets and place emphasis of refusal's evil upon me! You win this round... #
• 12:08 Ah, old self-indulgent comics and photoshop, you bear me yet some purpose. #
• 12:28 @chaptersbooks Nope - if it's that bad or boring, you just stop reading and move on to the next book. And then try to fob it off on someone. #
• 12:31 Nyeurgh - must... tidy... house... but... it's... sunny... out... #
• 12:32 (Who am I trying to kid? I fear the sun, our vendetta, and all the evil it holds in stock for me.) #
• 13:25 I won't play GTA out of strange, moral hang-ups, but my brother shakes his head when I mention this... tinyurl.com/lwzwrz #
• 13:36 ARGH ARGH I have had three different religious groups at the door so far today ARGH ARGH ARGH #
• 13:37 And yet! If I went around preaching the joys of atheism, I would be accused of religious intolerance and believing in nothing. #
• 13:38 Okay religions - whoever can effect and subsequently bring evidence of having stopped the other groups from annoying me gets me. Deal? #
• 13:40 Until then, I shall play my heathen Satansex music at full volume to scare away minions. I am upsetting a very nice estate to do this. #
• 13:41 First: KISS! And their Greatest Hits. Cower, brief mortals, then flee before The Rock and The Roll! #
• 19:16 Teenagers running around Stephen's Green with a Buster Sword replica - the likelihood of their realising what the sword symbolises? Minimal. #
• 19:19 Rereading Scott Pilgrim 4 on the DART is a pleasant way to distract oneself from the weird, formerly seeping stains that you hope was beer. #
• 19:21 Now to dig back into David Foster Wallace's non-fiction as a means of prepping my frail meat-thinker for Infinite Jest, round 2... #
• 19:22 (I was terminally distracted when reading it a few years ago, and have held off starting anew until I had forgotten sufficient detail) #

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• 23:34 Day 2 of rewatching The Lord of the Rings (extended), and into The Two Towers. So flawed, yet so awesome... #
• 23:34 @evilmonk And then I shoved it where the sun don't shine. In the corner of the room. #
• 23:35 @slovobooks I didn't like to assume! #
• 23:37 Decaff coffee - the methadone of 11.30pm... #
• 00:24 I really should get around to doing a new icon. I mean, it's not like I lack for pen, paper, scanner and photoshop... #
• 00:33 Oh Aragorn, you are the Man Crush to end all Man Crushes. Except possibly Ryan Reynolds, but Olivia has baggsied him. #
• 12:09 Stretch limos? To confirmation?! I'm not keen on organised religion, but even I have to like this: tinyurl.com/ltclo9 #
• 16:14 Sackboy the superhero? Nein! Nine! 9... www.filminfocus.com/focusfeatures/film/9 #
• 22:53 RT @serafinowicz - Come and get it... bit.ly/WvxMr - TOY STORY 3 TEASER! #

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• 21:54 @radiomaru Curiosity Cola is better than both; the 80's were better, but I heart Gambit; FLCL is better!; until the next thing comes along. #
• 21:55 I have a lucky crack pipe, but I'm too scared to use it. Also I keep putting bubbles in it. And it's really a normal pipe. But it's mine! #
• 21:56 30 Awesomely Bad Unicorn Tattoos: bit.ly/VPwD7 #
• 22:00 Irish Rail guy who showed no concern when Olivia was smacked in the crutches by the barrier? ON THE LIST. #
• 22:00 A particularly egregious fact, since the Sandymount DART staff are gold-fried awesome. #
• 22:04 The dude was lucky my 5 ft 6 10 stone frame was one the other side of the barrier, because GAPPA POW! My rage would have been Very Manly. #
• 22:05 Instead, I proved my Very Manliness by erecting a corner shelf unit in under three minutes. TESTOSTERONE AHOY! #
• 22:32 Movies in Four Frames: moviesinframes.tumblr.com/ #
• 23:16 @slovobooks b-sides from livejournal - general roustabout and appreciator of things. #
• 23:25 @beckycloonan ELENDIL! #

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