I'm bitterly disappointed in David Firepig (see previous two posts). Not even a whisper from the Chinese Water Torturer. Any other stupid offers from passers by of the eclectic variety?
Oh yes... it's thoroughly random blog day.
First out of the basket is this hyper cool link to the new Dave McKean Mythical Creatures Royal Mail stamp releases. I have to get a set of those.. well, actually I don't at all, but the Royal Mail also release these as postcard sets which are great for framing and hanging in your bathroom or maybe up the stairs. I mention this here because that was always my intention when my very generous ex-work colleague Stephen 'Eraserhead' Lambert surprised me one morning with a set of Mr Punch first day cover postcards after I mentioned in passing that his stamps were very cool. I love Mr Punch - the legacy is wild. If you ever catch mumps or have a limb amputated or something and have nothing else to do, hunt down the original script on the web. It's the most insane script in the history of the world and the best morality play ever created. You wouldn't believe how much it's been watered down. I'd write a graphic novel called Mister Punch if Gaiman hadn't beaten me to it about 20 years ago. Swine.
I digress - those postcards are still in the bag that he gave that very morning, but I do know where they are. One day, I'll put them up.
Yesterday, I thought I'd run out of things to read and then I found Exit Music (the last Rebus) lurking on a pile upstairs - along with Billingham's Death Message which I'd also forgotten about. That should give me until the weekend - then I'd best get started on that Food Budget list on the right - which I finally got round to updating. While we're on the subject of books, I'm officially deserting Waterstones online and committing to amazon full time. Seven weeks is way too long to wait for a book that took me a couple of days to read. I wasted at least 20 reading days over that fiasco.
Enough! There's work to be done... I'm off to destroy a castle...
