Digital Divertissement
If any of you out there have followed this Blog, or even if you haven't and are only just tuning in, then you will know that I like the printed word. Printed. "Hard Copy" in the parlance of today's youth. "Books" as us Oldies call them.
So, it is with some trepidation that Conrad announces his acquisition of a "Nook". This is an electronic platform that can display the business end of hundreds and hundreds of books. I didn't ask for it, or go out looking for it, nay it arrived on my desktop as a Birthday Present.
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| The Nook: minor demon denizen of the lesser-fraught circles of Hell (also - like that eye make-up!) |
I used to have an early warning of when this festival took place thanks to my darling daughter, who was there last year and the year before. She retained the wristband of 2011 until she got the 2012 version, Oh! the lack of hygiene!
Anyway, she is now so far beyond the mainstream acts that Leeds simply won't do. Not Indie enough. No, she wants to go to "Scab-u-tron", held on the island of Rockall, with sufficient space for 45 audience members and where performers have to be helicoptered in one at a time.
For me, Dad the Driver, this is good news. Last year I got stuck in a massive traffic-jam when en route to pick up darling daughter and her three companions, adding an hour to the inbound journey. We then had to queue for another hour before getting to the front of the outbound journey.
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| Leeds Music Festival 2011 |
That Zombie Novel
I have cunningly managed to work in ice-cream recipes as part of "Revelations", the working title for My Zombie Novel. After all, three years into a planet-wide Armageddon, wouldn't you sell your soul for a batch of Pistachio and Pecan ice-cream? All the more so if you haven't seen an ice-cream since Year One of the catastrophe?
(answers of "kill them and steal the ice-cream!" are refuted by armed ice-cream vendors)
So - Tanks?
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| This is your AFV-designing brain on drugs |
Chin chin!
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