So a little subterfuge is in order, lest the watchful Hamster sentries hovering eternal o'er the electronic landscape try to spoil it.
Actually, where does "Subterfuge" come from? Probably Latin.
- hang on I'll go check -
- yep, from the Latin "Subterfugere" meaning "To escape secretly", via French and "subterfugerum" and hence "Subterfuge".
That answers another question I was going to ask - if you're being all open and honest and above board*, why aren't you described as being "Terfuge"?
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| "Your mission, Rob, should you choose to accept it, is to drink tea for England" "Accepted! Let the next two pints commence!" |
First Bus
A backhanded compliment in verse:
Credit where credit is due:
First Bus, I have to say to you
That today, you ran on time!
An achievement most sublime.
However, it is the weekend
And I do not have to work attend.
Today's service was just great.
But on Monday I bet you're late.
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| Today's haul of books |
A diary
Conrad is a paper book-era dinosaur who needs things written down to make them comprehensible. If it's not in the diary it either doesn't exist or it never happened. Luckily I have the time I start work on Monday written down as the last entry in my 2014 diary, or I'd have to turn up at 8:00 (providing First Bus also turn up**)
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| NO! A "D-I-A-R-Y" Oh never mind. |
<excuse me but this is an excellent pot of Russian Caravan Tea>
Just finished reading the "Cosmic" volume, where Oeming has to illustrate pages of very abstract concepts - a dreamscape, if you will. Very different from his usual style, viz:
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| Reminiscent of Jean Giraud Moebius, don't you think? |
Probably not a spoiler for the TV series, but I don't want to chance it so - that's it.
Plans 1 To 8 From Outer Space
Yes, I have seen "Plan 9 From Outer Space", and it is a bad film, yet in a good way - an example of artistic vision far exceeding ability.
Anyway, the alien's plan is to revive recently deceased human beings by electro-dart stimulation (I think - it's been a while), and then use their army of - okay, battalion of - okay, okay, their five zombies to take over the world. Or destroy it. Or, take it over then destroy it. Because they couldn't destroy it and then take it over -
- where was I? Oh yes, Plan 9. From my mocking tone above***you can take it that I thing very little of this plan. It barely merits being called a "plan", and "A Very Silly Idea Of Doubtful Utility And Immense Practical Problems 9 From Outer Space" is more accurate, except that probably wouldn't fit on hoardings and posters.
Still, if this was the most promising Plan, what on earth - or off it - could the others have been?
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| The scene where he meets Otson Welles is hilarious |
Plan 2: create a race of intelligent, fire-starting cockroaches that spread across the earth like - no? That's been done already^^?
Plan 3: Mutate the neutrinos and cause the Earth's axis to shift, thus creating a flood - don't tell me this has been done already!^^^
Damn. Now I see why they got all the way up to number 9.
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| Plan 78 From Outer Space: Hire a giant in a nightgown to tear the planet apart |
I must be - look at me tackling this Tiger single-handedly!
Took this about an hour ago just after I'd brewed my pot of tea, so the cap went back on and I'm still drinking tea.
* I.e. all the things that Conrad is not ...
** As you must be aware by now, the probability of this is considerably less than 100%
*** And my own sinister alien plans for world domination as well, obviously!
^ Honestly. Look up "Night of the Lepus" on IMDB.
^^ Certainly has! Look up "Bug" on IMDB - the 1975 version.
^^^ Yup. Sorry, look up "2012" on IMDB.
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