It's Jean Luc Picard - In A Vineyard!

Admit it -
If you are only the teensiest-weensiest bit familiar with "Star Trek: The Next Generation", which Conrad mercilessly mocks as "Star Trek: The PC Generation", then you are familiar with the Enterprise's captain taking time off to recover from his encounter with the Borg.  This was not a pleasant experience, let me assure you.
     
     STTNG does generally trend along the lines of "Everyone is Equally Wonderful!" or "Let Us Understand These Hideous Aliens Rather Than Destroying Them", but when Starfleet encountered The Borg, it was pretty much all-out interstellar war from the get-go.
     RESULT!  Ahem - I mean - ah who am I kidding  - RESULT!

You What?
I am still not sure what this is, nor why.  If you can enlighten the blog then there is folding money in there for you.

Errrrr - yes what ...........

Nor Is That All -
This appears to be what you would expect to see if you were a Marriage Guidance Counsellor - 

     Since Conrad offers neither guidance nor counselling, it is rather a mystery why this has turned up in his inbox.  I'm sure Philip K. Dick could offer guidance - 

"House Of Leaves" By Mark Danielewski
Well, I had to tempt fate by banging on about "Coincidence" and how it hadn't happened yet, until today.  And yesterday.
     More accurately, at the Pub Quiz one of the questions was about defining "Trefoil, ogee, lancet and horseshoe".  What were they?
    Well, we thought that they were either leaves or flowers.
     WRONG!  They are types of arch.
     What did I read in "HoL" today - why, in the end of a section about architecture, none other than - "trefoil, ogee, lancet & horseshoe"

The Index
If you have been reading the nonsense that Conrad types, then you ought to be aware that he has been working on an Index for the 51st Highland Division in the First Unpleasantness.

    This is an image of the latest page to be typed up.  Quite what Conrad is to do with the finished product is another idea, so if You The Audience have any ideas, do let me know.

"POWERS"
I refer to the television series based on the comic, this is nothing to do with United Utilities.
     Here a confession: I have all the Power's Trade Paperbacks, so I've got the series from Issue 1 onwards.
     So, the first question is about content. Is this a proper Policier?
     Rather!  Within the first minutes you have murder, more murder, swearing, more swearing and then drug abuse.  Playstation may be playing Ridiculously Easy To Get, yet it works.  You are not going to confuse this series with Little House On The Prairie.
     Now, the television programme is not the comic - although it carries over the intent, it is a different beast.  Why so?
     Triphammer: In the comic, he's very much an Iron Man clone,so much so that his armour design has to be radically different on Powers, or there might be copyright issues.  Not only that, for the television programme he's a partially-limbless veteran involved with the establishment.  In the comic he's still just as brilliant, but is completely whole and utterly apart.

BAMMMMM!

     Plus in television he  has a giant hammer-hand.

And here we have Retro-Girl because - because - er - well -
What the hell. It's Retro-Girl.

     
Talking Of The First Unpleasantness -
It's not widely known that there were units from India involved on the Western Front during the First Unpleasantness.  Indeed there were!  

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     Conrad has long cherished a photograph of a couple of sepoys lying around during 1915, looking utterly miserable, cold, wet and muddy.  You can read their minds:  
     "Why did we volunteer?"
     "When will the rain stop?"
     Since I can't find that particular photo, have this one instead:

EDL take that across your purulent chops!