This weekend gave me the opportunity to initiate the training of the sorely neglected Japanese maple mentioned in this very recent bonsai post. It needed some drastic action, and several years of work, but we have to start somewhere. The picture on the left shows the initial pruning and wiring of the Japanese maple (Acer [...]
Those programmes, which is what we see, are odd, often dark, satirical and downright, nose-squirtingly funny sketches where stop-frame animated celebrity and movie/TV character figures are used and abused.Interestingly, the chicken doesn’t appear in the above graphic, nor does he seem to appear in the show after the titles…. It doesn’t quite have the same effect without the rather unique timbre of MeatWad’s voice, but here are some MeatWad and other classic Aquateen quotes.If you don’t have access to Bravo, then you can see full episodes at the [adult swim] website.
Probably the dullest, most tedious spewing in Minor Technicality’s intermittent history. Just a bit of catching up on what’s been going on since the last podcast. Well almost, since there’s far more happening than can fit into one show! < click to download standard MP3. Subscribe to this podcast
It’s official, Linked Media Ltd. was formed today.The full details are to follow once we have everything more coherently and explicitly expressed, but basically the company was born out of my initial discussions with mobile telcos and mobile content suppliers about distributing podcasts to mobile phone users…. We are looking at the bigger picture: discovering new opportunities for podcasters even well before they are technically feasible, and preparing the way for what might be around the corner.If this all seems a little vague, then it is, intentionally, as we have a lot of detail still to work out about our proposition to both podcasters and content consumers and we understandably want to be sure the message is right.
The increasingly drunk audience had been listening to 90 minutes of knob-gags and fanny-gags (that’s front-bottom to you Americans) and there I go on with my hilarious seven-minute routine about God messing up the creation of the universe, the world being taken over by intelligent onions, and finishing up with a garlic-themed rendition of the end of Planet of the Apes…. My knowledge of the card meanings meant when I picked “The Tower”, I knew it was going to be a bad night.*Open Spot: an opportunity to stand in front of an audience and do your stuff for a few minutes without: a) any form of financial compensation; b) an ounce of understanding or respect from the less scrupulous promoter that you’ve travelled for two hours to get there; c) any real chance to get a better spot later in the season like they promise because you are actually just a means of them filling stage time for as little money as possible.
