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demonoid.com won't let me join without an invitation.  


errr, would anyone here like to invite me?

given that I just have a boring old computer, what software would you recommend I use to read comics,

yours thinking 'o brave new world'

where do you download 2kad from? I'd love to have my collection digitized, but baulk at the thought of all the scanning work.

I like the fact that you have a 'Cobra' emergency committee. I'm picturing Gordon Brown striding into a room full of hard-as-nails blokes in black uniforms and ordering them to take the ultimate sanction on some cows

thread-drift ahoy!

the first thing I ever saw on video was a TV show called 'Alvin Purple', at the time famous for being the naughtiest thing ever on TV and (allegedly) featuring naked ladies.  A very rich kid we knew had one of the first video machines and had taped it on the shoebox sized tapes they used.

Here's a wikipedia link which is disapointingly bosoms-free

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Purple" target="_blank">Aaaaalvin

He may well be right, but about what? I can't watch the video on that site.

yours, not really fussed

I'll second the Moby Dick recommendation. I'm reading it now and it's just like tordelback says.

How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World by Francis Wheen - dead interesting book about various nonsensical ideas which have become mysteriously popular

and (can I have two books? Can I? Please!)

The Camels are Coming
- the first Biggles book, very much based on actual experiences of WW1 flying. Well-written, quite moving, miles from the Python-parody Biggles became

aaaaaand (couldn't resist this one)

If you want a really good book and it's a longish holiday, try 'A Suitable Boy' by Vikram Seth. A very satisfying soap opera

How could Neil copywright a song he never wrote? You could be onto a winner there

London Review of Books
Guardian Weekly
The Oldie
Private Eye (once in a while)
The Melbourne Anglican

You know it's a Dave Sim script when it's either:

- quite funny (early Cerberus)
- absolute genius (middle Cerberus)
- too complicated for words and accompanied by long misgynistic rants which make the woman-hating lunatic from 'Dr Strangelove' look calm and reasonable

you know it's a John Byrne illustrated script when the faces look like they were left off and drawn at the last minute by a passing five-year old

you know it's John Smith when prose turns into gibberish and attempts at Gerard Manley Hopkinsy neologisms like 'shatterlight' 'glasspain'

I was too lazy to get an icon made up, so settled on this recont photo

I was mentally composing a letter to The Age newspaper