I’m worried about the elections. Not the actual politics but the TV coverage. So far I’ve not seen any indication that Peter Snow will be on the election coverage on the BBC tonight. British elections don’t seem right with out Peter leaping around in front of giant video screens or projected into virtual maps of the country. Britain leads the world in over the top election graphics. Who can forget the ‘prime ministers from recent history trying to climb out of holes in the ground’ graph or the ‘John Major being buried under a landslide’ graph from the ’97 election. Without Peter it may all seem a little dull and clinical.

this started off as a comment in reply to one of Ian’s posts but it got too long
Ian will be waiting a long time. Zenith books 1-5 (actually the first 3 parts of the story, parts 2 and 3 were split into 2 books each due to length) were released through Titan (like most of 2000AD’s stories) from ’88 to ’90 but have never been re-published. However, as far as I know, the fourth and final part (which I’m guessing is what Ian has been reading) has never been released in a collected form. The only way to get any of the books is via e-bay and it ain’t cheap.

It’s a shame because it was one of the first attempts at subverting the superhero genre in a mainstream publication. It was also the first major collaboration between Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell who went on to create The Invisibles. However our evil webmaster is welcome to borrow book one (it’s the only one I’ve got).

As if it wasn’t difficult enough to keep track of what happened when in real life, there’s a whole group who have been keeping track of what happened in various pieces of fiction. Not bad if you want to answer one of those annoying questions that arise out of drunken conversations.

Tim forwarded on a warning about a bizarre and rather disturbing e-mail chain letter.

(Tangentially-

The article mentions the Isle of Sheppey. Way back when, while Johnny O and I were working for The Gas in Staines, we’d have bored weekends. Saturday morning on one such weekend John came into the living room brandishing the Motoring Atlas. “Let’s go to Sheppay.” he says.

“Sheppey.”

“Yeah Sheppay.”

“Sheppey.”

“C’mon dude, let’s go.”

What a truly depressing place.)

Now I understand the effect that Ian was trying to have by advertising clothing. However, I think t-shirt hell (not a site to look at from work!) is way ahead of us in the game of what to wear.

There, I’ve voted. I feel all empowered now.

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Except, I’d like to do it again. One vote’s hardly enough is it? And Lord knows I have a better idea than most of how things should be run. Time for a little postal vote fraud I think.