Ssssh! The Alien Elvis clones are coming…

Hello all,

It’s amazing what you can find on youtube, and no, I’m not talking about videos of rednecks using all three of their remaining brain cells to figure out how to microwave their housepets or sorority girls stampeding on what little of their egos is left by dancing around half nude on a webcam (although I’m sure these videos provide the noble backbone of the youtube video base). No, I’m talking about the almost limitless supply of youtube videos on the subject of conspiracy theories. These videos range from the semi insightful (e.g. Corruption in high ranking members of the government – Pretty much a fact), to the hilarious (e.g. Evil cyborg aliens possessing Barack Obama in an attempt to gain control of the USA’s nuclear stockpile, that they will then force feed to Jerry Springer in an attempt to create a super mutant talk show host), to the down right scary/reprehensible (ignorant, anti semitic ramblings and ultra nationalism that gives me an immense temptation to build a little fort in my bedroom, adorned with a sign that reads “No stoopid people alowwed”. I don’t care how many hepped up, gun toting morons try to convince me that the Jews are controlling the world from a hidden operations bunker in Tel Aviv – I like Woody Allen, and if Seinfeld is on I’ll watch it, and you better believe that if I want to laugh at David Schwimmer I will go ahead and I will laugh at David Schwimmer, it’s my god given right as a progressive Brightonian, and nothing is going to sway me from that. Where was I? Damn, lost my train of thought… My, this is a long bracket sub-point…)

Now, this leads me to the “bullet point” of this blog, I just wanted to know what my reader’s opinions were on the issue of conspiracy theories. Do you believe in any of them? If so, which ones? Let’s try and get some form of discussion going here.

This is an issue I will be returning to in time, either when the feeling grabs me or when I run out of other material. Yeah, I’m just that edgy and anarchistic when it comes to blogs. I’m like Hunter S Thompson in Hush Puppies…

So please, feel free to discuss.

- Tom

Create a prog-rock band game!

Hello all,

I apologize for my absense, as it turns out, the transition from blog to blog is a tad more difficult than I first predicted. As a filler, I have decided to post the rules to a game I’ve seen around the web. It’s a three step program to creating a Prog Rock band (as the title says), some efforts work better than others, but it’s usually funny. Here’s what you do:

1. Go on www.wikipedia.org and search for a random article. That is your band name.

2. Go on www.wikiquote.org and search for a random quote. That is your debut album. (If it comes up with a page full of quotes, which is probably will, choose an appropriate sounding one. If your quotes are too long, either cut them down or search again – Your call).

3. Go on www.flickr.com/explore/ and search for a photo, this will be your album cover.

Here is my band:

Name: Aegisthus

Debut Album: Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind

Album Art: http://www.flickr.com/photos/13981362@N03/2586302143/

I think we have the potential to go far…

As previously mentioned, this can either be relevant, funny, or ridiculous, it’s all in the luck of the draw. If you manage to create any good ones, please feel free to post them.

Hopefully I’ll have a blog with a little more meat on it’s bones in due time,

- Tom

My first blog!

I decided, due to the atmosphere of Myspace’s blog circuit being made up largely of angry 12 year olds that live in the American Midwest bitching about how “faggy” Stacy in their art class is for not giving them a hand shandy behind Walmart (I’m generalizing, but I’m a blogger, that’s my goal), to create a serious (more or less) blog on a specialized website, whether it will will work or not I don’t know, but hopefully with enough time and effort I can really make something of this.

This will contain not only my usual inane ramblings, comments on life, the universe and everything (and maybe a little bit of pop culture here and there) but also examples of my pieces of creative writing, both fiction and non fiction. Who knows, perhaps in a matter of years this will be a metaphorical marketplace of joy, prosperity and creativity… Okay, now I’m getting delusional.

Whether I sink or swim, I would like to mark this occassion as my first ever blog, and hope that it gets more than a couple of comments from complete strangers that read “u suk” or “go back to commie ville”. Well, we can all dream…

- Thomas “The Skittish Scribe” Harrison (snappy nickname, isn’t it? Ought to sink in a charm with my college pals… Once they’re done beating me senseless.)

P.S. I may post content that has already been on my old blog from time to time as well, what I can I say, I’m a fraud.

P.P.S. I’m (obviously) still new here, so bear with me if I make any mistakes (this website is quite intimidating when you’re behind the scenes).