tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67724147841047277782024-03-17T17:37:13.422+00:00King TibbetThe online home of Bear or Bust.King Tibbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165391088265351320noreply@blogger.comBlogger805125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772414784104727778.post-34848779723471196962024-03-17T17:36:00.000+00:002024-03-17T17:36:40.532+00:00Offbeat oddities. SamhWe are reading through Panorama of Saudi Arabia, a badly edited book on, well, Saudi Arabia. Its a mish mash of Islam and poetry and black and white photos of various bits and pieces of Arabian life. There is however a list of plants with Latin names and their corresponding names in Arabic. <div><br /></div><div>The upshot of this is, well we have a mesemb, <a href="https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:362762-1" target="_blank">Mesembryanthemum Forskahlei</a> (now Cryptanthum or Opophytum Cryptanthum according to my trusty Hartmann pdf.). Along with a few Asclepiads and Glassworts. Its Arabic name is Samh and seems to have some sort of medical potential for <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9502456/" target="_blank">ulcer control</a> and a ethnobotanical use for controlling <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3730945/" target="_blank">blood sugar.</a> It also seems to be used in cooking as the seed is ground to make flour. I quote 'and samh, a wild seed, is collected in northern Arabia to make coarse bread. </div><div><br /></div><div>Mesembryanthemum is now this weird mix of annual and non annual plants now. Can remember the BCSS journal when it proposed that the species Aptenia Phyllobolus and Browannthus were part of it now along with Sceletium which is used for chewing tobacco in South Africa. Opophytum as it was, is one of the weird annuals that nobody grows. I'll probably side with Heidi Hartmann that they are separate from Mesembryanthemum proper, as its an annual and such. But I'm willing to reconsider if we get a big DNA analysis showing familial lines</div><div><br /></div><div>The book, well the best thing I can say about it is that it needs a bloody good proof read. So that you don't get stuff like this sneaking through on every page. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div>King Tibbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165391088265351320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772414784104727778.post-87234334094815867822024-03-10T16:50:00.002+00:002024-03-10T16:50:19.328+00:00Necrolog: Toriyama<p> This was a complete surprise, Akira Toriyama was, as if he needed any introduction a Mangaka. In fact the Mangaka of the modern age. You ever watched Dragonball or Dr Slump he did that. You played Dragon Quest or Chrono Trigger, those were his art designs. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://wallpaperaccess.com/full/1942043.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="1080" src="https://wallpaperaccess.com/full/1942043.jpg" width="1920" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>The Dragon Quest's slime, Goku and Piccolo, along with Bulma and Master Roushi, so many great characters. World feels a lot worser with him gone. </p><p><br /></p><p>Can remember having a few Dragon Ball memories as a teen, nothing in English, a French Tankobon and a Spanish floppy cover as they had more Manga than us in the 90s. A long forgotten memory of a live action version on MTV also from that time, that no one remembers. And later on assorted Dragonball games and anime on various small channels. The last time I saw this was Dragonball Super on, I think Pop, in Mallorca last year at 6am. </p><p>The game side was also in Mallorca, seeing the games on import going for 18,000ptas in 93. Oh and an actual Dragonball, ball that I may still have somewhere. Along with a DBZ shirt. Dragon Quest came a lot later. An official DQ8 for PS2 is the first Euroland ever got along with the originals for DS and 3DS.</p><p>Chrono Trigger was the first ever ROM that I got a first party PC pad to trigger a multi button input. And outside a limited run for NDS still isn't widely known here. </p><p>Oh and a final thing about Chrono Trigger. Yuji Hori is the only member of the Dream team still alive.</p>King Tibbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165391088265351320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772414784104727778.post-89291572396488290982024-03-03T17:01:00.006+00:002024-03-03T17:01:53.009+00:00Interbang and stuff.<p> I'm pretty sure we've written about Interbang before on here. Part of the old Children's Channel before it was turned into Trouble. For those not invested already, it was an adventure show where two lads had to find mini towers of Pisa hidden throughout the world. Never quite sure of the payoff for this as I've never seen the end, but the whole thing is up on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@interbangthe7towersofpisa993/videos" target="_blank">Youtube</a>. </p><p><br /></p><p>Also <a href="https://twitter.com/PulpLibrarian" target="_blank">Pulp Librarian</a>, posted up a bunch of Hardy Boys covers on X, which were mainly from the later mainline entries (100 plus) and the case files series. The strangest thing I took away from this is a scan from a comic book from <a href="https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=291471" target="_blank">Gold Key</a> comics. Apparently a tie in to a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hardy_Boys_(1969_TV_series)" target="_blank">Saturday morning cartoon</a>, it comes off as Scooby Doo but a rock band. And yes there are film scans up on Youtube as well.</p><p><br /></p>King Tibbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165391088265351320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772414784104727778.post-18022817447024924412024-02-24T17:03:00.003+00:002024-02-24T17:03:56.073+00:00Smugglers cove<p> Another book for you and another one based on the Angus & Robertson hardback editions, so expect there to be no differences in the text.</p><p>The boys are framed up for stealing a local businessman's portrait of Simon Bolivar, when they're named as couriers of the aforementioned picture. There are a few side stories as they track some smugglers and poachers in the everglades, before it all comes together in the last 2 chapters, where its found that the smuggling and poaching teams are part of a larger group. </p><p>It's a odd tale this as the stories never really gel together. The beasts that are the target of poaching, the American Alligator is said to endangered, but a quick look on the IUCN red data list shows that the American Alligator is of <a href="https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/46583/3009637" target="_blank">least concern</a>. Whether it was when it was written is anyone's guess, but they are now said to be increasing in population.</p><p>Also for some strange reason we get to see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Man" target="_blank">Florida Man</a> in his natural habitat. In this case some nutter in full wizards get-up performing alchemy out in the swamp. Of course he's being duped by the smuggling gang so they can steal a diamond necklace from him. Palming gold into his crucible of slag, to convince him that he's succeeded. </p><p>Anyway, as I've said before, there is no difference save for the numbering of the books between these two editions.</p><p>You can read the UK and US editions <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pNkRziLyg5aUTRXQWNLwzgFoeQuHQg5e/view?usp=drive_link" target="_blank">here </a>and<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ycK6DQ9LkpthW3W8JF2Z_S15imvLYiZA/view?usp=drive_link" target="_blank"> here</a>. </p>King Tibbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165391088265351320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772414784104727778.post-74304922731141051492024-02-18T17:00:00.001+00:002024-02-18T17:00:20.747+00:00Down the tubes.<p>So the clown in charge of this city has decided to <a href="https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/SEI_191580661-597c.jpg?quality=90&strip=all" target="_blank">rebrand the overground rail lines</a> with new names. Personally I never new that the big amorphous orange blob that is the London overground network really needed to be split into several smaller lines to make it easier to navigate. Its just the overground, you don't need any fancy names that make it more confusing. </p><p>We all know why he's doing it, its just a virtue signal so the idiots vote him in again, and overlook the chronic mismanagement and rising crime rate that is characteristic of his term in office. In fact grand dumb vanity projects like this are more like Boris Johnson's term in the mayoral hot seat. But no its fucking labour.</p><p>The lines in question are going to be rebranded as such. </p><p>Bus Conductor line (Windrush line) Islington to West Croydon. Which covers all the worst areas of the capital, and is a fitting memorial for the many West Indians who provided vital service as bus conductors back in the day. </p><p>Weaver Line.<span> Because something something, textile industry. </span></p><p><span>Little Line (Liberty Line) Because three fucking stops deserves its own line, obviously. </span></p><p><span>The Bobby Moore memorial line (Lioness line) I will also accept the Queens Park Rangers line. As it at least covers the area it concerns (West London). Anything is better than some wimmin wun the euros and deserve their own thing. </span></p><p>The Minmay line (Mildmay Line) Covers the actress <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Minmay" target="_blank">Lynn Minmay</a> and her efforts to achieve world piece through song.</p><p>The Insuffragette line. Because nothing says indulgence like domestic gender terrorists. The line you want is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etta_Lemon" target="_blank">Lemon line</a>. </p><p><br /></p>King Tibbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165391088265351320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772414784104727778.post-70388983970937807912024-02-11T17:03:00.001+00:002024-02-11T17:03:14.140+00:00Dragon Year 2024<p> Don't normally write this up as such, but I do enjoy going up town and watching the lion dance at Chinese New Year. I hate fireworks and such but this guy dancing around and the drums pounding is my jam.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7KZJlQsA1SGQtZLFYIOyTL6APTJdPIArmKwVyrz1jgngo2Or11Za30LK154JWkSOeguNgZT4tPspRg57mSzbvlj6QkzqM-iDvHi8-HajAHG-EnttxOH6q1Jzsx1R9YxJRntGH-eYkQ50SuicHIfLKVx1f5d_uL0p7WFJr67cSIk_4QYko2nZ94sZPABs/s929/Dragon%20Year%202o24%20lion%20dance%20team.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="929" data-original-width="696" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7KZJlQsA1SGQtZLFYIOyTL6APTJdPIArmKwVyrz1jgngo2Or11Za30LK154JWkSOeguNgZT4tPspRg57mSzbvlj6QkzqM-iDvHi8-HajAHG-EnttxOH6q1Jzsx1R9YxJRntGH-eYkQ50SuicHIfLKVx1f5d_uL0p7WFJr67cSIk_4QYko2nZ94sZPABs/s320/Dragon%20Year%202o24%20lion%20dance%20team.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p>The past couple of years I've missed out either due to Covid or missing entirely, and this year is no exception, we came to early and they weren't set up in time. Havea shot of the Lion dance team that I though look good enough to post. Hope you danced your asses off. </p>King Tibbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165391088265351320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772414784104727778.post-42685490810196415602024-02-04T17:14:00.003+00:002024-02-04T17:14:58.894+00:00Dork Web<p> It seems we're getting another moral panic over the internet, specifically the dark web in general. Thanks to this article, <a href="https://www.removepaywall.com/article/current" target="_blank">here,</a> about the murder of Brianna <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy1Ds2D-myw" target="_blank">Ghey</a>. Scarlett Jenkinson used the dark web to look at murder and so called red rooms to look up fucked up content online. Although reading this we have no idea what she actually saw.</p><p>Apparently its what all the kids are doing nowadays which I'm sure is nothing but scaremongering and bullshit on behalf of the author drumming up views. He's apparently never heard of Liveleak back in the day or any amount of gore trash which I never bothered with back then. </p><p>The fact is watching some Labour twunt chuntering on about regulating the net on Sky news means that the greatest resource we have ever had is being regulated out of existence, along with the double edged sword of Social media, which I'll admit is mostly good when its good and depressing at its worst.</p><p>But back to the article and I note he's got some sort of porn site up, most of what you'll see he's describing is actually on the normie web TCG sites, not sure about zombies but all the rest I've seen over the years.</p><p>Also given that every .onion address is a string of numbers and letters means you'll have to bookmark and such so browser history unless you're deleting every time. The fact is I've been a few times for of all things Mr Metokurs<a href="https://poa.st/@Jim" target="_blank"> blog</a> on Poa.st and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syro" target="_blank">Syro </a>album release website*. Apart from that without knowing any addresses and stuff and despite it baked into Brave as its incognito mode, I have fuck all reason to use it.</p><p>* This was actually on brand as it detailed every process your computer used to view the page and varied if you used no adblock or privacy blocker software. The cover of Syro famously lists everything expense and process that went into financing / making the album and if you are any way anal retentive makes fascinating reading.</p>King Tibbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165391088265351320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772414784104727778.post-67033922790993440062024-01-28T17:18:00.003+00:002024-01-28T17:18:35.276+00:00Everyman. One of those posts you see on the internet from time to time is the archetypal leftist saying that Jesus was a queer brown socialist just like them, and the follow up is them recoiling when the guy says, oh you like Jesus, have you tried reading the Bible. <div><br /></div><div>Its one of the dumbest quotes ever alongside the cartoon of Rupert Murdoch blaming the foreigner for stealing all the stuff when he has a huge pile of stuff and we should improve society somewhat peasant meme. You can be sure that an ex Christian has read the bible, in fact I often joke most of the atheists I watch on Youtube were balls deep in the church, before leaving (and simping for social justice). No the thing I'd like to point out is the socialist Christ meme.</div><div><br /></div><div>In fact the hardcore bible nut will have their own personal Jesus, they create from their upbringing, and a more moderate will have their own take. In fact you want a black Jesus, its feasible, or that one where they made him look more like a 1st century Jew (which if he existed, would most certainly be.) </div><div><br /></div><div>Another fact in this is that Easter is so tied in to Passover means he doesn't follow the pagan tradition of dying at the year end and being reborn in the spring. </div><div><br /></div><div>You want him to be the prince of peace then fair enough, he is. You want to emphasize his strength (which is how they converted the Vikings back in the day) then you can do that. The fact remains, Jesus is all things to all men. That he never died or will return from death means little, he's just an <a href="https://aras.org/concordance/content/christ-archetype-self" target="_blank">archetype</a> a metaphor, an everyman, a peoples placeholder. If you want him to do all those things and they mean stuff for you, fair enough, but for me the risen lord meant nothing as he never rose or died to begin with. </div>King Tibbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165391088265351320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772414784104727778.post-54300421299651283952024-01-21T17:04:00.001+00:002024-01-21T17:04:10.819+00:00Bombay boomerangs.<p> An odd one for sure. The boys get involved in a mercury smuggling racket that evolves into a national security threat. They investigate thefts of mercury from freighters in Bayport and Baltimore and the mysterious Bombay boomerang which possibly has something to do with the Super S missile stolen from the Pentagon. </p><p>Joe rings a wrong number and is put through to the Pentagon where his call is intercepted by someone being attacked, the only clue is something called The Bombay Boomerang (he was supposed to call a mercury supplier). </p><p>This tale mixes some dark themes and cringe humour in places as Fenton Hardy goes undercover to crack the case only to end up in a barrel and dumped in the bay at Baltimore, and an Indian sent to kill the Hardy boys thanks to a mix up over them committing sacrilege against the Hindu god Krishna. </p><p>Cringe comes from the Radio DJ Teddy Blaze who would be a massive Smashy & Nicey clone if he wasn't feeding information to the mercury gang via his broadcasts. Its made worse in the US version where his records are known as hot platters. At least it isn't vinyls, which would be beyond the pale. </p><p>Special mention must go to how the boys are written in this. They come across as sharp talking and quick witted with at least one snappy comeback to whatever the crooks throw at them. In some of the books they're written in they come across as flat, but here they feel alive. Even more so that the bloke who actually wrote it, Victor Buranelli, did three of the worst Hardy Boys books, The revised Flickering Torch and The Flying Express and the execrable Witchmaster's Key. </p><p>Anyway you can read both the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ogevShnUHGJdWkd4VX2U7Ya23MOKjQoT/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Original</a> and UK <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_dLCGSH8ZDrF9Qtv4OEBUotznVqSwuzI/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">versions </a>here. </p>King Tibbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165391088265351320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772414784104727778.post-73134747465850725772024-01-14T17:14:00.004+00:002024-01-21T16:29:10.601+00:00Drawing again<p> Have been on an art rush, so to speak these past few weeks. Not only am I working on this years calendar (theme videogames and OC Heads and Tails), but have found time to do this small edit based on opera singer <a href="https://www.discogs.com/artist/1418309-Lawrence-Tibbett" target="_blank">Lawrence Tibbett</a>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeGo-f3YEFa_Rm6lEkhyfIdKkazwfdK0BNsMTVQnkljal_5ay5w5Y-rUiGCgZTXbAlfvn7VdBOUvZ5ggtqIlHH2C4w9MFnwoTirZnetDi8BCtRMie6eTaCgb1ZPM94uaoqbTN7NhTJ0jlw_0JyNTNNY-kGowIRLLD4q9nMN4fjf_O3iLjmx5tlx31yR18/s948/Tibbet%20opera.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="948" data-original-width="711" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeGo-f3YEFa_Rm6lEkhyfIdKkazwfdK0BNsMTVQnkljal_5ay5w5Y-rUiGCgZTXbAlfvn7VdBOUvZ5ggtqIlHH2C4w9MFnwoTirZnetDi8BCtRMie6eTaCgb1ZPM94uaoqbTN7NhTJ0jlw_0JyNTNNY-kGowIRLLD4q9nMN4fjf_O3iLjmx5tlx31yR18/s320/Tibbet%20opera.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p>Can't remember what book this was that sprung forth the whole Tibbet thing as a shorthand for cat, my guess is the classic <a href="https://archive.org/details/smoke-and-fluff/page/n11/mode/2up" target="_blank">Smoke and Fluff</a>, </p><p>EDIT it's from<a href="https://archive.org/details/five-little-kittens/page/n5/mode/2up" target="_blank"> Five Little Kittens</a>, We obviously had a lot of Ladybird books as a kid. As a final punishment have seotpit aka <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7859843-tiptoes-the-mischievous-kitten" target="_blank">Tiptoes the Mischievous kitten</a> which was often read to Weedle as as he slept at the base of my parents bed. But more often or not he was buried deepd down under the duvet with me. </p><p>He did get his own back by clawing the hell out of Watership Down as no one paid him any attention. In fact it was at the last battle with General Woundwort when he went rogue. Along with the Horse and his Boy its one of those books that I've tried to read a few times but never got. </p>King Tibbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165391088265351320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772414784104727778.post-15103673596932240242024-01-07T16:35:00.001+00:002024-01-07T16:44:52.849+00:00Happy New Year.<p> For the first time in ages I went to Greenwich park. I wanted to look around the meridian line and the clock museum but its now £18 to get in, and last time I went there it was free. </p><p>They are renovating the grass areas to restore it back to the 17th century original, so it looks rough at the moment. If you really like dogs and are a tourist then give it a go. Me, I'll not be going back anytime soon. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGgdPsxdRD1eiW6V3H03dq2VH60ChhfXhoQyV8UulJPGpZPCUTJZWGdZct2UpqGyqZ4IqkNzJWplRDzAFRYF5F19bhXkvYHPH6sPtxbo1RdvGpvDiB5ASWAHPZXpbfn7H9THcPQfHrwwCNtyQ4HYASLc7r3Tztv1tYR4sjii3jkt2YoWBB2Ub9ReBkx54/s948/Special%20Clock24.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="948" data-original-width="711" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGgdPsxdRD1eiW6V3H03dq2VH60ChhfXhoQyV8UulJPGpZPCUTJZWGdZct2UpqGyqZ4IqkNzJWplRDzAFRYF5F19bhXkvYHPH6sPtxbo1RdvGpvDiB5ASWAHPZXpbfn7H9THcPQfHrwwCNtyQ4HYASLc7r3Tztv1tYR4sjii3jkt2YoWBB2Ub9ReBkx54/s320/Special%20Clock24.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>Better times was had looking round Greenwich town itself. There are a few charity shops but none open on new years day. The local Music Video Exchange is open and I manage to get a few good things in the bargain rails. This includes Body 2 Body Let's get Intimate and a hopefully not too smacked up Neil Hawaiian House EP. Oh and Freeman by big Darryl Pandy.<p></p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>King Tibbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165391088265351320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772414784104727778.post-62503461770012687872023-12-31T17:26:00.004+00:002023-12-31T17:26:49.998+00:00Whale Tattoo<p>The secret of the whale tattoo review, then, when I should be wishing you a happy new year and putting myself to bed. </p><p>The boys are helping out at a local carnival hoping to catch pickpockets on behalf of a MR Solo. Fenton has a case where a man, calling himself Black Right, has a missing ivory idol for sale, that was looted a few years back. Those two cases couldn't possibly be connected... could they?</p><p>Indeed they are and when a stuffed blue whale is uncovered on a building site owned by Tony Prito's dad then it seems that some one wants to stop them from putting two and two together and finding out who the gang on robbers with whale tattoos are. </p><p>The action takes place in Bayport and Mystic Connecticut. There is a nice throw in to cryptozoology too, as the whale was washed up in Montauk where a <a href="https://allthatsinteresting.com/montauk-monster" target="_blank">mystery beast</a> was also found in 2008. The whale, now owned by Tony Prito and Biff Hooper, gets stolen and the boys head out to capture it.</p><p>It's not a bad story overall, the Tattoo angle is strange for the point of view these days as the world and their dog seems to have some sort of body art. Back when it was written this was quite different, as only certain types had tatts. </p><p>There is no real differences between the UK and US editions either. All references to carnies and such are gone. It's not as if we don't have these travelling fairs either. And the ending where Cousin Elmer (a long lost cousin and some sort of sailor) comes to stay is changed. But that is it.</p><p>You can find the original and the UK versions <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZNKLWel3PnwdpU7ycPkCJEJHVyAorH3A/view?usp=drive_link" target="_blank">here</a>. and <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f8IyyxMVjEjdzkZgUKFrddPWrjH6i-Qn/view?usp=drive_link" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>King Tibbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165391088265351320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772414784104727778.post-22278650955551700942023-12-26T17:25:00.000+00:002023-12-26T17:25:00.627+00:00Year round up missed flipped skipped edition 2023<p> It's the time of year where we see all the things we forgot about over the past few days. It also includes vidya books and YTP and Youtuber stuff so without further ado lets check in.</p><p>Music. </p><p>Coi Leray Girls are players too.</p><p>A.K.A. Girls are fit as fuck (which is what I sing along to it,) A.K.A. That track that ripped off the Message Grandmaster Flash but ended up sucking balls.</p><p><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/2845606-Theo-Parrish-DJ-Kicks-Detroit-Forward" target="_blank">Theo Parrish. DJ Kicks.</a></p><p>Some top drawer Jazzy House and indeed Housey Jazz style tracks here. Forgot all about this and really wish I didn't.</p><p>TV.</p><p>All creatures great and small.</p><p>Used to watch this back in the day, and will say that this is a good version of proper modernization. Previous series had Jim Moir (Vic Reeves) on a break from drawing. This season Rio Ferdinand with a Ferret.</p><p>Books. </p><p><a href="https://www.lauriegarrett.com/the-coming-plague" target="_blank">The coming plague.</a></p><p>A thick old book looking at emerging diseases. It ended around 1995 and covered Ebola, Antibiotic resistance and the emergence of HIV / AIDS. Whereas the "Gay plague" as it was dubbed in the west did indeed rip through the gay communities of America. I was surprised to know that it was war and chronic needle shortage leading to reuse of syringes that lay the foundations of the AIDS epidemic in Africa. That and regular prostitution. It doesn't cover SARS or COVID as those were this centuries diseases, but the same rules apply. I'm pretty sure that SARS will have a natural origin along with the general shoddiness of Chinese safety protocols, that will be what caused the pandemic.</p><p>Youtube.</p><p>A few good things, such as Miles Power's demolition of Holocaust Denial. Including weirdo guy half naked in a kiddies playground. </p><p>No if you want the best of the best, its a Ya Boy Zack vid on the whole <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsdqhE84MT4" target="_blank">trans autistic lesbians</a> write inferior comic books vid. My thoughts on trans BTW is that you need genuine dysmorphia to be trans, its not a feeling or that I can't handle being a pretty girl so I'll be a boy instead. Sorry doesn't work, you need to grow up feeling that my body is not the one I'm supposed to be in. </p><p>Movies.</p><p>Finally saw the Mario film yesterday and it was a genuine joy laughing at all the little in jokes. Such as the Gamecube start up music on Luigi's phone, and Bowsers Ludwig von Koopa piano he sings along to.<br /><br /></p><p>Games.</p><p>Both Metroid Dread and Labyrinth of Refrain: Covenant of Dread are occupying my time. Absolute top notch, with ironically both a female lead in each game. The the latter has lesbian nuns in it. Plus Madam Dronya is one laconic bitch. </p><p><br /></p><p> </p>King Tibbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165391088265351320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772414784104727778.post-35788757016995019212023-12-25T17:41:00.002+00:002023-12-25T17:41:50.993+00:00A tale of two kitties.<p> This is the place where we'd usually expand on what music I'd thought was cool / sucked this year but seeing as we switched from Kiss FM to Heart at work then it basically boils down to the new <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRxGdKIuO20" target="_blank">Andre 3000 flute jazz</a> album as the absolute best and Commercial Cee Sprinter as the total nadir of the year. </p><p>No I'd rather spend my time writing about cats or rather a tale of two kitties. Tabby McTat for the BBC and Mog on Channel 4. Both are set in London and whereas Mog is a full on nostalgia fest set in what looks like the 70's. Tabby McTat is a full on modern day, Multi-cultural London. As a result it feels weirdly off. Modern day things for a modern day audience.</p><p>Tabby, stars a busker and his singing cat, who thanks to a crook nicking his hat full of takings ends up in A&E while his cat wanders off to live with the weird lesbians and their cat Sock, a Black cat with a white paw. I thought one of them was trans at first until I clicked its supposed to be Islington and they're leftie weirdo types. One of the best things I can fully cheer them for is Weedle representation as one of Sock's kittens is a Weedle type. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghKOvvyrbzS6kzS4QuzcPY8_OhyvnGhZGHKqHDiJiGikcjjia_Aq8uHvTrG73M7o9OrMGOl7bDvd8pBsufSnY5851HhViDKVNsVwljnPqIYoolXx7ONiXi57JkgH8-gcA5AW17ZQxLhQNrmMDj1XXbovXJPcxUhi1yc6wvp_-iZq5X33jz32oHBYp3TV8/s1413/Weedle%20and%20Panini%20Sticker%20album.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1197" data-original-width="1413" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghKOvvyrbzS6kzS4QuzcPY8_OhyvnGhZGHKqHDiJiGikcjjia_Aq8uHvTrG73M7o9OrMGOl7bDvd8pBsufSnY5851HhViDKVNsVwljnPqIYoolXx7ONiXi57JkgH8-gcA5AW17ZQxLhQNrmMDj1XXbovXJPcxUhi1yc6wvp_-iZq5X33jz32oHBYp3TV8/s320/Weedle%20and%20Panini%20Sticker%20album.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Weedle and Xmas 80x or so.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Anyway the two are reunited and busker bloke gets a place and takes on Tabby's son Spratt.</p><p>Mog on the other hand is a real gem. Based on the books by Judith Kerr, this is a real nostalgia bait for those of a certain age. It just screams family and cosyness. It has mum, dad, a daughter and son and Mog, trying to deal with change at Xmas. Dad gets a spanking great tree for his kids, and Mog is booted out. If you are an Autistic weirdo like me you'll see parallels to the autism experience of change and stuff. Mog decamps to the roof while this is going on. </p><p>Meanwhile they have family over, a cheerful uncle and two aunties one dozy and one quite sane. You can imagine them living together as two spinsters or you can imply they're not. Anyway it just hangs together as a family unit. Mog does decide to come down via the chimney and runs amok, before being captured and bathed. </p><p>I will say its beautiful, and of a period of London long lost. The only non white is a Jamaica lady who's evil chimp child of a son likes Mog. Tabby McTat is the full on modern London with modern values, but this is for the old heads who grew up here and see it decline full time. </p><p>You can see it <a href="https://www.channel4.com/programmes/mogs-christmas" target="_blank">here</a>. Tabby McTat is on iPlayer which is not free and therefore doesn't get a link.</p>King Tibbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165391088265351320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772414784104727778.post-78030511219225105182023-12-24T16:56:00.001+00:002023-12-24T16:56:35.552+00:00Round up year end edition. PT1Apologies for this but I really should have kept a better tally of what I saw, listened to and played this year. But I didn't. So here is a few things that were actually pretty boss before we head off for the annual Miranda awards.<div><br /></div><div>Best.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27004289/?ref_=ttep_ep17" target="_blank">CSI Vegas season 2</a>. An episode called the promise was the best bit, a cold case of child dumped in a lake 40 years ago and revealed as the water levels dropped, also we finally get Greg (Eric Szmanda) back as a visiting professor to help out the Crime lab.</div><div><br /></div><div>Endeavour. Final episode of the Inspector Morse spin off. One of those where you wonder what will happen to either Fred Thursday or his daughter Joan, both main characters and both never made it into the regular Inspector Morse show.</div><div><br /></div><div>Lidl's Xmas advert.</div><div><br /></div><div>Because you can excuse a poor year for everything with a festive raccoon. </div><div><br /></div><div>Rolf Harris making of a monster.</div><div><br /></div><div>Proving that an entertaining wrong' un is still a wrong' un. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Miranda awards, for televisual train wrecks. </div><div><br /></div><div>Unforgotten. </div><div><br /></div><div>We got a new case this year along with a new bird in charge. Its grim as it involves a body buried in the wall of a house in south London. It also remains largely watchable with Sanjeev Bhaskar being an excellent actor. So why is it here. For fucking activism. Wokery and other bullshit politics. You know when the old Tory MP was a suspect you just knew he ended up doing it. (He didn't mind you but was fitted up for it. Because Tories evil).</div><div><br /></div><div> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Eve_Stratford_and_Lynne_Weedon" target="_blank">The Centerfold Murders</a></div><div><br /></div><div> A largely boring reconstruction of a murdered playboy bunny in the 1970's. Bailed out after 15 minutes and later found she posed for <a href="http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/showthread.php?t=10759&highlight=eve+stratford" target="_blank">old softcore mags</a> (NSFW) back in the 1970's. </div><div><br /></div><div>Caught on Dashcam.</div><div><br /></div><div>This I've largely forgotten, apparently Andy Nyman narrates this, thought it was Jamie Theakston of Heart breakfast fame. What this needed was a Beavis and Butthead style laughing at accidents style. </div><div><br /></div><div>Finally Sainsburys Christmas advert. I care little what Father Christmas has for dinner. Though I've just seen this years Digitizer mans Daddy jokes so I'm guessing it's Roast Reindeer. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>King Tibbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165391088265351320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772414784104727778.post-21124574671042985502023-12-17T17:18:00.000+00:002023-12-17T17:18:03.960+00:00Baphomet and Youtube<p> It seems that America is having a normal one again. For my sins I follow a few culture war posters on X and it seems that they are toppling statues in America again. Some literal baldy man version of the Chad meme guy has beheaded a statue of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/15/satanic-temple-vandalism-iowa-state-capitol" target="_blank">Baphomet</a>, put up in Des Moines, Iowa. </p><p>The overwhelming part of this thinks its a good thing, and focuses on the Christcuck right's obsession with guns, god and finding a place to start a family. As someone who's a autistic loner by trade and admission I'm in no position to own my own arsenal or plot of land let alone a bird to call my own. </p><p>Besides as an atheist we really do use Satan to mock you, because church and state should be separate not tied together, so tight you cannot pull them apart. That abortion should be a right and not contraception. </p><p>In other news, I got another strike from Youtube, as the greatest moments in porn, (entirely nudity free but found fucking hilarious) got pulled for being spammy. No the real reason is that I stick to the 2010 Youtube rules if its funny I post and would never, ever link to or accept any monetization of my channel or paid sponsorship. You pulled it be you couldn't get an ad sponsor of it. We are not the same. </p><p><br /></p>King Tibbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165391088265351320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772414784104727778.post-59929396091581833082023-12-10T17:14:00.001+00:002023-12-10T17:14:43.996+00:00That's why mum's go to Iceland<p> We started reading through the Arctic Patrol mystery just as reports were coming through that Iceland was experiencing a major volcanic event. That would have been last month when that big crack in the earth split open <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67402198" target="_blank">Grindevik</a>.</p><p>Anyway Arctic Patrol mystery, serendipity aside, is the second Hardy boys book here. You may have got House on the Cliff in America. For us its the Hardy's trip to the cold north. The boys, Chet Morton and Biff Hooper travel to Iceland to find one Rex Mar and say he's inherited $50,000 from someone who saved him back then. There is of course another mystery of a missing Astronaut training in the harsh lava landscape of Iceland's countryside. Gee I wonder if the two cases are related.</p><p>There seems to be quite a good bit on Iceland here. Some language and last name customs along with talk on cuisine and the ever present elves. You don't get much difference between the two editions. We get the term sod hut replaced which sounds like a step up from the naughty step, and a few UK spellings of words, but compared to the later books which have bugger all done to it, this seems like a veritable litany of changes. Finally thanks to my printer dying you were supposed to get a copy of the map of Iceland printed in the front of the book. Also another cat I drew in biro back in the day (he's called Leo).</p><p>Anyway you know the drill <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xwmFsnkQ3tyR30p3heAyU2RVJGjiOPlj/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">UK</a> version here <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cPXnw0pNybWRqS3OEseQZKZzMNSbEytf/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">US</a> version here.</p><p><br /></p>King Tibbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165391088265351320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772414784104727778.post-25730547226437191392023-12-03T17:17:00.003+00:002023-12-03T17:17:34.708+00:00Who is this for. Noticed an ad in the Sunday supplement in the week for one of those realistic babies, and it got me thinking... Who are these aimed at. I know there are sex dolls for those who, for some reason lack a partner (cough) or just have a fetish for silicone dolls. But I don't see this being the market at all. What I'm describing is a realistic baby often a newborn or so rendered in silicone. <div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.rebornbaby.org.uk/" target="_blank">Something like this</a> and I just don't get the appeal. I remember there being a baby <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/reborn-orangutan/s?k=reborn+orangutan" target="_blank">Orangutan </a>version as well, if you want your own lifelike librarian from the Unseen University. </div><div><br /></div><div>A few other things as well cross this area of appeal, the whole kids pageant thing and why you never became a dancer type programmes on TV. You know they used to have this on TLC where they followed a bunch of kids dancing. Never quite sure of the audience with this. If you're a paedo then there are far too many shots of the parents for you know "those" purposes. I guess its for women who did ballet / dance training as a kid and failed. </div>King Tibbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165391088265351320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772414784104727778.post-51472078042160546802023-11-26T17:29:00.003+00:002023-11-26T17:29:52.813+00:00Two stores One old one new.<p> For some reason I've been wanting to go up town for ages, but seeing all the Paleswine shills marching and such, have been put off. But seeing on the news that HMV has reopened, made me bite the bullet and actually go. </p><p>They got some woman who has never set foot in a record store, to record it but at least she says records and not vinyls which to me is a capital offence. </p><p>We were off to a good start as we saw a small cockermutt on the tube going down and while looking for either a <a href="https://liesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/future-wave" target="_blank">Tom Carruthers</a> new album or that Andre 3000 flute jazz thing (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Blue_Sun" target="_blank">New Blue Sun</a>) on CD, struck out, did well enough at Reckless Records to pick up several things from some pretty diligent bargain bin hunting. (Oh saw some pretty rare acid stuff for big bucks too, I need a Friend Farley and Love For Sale PDC which was new for me).</p><p>Won £5 and spotted this error message in the wild from the slots. </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijQgniT1z2jyYwemt9l-F6BQgLKgdQoISuDl9Y_IfrNsJWbtSN59qYsPUKQmv3CgLbiR8COEFhAtecHMI_hFS3RLnIpS6KbOJKHww1ytRbwZnMNlc0HTLCadDz2Na-wiwYC3LgXJJbpaAehXobi66QZmTjj9jlHxyY9VmEzhE2gVpVrRep7ZpCH_v36lU/s948/Please%20Insert%20USB%20stick%20with%20Cabinet%20Configuration.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="948" data-original-width="711" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijQgniT1z2jyYwemt9l-F6BQgLKgdQoISuDl9Y_IfrNsJWbtSN59qYsPUKQmv3CgLbiR8COEFhAtecHMI_hFS3RLnIpS6KbOJKHww1ytRbwZnMNlc0HTLCadDz2Na-wiwYC3LgXJJbpaAehXobi66QZmTjj9jlHxyY9VmEzhE2gVpVrRep7ZpCH_v36lU/s320/Please%20Insert%20USB%20stick%20with%20Cabinet%20Configuration.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p>More importantly this looks like this sort of machine is running under some sort of Windows configuration looks like 7 from the error message. Sorry for it being janky as they really don't like you taking photos in the slot halls here.</p><p>So the upshot of this is was HMV OK. Well it was mid, dance thing is small and its not the main store up on Oxford street where I saw Kawasu launch FF12 here and what looked like Axl Rose in a large moogle suit. Nor the Kinect thing where the bloke yelled at the crowd to keep back every few seconds or so. Its the other one by Bond street tube. </p><p>Finally we saw an antiwoke march which you won't hear about on the news. Seriously though, you won't there was only about 30 or so of them and they were well behaved. Kind of blotted their copy books with some bonkers Piers Corbyn anti climate change bullshit, proving either brother is a fucktard.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaoF1DSIp0dXq1eB0EFVbsygKEzPMKG5d6qB9y0Fant_x7OhpIwJKTfAmwqO6UgwHMD-kYQcEjbpTFOkzl322jjacQmfn2N2GS8YxeBPU25jIsQjkgNlUdc1KNXrgT-79zDSuNII1kyZnAHbT4qjVVXw2gPOJJZnmrjYfBFroWhrzTuma6LWCFhBUdvig/s1259/Antiwoke%20Protest.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="948" data-original-width="1259" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaoF1DSIp0dXq1eB0EFVbsygKEzPMKG5d6qB9y0Fant_x7OhpIwJKTfAmwqO6UgwHMD-kYQcEjbpTFOkzl322jjacQmfn2N2GS8YxeBPU25jIsQjkgNlUdc1KNXrgT-79zDSuNII1kyZnAHbT4qjVVXw2gPOJJZnmrjYfBFroWhrzTuma6LWCFhBUdvig/s320/Antiwoke%20Protest.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>Finally here is a stray memory does anyone remember a shop up town in the 80s off oxford street that had a load of mechanical legs in the window going it. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHhD4PD75zY" target="_blank">This sort of thing</a> but unclothed. Have this strong memory of it being in the shop window. </p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p><br /></p><p> </p>King Tibbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165391088265351320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772414784104727778.post-68483201719518328342023-11-19T17:21:00.002+00:002023-11-26T16:57:01.631+00:00Xmas adverts 2o23<p> Its come to that time of year when the Xmas ads are upon us. Halloween is over and black Friday is now a thing seeing as we don't do fucksgiving here yet. So it all boils down to what the John Lewis ad is this year (Little Shop of Horrors rip off with Andrea Bocelli apparently.)</p><p>I'll give you a take on the ones I've seen so far. </p><p><b>Good.</b></p><p><a href="https://www.underthechristmastree.co.uk/lidl-releases-its-2023-christmas-advert/" target="_blank">Lidls Raccoon saves Christmas</a>. Pretty much what it says. A bin panda rescues a a stuffed toy and brings it home for child. Contains doggo and a link to a stuffed toy for kids charity. </p><p>Aldi. A homage to Charlie and his Chocolate factory. It seems the budget supermarkets are knocking it out of the park this year. This one is run by a Conker, and yes all the other veg do get their comeuppance like in the original.</p><p><b>Indifferent</b></p><p>Morrisons. A load of singing oven gloves and their more reasons to stroke a <a href="https://www.pets4homes.co.uk/pet-advice/six-interesting-facts-about-ginger-cats.html" target="_blank">manovus</a>* jingle. It should be cool but for some reason falls flat. </p><p>Marks and Sparks Food. The main one I haven't seen, but this is more gloves, talking mittens and Dawn French as the fairy again. </p><p>Edit. Now I have and it's just a bunch of people being selfish bastards.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Bad</b></p><p>Sainsburys. What does Santa have for dinner, which is bastard awful, I've seen this more times than I can think of. I think its two disprin and a kip for the next 364 days.</p><p><br /></p>King Tibbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165391088265351320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772414784104727778.post-7631047846451450472023-11-12T17:11:00.002+00:002023-11-19T16:55:09.917+00:00Revenge of the Desert Phantom Review<p>This is an odd one. The Hardys have a missing persons task, to track down a dead warlord's daughter and return her home. It means we get a trip to central Africa and the made up country of Zebwa bordering Kenya which they fly into. Seeing as the made up country is part desert wilderness and part Rainforest, I'm guessing its half Uganda and half South Sudan. As is typical in Africa the country suffered from civil war and corruption. </p><p>Also for some reason they've made a tsundere ginger Iola Morton. I repeat Dark haired sister of Chet, ginger. The back story here is that she is entering a beauty pageant to win a scholarship. Joe can't help as much as the case takes him to France. He does get a simp called Jim Gunther who she picks to help.</p><p>The winner is the girl they are tasked to find. The trip back lets them pilot some Metal Slug style mega tank and gas light us about the Hardys never firing a gun, forgetting the original House on The Cliff and Fox hunting bit in the Original Cabin island. Gunner Chet Morton is pretty fun as well.</p><p>All in all its not a bad story if you can overlook ginger Iola Morton, It feels like a prototype version of a casefiles story from 3 years later. Although Iola is killed by a car bomb in that time line. </p><p>Anyway Original <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D1XrmOAq1g2vevQ1ry1T9kav2rfOtX1n/view?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow">here </a>UK version <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jIE66VrVXNJpKs2Yrr8ML5IUHEpDARF1/view?usp=drive_link" target="_blank">here</a>. You aren't getting much different just Landrover spelt like that and a few French words added that may be in the original. </p><p><br /></p><p> </p>King Tibbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165391088265351320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772414784104727778.post-62730474575685352602023-11-05T17:03:00.002+00:002023-11-05T17:03:23.932+00:00New Beatles.<p> Here is a weird thing, they've got a new Beatles track out (Now and Then) despite half of them being dead. It's part of the Free as a Bird thing which I have clear memory of being promoted on the Big Breakfast. With Chris Evans and I think news caster Phil Gayle or predecessor Peter Smith (just checked and its 95 so definitely Smith).</p><p>It apparently was part of this tape Lennon recorded before he died and was previously too degraded to be used. FFWD 25 years or so and thanks to AI there is a new Beatles track.</p><p>The thing is, from a dance perspective, the Beatles did nothing for us. Radiophonic workshop did the whole experimentalism thing better and Kraftwerk would go on to be massively influential. There's only a few Macca tracks I like (Temporary Secretary and Check my Machine), </p>King Tibbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165391088265351320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772414784104727778.post-66171037401184825412023-10-29T16:43:00.002+00:002023-10-29T16:49:21.320+00:00Twisted Claws<p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGdveWvF_RZydu3f_udaorSSEh5nFSXEN1QrWiNA16DQ7OAsSDLC2WhZFTp_g-uNd6ohzAYDDmjGk8mykmTvEBjI5VGNuX0dwhlc_7xqXKn2n4Ryp4NiJC8ueunFOp7lQQVIc7st1SohYxOXXKFWV3M-HBiYOhrOkqdVEKwPU0C7Gd54T-HyCNc8DlXj4/s1024/The%20Hardy%20Boys2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGdveWvF_RZydu3f_udaorSSEh5nFSXEN1QrWiNA16DQ7OAsSDLC2WhZFTp_g-uNd6ohzAYDDmjGk8mykmTvEBjI5VGNuX0dwhlc_7xqXKn2n4Ryp4NiJC8ueunFOp7lQQVIc7st1SohYxOXXKFWV3M-HBiYOhrOkqdVEKwPU0C7Gd54T-HyCNc8DlXj4/s320/The%20Hardy%20Boys2.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Love this version, makes it look like a casefiles book</td></tr></tbody></table><p>This is the 11th Hardy boys mystery. And one that is quite a bit strange. First of all its a smuggling ring based on a mysterious Caribbean island. The second it's all about pirates.</p><p>UK edition.</p><p>Quite what has changed here is anyone's guess. I have the original text file and a home scanned copy of the UK edition remake complete with cats drawn in the flyleaf. </p><p>It has some similarities in common with the original, Pirate island / Smuggling ships called the Parrots, logs used for smuggling and a trip to Canada. But this is where it ends as this is a different story. Oh and an old book that details the Twisted Claw pirate lineage. </p><p>Fenton Hardy tells the boys that he's onto an international smuggling ring targeting the De Graw collection in various museums. It seems that The Black Parrot, an old schooner is being used to transport it. The boys dress up as old salts and try to blag their way onboard but none of the crew are friendly and end up in Canada. After many daring thefts they try to foil, they end up on the sister ship. Yellow Parrot winging their way to the Caribbean, paying a visit to the king of an unknown island that is the smuggler boss. </p><p>Original</p><p>Frank loses his wallet complete with code book in. Pierre of the Black Parrot ship targets them to give them some papers from Fenton Hardy. When they fail to do so, he breaks in and scares Aunt Gertrude and their Bejayzus Oirish maid, Mary. When their mum comes back with a strange message they work out that their dad is kidnapped in Canada. Their trip there garners two of the Parrot gang captured and a daring rescue of their Dad from a forest fire. Later they get board on the Yellow Parrot schooner and manage to win over most of the crew. </p><p>They reach Barracuda island home of the Twisted Claw smuggling empire. They sneak in and watch the strange meeting of the Parrot gangs .Back on board they get the crew to mutiny when Pierre catches them and they send a last gasp SOS which rounds up the gang. </p><p>Trivia.</p><p>Apparently the mystery island is 5 hours GMT behind where they live in Bayport..</p><p><br /></p><p>You can read the original and UK version <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L8crj3njrA89u9aScpf579xc5GjRYBd4/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bNHXzP_IsgnPwQZYVqn0lF6pvWlrmV6k/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>King Tibbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165391088265351320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772414784104727778.post-51260806296163089002023-10-22T17:02:00.004+01:002023-10-29T16:47:37.464+00:00AI Art<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU5q_mI7e07cGA7D7MD1_DYApSu1NXkV4tT4y1N5AEJmhGLo-fIwTvkJzYjBUKdUkE-QPN6ZIDTIZLRTdMrrlRl_jPmm0HdrSE2CGUVyuVhpKQexG-Nu4cCDbefx3V-1IzIQj2dM7dACBkprvjUZ33H7rwcZ7M34bmhqaMcpwH5J_BolfS4Ou8JLG3e8I/s1024/Elsa%20no%20yuki1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU5q_mI7e07cGA7D7MD1_DYApSu1NXkV4tT4y1N5AEJmhGLo-fIwTvkJzYjBUKdUkE-QPN6ZIDTIZLRTdMrrlRl_jPmm0HdrSE2CGUVyuVhpKQexG-Nu4cCDbefx3V-1IzIQj2dM7dACBkprvjUZ33H7rwcZ7M34bmhqaMcpwH5J_BolfS4Ou8JLG3e8I/s320/Elsa%20no%20yuki1.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elsa the undefeated</td></tr></tbody></table><br /> We've been messing around with Bing A.I. putting in all sorts of stuff and seeing if the bastards in control will let us render it flesh. Its hit and miss our Pixar version of the Chuckle Brothers was shot down and we had a few attempts to render Black Metal Nativity before hitting paydirt. But the only thing I've gotten a warning for is Drew Pickles being his swell self. It seems they're onto him and his 308 mile long p-p-penis. </p><p> For those without a Microsoft account (had to reinstall windows without a serial, so yeah I have one.) there is also <a href="https://www.craiyon.com/" target="_blank">Craiyon </a>which will produce some cosmic horrors and <a href="https://stablediffusionweb.com/" target="_blank">Stable Diffusion</a>. <br /></p><p>Enough blather, you want to see cosmic horror. </p><p>Edit It's given permission. Enjoy.</p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheNeQH3xGcv2uA91sFp7HQjIR5zO-Yyz_3fhtlZ3YQjMqEkJUmF2mpnv_lbiBLEgL7-Ee3zAKvzUJOUSO6aTIz7Y_I6xlYryD0edtWTIfQbBQZnv41BXNtBDXJSFqsROpDQigZs8BHNzllJvcESrMVjIv2ZodUo3C0QI_knxTFame04QzoESkY6ozxtoA/s1024/Aphex%20Tame.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheNeQH3xGcv2uA91sFp7HQjIR5zO-Yyz_3fhtlZ3YQjMqEkJUmF2mpnv_lbiBLEgL7-Ee3zAKvzUJOUSO6aTIz7Y_I6xlYryD0edtWTIfQbBQZnv41BXNtBDXJSFqsROpDQigZs8BHNzllJvcESrMVjIv2ZodUo3C0QI_knxTFame04QzoESkY6ozxtoA/s320/Aphex%20Tame.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tamest Aphex Twin</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMApXUIc9gAdBzvZeFDBtcrfrVMQFZ8baINmTUiVsdOdIkkc7pbBjI3eqN-EGyVLS96eIz8Z2eXWf7oHDWV-QBIAg9JNG7-nWD3rhrCqO2pehSiWnvZe_Us-_bVmAXFwl435l6ojpFgKLMWzrhRgLebW-2Enfg4_N7Ffe9zDb3eAYfgMKLGcGaEUyXQZI/s1024/a2_vampire_Jimmy_Savile.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMApXUIc9gAdBzvZeFDBtcrfrVMQFZ8baINmTUiVsdOdIkkc7pbBjI3eqN-EGyVLS96eIz8Z2eXWf7oHDWV-QBIAg9JNG7-nWD3rhrCqO2pehSiWnvZe_Us-_bVmAXFwl435l6ojpFgKLMWzrhRgLebW-2Enfg4_N7Ffe9zDb3eAYfgMKLGcGaEUyXQZI/s320/a2_vampire_Jimmy_Savile.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vampire Savile</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p>King Tibbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165391088265351320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6772414784104727778.post-3626154541636818022023-10-15T16:56:00.004+01:002023-10-15T16:56:54.235+01:00Bedtime Stories update or such.<p> Just got done reading the Arctic Patrol mystery aka the Hardys in Iceland. And we have yet another cat this one is called Leo. I'll add a photo of Leo when the printer isn't broken AF. But I'm drawing a blank on this as well. Guess it must tie in with the Uncle Weedle stories somehow, but I've long forgotten.</p>King Tibbethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15165391088265351320noreply@blogger.com0