Cumolotagus

Take any text or URL, chuck it into Wordle and err, Wordleise it into a lovely cloud of copy. Like Mr Poe's corvid poem here.

Tea's Made

This Cartoon....

More fun here

Nom de pune

Surprised to see that shoe shop 'R. Soles' of Chelsea's Kings Road isn't on the list.


There's another 49 of them here - cheers Nath!

A bit of Shrigley for you...

More, much more, genius here

Random part-sentance of the day

"Seedlessness is a highly desirable subjective quality in table grape selection..."

More here

Tittymil

I saw this the other day when i was in Cornwall, and most excellent it is too. I wonder what other products could genuinely make the same claim? Answers to the usual address...

3122

My name is the 3122 most commonly used word in the English Language and is used slightly more than the word Killing.





Word Count has been around for a while but i recently rediscovered it - it's from the guys behind We feel fine, etc and is fascinating.

Did(70) you(14) know(83) that(7) No(51) is(9) much(101) more(54) commonly(3579) used(136) than(90) Yes(146).

Well you do now.

Look at this.

I want to take you back to an age of innocence. An age of scrumping for apples, not stabbing for iPods. An age of being able to walk to school without any pedophilia phobias. An age of ladybirds, not ladyboys (well i hadn't heard of such a thing back then anyway).

Yes Ladybird have put all their books online, you can't read them but you can buy prints of the artwork - excellent stuff.


This was my favourite book as a child.

Peg Pencil

From Yuta Watanabe

Last Exit To Harleston

This is a page from The Harleston Grapevine, a local rural newsletter from my boss's village in Norfolk.

For some reason it kind of reminded me of Herbert Selby Jr's style of writing, albeit a daft bucolic version of it.

For the uninitiated, he wrote Last Exit To Brooklyn and Requiem for a Dream. His style of dialogue was phonetic and frenetic - and completely mind-blowing.

If you haven't read them you should.

Below is an passage from Last Exit. It doesn't really demonstrate the style i'm talking about but it does give you an idea of what you're getting into when you read his work.

" They formed a circle and kicked. He tried to roll over on his stomach and cover his face with his arms, but as he got to his side he was kicked in the groin and stomped on the ear and he screamed, cried, started pleading then just cried as a foot cracked his mouth, Ya fuckin cottonpickin punk, and a hard kick in the ribs turned him slightly and he tried to raise himself on one knee and someone took a short step forward and kicked him in the solarplexus and he fell on his side, his knees up, arms folded across his abdomen, gasping for air and the blood in his mouth gurgled as he tried to scream, rolled down his chin then spumed forth as he vomited violently and someone stomped his face into the pool of vomit and the blood whirled slightly in arcs and a few bubbles gurgled in the puke as he panted and gasped and their shoes thudded into the shiteatingbastards kidneys and ribs and he groaned and his head rolled in the puke breaking the arching patterns of blood and he gasped as a kick broke his nose then coughed and retched as his gasping sucked some of the vomit back in his mouth and he cried and tried to yell but it was muffled by the pool and the guys yells and Freddy kicked him in the temple and the yellowbastards eyes rolled back and his head lolled for a moment and he passed out and his head splashed and thumped to the ground ..."

Harsh, harsh, harsh.

Charity means:

Great site for a copywriter with a conscience, or anyone else for that matter. Improve your vocabulary and donate rice.

Moleskine skin

Keep your idle scribblings warm and dry - i want one.

Fry's Quirkish Delight

'Lust, desire, pleasure demanded, pleasure received, reward, punishment, deferral, delay, arrival, joy, rush, gorging, rush, rush, rush sickness, shame, guilt. Crash. Down. Despair. Need … more, more sugar, more rush, more reward. Need it now. No money left. Help. Steal. Need. Discovery. Exposure. Shame.'

That's Stephen Fry's words not mine. He's writing about sweets, and more importantly on addiction. He's writing on his blog.

He's such a cool bloke - we should all read it.

A mouth full

Just found these couple of sentences on Wikipedia...

"One can also be a step-grandparent. A step-grandparent can be your parent's step-parent or your step-parent's parent. A step-parent's step-parent theoretically is not a step-grandparent but is none the less called a step-grandparent."

Try saying that when you're pissed.

VeIa (Very Intersting Article)

Whether you used to laugh out loud and now you LOL, or you used to ship packages through Federal Express and now you do it through FedEx, there is no denying that language is getting shorter, faster and catchier — sometimes to the detriment of linguistics, as evidenced by Flickr's MIA e or the unsightly but popular CU L8R. But, properness aside, the inclination of tightening, merging and otherwise welding commonly used words, terms, and companies' or even persons' names is simply a reflection of our constant crusade to make our lives easier by shaving off a few seconds of any given conversation, correspondence or transaction. Manifested in different written forms and expressed in a variety of pronunciations — think ASAP (aysap), AWOL (awall), DoD, BevNap, Tomkat, Brangelina, starchitects, spanglish, etc. — most of these shortenings become a natural part of our lexicon as they roll nicely off the tongue and help express dual meanings in one fell swoop. And, perhaps the catchiest and most enviable form of syncopation is the two-word, four-letter (2/4 from hereon) syllabic abbreviation. Like SoHo.

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