Author: GriddleOctopus

If you’re looking for my samples folder, it’s here.

  • I’ve had to dispose of four years of comments my compadres, because CommentThis got cancelled. Which is an arse. So go populate the comment threads below, create children of the intellect, spread your words of wisdom wide, disagree with my balls. Or at least leave short, mildly offensive comments, whichever the easier.

  • San Francisco. I thought I hadn’t seen San Francisco; of course, I’d seen something of it, seen the centre and the buildings and the cable cars avalanching by; but I felt there was a social San Francisco out there, the supercool city of Maupin, which I was somehow missing by not knowing anyone there. Yet,…

  • This is terrible. I normally do freelance for money (to gain it and to take up time so I can’t spend it) yet I’ve found myself looking forward with vicarious delight to a certain piece of my freelance; Computer Upgrade’s Time Wheel. It takes me ages, I’ve got to get my own images, and it…

  • Scientists create animals that are part-human – Stem Cell Research – MSNBC.com: “On a farm about six miles outside this gambling town, Jason Chamberlain looks over a flock of about 50 smelly sheep, many of them possessing partially human livers, hearts, brains and other organs.” Agh! The very concept of a sheep with a human…

  • Was meant to be living frugally and doing freelance. Was sat at desk, attempting freelance, hours after a work. An evil Alan whispered sweet nothings in my ear, and I found myself whisked away in a Jag to a land of chips, pie and poker, where I lost all my money and had my allergies…