Diary of an up and coming sociopath

Yeah, yeah, I gave in to peer pressure and got a Twitter account. Add me if you want, and I’ll keep you entertained with my innermost superficial musings.

As per twitter rules of engagement, I have added Warren Ellis to my follow list.

Also, as you would already know, IF YOU WERE FOLLOWING ME ON TWITTER I spent the weekend in Bristol. Too knackered to discuss it now, but rest assured there are some stories that’ll be told. If, in the meantime, you hear that a madman has gunned down those responsible for traffic management in the city, you can assume I took matters into my own hands.

In case anyone’s wondering where I’ve been the last couple of weeks, I’ve been playing GTA4. You don’t need me to tell you it’s great.

Had a busy weekend celebration Damian and Nikki’s birthday on two consecutive days, with Lorna and Sam also down for the occasion. We had dinner at some morroccan place, which did terrible chips but was otherwise quite nice, and decorated like an Indiana Jones set. We then walked to St. Steven’s Tavern for a drink or two, and then up the south bank of the Thames where we stopped off briefly at Namco station where Nikki and I played Air Hockey and Skee Ball, ultimately winning just enough tokens for a couple of bags of sweets. Josh and I did attempt to play pool, but it was charged BY THE MINUTE. 20p a MINUTE! Is this normal now? Am I out of touch with pool-gaming? Just the thought of paying that much makes me balk.

On Sunday we went for dinner at Brown’s (where I took Mum for mother’s day.) The food was pretty good, although they kept trying to serve us stuff that we didn’t ask for, then getting sort of irritated when we we told them we didn’t ask for it. At the end of the meal, we went to the pub where we played on a scam quiz machine that had no money in and therefore wouldn’t let us win anything. I did almost win at Tetris (Tetris for money! Who’d have guessed my years or practise would come in useful?) but alas, it was not to be.

This weekend, I’m off to Bristol for the comic convention. Hilarity will almost certainly ensue.

I expect you’re desperate to see what a proper Marvel fan thought of this year’s first of three big comics movies coming out. Time was I’d have posted this on my personal blog, but I’ve arbitrarily decided this falls under the jurisdiction of Comics Daily now. Obviously, it’s different to how I’ve written up previous movie reviews, but it says pretty much all it needs to in a spoiler-free way. Best comics movie since your favourite Spider-Man? Perhaps! (Though I am alone in finding Batman Begins tedious as hell, it’s also better than that.)

Iron Man Movie Review

I’m been messing around with the site to create seperate workblog and personal blog feeds in anticipation of slightly greater separation of this sort of thing in the future, largely so I don’t spam my friends with articles they already know or don’t care about. All being right with the universe, workblog posts will only show up on my website in the workblog section, and everything else will appear on my personal blog, on facebook and livejournal.

If you’re reading from RSS, then assuming it all goes to plan, you might want to add this feed for personal posts only, and/or this feed for workblog only, of keep using the general feed if you want posts about both - livejournal and facebook users, you’ll be defaulted to the “personal” feed.

Everything should work fine, but it’s equally possible that RSS readers everywhere are about to go into meltdown. Cross your fingers people.