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And the gunslinger followed.

If you recognise this quote then power be to you because it means you know the book series that I talk of. I have finally finished probably the greatest science-fantasy series that I have ever read, Stephen King’s The Dark Tower.

It was started in 1982 and finished by the man in 2003, 7 books in total and if you’ve read any of his other works, you might be surprised to know that there are references to the dark tower scattered in a large portion of them. It’s an intricate world he’s weaved, it only serves to increase my respect for him, he’s a fantastic professional liar.

I had read a lot of books, I own a lot of books, from Tad Williams Otherland series to Raymond E Feist’s Riftwar Saga, from Sun Tzu’s Art of War to Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime & Punishment and The Idiot. This is an epic read and I can’t heap enough praise upon it. If you get the chance and you like the genre, read it, you’re doing yourself a disservice if you don’t.

Well, now back to our regular coverage.

A few things have happened since we spoke last, I’ve got an iPhone (and with it, technological immunity), I saw Henry Rollins live again, I went to the Rugby Sevens and I’ve drank a lot of gin. The usual really.

The Monumentus iPhone

Since just about everyone now knows what an iPhone is due to last week’s announcement, a large portion of the population will no doubt be clamouring for one, including myself. I do already have an iPhone, I’ve had one for a couple of months now and it has been one of the finest purchases I have made, bar none. I am Apple’s bitch, it’s quite simple really. It amuses me to watch someone like Bill crumble under the glow of the iPhone’s goodness, his will disintegrating before his own eyes in the reflection of the screen that he gazes on. It’s crack in electronic form.

If you haven’t used one and don’t care much for it, just try it once and you may be swayed, if not you probably aren’t a useful human and will no doubt be replaced with robots soon when the revolution comes.

Henry Rollins

I, along with my sister, Bill and Kieran went along to watch Henry Rollins talking tour at the Norwood Town Hall in April. I’ve loved listening to his rants for a lot of years and that won’t change for quite some time. I did dislike his constant jabs at our politics and our previous government, I wouldn’t make comments about how John McCain would be fantastic for America because there’s no way I could know that as I’m not there so he should probably do the same and stay out of it. That being said, part of the whole deal is the freedom to say what you want and he does so with great fervour. So, I don’t always agree with what Henry says but I love the fact that he says it, it’s the not always agreeing with him bit that I like, he’s a proper role model. That being said, he’ll also probably be killed in some far off country because he’s wandered somewhere that he really shouldn’t have and was shot in the face by a 10 year old with an automatic weapon.

The Forgotten Ikea Furniture

Some time ago, Kieran, myself and PJ sat in the Pancake Kitchen after a night of football watching and a few drinks and came upon the subject of Ikea furniture and their naming structure. We surmised that for every one that comes out, there must be dozens of failed names that didn’t see the light of day. So we came up with a few that we thought worthy of coming under the Ikea brand:

li. The Hymen: It’s a cupboard, relatively small, can usually only fit one object at a time at the front and it’s door is made of simple paper. You can only go through this paper door once and after that, it’s forever broken and can never be mended.
li. The Slüt: Another cupboard, much, much bigger than the Hymen, it can fit multiple objects in the front and back and the door barely closes. It’s mainly there for ornamental purposes anyway as the door’s natural position is open.
li. The Teste: A small, ottoman-like footstool, normally pink in colour but if it hasn’t been used in a while it slowly turns a shade of blue until used again.

We had a good giggle over these and I’m sure some other, more imaginative people can come up with others, please feel free to put these in the comments.

The Forums

I’m in the process of playing around with some new forum software to replace the current one, there’s nothing wrong with the current one it’s just that we’ve been using it for two years and it’s good to try new things. BBPress is the current front-runner for the spot and I intend on implementing it in the near future. You won’t know when I’ll do it until it happens, so be prepared, be very prepared.

So begins a new week, I’ve got some things and such to do, not really work, more just surfing the web.