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VSX, A shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist: Starbuck Powersurge - a young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of Viper Squad Ten, a long-disbanded group of stranded timetravelling troubadours, formed to help finance repairs to their time-machine. Now very much stuck in C21... [ Archives ]
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[ Thursday, December 30, 2004 ]Last post of the yearStarbuck [15:24] Comments: 0 [] Friends, casual acquaintances, passing net surfers and bots, I have something to say. Its better to burn out than to fade away... there can be only one... hwooooarrgh.
[ Tuesday, December 21, 2004 ]Powersurge's pantheon of pop-culture present proposalsStarbuck [22:15] Comments: 0 [] The period of festivities commonly known as "Christ-mass" is once more approaching - its fast becoming an annual event - and many of my fellow celebrants of commercial excess will no doubt be fretting about what they might possibly get for their loved ones.
[ Monday, December 20, 2004 ]Blogroll update 2Starbuck [21:06] Comments: 0 [] Christmas is a time of sequels - Bond Films on the telly, new LotR editions, Band Aid 20 - so further to last week's "blogbuster" post (grrrroan, as Chewbacca would say shortly before cutting his hairy wrists), those in need of a more interesting read than VSX should direct their browsers to "And Then He Said...". [ Thursday, December 16, 2004 ]It's... a.... baby!Starbuck [22:59] Comments: 0 []  May I just bade my hearty congratulations to my friends Jo & Rob on the birth of their beautiful (so they say, and considering their genetic stock I have no reason to doubt) baby girl Lily Grace. They've been wonderful friends to me, and I know they're going to be wonderful parents.
And with that, here's a terrible pictoral in-"joke" for Jo: [ Tuesday, December 14, 2004 ]Christmas is coming, & Starbuck's getting fatStarbuck [13:50] Comments: 0 [] I do love a bit of overindulgence, and since tis the season to be jolly, tra la la la laaar la lar la laaaargh, I'll no doubt be overindulging with the best of them. What with a plethora of birthdays, pagan festivals, and religious traditions rapidly approaching, I'm expecting my girth to have increased by a few extra inches by this time next month. Its been an interesting body mass rollercoaster ride that I've been strapped in on over the last few years. I used to be a little bit plump, courtesy of the Grillsteak, Chip & Beer diet grillsteaks and beer. As my self-esteem ebbed away I felt the need to exert some control over my appearance, and I started running... and running... and running... for hours at a time. This, coupled with a slight change of diet - mainly beansprouts and hardcore straight-edge baked potatoes (no marge or fillings!), plus white wine and a smattering of fast food to keep the triglycerides up - made me very sleight indeed. Aside from the mental considerations of such an endeavour, I found it very interesting how the "feel" of my body changed over trhis period. A tightness of flesh across the sternum, the protuberance of blood vessels as the body fat melted away, a general leaness. More interestingly, at some point my belly button stopped producing fluff. My gaping maw of a belly button had, for as long as I could remember, been a mineshaft for the excavation of masses of mysterious blue-pink fluff. When I reached a certain threshold of thinness, production of this extraneous substance promptly ceased. And since excessive exercise has now ceased and my weight has been increasing again, at a distinct moment I was again able to ceaselessly harvest material from the cavernous cavity that is my belly button again - a joy. And its not an uncommon joy, according to The Incredible World of Navel Fluff. Ugh! And now, with the aim of knitting a fluffy jumper in time for Christmas next year, I think I'll be overdoing it again this year! The downside - possible weight-gain, resulting in myself looking chubby at my forthcoming wedding. And talking about overindulging and wedding business, Friday night (& much of the early hours of Saturday morning) was spent dancing round the living room, just myself & Mrs Powersurge, on the wrong side of a cocktail of wine, beers, whisky, Baileys, & bubbly. A truly wonderful experience, I am sure, if only I could remember more of it! And most wonderful of all, dancing to some fantabulous music by a band/group/artist that must remain secret at present, we decided that we'd use it as the first dance at our wedding next year. Oh, how I want to spill the beans. But the walls have ears... [ Monday, December 13, 2004 ]Blogroll updateStarbuck [17:12] Comments: 0 [] Talking of Mr T (as I was in the previous post), I would like to publicise Bob Francisco's "Cruising Through" blog, to reciprocate for his own kind linkage. Mr Francisco is studying nursing at a Midland University. My own dear fiancé was also a nurse in Birmingham for a while, so its kind of like we know each other already... except it isn't. Anyway, Bob's blog is an interesting place to hang around by the bins, as it includes some very nice images of Howling Mad Murdoch. 14 DECEMBER UPDATE OK peeps, another recipribloglink for you. This one I like the looks of very much indeed - Background Noise - and I'll be back to make sure The One Known As Richard doesn't let me down. Otherwise I nuke his site. [ Sunday, December 12, 2004 ]T 4 2Starbuck [15:26] Comments: 0 [] 
I received an unusual email some time back: Dear Sir/Madam,"It is truly a cerazy world" I mumbled to myself without actually using my mouth. I stumbled blindly around the site (the linked to page at http://t.weve-got.com/links.html being "under construction"), before realising that my ineptitude was being further magnified by the navigation interface not being Firefox-friendly. And lo and behold, there VSX was on the "Mr T fansites" page. I'll forgive them for referring to the blog by the wrong name - the only reason that "Fat City Arizona" is a part of my URL is that the blog was set up during a notoriously dicey era during Blogger's history. Just getting VSX created in the first place took most of an evening, and connection problems with the site misled me into believing that "vipersquadten" had spookily already been snapped up as a Blogspot URL (I thought in my foolishness that hundreds of thousands of different word combinations had been reserved by enterprising Blog-parasites); Fat City Arizona was also a notoriously juvenile and rude little ditty by my previous band, Dieticians Featuring Fat, something of a classic that I'd like to think inspired the Red Hot Chilli Peppers' "Blood Sugar Sex Magick" even more than even P-Funk did. But I digress. My site apparently contains "good stories and links to other blogs", so now you know, and I'll forgive them any oversight. It got me thinking that it'd be fun to T'inating VSX one last time. So imagine my shock and horror (note:exageration) to find that the T'inator site no longer seems to exist anywhere on the web. So if anyone knows where this marvellous collection of web filters are hiding then please let me know. My investigations led me to Snoop Dogg's Shizzolator, but it's just not the same. Fool. However I'm quite won over by the skinhead and Cockney versions of VSX as provided by the Universal Translator... COVERING STATEMENT The above piece of writing was composed under the influence of alcohol in the early hours of this morning, however the author failed to click on the correct button to publish it. Its quality or lack of does not necessarily represent the standards normally expected from the author at half past three on a quiet Sunday afternoon. [ Saturday, December 11, 2004 ]Xcrement FactorStarbuck [22:22] Comments: 0 [] First Bush beats Kerry. Then Yanukovych is declared victor (viktor?) over Yushchenko. Now "Steve" polls more votes than G4 (half the men that Gazza is) in the first X Factor final. If this was Jim Davidson's blog you would at this point get some "humourous" joke centred around the Chinese's supposed inability to pronounce the word "election", so thank heavens for small mercies. Then again you probably wouldn't be reading Jim Davidson's blog in the first place. Hopefully. [ Thursday, December 09, 2004 ]I can see them watching meStarbuck [21:04] Comments: 0 [] "Drift - dancer without a body" - a not-half-bad musical work that makes me feel like I'm back at in 1994, its 5 a.m., and I'm burning off the coffee in front of some sound-system at the corner of a field near Glastonbury. But this time **I'm** in charge of the visuals! Warning - it goes on and on and on, so you you got time to go and buy a glowstick from that dodgy-looking bloke who looks like Bob from Twin Peaks who's standing near Joe Bananas Blanket Stall. You can almost smell the ganja... Its the brainchild of Koert van Mensvoort, and there's some interesting stuff on the rest of his website as well. Datafountains, webcam et al. In Dutch. (Spotted but not-clicked-until-recently at Maffydoo). Camera obscura Starbuck [20:15] Comments: 0 [] Its a bit of a pain being digital-camera free. It makes me lazy, unspontaneous, when it comes to writing. Or perhaps it makes me ingenious, reflected (cf. Interactive Fiction and fracking Myst). Whatever, THIS POST round at the ever-reliable Saturnyne's Lounge has further whetted my appetitite for diginess and what it could do for me. (voice of Vince Purity aka Colin "Mr" Bennett) - "You should be so lucky..." Though I know that the months of build-up (EXAMPLE) as I wait to get my photos developed must have a certain charm. [ Wednesday, December 08, 2004 ]Wrong season's greetingsStarbuck [16:58] Comments: 0 [] Somehow this little Easter egg has managed to pass me by before now... Open up Microsoft Word (if you use it), then type the following before hitting ENTER: =rand(200,99)
[ Tuesday, December 07, 2004 ]To chav and to holdStarbuck [18:06] Comments: 0 [] Whilst innocently asking young Tam whether the much-derided "chav" has flourished in the sociological niche that is New Zealand, interest prompted me to do a quick Google on the term, and lo and behold, its likely derivation is revealed on World Wide Words. Hey - VSX is educational! it seems that the word is from a much older underclass, the gypsies, many of whom have lived in that area for generations. Chav is almost certainly from the Romany word for a child, chavi, recorded from the middle of the nineteenth century. We know it was being used as a term of address to an adult man a little later in the century, but it hasn't often been recorded in print since and its derivative chav is quite new to most people."Through circumstances we don't dully understand" - bit of a cop-out there! Shame, though. It's rascist derivation kind of puts me off continuing to use what was once a much loved term of unendearment. [ Monday, December 06, 2004 ]Always greenerStarbuck [20:37] Comments: 0 [] I know that I've mentioned them before, but whilst I'm in such a jovial festive mood, I must revisit your gaze once more upon Lawn Greengrass' two blogs, the Stratford-upon-Avon-centric Shakespeare Wuz 'Ere, and the more internationally-focussed The Word. Very good indeed. Ding dong merrily and that. XXX-mas Starbuck [20:20] Comments: 0 [] We'll have no support for casual sexism on these pages. As a result, I beg you not to follow the link to the Boobies For Peace advent calendar that co-editor DJ Tim forwarded to me. Disgraceful, and slightly disturbing in their loopedness. Tim of course insists that he was sent the link and wasn't surfing the site when he came across it... Lost raiders Starbuck [20:03] Comments: 0 [] Any raiders of the lost Ark still sniffing around Napton-on-the-Hill should check out the website of the "historical detective" in uestion. And if that doesn't provide sufficient salts for you to smell a rat, see if the all-new Google Groups clears your sinuses. He's barking up the wrong tree with the well. Try digging up Godson's Lane instead. God's son - do you see? To send me your $16 please contact my email address in the left-hand sidebar.... Starbuck see, Monkey do Starbuck [15:44] Comments: 0 [] Now and again Iron Monkey goes and blogs together something that I wished I'd dreamt up. Here's another - some suggestions for modernising old proverbs. [ Sunday, December 05, 2004 ]Nothing ToulouseStarbuck [19:22] Comments: 0 [] May I just use this platform to offer my hearty congratulations to my former flatmate Mr Thain (aka Unit 2) on his recent succesful job application. I'm very pleased for you, especially as it necessitates a move to Toulouse, France, and I'm very much looking forward to taking advantage of your hospitality over there.... Thain will be working on the A380, a mighty vessel indeed (the world?s only twin-deck, four-aisle airliner, and more fuel-efficient than your car). Here's a photo for you - see how they huddle together like woodlice around a fragment of detritus... 
Les groupies d'avion CLIQUETEZ ICI pour encore d'autres photos fantastiques. Hypothesophy Starbuck [12:02] Comments: 0 [] Sunday morning pillow talk Chez Starbuck this morning was an in-depth discussion about the lack of evidence for intelligent extraterrestrial life that underlines the Fermi paradox - they must surely have existed, but where the hell are the signs - and some perfectly possible, yet exotic, explanations. I may not have faith in God or Allah or any such man-made creations, and I may be able to explain Mankind's propensity for belief in evolutionary terms, but that's not to say that my mind isn't wide-open to other possibilities... My brain is in Sunday Shutdown again now so I won't raise any of my fanciful hypotheses - and it is the Sabbath (religion-depending) after all, so I don't want to risk being struck with a bolt of lightning for rocking anyone's faith (I wish!) - so I'll spare you the gory intellectual details. Suffice to say it all culminated in a call for insurrection - if there is indeed some sort of authoritarian supreme being, who has set down such tightly-restricting parameters for His playthings as a means of placating His insecurity, then we NEED to RISE UP and RALLY against Him. In my humble opinion. I bet you're glad you don't have to wake up next to me... [ Saturday, December 04, 2004 ]Band Aid DilemmaStarbuck [17:53] Comments: 0 [] Thanks to Billy for this wonderful post about his quandary regarding the purchase of the dismal Band Aid 20 single, and for pointing me in the direction of the Band Aid Dilemma website. Agreed. I heard the song for the first time today. I pulled up to the kerb and sat there in shock, immobilised by its sheer twee shiteness. Though when you think about it, the original was remarkably patronising and ignorant in terms of its lyrics. Horrible. Buy it. [ Thursday, December 02, 2004 ]Sad news...Stuart [16:25] Comments: 0 [] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4052617.stm (i have momentarily forgotten how to do that thingy). What you can you say to this? (except possibly gadzooks - sigh...) [ Wednesday, December 01, 2004 ]Indiana JoesStarbuck [20:24] Comments: 0 [] I'm as peculiarly-obsessed with my search-engine referral statistics as the next blogger, but recently I've been just too lacking in quality computer-time to indulge myself in such questionable delights. However a quick scan through the stats can prove educational as to what's going on in that big old world around me. For example, there's been a recent flood of people searching for information about the "ark of the covenant" and "Napton-on-the Hill" (who I guess arrived here due to THIS and THIS. "Intriguing", I thought in pixels, as I did a quick Google News search on it, "it looks like those crafty Knights of the Templar might have hidden the Ark of The Convenant (and a bunch of Ten Commandment tablets as a Brucey Bonus) in or near to an old well in Napton. It all makes sense," I continued to expose, "as the last time I visited the Church at nearby Burton Dassett, I noticed that the stained glass window - the Epiphany Window - shows a little red brick arch. Now I happened to be there at Epiphany - January 6..." I continued to lie to myself, "which happens to be the only day when the two tail stars of the Plough, which are often used to represent Michael and Gabriel, happen to point vertically downwards. And at midnight they were pointing down to Church Green in Napton. Where there is an arch." It all makes sense. And it explains what that ruddy great box was that my young nephew Joe (who lives in Napton-on-the-Hill) found in the stream, and why it made such spectacular firewood... A Better World Starbuck [18:56] Comments: 0 [] 
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