Evil vaccines.

Evil vaccines., a photo by 11thEarlOfMar on Flickr.

Because of course the chance that one person might have a bad reaction outweighs the certainty that vaccines save millions of lives.

Christmas time 2013

Christmas time 2013, a photo by 11thEarlOfMar on Flickr.

Ira and Barney.

Barney says he only has a couple of years to go until he's 100 years old.

Shit...Americans Say To British People

Just a few of the notions expressed to me during the seventeen years I've lived in California

Occupy Protesters Interrupt Chamber Of Commerce Health Care Event

Occupy Protesters Interrupt Chamber Of Commerce Health Care Event: pProtesters disrupted a U.S. Chamber of Commerce event on health care today, interrupting speaker Scott Serota, the CEO of Blue Cross & Blue Shield. Chanting “we are the 99 percent,” the protesters stood at the luncheon event and used a “human microphone” technique to read a statement about how the “the one percent in the [...]/p

TV for Wednesday October 19th

SKY Living: 2.00am  Hannibal Lecter's Inverse Vectors


In this sit down interview with Sharon Osbourne, fictional serial killer Doctor Hannibal Lecter explains his love for inverse vectors and how they've come to add meaning to his life.

Next week - Michael Barrymore discusses phony hair with Tony Blair.


PICK TV 1.30 AM: Cliff Richard's Quiff Pictures

In this fascinating documentary, Sir Cliff shows us some of his favourite illustrations of haircuts, from his much lauded collection.

Debbie McGee presents. 



SPIKE TV 1.00 AM
Umberto Eco's Geckos (SIT COM)


Smart arse writer Umberto Eco owns a performing troupe of Western banded geckos, who seek to concentrate power amongst themselves, much to Umberto's continued chagrin.


This week the geckos launch a coup with the goal of taking over Belfast for themselves. Umberto and his clumsy assistant, Will Self, once again attempt to thwart the geckos' plans, with hilarious consequences!

ESPN 12.30AM James Spader Shames Crusaders

Hollywood actor James Spader seeks out people who are selflessly campaigning for a better world and makes them feel embarrassed and worthless about their work.

Fran Drescher co-presents.

TV For Tuesday October 18th 2011...

Quest TV 11.30 pm: Oz Clarke's Afraid of the Dark

TV chef and bon viveur Oz Clarke visits very dark rooms in famous British buildings.

A live studio audience has to guess the location and there's the prize of a brand new Vauxhall Viva for the winner.

10 PM Sky 3D (New): Brian May's 3D Rays

Queen guitarist Brian May investigates the history of 3D, from the early days of stereoscopic photography to the cutting-edge cameras used by James Cameron in Avatar. (3D TV required)

S4/C 11.00pm: Rick Astley's Vastly Ghastly

Once famous eighties pop icon, Rick Astley,in a classic Morris Marina, travels the highways and byways of old England in search of terrifying experiences involving headless corpses, ghouls, zombies and other supernatural entities. Each week he talks to a special guest about his or her supernatural experiences which they then set to music and perform as a duet.

This week's guest - Ladybird Johnson.


BBC 4 10.30PM:

Gordon Ramsay's Damson Jam Days.

In this weekly live broadcast, top international sweary chef Gordon Ramsay travels by helicopter across the Hebrides, stopping to sample the locals' home made damson jam.

Back in the studio, Heston Blumenthal and Ainsley Harriott entertain the audience with damson jam related challenges. There's a viewer phone-in vote for their favourite bilberry flan.

• ‎10.00pm CNN: Piers Morgan's Disgusting Organs.
  
  Piers Morgan reviews articles from some of the world's most heinous periodicals and tabloids.

  
  
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  NBC 9.30 PM: Powell Batters Cowell
  
  A live broadcast from Madison Square Garden - General Colin Powell hunts Simon Cowell in an arena Powell has booby trapped with mines, blades, and other top secret military equipment.
  
  Each participant is permitted to wear full kevlar combat dress, apart from Simon Cowell, who is permitted only a pair of boxer shorts.

More TV shows

SyFy 9:00pm: Ewan McGregor's Beggars Legs.

Ewan McGregor travels across Europe in a Sinclair C5 in search of the stoutest pair of hobo pins in the E.U.

This week Ewan and a surprise guest travel from Switzerland to Italy on their quest.

Journalist Max Hastings anchors the show from Pebble Mill, where a live studio audience gets to vote on their favourite pair of tramp's knackered old trainers.

Isla St.Clair sings a bawdy ballad about window dressers.

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Cantaloupe Channel, 8.30 pm: Robert Fripp's Nipsy Tricks.

(Week 46)This week King Crimson guitarist Robert shuffles two decks of cards using only his bum muscles and a mirror.

With a special surprise guest.

Filmed in front of a live studio audience in Bournemouth.

Toyah Wilcox-Fripp co-hosts.


A&E 7.PM PST: Nigel Mansell's Candle Sandals

Each week former Formula One driver Nigel Mansell test drives (!) one of his inventions on an unsuspecting member of the Belgian public.

Episode 4: Candle sandals; will Nigel's solution to toe-illumination play well with your average Flemish speaking European, or will something be"lost in translation"?!?

And will Austrian F1 ace Nicki Lauder's powdered chowder upstage the Brummy champion when he least expects it?

A Bad Robot/Dave TV production



DIY Channel, 4.30pm: Harrison Ford Carries Some Boards;
Episode 3 - Pine.

Harrison encounters a Jimmy Clitheroe lookalike and a troupe of traveling tumblers as he carries his boards to Poole, in Dorset.





BBC America 9.00 AM: Richard Hammond's Jam 'n' Gammon. 


Diminutive Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond wends his way through the lanes and tracks of middle England in a Goggomobil, with only one of those Russell comedians for company.

To distract himself from a possible murder/suicide, Richard samples the jams, chutneys and marmalades still bought from traditional British supermarkets,as well as tasting thick bacon from the hind leg of the pig. Can Richard find the perfect combination of mass produced condiment or preserve with gammon without resorting to violence upon the person of Russell Comedian?

Episode 3: With two Russells already in hospital, Richard turns to ear plugs and Valium; Keith Chegwin makes a surprise appearance; Delia Smith shows Richard her favourite Asda conserve.

SPEED Channel, 8.30 AM: Pack 'em in With Hakkinen 


- Formula One World Champion Mika Hakkinen travels Britain's coastline reminiscing about the great days of end of the pier music hall. He's accompanied by his best friends, Roy Hudd and Patricia Routledge, who serenade the Finnish driving ace as they travel in a rouge 1974 Lotus Eclat.


Along the way the happy trio encounter such celebrities as Ken Dodd, Barry Cryer, and Paul Merton.

Episode 4: This week the trio find themselves in Snetterton, Norfolk in a Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters Mercedes.

Who will throw up first? Patricia doubts there was ever a pier here.

Hilarity ensues.


KWHY 7.15 AM Marilu Henner's Senna Henna Tenners;


Top actress Marilu Henna travels the length and breadth of England trying to pass off forged ten pound notes that have a henna portrait of Ayrton Senna in place of Charles Darwin.

In the first episode, Marilu finds herself in a run down pub in Ashby de la Zouch, where she uses her henna Senna tenners to buy a round of drinks for the two old men and three underaged chavs who constitute the patrons.

Under cover of the weak yellow light and Lowenbrau beer pump illumination, will Marilu succeed in exchanging her faux money for actual goods and/or services?

Regular viewers know she's got a suitcase full of these fakes.

This live broadcast is anchored from Pebble Mill by Bob Wellings and Kieran Prenderville. Sue Lawley holds these crazy characters in check.

Viewers can vote on their favourite fake fiver! (calls cost 15p per minute)

(dubbed into Spanish).


MTV 6.35 AM: Britney Spears' Whitney Fears: 


Top female vocalist and raconteur Britney Spears witters on ceaselessly and without end to Ricki Lake about her irrational fear of Whitney Houston.

Produced by Maury Povich.




HUB TV 4.15 AM: Nick Beggs' Smegma Eggs

(no description available. Not recommended for young teens)


Teen Nick 1.30 AM: Simon Cowell's Foul Towels; 


celebrity talking head show in which c and d list celebs witter on ceaselessly and without end about Simon Cowell's discarded bath sheets.

Tonight: Snookie, a Kardashian, a Tony Danza reminisce about the odours.

Church TV 12.15 am: JJ Abrams' Cave man Neighbours 


- reality TV show in which flavour of the month write/producer JJ Abrams shares a house with some cave men from 20,000 years ago.

A SyCo production.

SPEED Channel, 11.45pm: Alain Prost's Lost With Frost 


- French Formula one champion Alain Prost and satirist/journalist Sir David Frost re-enact all six seasons of Lost, including the rubbish final episode.


BET 11:15pm: George Lucas Hoards Mucus;


 a mini documentary that explores the chinless billionaire film maker's penchant for collecting large amounts of nasal excretions "just in case". (Mr Lucas' candid disclosures about his unusual hobby may disturb more sensitive viewers).

This is a follow up to last year's George Lucas' Mucus Suitcase.

Home and Garden TV, 10.30pm - Stephen Spielberg's Beer World: 


Stephen Spielberg and Shia Labeouf travel the length and breadth of Burbank in search of the world's best beers.

Tonight on TV...

A selection of the best Formula one world champion related television shows on British television tonight (October 17th, 2011)


Tonight on Sky 1:


6.45pm: Damon Hill's Window Sills.

Formula One World Champion Damon Hill travels the length and breadth of Britain in search of the UK's best window sill. The excitement is palpable as Damon and a panel of experts judge some of this island's finest window adjacent shelf-like appendages. In the first instalment, Damon, from the comfort of his first class railway compartment, examines some of the window sills which viewers have brought along, with window sill hobbyists Margot Kidder, Jan Leeming and Noel out of Oasis judging.

Ronan Keating anchors the show in front of a live television audience in Bristol. There's a viewer phone-in vote for best pelmet, and a live performance from Howard Jones.


7:15pm:  Nigel Mansell's Ornamental Lentils


Former Formula One and Indycar champ, Nigel Mansell, travels the length and breadth of The Isle of Wight, in an Invacar, talking to senior citizens about their collections of rare and unusual lentils; episode 1 - Stan Millet talks about the lentils he owns which were allegedly presented to Queen Victoria by the Vassalage of Corcupine in 1973.


BBC2: 8:00pm: Jenson Button's Mutton Glutton. 


British formula one champion, Jenson Button, wanders the highways and byways of the sleepy English countryside, riding a 1910 butcher's bicycle, towing a trailer full of mature sheep carcasses. 

His aim is to find the Briton who can eat the most gamey old sheep meat, and to restore mutton as a family breakfast time staple, as it was in the mid 1980s, before the mutton scandal.

Channel Dave: 9.00 PM: Vettel's Metal Kettle

...in which Formula One double world champion, Sebastian Vettel, visits towns and cities in his native Germany, dragging behind him a large kettle with a heavy metal band within. It's a different band each week, and each band has a connection to the location.

Week 1 - Sebastian Vettel drags hair band Twisted Sister about in his kettle - but what's the connection to Zwinge? Find out in our first episode.

Al-Jazeera: 9.30pm: Michael Schumacher's Poo-Lacquer Cracker Tracker -

in each episode, Michael takes his ornamental cracker tracker (hand lacquered with the finest quality guano) and uses it to track down unusual and rare thin crispy biscuits;

Pilot episode - Michael uses his poo-lacquer cracker tracker to detect Queen Victoria's Imperial Bathroom Crackers, a present from the Gimlet of Prussia in 1873.

http://www.businessinsider.com/what-wall-street-protesters-are-so-angry-about-2011-10

#Occupy Los Angeles October 8th 2011

Occupy Los Angeles City Hall downtown California October 8th 145

Occupy Los Angeles City Hall downtown California October 8th 145, a photo by Eleventh Earl of Mar on Flickr.

Occupy Los Angeles City Hall

Occupy Los Angeles City Hall, a photo by Eleventh Earl of Mar on Flickr.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo84pGsdATM

A tea party future...

Anti humanity demo (tea baggers) Griffith Park, October 2009.
Originally uploaded by Eleventh Earl of Mar

A vision of a Tea Party future:

The USA is officially a third world country with women as subordinates under biblical law; old people, the disabled, the unskilled, the weak or inept left to starve in the streets, homeless. Mass graves become ordinary; nearest living family members charged by street cleaning corporations for for bulldozing the bodies of their relatives into big holes.

Female Citizen Patriots are required to become pregnant at least once per year until they are physically incapable of conceiving. Abortion is outlawed under any circumstances. 'God's will' decides whether the child or the mother survives, as it should be.

In cases where the mother will almost certainly become incorporeal should she give birth, then the child shall be given priority. Most births happen at home with a Birth Advisor present (at parents' cost) in case the mother tries to survive to the detriment of the child.

At the point of birth all children are considered independent Citizen Patriots, with all the responsibilities of adults. (See section on mandatory donations below). Child Citizen Patriots can begin work shortly after birth. A baby makes a nice pillow for a rich old white lady, and a handy alarm clock. Infants can make up to 99 Palincents per hour working at this job, with bread and water breaks every six hours (the latter charged to the Citizen Patriot baby's BeckChip TM).

To benefit all Citizen Patriots, there is no longer any socialist minimum wage, Medicare, unemployment benefit, public school system, Socialist Security or so-called 'welfare programs'. These were traitor-communist-inspired notions which encouraged slacking, idleness, lazing about etc. All of these traitor/anti-American/liberal/progressive/Nazi schemes have been replaced by charitable donations and/or private institutions.

The TCBEO stance (adopted one hundred per cent by We the People of the Corporate States of America) is that a minimum wage holds back initiative, prevents growth and was responsible for the great Depression of 2011. Without a minimum wage corporations can pay people what they are really worth, instead of the inflated $7.25 per hour. Looking back, it was clearly egregious that people were paid such a sum.

However, anyone seen to be aiding the homeless, the sick, the weak and the vulnerable can be receive a mandatory invitation to attend a Halliburton Freedom Reduction Centre in order to lean how to cope with socialism, a disorder now recognised by FreedomWorks Inc's best doctors as more dangerous than having a dry sense of humour.

The TCBEO declares that the WIll of the People is that all written communications be written in green ink on yellow or lilac stationery. This is pretty much necessary as email is now monitored in an attempt to protect us from muslim/terrorist activity.

Gun ownership is now mandatory, and encouraged by Gun Advisors from the non government organisation, the Gun Advisory Fun Club (formerly known as the National Rifle Association).

Violence has erupted in the streets and in peoples homes. Random shootings are commonplace, gun violence up tenfold. The Gun Advisory Fun Club celebrates these figures with a mass shooting of people who aren't them.

All police forces become private security firms charging through the nose to 'protect' people. Definitely not a racket, and anyone who says it is will receive a visit from advisors.

Fires rampant, uncontrolled due to privatisation of for-profit fire companies. Whole towns burn down. this is a reminder to pay your Fire Insurance fees or receive a friendly visit from a qualified Conflagration Inception Advisor, (who is definitely not an arsonist, no sir, and anyone who says so might receive an advisory visit in the dead of night).

The fire in Trenton, New Jersey has burned, unabated for two years, due to non-payment of fees by its residents. On the one hand the people who have lost their homes owe the Fire Advisors a not insignificant amount of Palindollars; on the other hand they are also entitled to bonuses for significantly increasing air pollution from air distribution companies.

Some suburbs now have large walls built around them at residents' expense in order to keep out fire and undesirables. Machine gun towers are built at checkpoint entrances to protect inhabitants from the homeless, wandering bandits, muslims (terrorists) and other undesirables (elitists) .

Those who fail to pay for these constructions are denied freedom privileges (previously known as arrest and incarceration) and charged interest at the new bank rate of 33 per cent per month.

Failure to pay incurs further penalties such as their children being invited in the dead of night to attend interactive educational workplace seminars.

Children are encouraged to take a pro-active role in these on-site seminars for up to eighteen hours a day until the parents service fees are paid. The kids get free bread and water, although their oxygen supply is charged to the parents.

The Tea Party gets its wish of 'ending the Fed'. However the Fed is taken over by a global consortium called Moneycorps Inc, who charge even more interest on the new (red) Palindollar than the Fed charged on the old socialist/liberal USD.

Appearing on the notes and coins are: Lee Harvey Oswald, Ronald Reagan, Chuck Norris, Rush Limbaugh, $arah Quitter Palin, Glen Beck and Walt Disney.

Not-for-profit organisations are banned by the not-government Talibagger Central Bureau of Essential Operations.

All businesses and individuals are required to be for-profit.

Failure to make a profit results in either imprisonment, which the prisoner is required to pay for him or herself, or indentured servitude. Corporations making more than $1,000,000 per annum are exempt from imprisonment, although individuals can be reprimanded with desultory bonuses.

Women are no longer permitted to work at any job deemed by the TCBEO to be 'man's work'; a list of proscribed occupations is available in the microchip that was injected into your neck/ ear/ nipple.

As indentured servitude is now the standard way of existence in order to pay for all the privatised emergency services, air etc, the criminal has his or her teeth forcibly removed by a Profit Enforcer - of course the criminal is charged for this privilege, though any gold or silver fillings can be used to offset the cost.

There is no president, but a Cooperative Inspiration Select Committee (Co.In.S. for short) , focused around a Quasi-Evangelical Executive Notionaliser (Qu.E.E.N.), although that person is not a 'leader'.

In no way is this a government or administration, anything but. It is a conduit for the people to express themselves, openly and freely, according to the instruction of Jesus' American Constitution,as laid out by the fondling fathers of the church, and Beckian principles.

Indeed, the members of this unelected body are coached to avoid using words like 'government', 'president', 'administration' and so on according to Beckian doctrine.

Some BillOists object to this early adoption of Beckian practise but are quietly removed from their homes in the dead of night and chemically castrated at their own cost, as is only fair and reasonable, and pink 'O's painted on their kicked in front doors (for convenience this service can be charged directly from your implanted chip).

The new not-a-government-and-not-an-administration ensconces itself within the buildings formerly occupied by the filthy socialist governments of decades gone by - after all, why waste perfectly good buildings?

Public hangings of homosexuals, elitists and suspected environmentalists and socialists are weekly events in Washington.

Bodies are put on display on hooks suspended from the exterior of the Oval Office.

Rape commonplace and accepted. The accepted logic is that if a woman was raped then she was clearly asking for it, therefore it is not rape.

Domestic violence no longer a crime. The accepted logic is that if a woman or child was beaten by the man of the house, then he or she was clearly asking for it, therefore it is not violence but just an act of loving kindness in the eyes of The Lord.

Homosexuality declared Anti-American, traitorous and punishable by hanging or castration, unless the homosexual agrees to be cured, which involves becoming a born-again Christian (the national religion, as intended by the Founding Fathers) and castration, or in the case of the female, clitoral circumcision. And not the good kind.

The TCBEO has yet to decide whether the 100 per cent unified WIll of the People is for all females to be circumcised at birth, to prevent them having wanton lusts in later life. It all rather depends on what God's Will is that week.

Only the wealthy are educated as schools become profit-making enterprises. Even the least expensive schools base their curriculum around the bible. America slides even further down the world table in terms of academia, especially after making it compulsory to teach creationsim, geocentricism and the flat Earth in geography. Nephilmfree is appointed by The WIll of The People as Chief Education Advisor.

The USA cedes the space race to the Chinese as biblical science proves man cannot leave the Earth.

Half a century of environmental pollution reduction gone; once more we see lakes and rivers empty of wildlife, unfit for humans to swim. Once again the great lakes burst into flame due to the amount of toxic chemicals poured into them on a daily basis.

Water in taps, should it be available, is for washing only. All drinking water to be bought in bottles only.

Outside air is for weather and sailing only. All air for human consumption to be bought in bottles only, and even this has advertising, chemicals and bad journalism in it.

Summary dismantling of any 'green' technology. Solar panels to be sought out and destroyed. Hybrids and electric cars to be demoted and crushed at owner's cost. Parts not to be recycled but strewn about the place.

All vehicles will be required to have a coal powered engine in addition to an inefficient, polluting v10 motor, devised between the car industry and the oil companies. The motor needs to be powerful to counteract the drag of the parachute shape of new cars. All driving laws repealed; it becomes legal to drive on whichever side of the road you choose; of course it's totally legal to shoot anyone who annoys you.

Roads are barely that. Because roads are no longer maintained, other than in places where the super wealthy live, what remains of roads is a crumbling, muddy, dusty mess, littered with carcasses, bits of cars and trucks.

Travelling by air is still quick, but the security processes mean the for-profit (no change there) checking in and boarding procedures take as long as eighteen hours per passenger. Travelers are advised to arrive at airports three days before their departure time. TheTSA, a socialist organisation from previous administrations, has been shut down, and all airport security is run by private companies, such as Blackwater. Blackwater runs most of the Police Advisory Services, Security Agencies and so on within the United States.

New national pastimes include Homosexual bating, which is televised across the nation; stonings of those people who break biblical law, (depending on whichever biblical laws are being adhered to in your sector this week - next month, death by bears to children who mock the bald, and death by superheated Velveeta to anyone mixing fabrics), mass book burnings of elitist and Satanic literature and the hanging, drawing and quartering of anyone who appears to be an environmentalist e.g recently there was the case of Citizen Patriot VK34LBH who, whilst walking his dog, coughed harshly as a car revved up its engine.

This bigoted socialist attitude toward the driver of the car, who was innocently and freely exercising his biblical right to sit in his vehicle and rev his engine as long and loudly as he saw fit at any time of day or night, even during curfew, shows an unpatriotic and frankly muslim contempt for the USA. Naturally the man was invited from his bed, at 3.30am, to attend a re-education camp at his own expense.

Environmental terrorists such as Citizen Patriot VK34LBH have been indoctrinated by the far left Fox News, recently proscribed as a far left terrorist/socialist/muslim propaganda network.

Taxes do not change. Indeed, taxes go up...all now diverted to the Advisory Services or the Family Values Protection Service Inc (charged with inviting homosexuals into secure premises on sight and with issuing summary justice; issuing invitations of securement to anyone considering or needing an abortion; issuing invitations of securement and/or issuing summary justice to anyone having sexual contact - hand-holding, eye contact, footsie, kissing - outside of marriage, and anyone breaking proscribed marriage relations, such as anal sex, oral sex, kissing with tongues, not using the missionary position etc.)

Donation rates (not at all the same as taxes) are now at 50 per cent for Citizen Patriots earning less than $1,000,000 per year and 5 per cent for those earning $1,000,000 to $10,000,000.

For Citizen Patriots earning over $10 million per annum,donations are voluntary. Taxes (now known as mandatory donations) are administered by a quasi non-government organisation called The Patriot Charity.

The Patriot Charity charges Citizen Patriots ten per cent of your donations for administration costs and encourages these donations by employing Donation Officials. Donation Officials will gladly visit your house in the middle of the night, for a fee, and recover the donations in person. For an extra charge they will donate a yellow 'D' for 'Donation' on your now entirely useless front door...

Citizen Patriots can receive a ten per cent reduction in donations by joining our Advisory Services. These services are: The Ocean Engagement Advisory Service (previously known as the US Navy), The Airborne Advisory Service (previously the US Air Force) and the land based Ground Operations Advisory Service. Although advisors are required to pay for their own weapons, uniforms, meals, haircuts, transportation and so on, they consider these to be valid costs for the honour of killing terrorists, wherever they may reside, whether that's in Afghanistan, Iran or The south of France.

Universal war was declared by The 100 per cent Will of the People, as interpreted by TCBEO in January of 2013.

This essentially means that the Corporate States of America (formerly known as The United States of America) is at war with every country on Earth by default, as opposed to the sickening left-wing hippie socialist/terrorist notion that we are at peace with the rest of the world by default, and only through an expensive and time-consuming process of declaring war can we be at war. Top religious leaders, not-Politicians and Advisory Service chiefs came together to agree that this was The WIll of the People and what the Founding Fathers intended in the Constitution.

This is your Tea Party! Embrace or fall! Second amendment solutions! Repeal the 14th amendment!

Relaxing at last.

Relaxing at last.
Originally uploaded by Eleventh Earl of Mar

We went out in to the garden to watch the moon come up. Cool evening air, a drop of wine and a camera.

It's been a very long three weeks, with virtually no time for riding my bike or taking photos, or very much of anything really.

Work has been outrageously busy as we approach 'submission' for our two new titles.

Between tweaking graphics, updating and editing the large amount of text I've contributed to the new Guitar Hero III game (all of the guitar descriptions apart from two or three 'official' ones), working with external development people and having three simultaneous deadlines; checking and rechecking details; waiting for producers to get back to me with essential information, and building a high resolution model of a Les Paul, I've essentially been doing the work of four people.

Latterly I was given the assistance of two seasoned veterans, but they were new to the process of modeling and exporting the guitar models, so they were asking a lot of questions, and even they needed some help.

I've been promised interns for next year's game - great - they can put two interns in the space behind my desk, so I can keep an eye on them and answer their questions, and of course they can get my coffee for me.

All of that said, GH III has been a fantastic project to work on. We have pulled the rabbit out of the hat, entirely redesigning the substructure of the game. It may play just like the old GH3, but the technology behind it is entirely different.

From the screen shots I've seen of rock band, they've improved the guitars but they've dropped the ball on the characters. Of course many people say you never look at the characters or guitars anyway...but I know they're there.

I know I'm blowing my own trumpet here (oo-er missus), but the graphics look stupendously good - all this from a very small team of character artists, environment artists and animators. Oh and not to mention the MOCAP team, who were working hardcore hours for several weeks longer than I and the other artists. Props to all the GH III and Tony Hawk's Proving Ground guys for their incredible work.


So it was a real treat to just not do anything for a while.

Brain of Morbius

Brain of Morbius
Originally uploaded by Eleventh Earl of Mar

Dr Who.

Over rated?


Cleaner in the BBC costume department -

"Has anyone seen my coat? Only it was my great grandmother's fur coat it was. General Sir Douglas Haig gave it to 'er for services rendered during the Great War. Now where did I put the bloooomin' thing? I could've sworn I put it down next to my oversized goldfish bowl full of almost extinct koi that the Emperor of Japan gave our Lil, and the giant lobster claw that I was going to give me 'usband fer 'is dinner..."

BBC costume makers - "oops..."

The body of Morbius is the Dr.Who monster equivalent of this house:

www.flickr.com/photos/dgbalancesrocks/153324887/

If in doubt, have your monster go insane once its apparently rational brain has been transplanted from the tank of greenish gunk.

I mean there's absolutely no chance that this concoction of body parts, old coats, bicycle horns and fishbowls was ever going to be dating a supermodel or hosting a charity art ball with cheese and wine - if you look like this you're going to go mad and attack people, usually with a claw around the throat.

Smart ForTwo on the streets of Los Angeles

Smart ForTwo on the streets of Los Angeles
Originally uploaded by Eleventh Earl of Mar

Yes it is I, about to drive into the back of the Smart in front of me...

It's great little car - perfect for commuting and going to the supermarket.

People were asking the most silly questions/making silly statements such as "this wouldn't be a very good family car" and "why doesn't it have any bumpers?"

I've been reading about these cars since the early nineties. They make a lot of sense in the tiny restrcited streets of Europe and the UK, but I never considered they would be much use in Los Angeles. But now I think 'why not?' It's all most of us need.I certainly don't need to take my Subaru to work and back every day. It's too dangerous on the roads for me to cycle to work, and way too steep for me to cycle home. So this is ideal - small, but big enough that i can run errands on the way home, or strap my bike to the back when I want to go riding.

Another thing people were concerned about was safety - "I don't want to be buried in my car" was one comment I overheard. Clearly these people don't realise that this car has to pass European crash tests (I won't say it). And you can check out crash tests on youtube.com. The car is built around a safety cell which is ridiculously strong.

I like it!

www.smartusa.com

Let's hope Mercedes brings the Smart Roadster to these shores...

Smart crash test 1

Smart crash test 2

Smart crash test 3

New abuse

Just when I thought it was all over, the stalker starts the abuse again.

See link.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/ripoffs/discuss/72157594483039431/#comment72157600235116824

The man they tried to silence.

Firstly, thanks to all those flickr friends that have emailed me their support after seeing the stolen photos and their manipulation by my stalker.

It's very much appreciated.

Here are the pictures in question:



From our Xmas party in Las Vegas last year. Every year for the last five years our company has paid for us to fly to Vegas and put us up in a swish hotel.

Yes, we earned our right to be in this country. What did YOU ever do for it?

Each of us came here with very little and through hard work and diligence have done very well. We've each dated a lot of women and we're each now married to highly educated American girls.

But that doesn't mean you have to be an asshole in life. I'm happy to pay more tax to give those less privileged than myself a better way of life. Let's have a national health service for a start.

From 1986 (I think) Bad dye job. It was the eighties, we grew our hair long and dyed it. We played in bands and had fun.

Another bad haircut and stupid tie-dyed shirts. We weren't that great as a band, but my bass playing was fantastic and still is. I was a student of Geddy Lee and Mike Rutherford, two of the best bass players who ever lived, IMHO.



Amsterdam 1990 - what a fucking great holiday!


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1985 or 1986. This is the picture of me that all the girlies really love. I still have the guitar - it's almost twenty-five years since I bought it. It's seen a lot of service on stage and in the studio and it's been played by talents far greater than my own.

I am a professional artist, musician, and voice over artist. I even get to take pictures for my job. Oh and I write. And I get paid for it. Wow, what a lucky man. Our last photo assigment involved taking pictures of rock stars and their guitars, but you won' t get to see any of those before our latest title is out in the shops, otherwise I'd be giving the game away.

I'm a broad-minded free-thinker; I champion the underprivileged, progressive politics and the welfare of all decent caring honest human beings everywhere.

I rail against injustice, lies and corruption and I try to make the world a better place each and every day.

If that involves confronting liars, fascists and small-minded bigots, then so be it.

All that counts in this world is being faithful to yourself. Once you give in and let others dictate their hypocrisy, lies and hate, and you become a disciple of delusion, you're no more than a puppet.

I preach tolerance, kindness and understanding...apart from when I'm dealing with right-wing fucking liars. There's no other way of dealing with them.
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A couple of weeks ago I travelled to a different and scary dark side of flickr.com. A world where up is down, left is right, and day is night. I'm talking about the world of climate-change denial, of people still clinging on to the notion that Bush is a good president (hilarious and terrifying at the same time) and that the Iraq debacle is justified.

Delusional indeed.

A world where people are so gullible and malleable that they have been manipulated into believing just about every possible right-wing cliche imaginable, and probably many that are unimaginable.
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I had deleted a big chunk of my profile after being told by Yahoo that the thieving criminal liar had taken the pictures off of the offending/offensive page, but then I read a BLATANT lie that he posted on the page telling people that I had been ordered by flickr to change my 'slanderous' (hardly - since when is truth slander?) profile...

THEN I got an email today from flickr - let's see it shall we?

As per our Community Guidelines, accounts are for personal use, for our members to share photos that they've taken and not to be used as a launch pad to harass and intimidate other members:"Flickr is not a venue for to you harass, abuse, impersonate, or intimidate others.

If we receive a valid complaint about your conduct, we will send you a warning orterminate your account."In joining Flickr, you agreed to abide by the Terms ofService and Community Guidelines.Whatever your issue with nyctreeman, using Flickr to resolve interpersonal issues is inappropriate and a two strike violation of our Community Guidelines and Terms ofService.

You need to remove any and all references to nyctreeman /Len Roe from your profile and photostream as soon aspossible. Please do this within 24 hours, or we'll delete your profile entirely. If you repost this or similar content at any point in thefuture, we will take further action against your account that may include termination.

Regards,

Interesting that I was supposed to be the slanderer, given that I didn't make anything up about big bully Len's pictures. But of course he's no stranger to hypocrisy and lies. I think the standards that have been set by the current administration have given people like Len to think that if you say something often enough and loud enough, then it's just 'true'.

Here's the comment from my own personal stalker/bully, caught out in a very big lie. Tut tut, Len 'the bully' Roe, distorting the 'facts' to suit yourself once more, you pathetic waste of skin.

"You see how creepy he got, and how fast he got there.

"This man is (in my opinion) probably a dangerous psychotic. His rage and hatred rivals our enemies in Iraq. Anyway, I thought you all would find that interesting..."

And there's more bile in that vein from, guess who? Yes, Bully Len. The funny thing is, he's just repeating back what I said about he and his ilk, sheeplike as they are, bleating their same old garbage continually, incapable of original thought. I swear they just churn these fuckers out in a factory and stick a microchip in the backs of their heads. They're just clones of one another.

Damned right I'm angry - angry with all of those complicit in making this world much worse than it needs to be. That's the difference - free-thinking progressives want to make a better world, no matter how good or bad the world already is. Right-wingers want to drag everyone down in to a mire of greed, selfishness and ignorance.

Look around at the society and culture of much of our world.

When 'Big Brother' and "American Idol' and talentless so-called 'celebrities' like Paris talentless Hilton and Anna even less talent Nicole no talent Smith are the headline news stories above all the other awful stuff that's happening on the planet (Sudan , Iraq, the Bush maladministration etc etc) , there's something terribly wrong.

When the typical attitude that you see is 'fuck you, I look after number one and screw everyone else', there's something wrong.

When people are duped into buying armoured vehicles to take their kids to school in, there's something wrong.

When people are point-blank refusing to believe the scientific evidence from the majority of the world's climate scientists and dragging figures from conservative Christian web sites to illustrate their er...'point'...then there's something deeply wrong.

When the overwhelming prrof of evolution is everywhere, and people are pretending that they actually believe everything is made by a giant invisible magic wizard...then there's little or no hope for humankind.

So Len labels ordinary decent people trying to make a decent honest living and who actually care about the world as 'Stalinists' because they dare to take a stand against small-mindedness - brilliant!

That shows just how far over the edge these people are, and the saaaad thing is they don't even realise it. I guess they live with people who think the same reptilian little thoughts as they and filter out anything 'liberal' ( i.e.being a decent caring honest selfless thinking human being) in favour of doing exactly what they're told by neo cons (i.e. spreading disinformation and hating anyone who isn't an extreme right-wing-borderline fascist).

Try reading some books, cocksnot. Fewer hours in front of Fox News and more time talking to people from all over the world, and perhaps travelling outside of your home town occasionally might broaden your narrow little horizon a bit. Oh, and put down the guns. There must be something else you can play with.

The same goes for all brainwashed right-wing dirt out there.

We can make a better world if only you start thinking for yourselves and about someone other than yourselves in a positive way, just for a change. What can you do for other people?

Stop hating. Start loving.

Start thinking.

These people are so dim that they couldn't even grasp the concept that if everyone starts turning lights off it will massively reduce the drain of natural resources. Even that simple small thing is beyond them. As you'd expect from conservatives, it's the narrow view, the short-sighted view. There's never a grasp of the interconnectedness of things, that there's a long term position.

Of course a lot of them believe in 'The Rapture', so they don't care about fucking up the planet. In fact they actively encourage it. That's the truth of the matter. Why bother looking after the planet if you've been chosen to be sucked up into space and hang out with the giant invisible wizard?

So, from a few days ago, here it is again:

I have my own personal stalker now! It's a bit scary. And he's far-right gun nut with a fascination with Nazism.

http://www.flickr.com/people/47967505@N00/

He stole pictures of me (I see he's now rather gutlessly deleted them) and posted them on his own flickr pages so that he could post them in this page in order to make some weird point based on nothing, rather than posting links to them so people could see them in their original form.

I'm British, so naturally I tend to be self deprecating. It's a low-key, dry and ironic sense of humour.

Len Roe is a Yank, and although I know many that seem to 'get it' (the better educated and generally more well travelled ones), most do not. Len's a classic example.

Evidently he was up all night scouring my pictures for something he could use to abuse me. Well my pictures are there for the purpose of entertainment and humour and blogging. I wouldn't have minded quite so much if he had posted the pictures so that people could link to them in context. But no, in typical right-wing gun-nut obsessive "I'm the next Cho" fashion, he's used them to further his own rather sad agenda.

I initially happened upon the picture on that page by accident. The association made by guess what? - another lame right wing gun freak - between a starving polar bear and the abortion debate was tenuous and freakishly implausible (the extreme disturbed right-wing mind at work) and I felt I had to comment.

Essentially I got into a rather stupid debate - you might as well smash yourself in the face with a hammer - talking to these blind fools is about as productive. This guy made it personal for no good reason, and then started making ignorant comments on my pictures, so naturally I blocked him.

Anyway you'll find every single far right cliche you can imagine - gun-obsessed, climate-change denying, racist, homophobic, 'hippy' (whatever that is)-hating, small-minded, bigoted, poorly educated, 'liberal'-hating, anti-semite,and son and son ad nauseum, on the page I linked to this

These illiterates keep posting 'evidence' from far right conservative 'research' that contradicts what they consider 'liberal' science. It's neither liberal or otherwise, it's just fact. For years it was a small voice crying out about the abuse of the planet by people like..well like NYCtreeman I suppose...and now the tide has turned and the far right and big business don't like it. Oh dear, it might cut into profits. Big deal DO something - clean up your act.

And be warned, there's some rather strong language in the comments, not least from me.

I've blocked right-wing dickwads from commenting on my flickr pictures - if I want to read or hear bigoted govenment controlled propoganda I can tune into Fox or any number of tenth rate so-called 'news' agencies.

Newsflash - I've had another three phone calls with people saying things really quickly and then putting the phone down. It sounds like swearing, but I guess they're scared they're going to be 'traced' or something, as if I have that kind of technology.

Nothing to do with Len Roe posting my peronal information on the internet then...

I love fluffy bunnies and tiny babies and unborn foetuses (foetii..?) and whiskers on kittens and little angels and the wee baby Jimmy Jesus, and his older brother the big Jesus H. Christ, and kittens and puppies and Hallmark cards and everyone in the world.

But not fascists. I fucking hate right-wing loons.

Family cars from my childhood...

Family cars from my childhood...
Originally uploaded by Eleventh Earl of Mar.

Family cars from my childhood...
Here are the cars I remember we had when we were growing up -

1. Ford Zephyr: this was the one that my younger brother nearly fell out of when we were going around the roundabout by Mark Hall school in Essex, UK.
(cream and red and rust coloured)

2. Ford Consul Classic: dad bought this one off of Karina Wilson's dad, I think. We went to Spain in this one. And back again.
(black)

3. Sunbeam Rapier: oddly closing rear windows.
(blue I think)

4.Mini: stolen because it was green ,apparently. Dad parked it in London, came back to it, and there it wasn't. "I'll never buy a bloody green car again!", which, along with "tell them to piss off Brenda", "I think I'll just go turn the potatoes over" and "man wasn't born to work" is one of dad's greatest lines.
(green...)

5. Vauxhall Victor (not an estate as in this pic, but a saloon): I think dad got this from Jerry, the bloke from the end of the street. But I don't think we had it long.
(grey)

6: Wolseley 1800: dreadful thing. Dad was going to sue the seller under the trades descriptions act. Basically broken. 84 bhp!
(blue, like the car pictured here)

7. Austin 1100 (actually the Wolseley version in this pic, but it's the same car really) : the same as an Austin/Morris/Wolseley/BL 1800, but smaller. Basil Fawlty beat up a red version of this car in the Gourmet Night episode of Fawlty Towers.
(black)

8. Vauxhall Carlton: Dad's best ever car, with a mighty two litre motor, and plush velour upholstery. Sadly dad lost his job not long after buying the car, so it went back to the shop.
(metallic brown)

9. Austin 1800: (84 bhp) exactly the same as the Wolseley, without the retired major moustache grille. Known as the 'land crab' because of it's squat crustacean-like looks. This was less troublesome than the Wolseley. My dad used to talk wistfully of the Austin 2200 which was a slightly elongated version of the 1800, and of course with the full 110 bhp, according to www.carfolio.com
(mustard yellow)

10. Fiat 131 Mirafiori: wow, this was a company car, so no maintenace worries for dad, but it must have been a pain in the bum for the company dad worked for at the time - FIats were CRAP back then. They were actually built of old rust from scrapped cars.
(champagne yellow)

11. Fiat 125 Special: I was present when dad bought this car. On the lot, for the same money, was a Jaguar E-Type 2+2, but he wouldn't buy it. I was most disappointed. This car ended up sad, unloved and covered in spider webs in the garage at Poplar Avenue as dad had the company Fiat 131 by then.
(red)

But come on - Fiat 125 vs. Jaguar E-Type? For the SAME MONEY?

We could have all squeezed in the back...

Trivia note of the day - FIAT sold the design of the FIAT 125 to the Polish, who built the Lada from it, out of pig-iron and bogies.

"We Know You Can Hear Us Earth Men..."

"We Know You Can Hear Us Earth Men..."
Originally uploaded by "eat at joe's".

If you watch the pilot episode of Captain Scarlet, the Earth men really do ask for it.

The human invaders/explorers find a little town on Mars, and they just start blasting away at it for no reason.

Then they get all miffed when the Mysterons decide to get a bit of revenge.

I say 'abit of revenge' - in fact it's essentially an all out war of terror against Earth, with absolutely no end in sight, just endless ceaseless pointless revenge. It's really not a balanced response.

Now if the Mysterons were reasonable they'd just pick a town on Earth and shoot it up. Barnsley or Middlesborough or Chelmsford would be ideal.

Tony Blair could even nominate a town - "Now see here, you Mysterons, fair's fair - just take one of our towns and we'll call it quits".

Or, even better, they could have a telephone hotline (calls charged at no more than 75p a minute) with accompanying live TV show presented by career-comeback-now-popular-again Noel Edmonds.
Viewers could call in and vote for a town, and Noel could talk to some of the callers and ask them why they'd chosen Wigan.

Also, the Mysterons were setting themselves up by calling themselves 'the Mysterons', and even having their own crazy late sixties logo. Oh, we're the Mysterons, we've got a funny mysterious name, and you never see us and we have disc light torches that we shine on people, and we take over bodies. Oh we're so mysterious we are.

It's be a different story if they were visible and had high pitched Rochdale accents and just ordinary torches, and were called the Fuggles.
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Wee angels of our teeny tiny hearts.

A little angel.
Originally uploaded by Eleventh Earl of Mar.

So it turns out that a lot of people believe in angels.

fair enough.

Some people believe in pixies at the bottom of the garden, some people believe in aliens - I knew a girl who believed in Allens for a while, but it turned out she was dylsexic...I mean dyslexic.

I knew a bloke who was incredibly stupid, and we were friends (in a way) for years. He discovered that quite a few famous and clearly bright people were dyslexic, so he decided that was his own problem (not being stupid or anything), and that's why people thought he was stupid, and that's why he didn't read books (not because all those words on a page made his tiny IQ ache).

Now what was I on about - oh yes - angels!

Yes, so here is the good ol' You Way Survey you can think what you like (as long as it doesn't involve communism or socialism of course, perish the thought, mind control, propoganda, peer pressure, secret police kicking your door down, Guantanomo Bay etc).

It turns out that some people believe there are angels that are completely unrelated to God, that watch over them and they're all around.

Yes, I was somewhat taken aback too.

So my understanding of this is that it's yet another way of disowning personal responsibility. If something 'good' happens, well that was an angel doing that for you. If you work hard and everything comes out right, that was an angel doing it for you. If you drop something and it breaks, well then that was a bad angel or an evil pixie, or a little demon. You get the picture.

It's a little like the notion in some cultures that everything is down to fate and you have no power and no control over it.

The saddest thing about this is that the majority of people who believe this are the poorest and most socially deprived people. It's pretty harmless in and of itself, but it does explain a little more about the society in which i have chosen to live.

A few years ago a friend of mine came over from the UK. He was doing a piece of work for The British Museum, and this was related to angels. He had noticed a thread throughout history in many cultures of angels, and was pursuing this from several angles, including visting the City of Angels.

We got wind of a lady in Thousand Oaks who collected angels.

We went to her house - on a hillside with a stunning westward view. She was unfeasibly pleasant and welcoming, and charming (as were we of course) and allowed us to take pictures of her two thousand angels and angel related items. They were everywhere.

I don't know what my friend did with all the material he collected during his brief sojourn to my city, but he did complete he work for the British Museum and gave me a copy of the book that was published to go with the work.

I'm all for people believing what they want, as long as they do not then go about trying to inflict it upon others, or act upon thei personal hatred of whatever particular ethnic/religious/gender/animal/mineral etc that they despise.

However, we live in a world where people are becoming less responsible for their own actions, and yet more selfish, more likely to blame other people and outside influences for their own failures, and more insular.

The angel dependency club takes it to a new level.

The Fforde Grene (RIP)

The Fforde Grene (RIP)
Originally uploaded by Strawbl.eu.

This pub is to die, but then return to life as an Asian supermarket(that's Asian in the sense that Europe uses the word, meaning people from the Indian sub-continent, as opposed to people from the Orient).

I lived only a short walk from this place in the 1980s, and I went there when I had the inclination and the spare cash.

Harehills/Chapeltown in Leeds has (or had when I lived there) the highest density of people per square mile in Europe, which always surprised me.

Presidents' Day

Boy was I annoyed today. Someone had posted a doctored picture of Bush on good ol' flickr.com, and I had made a couple of comments lamenting the last seven years of misery that this cunt Bush has inflicted upon Planet Earth. Some fuckass calling itself Indy parrothead launched a direct attack on me for daring to condemn Bush for his useless behaviour.

Frankly I've gone way past the point of being pleasant or reasonable with these people - when you're so out there that you are still oblivious to the great tide of overwhelming facts and evidence that are shown even in the extreme right wing media, such as Fox, then I think that using phrases like 'you're a stupid cunt' is perfectly acceptable. Why should I waste my university education or brainpower upon vermin who go around the internet looking to annoy decent intelligent broad minded people?

I tore the guy at least five new assholes, so maybe less shit will come out of his mouth.

So fuck all you conservative right-wing fucks, and may you reap what you sow.

cheers