Well, I thought it was time to play about with the way the blog works a little bit, so from now on I’ll try and knock together some kind of a monthly digest pointing you in the direction of some of the stuff I’ve been blogging about, and to take up the slack on some of the things I’ve been too lazy to blog about. Which, in a way, makes no logical sense whatever.
But hey ho. It also gives me the chance to defend things such as my devilishly overcomplicated category tree, to champion my current favourite things, and to idly mention things I keep intending to do but don’t, by way of somehow stimulating myself into activity. Think of it as self-help therapy outfitted by Primark, with nary a glance towards embarrassment.
AUGUST 2008
Well, it was a pretty good month for me, in particular getting to spend plenty of time with my LLF (had a jolly nice time at Endorse It, skintness notwithstanding). I also decided to give the whole moving thing a go (cheers Gabrielle!), though that’s come back to bite me on the arse already…
The month of August reflected in the BunKRS…
- It was a busy month for mocking jacks – first there was the whole debacle with the NETCU handbook getting dropped at the Kingsnorth Climate Camp; then there were the I-want-to-be-your-friend attempts at recruiting informants within the activist scene; and finally we had the narky Bristol copper who arrested a citizen for photographing him driving the wrong way down a one-way street;
- Meanwhile, in a dark corner of the former Soviet Union, it was all kicking off in Georgia over Ossetian secession (and of course Uncle Sam had no hand in it); Russian army veteran turned journalist Arkady Babchenko documented the war and its brutality;
- The Olympics happened, too, but the only mention that earned was with a Kid Carpet song, because sport is a bit boring;
- I moaned about Bristol City Council and its shonky Council Tax system;
- And I made a friend in Bristol Evening Post web editor Marc ‘Coops’ Cooper!
As ever, I’ve been trying out some new format ideas…
- Framed Documents – nothing more complicated than screencaps of writing in film and TV, this kicked off when I noticed copies of Eagle comic being handed out to Hungarian refugees in the 1957 episode of The Rock ‘N’ Roll Years; I’m still trying to find out more about the background to this, with help from John Freeman, the Dan Dare Yahoo! group, Steve Holland and Hungarian comic blog Panel (and with no help from the BBC);
- CineMaths – not a new feature, but a long dormant one, revived after finding Neil Marshall’s Doomsday so derivative;
- Wikipediaphile – just an excuse to highlight interesting wiki pages, really, kicking off with Brčko District
Recently added to NetNewsWire:
- Bristol Traffic – consistently yock-worthy, with straight-faced commentary accompanying endless photos of pavement parking, traffic light ignoring, middle finger extending drivers enjoying the Bristol roads;
- In Through The Out Door But Then Back In Again – got me hooked with its ‘Dog With Tits’ schtick;
- Pigdogfucker – ‘Dogs With Tits’ brought me here, too; a satisfyingly frothing-at-the-mouth-(but-still-funny) blog with a great name, a great subtitle (“Fuck you in the arse and the eye”) and a great description (“Glorifying terrorists, tolerating intolerance, and making excuses for the inexcusable.”)
Podcasts blowing the BunKRS speakers this month…
- Density of Sound – I’ve not been listening to many podcasts lately, but Tangerinebreem came back with a corker this month
Things are a bit tight at the moment, so I might be going off-air sometime soon 
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