Operation Margarine

Jan
25

Disney borrow Joy Division album cover for Micky Mouse merch

I imagine this t-shirt was put forward as a joke, designed possibly by an intern working at, what I imagine, is one of those faceless corporate clothes designers; churning out, slightly different sweater designs for places like TK Maxxxxx (I never know how many xs there are) and Next (just the one x).

I hope so. I don’t know exactly how Disney’s merchandise works.

But, for a company who signed up to corporations against piracy, PIPA-supporting, petition, I find this pretty galling.

I don’t know whether The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Astronomy or Peter Saville and Chris Mathan, the designers of the original Joy Division, Unknown Pleasures album sleave, were asked their permission to copy their work, but my instinct is that it’s unlikely.

The words: pot, kettle, dirty rotten hypocrite, spring to mind, don’t they?

Also, they do know that Ian Curtis hung himself, right? And where the name Joy Division came from?

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Jan
21

Veras sink Submarine, 10 - 2 at The Massacre of Market Road

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Angus Deyton isn’t a man unfamiliar with sting of ignominy, but he suffered probably his greatest public humiliation this weekend, as his Submarine side were torn by a rampant Vera’s team, 10 2 in the Quarter Final of the Divisional Musical Associations Cup.

Submarine had the hilarious temerity to even go ahead early on, before a quick-fire Oli Jones hat-trick turned the tables. Submarine got a goal back from a well-worked freekick, and threatened to draw level, with only the goal keeping heroics of Tarn Willers and some last ditch defending keeping them out.

But Veras were in no mood to fanny about: A beautifully flighted Andre Lazos corner found Barney Thomas at the front stick who buried his header, before the two linked up again for a mirror image goal from the other corner, putting the Veras 5 - 2 up at halftime.

America, who would you vote for?

This cool as fuck, intelligent, talented man?

Or this fucking moron?

Okay, so Perry probably won’t get the Republican nomination, but I still thought it was a powerful comparison. And I know which way anyone worth respecting would vote.

Jan
18

Under SOPA, you could get 5 years for uploading a Michael Jackson song. One year more than the doctor who killed him.
— Raghda Elsayed (@Skulled) January 18, 2012

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The intellectualisation of Lady Gaga fandom

If you’re anything like me you’re probably sick of reading broadsheet articles about the implacable appeal of Lady Gaga and her effortless charisma.

I just can’t abide these broadsheet claims that she is something other than just a pop star and this ever expanding vein of cloying articles seem to me, part of a sinister cultural land-grab designed to hoist Gaga onto a middle class pedestal of pop acceptability.

Firstly may I say, I don’t hate Lady Gaga. Sure, I find her music utterly insipid, her “image” gratingly dull, but I’ve got nothing against people who are engaged by her.

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This is what happens

…when you let people who have no real grasp of what the internet is draft legislation to control it.

Jan
17

Hello by the movies

I’d like to see some Hall and Oates songs done like this. But I’ve neither the time nor patience to do it myself. Can someone else make that happen? No? Then what am I paying you for? I don’t pay you? I’m sorry. I should. Your work is generally very good.

Jan
13

The eternal wit of the football fan

In between the vile chants, there are moments of genius like this.

Jan
10

Call for Submissions: What’s Your Favorite Tumblr?

timemagazine:

At TIME.com, we’re working on a guide to the best Tumblrs out there. But we want to know what you think first.

What Tumblr can’t you live without? (Aside from ours, of course.) Whether it’s news, photography, design or just cat videos, we want to know what you follow — and why.

Reply to this post (and include the URL) with your picks. We’ll mark popular suggestions as “Readers’ Choice” in our final list, which should come out by the end of January.

www.pocketpoems.co.uk

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Nov
30

Michael Gove writes foreword to school issue James I Bible

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As I’ve already touched on today, I have my reservations when it comes to religion. It’s a topic I’m shamefully underinformed about. I mean, I know the main things, I know the five pillars of Islam, I know why the Christians don’t like men to get sexy on each other, but my biblical knowledge is to say the least, limited.

My only experience of the bible, save for finding the creepy passion-killing Gideon’s version in hotel room bedside tables, was reading the New Testament (do you cap that?) in RE in Year 11.

We read the James I bible, and there were parts of it, I rather enjoyed. Not in a moral way — is it possible to enjoy anything in a moral way? But in a, “oh that’s nice” way. Which is the way I enjoy most things I enjoy. If that makes sense, which patently it doesn’t.

Is this what God had in mind?

When God spoke to Jesus and was like, “Oi Jesus, stop coverting that ox for two freakin’ seconds would you. Marriage, yeah Jesus, tell them it’s a good idea. They should do it,” he could never have imagined this abomination.

It’s so weird how religions can get so caught by relatively tiny parts of their dogma, seemingly to the detriment of much of the rest of it. Okay, the bible says you shouldn’t have sex before marriage, but it’s a tiny part of the bigger Christian picture no? Shouldn’t you be more focused on the bigger bits like being nice and shit.

Nov
29

I find old people fighting inspirational

It’s just amazing that after so long you can still give a shit. Obviously there’s a fine line between giving-a-shit, and bearing-a-destructive-grudge, but the older I get the more often I worry that the shades of grey I’m beginning to see in almost every debate, will lead to a single pervasive greyness, that means I can stand on neither side in any debate.

And what kind of a person is that? A rubbish one is the answer. When you’re younger you’re not as conscious of your own ignorance, or at least you don’t let your ignorance stop you from having an opinion.

As you get older you start to get more worried that you don’t know the whole story, or more pertinently, that someone will point out you’re wrong. This leads to you needing an improbable amount of information before you’ll nail your colours to the mast.

It’s just good to see that these two old cunts have still got their colours nailed to the mast, and can basically still get angry.

Nov
28

This isn’t cool, it’s the end of everything

Oh cool look it’s a video game that you can control with your piss that’s neat. Oh wait no, they’re using it to advertise shit. I find those pernicious little urinal adverts offensive enough, but this really does take the fucking ~~piss~~ biscuit.

Is there literally nowhere free from the grasp of advertising? Please. There just has to be some restraint. You’re just making us better at ignoring it.