Plan 9 from Outer Space

As if you needed another reason NOT to vote for the Tories……

”You’ve got to be kidding!?” ”I kid you not!”

‘Goat detained over armed robbery’

This is amazing

20th January 2009

Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th President of the United States of America. Happy New Year everyone.

It’s all me, me, me.

 

 (acrylics on mirror and canvas)

 

This is a self portrait, so that covers the Art quota, and I like scepticism, so that’s that sorted. These are the kind of seamless segues you can come to expect from me in the future.

”Won’t someone think of the children!!??”

A Christian bus driver has refused to drive a bus with an atheist slogan proclaiming “There’s probably no God”.

Ron Heather, from Southampton, Hampshire, responded with “shock” and “horror” at the message and walked out of his shift on Saturday in protest.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/7832647.stm

All I have to say in reply to this is: ”Waaaaaaaaaaah!” Toughen up you pussy.

Meanwhile, back in the real world, some sad news. Sir John Mortimer has died. The old dog was rather awesome and he’ll be sorely missed.

House is in the house

Aliens: envious of wind power technology

UFO enthusiasts are claiming damage to a Lincolnshire wind farm turbine was caused by a mystery aircraft.

The turbine at Conisholme lost one 66ft (20m) blade and another was badly damaged in the early hours of Sunday.

County councillor for the area Robert Palmer said he had seen a “round, white light that seemed to be hovering”.

Ecotricity, which owns the site, said while investigations continued they were not ruling anything out – but the extent of damage was “unique”.

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/7817378.stm

I did the biggest eye roll imaginable when I first heard about this story and rightly so. UFO’s are just that. UNIDENTIFIED flying objects. Making the leap from a smudgy light in the sky to interstellar craft piloted by intelligences far in advance of our own takes some doing. And even if the latter is true, it makes perfect sense that these intelligences would travel the mind-bogglingly vast distances involved in space travel, only to fuck up at the last few miles, appear to some half-witted lunatic who can’t tell their arse from their elbow and crash into a great big bloody wind turbine, doesn’t it?

This past week or so the U.K has had some pretty hardcore weather. High winds and low temperatures, so I figured the damage could be a result of that, especially an ice build up on the blades. And the lights? Well, where do you begin. It could be anything from low flying aircraft, fireworks to traffic headlights. Well lo and behold, a few days later The Guardian had this to say.

Also, Ecotricity, as reported in Friday’s Guardian are ”looking into the possibility of a cow-sized piece of ice falling from a passing plane, which would explain the absence of other debris at the site.”

And anyway, the aliens don’t need to go to all the trouble of coming here when they can talk to us through this guy:

Always keep an open mind people, just not so open that your brains fall out.

”Who is John?… it could be Jack … Or James.”

Before I go on I should probably introduce myself and explain what I hope to achieve with this blog. My name’s Garry and I’m currently in my first year of Art School. While Art is my first love, Science and Scepticism run it a close second and I always try to combine the two as much as possible.

In this case, we had to design and print off a poster for an imaginary event as part of our coursework. Now, I think Colin Fry is one of the most hateful human beings on the face of the planet and a lot of my work concerns things that really piss me off. (I mean, just look at his ridiculous face!)

Psychics can’t talk to dead people in the spirit world. They are either deluded or con artists. Sometimes both. Evil vultures who exploit the memories of our loved ones in our time of grief and suffering deserve a slow and painful death……that or public ridicule, I’m easy.