BRAINFART: I long to live in a world in which “toilet rolls” are a complex Acrobatic Manoeuvre reserved for an extremely specialist Olympics Event, rather
Short 'n Curlies by Si Spurrier Archives
BrainFart: I get a tiny flutter of pleasure whenever I find a typo in a professionally published novel. I feel it's important that you know this about
Kultcha: Quezon City: most populous berg in the Already-Pretty-Fucking-Teeming Philippines, where overworked and creatively-stunted businessmen have taken
The Keyboard Is My FuckMonkey: Okay. A few final squeezings from the citric tumour I've been mercilessly wringing-out this past couple of weeks,
The KeyBoard Is My FuckMonkey: Some extra-curricular thoughts on the whole "Superheroes: Good Or Bad For Comics" debate, which has been raging -- RAGING!
The KeyBoard Is My FuckMonkey: It's been a while since I said much about comics here. Apparently -- on the grounds that this is a comics-related column,
BrainFart: I'm ill, screw you. Gripped by lugubrious fevers, somersaulting fuzzily through the Paracetamol Nebula, I have ditched the idea of Real Actual
I Fakt You, Right In The Face: So. We've all heard that one about the ice-hearted sleazy government fuckoids who have, using arcane Mathematical
BrainFart: Suicide bombers. Fucking idiots, really. I mean, yes, no, no, let's not get ourselves drawn into a philosophical argument about the existence
Plugged I don't like strangers. Actually, that's not entirely true. Under certain very narrowly defined conditions, usually involving Profound Silence,
Achieve even a modicum of success in the field of writing comics -- a solitary prideparticle of Published Material; a lonely tick on your comicography; a
Apparently it's Christmas. Sheltered as I am from such festive frippery in my sticky saunapit of meat-flavoured bitterness; sick as I am with the taste of
BrainFart: Crazy urban troubleshooting this week... Problem: How do you stop crowds of listless hoodie-wearing juvenile scallywanks from hanging about in
This Week I Have Been Mostly Hating: This one fucking woman… This tubby, over-loud middlemanagement skankpig, dolled-up in so much makeup she could've
The Keyboard Is My FuckMonkey: I spent much of the last week writing an in-depth cityguide to a town that doesn't exist. That's a lot harder than it
(Short 'N Curlies) -- #19 Si Spurrier A historical Twentieth Column (don't be confused by the #19 up there, kids -- you'll recall the wanky Column#0 back
The AutoCue Says Keep Filling: It's all going to end in tears. Crazy-assed political bellendery this week, as the UK Government declares unilateral war on
BrainFart I took a few moments this week to casually spaff-out a screenplay of such glittering perfection that -- if I didn't need material for this
I Fact You, Right In The Face: Here's one for all the Creationists out there to wrap their banana-loving brains round. Folks: I know that -- as far as
News From The SpurSphere: Rum and uncanny Goings On this week, as my time on this Spanish Island Of Odd comes to its last, unhappy month. What follows --
The KeyBoard Is My FuckMonkey: You want to work in comics? HAHAHA. But okay, no, that's cool. Very worthy. Fun! And it's not as if you even like paying
They Keyboard Is My FuckMonkey: Let's roleplay. Work's going terribly. Every sentence you write is a jagged-tipped teaspoon being dragged across the wet
The Keyboard Is My FuckMonkey: Let's talk Plotting. I know: the wits'n'wags out there are already festering-up (or at least anticipating) a bad joke about
Plugged: Twitter continues to fascinate me, though probably not in the way it's supposed to. (A Caveat: I suspect it's deeply unhip of me to still be
The Keyboard Is My FuckMonkey: Halfway through writing a novel is exactly the wrong time to start reading one. Primates are notoriously easy to distract,
PLUGGED: I became abruptly aware recently of a New And Troubling form of Psychological Behaviour. I call it the NEUROTIC GOOGLEFLEX, and it is a dark and
The Keyboard Is My FuckMonkey I read a Super-hero comic this week. Given that I occasionally write the things for a living, that’s a less common
BrainFart: My next glittering ComicBook GloryWork will be a turgid melodrama about a meek but driven young man from the Wrong Side Of The Tracks (tangent:
(Short ‘N Curlies) -- #6 Si Spurrier The Keyboard Is My FuckMonkey: Writing comics and writing novels are two brainshittingly different disciplines, and
This Week I Have Been Mostly Hating: ...the false excitement of a Legitimate Distraction From Work (LDWF)... which is then revealed to be more hollow and