My pal Timothy Winchester (Follow Timothy on Twitter) publishes the lovely People I Know webcomic (Read it here.). He recently ran a week where he asked readers to send their pictures in for a boyfriend for the hapless Toby. Below is my entry for Boyfriend Week. Meet Shirley…
“This is Shirley.
He is a bearded vegan pigmy diplodocus with a big heart.
He could be Toby’s boyfriend, he has one big arm that can dish out hugs, but can also give Toby a good old smack and knock some sense into him when needed (always)…Away from speed dating fictional characters he likes to take part in Tudor re-enactments and has an extensive store loyalty card collection.
Me and my XBox Avatar, not much difference between myself and virtual self…
I’m nothing like my Xbox avatar…
Got the stormtrooper helmet on the left as a present. Paid £4 for the one on the right…
The trackie top – £40 in real life, £2 on the XBox…
How is this any different to buying Street Fighter 2 for Megadrive/PS1/PS2/PS3/XBox and iPhone?
In 2010 I liked The Black Keys (discovered them through FIFA 11 – despite my mate Jack loving them for years), Best Coast and some of The Arcade Fire album. Bit of a poor year.
I finished Red Dead Redemption (didn’t like the zombie version), Assasin’s Creed 2 (nice engine, but got bored of it), Heavy Rain (Jason! Jason! Jason!). Downloaded Ilomilo and got a little freaked out by the giant spiders and the dead kid in Limbo…
I bought some Star Wars trainers.
I took too many photos with Hipstomatic…
Finally got Mad Men, devoured all four seasons in the space of a month. Who is Don Draper? Still haven’t finished Season Two of The Wire. Got well caught up in Downton Abbey and very excited about what’s going to happen this year there…
Got hooked on The Walking Dead, love that nobody is ever safe and also that no other comic book has made me gasp out loud whilst reading it. Just when you think it couldn’t get any darker it always does. Who are ‘the walking dead’? The zombies or the survivors?
Despite my part-time job as kid being on the fish counter at Tescos, I finally started liking fish, especially Monkfish and the fish finger sandwiches…
Discovered my addiction to Falafels, regularly getting lunch from King Of Falafel on Leather Lane market…
I scored a goal for The Florossoneri (after four seasons), it helped us win the Hackney & Leyton Football League Division 4 Title and made it into the paper…
I run a football team that plays in Hackney & Leyton Football League. We’re a pub team, and we’re not a bad football team… Anyways I had a play about in my notepad at designing a badge for the team… Our nickname is The Florossoneri (we play in black and red like Milan and we play out of The Florist Arms pub), so it’s very heavily influenced from a couple of Italian teams badges… It started off as a bit of a project to teach myself Illustrator, but then with a little help from a couple of pals I turned it into a proper badge… Essentially I’m a bit of a big kid… Just without a Maths book to doodle in the back of now…
So England weren’t much cop, but during the World Cup I’ve been taking pictures of hand drawn World Cups used to advertise matches being seen in pubs. Enjoy…
When I first did a website I put up loads of pictures of trainers that I’d bought. In those days I bought all sorts, so it was a touch interesting. Nowadays chances are all I ever buy are Adidas Superstars – in a white variant (much to the annoyance of my girlfriend), guess that’s what happens when you grow up a bit… Anyways I bought these the other day in a sale, love them and took these pictures whilst I was waiting for the scotchguard to dry! Nice 80s shape Adidas Superstar, not chunky, just right… Anyways I guess this post is a throwback to a simpler time of html, frontpage, lycos hosting…
Finished Batman: Arkham Asylum last night. Have ruddy loved it, especially all the Scarecrow trippy wacked out levels (Little Bruce and his dead parents…) and the stealthy sneaky bits. Thought the last two bosses were a bit of a let down though, almost like they ran out of time… Got the Scarecrow ending, but apparently it’s a bit random whether you get Bane or Killer crock…
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