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     Stu (Stu) Username: Stu Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 90.244.43.71 |
The first instalment of Sparking Neurones, my column over at Matt Cardin's revamped website The Teeming Brain, is now online. Go and laugh at my pitiful attempts to sound knowledgeable. http://www.teemingbrain.com/2012/07/16/sparking-neurones-everything-old-is-new-a gain-if-you-dont-look-too-hard/ | ||
| Stu (Stu) Username: Stu Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 90.244.38.75 |
Latest instalment of my Sparking Neurones column is up at http://www.teemingbrain.com/2012/09/26/batman-daemon-with-a-cape-men-in-tights-p art-1/ | ||
| Stu (Stu) Username: Stu Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 90.244.47.101 |
To celebrate the latest instalment of SPARKING NEURONES delving into the psychological and spiritual aspects of Spider-Man I've composed a little song: Spider-Man, Spider-Man. Does whatever a spider can. Climbing walls, fighting crime. Like spiders do all the time. Look out, here comes the Spider-Man. All his powers, could be mystic. The idea makes fanboys go ballistic. Can he rise from the dead? Didn't he used to be wed? Hey, there! There goes the Spider-Man. Why is his life so tragic? Maybe the spider's his totem? Could it be to do with magic? And has he got a super-powered scrotum? Spider-Man, Spider-Man. Friendly neighbourhood, Spider-Man. His webbed mask lends him power. Stops him being a wallflower. Look out, here comes the Spider-Man. Spider-Man, Spider-Man. Friendly neighbourhood, Spider-Man. His webbed mask lends him power. Stops him being a wallflower. Read about him in this column. I wonder why he moves like Gollum? You'll love the Spider-Man! http://www.teemingbrain.com/2012/10/03/spider-man-totem-and-tragedy-men-in-tight s-part-2/ | ||
| Stu (Stu) Username: Stu Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 90.244.47.228 |
Andrew Hook has inspired me to attempt another rewrite of the Spider-Man lyrics: Spider-Man, Spider-Man. Does a saucy little can-can. Kicks his leg, shows his drawers. Old style ones, that look like plus fours. Hey, hey, naughty old Spider-Man. | ||
| Stu (Stu) Username: Stu Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 90.244.47.228 |
And Matt Cardin wanted a Lovecraftian version: Spider-Man, Spider-Man. Does whatever a spider can. If he drops his underwear. You'll get a pretty big scare. Look out, here comes the Spider-Man. Is it a penis or a tentacle? They look almost identical. His willy's from another dimension. And also an SF convention. Hey, there! There goes the Spider-Man. I think you will find, his naughty bits look like Azathoth. How did this idiot god go blind? It wasn't through reading Isaac Asimov. Spider-Man, Spider-Man. Friendly neighbourhood, Spider-Man. His haunter of the darkness, is wrinklier than Agatha Harkness. Look out, here comes the Spider-Man. Spider-Man, Spider-Man. Friendly neighbourhood, Spider-Man. His haunter of the darkness, is wrinklier than Agatha Harkness. It also looks kinda like Cthulhu. His fave from Star Trek is Mr Sulu. Nerdy old Spider-Man! | ||
| Stu (Stu) Username: Stu Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 90.244.39.111 |
The latest instalment of Sparking Neurones covers psychedelics, ancient curses and nanotech shamanism in The Avengers. But the real draw is the crappy miniskirt costume Hawkeye wore for a few issues back in the '70s. http://www.teemingbrain.com/2012/10/10/the-avengers-clothes-make-the-iron-man-me n-in-tights-part-3/ | ||
| Stu (Stu) Username: Stu Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 90.244.38.52 |
The latest instalment of Sparking Neurones is also the final instalment of the Men in Tights series. I discuss artificial intelligence, the pros and cons of patriotism, the dynamics of heroism, the nature of the soul, and the role of personal belief in religion. All based around a discussion of Captain America's costume. http://www.teemingbrain.com/2012/11/01/captain-america-living-symbol-heroic-symb iosis-men-in-tights-part-4/ | ||
| Stu (Stu) Username: Stu Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 90.244.43.248 |
In the latest instalment of SPARKING NEURONES I talk about H.P. Lovecraft. I am very respectful and do not take the mickey at all. http://www.teemingbrain.com/2013/01/07/holding-out-for-a-hero-a-search-for-the-h eroic-in-lovecraftian-fiction-part-one/ | ||
| Stu (Stu) Username: Stu Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 90.244.46.17 |
Second part of my article on Lovecraftian fiction. This time round I discuss Robert E Howard, Fritz Leiber, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Frank L Baum, Joss Whedon, Kim Newman and Neil Gaiman. Plus, there are cool illustrations from Bob Covington and Frank Schoonover. http://www.teemingbrain.com/2013/02/21/holding-out-for-a-hero-a-search-for-the-h eroic-in-lovecraftian-fiction-part-two/ | ||
| Stu (Stu) Username: Stu Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 90.244.40.180 |
The third instalment of my article on Lovecraftian fiction discusses Lovecraft in comics. Featuring Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Warren Ellis, Gordon Rennie, Dr Fate, Swamp Thing and John Constantine among others. http://www.teemingbrain.com/2013/05/09/unnamable-but-not-undrawable-the-world-of -lovecraftian-superheroes/#more-9319 | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Marvel's 'Dr Strange' was my earliest introduction to Lovecraftian fiction, Stu. | ||
| Stu (Stu) Username: Stu Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 90.244.40.180 |
By the hoary hosts of Hoggoth! | ||
| Stu (Stu) Username: Stu Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 90.244.35.216 |
Fourth instalment of my article on Lovecraftian fiction comments on Robert Anton Wilson and Kenneth Grant. http://www.teemingbrain.com/2013/08/19/magick-madness-and-outsider-art-the-lovec raftian-path-to-happiness/#more-10391 |