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Stu (Stu)
Username: Stu

Registered: 04-2008
Posted From: 90.244.43.71
Posted on Monday, July 16, 2012 - 07:53 pm:   

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/
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Stu (Stu)
Username: Stu

Registered: 04-2008
Posted From: 90.244.38.75
Posted on Friday, September 28, 2012 - 09:53 am:   

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/
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Stu (Stu)
Username: Stu

Registered: 04-2008
Posted From: 90.244.47.101
Posted on Thursday, October 04, 2012 - 06:26 pm:   

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/
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Stu (Stu)
Username: Stu

Registered: 04-2008
Posted From: 90.244.47.228
Posted on Friday, October 05, 2012 - 05:26 pm:   

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.
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Stu (Stu)
Username: Stu

Registered: 04-2008
Posted From: 90.244.47.228
Posted on Friday, October 05, 2012 - 05:28 pm:   

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!
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Stu (Stu)
Username: Stu

Registered: 04-2008
Posted From: 90.244.39.111
Posted on Thursday, October 11, 2012 - 04:42 pm:   

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/
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Stu (Stu)
Username: Stu

Registered: 04-2008
Posted From: 90.244.38.52
Posted on Friday, November 02, 2012 - 11:20 am:   

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/
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Stu (Stu)
Username: Stu

Registered: 04-2008
Posted From: 90.244.43.248
Posted on Monday, January 07, 2013 - 07:08 pm:   

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/
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Stu (Stu)
Username: Stu

Registered: 04-2008
Posted From: 90.244.46.17
Posted on Friday, February 22, 2013 - 05:52 pm:   

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/
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Stu (Stu)
Username: Stu

Registered: 04-2008
Posted From: 90.244.40.180
Posted on Friday, May 10, 2013 - 03:40 pm:   

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
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Stevie Walsh (Stephenw)
Username: Stephenw

Registered: 03-2009
Posted From: 194.32.31.1
Posted on Friday, May 10, 2013 - 03:50 pm:   

Marvel's 'Dr Strange' was my earliest introduction to Lovecraftian fiction, Stu.
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Stu (Stu)
Username: Stu

Registered: 04-2008
Posted From: 90.244.40.180
Posted on Friday, May 10, 2013 - 04:51 pm:   

By the hoary hosts of Hoggoth!
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Stu (Stu)
Username: Stu

Registered: 04-2008
Posted From: 90.244.35.216
Posted on Monday, August 19, 2013 - 10:33 pm:   

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

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