Most of my recent creative output has gone into making some more of these video game vlogs/reviews for Hindleyak’s Retro Yakking.
Whilst doing that, I’ve also been catching up with uploading some of these YouTube vids to blip.tv, which could be seen as a more finalised, sanitised and ‘professional’ channel containing the better pieces. Here’s the latest of these, a video review of the Mega Drive classic Premier Manager.
For your viewing delectation, here’s a recut version of a DIY-style video game review from last November. The babbling at the beginning is gone, replaced by some cheesy and suitably stereotypical title cards. Cool, eh?
Well, it hasn’t really been away, but this week sees some big things going on over at the Nonsensical Encyclopedia. For the uninitiated, Illogicopedia is a wiki project, a website to which literally anyone can add their own stuff. This may be in the form of witty one liners or jokes, but the bulk of the site consists of creative splurges formatted just like those pages at Wikipedia. Pretty mint, eh? Well, I would say that.
On to these big things I started telling you about, then. January has seen an explosion (or at least a small increase) in activity at the site, prompting renewed fervour for article writing and just general mucking about without the admins consent. Nah, don’t worry, they ain’t gonna ban you or anything… as long as you don’t go all Gordon Ramsay on them and start questioning their legitimacy and such. See, I happen to know them personally and although they’re a little but insane they aren’t bad people looking to knock you down a peg or two.
This increased interest in the site has led me to take a hammer to the front page, instating a long-awaited modified landing pad for the Big Cheeses’ helicopters. Not really, on our wages they couldn’t afford a second hand bicycle from Hindley car boot. Hopefully this rejig will lead to even bigger ‘n’ better things, such as world domination or at the very least a slap on the back from some bloke in the pub. Which isn’t really likely, since I don’t think anybody in the Fox and Chicken would have even heard of the Internet.
Nevertheless, the Illogiblog has seen an upsurge in contributions and there’s actually the feeling that people care about the place again. Not that it was ever missing, but at least there’s a general collective community spirit beginning to appear once more.
