The Dark Furie

Subscribe to RSS feed

Sticky post

The Dark Furie











The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round - it has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a very long time and they begin to question; is this real or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered and they come back to us saying "Hey don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride."

And we... kill those people.

"We have a lot invested in this ride. Shut him up. Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account and my family. This just has to be real."

Just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter because it's just a ride and we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money. A choice right now between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one.

Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defences each year and instead spend it on feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space together, both inner and outer, forever in peace.

Introducing The Budweiser Buddy Cup

Have you guys heard about the Budweiser Buddy Cup yet? Hold on a second and watch this video. Don’t worry, I’ll wait.

You’ve seen it now? Good. You at the back, what do you mean you haven’t? Oh couldn’t watch the video eh? Well let me fill you in. It’s a paper cup for beer that has Budweiser branding, because even the people behind the wonderfully creative “Whaaaaasssssuuuuuup?” adverts weren’t about to put Miller Genuine Draft adverts on their own cups. On the bottom of the cup is a QR code (one of those square barcodes that no-one in history has ever used but have been called the next big thing for a decade) that you scan with your phone to connect that particular paper cup with your Facebook account. I’ll give you a moment to get over the horror of that before leading onto the genius idea behind why you have to connect the mug to your Facebook account. You clink (is it really clinking when you use a paper cup) the cups together and it will connect to your Facebook account and add that person as a friend.
Read More...

A New Language

For those wondering at the title, I’ve been making a new language this afternoon. More on that in a moment, but first the why.
Read More...

Problems And Notes

I have a problem when it comes to describing things. You put something in front of me and I’ll describe it nicely and subtly and, due to who I am, in a way that will make you want to buy it. But asking me to describe something in my imagination? I can see it but turning the picture into words is a problem. Not good for a writer eh?
Read More...

Mass Effect

This March, after the release of the final piece of downloadable content, I completed the Mass Effect trilogy of games. Is it worth posting about this? Should I see doing something that millions of people have done as a form of entertainment as something worth making note of for the years to come? I think so, and this is why. I didn’t just complete a game, I finished a six year journey with fictional characters who I came to know like friends and trust just as much.
Read More...
I should mention that this is a huge post and worth brewing a drink for.