Posted on Tuesday, 27th April 2010 by Interloper
Today marks my tenth anniversary with Ophelia. Tenth… that’s a crazy number to say out loud (or even type). The time we have spent together somehow feels as though it has both passed in the blink of an eye and also as though things have been this way forever.
In any case, it’s an impressive milestone [...]
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Posted on Monday, 19th April 2010 by Interloper
Without ever really wondering why, I’ve always been interested in armour.
I think it probably has something to do with my being an introvert; that is to say that I know a thing or two about defensive mechanisms. Armour in its literal form can be viewed as an externalisation of the many subtle ways that we [...]
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Posted on Monday, 12th April 2010 by Interloper
For what feels like the longest time, I’ve had a website. Existing like some cosy cottage hidden between the folds of space and time, accessed through a secret, hidden door (that’s painted red), the Shrine endures.
I don’t know how people find their way here, but they do. The innumerable twisting corridors of the internet lead [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 24th March 2010 by Interloper
So I was reading about the French philosopher Voltaire yesterday after happening across this quote:
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
Turns out that Voltaire probably never said that himself and that it’s actually a common misattribution from a biography written about the philosopher by [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 18th March 2010 by Interloper
The view out the window from where I’m sitting right now reminds me of Dot and the Kangaroo.
Dot and the Kangaroo is a peculiar piece of Australiana that always terrified me when I was younger. The bunyip song is particularly harrowing. To this day I’m yet to experience a more compelling argument against getting lost [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 3rd March 2010 by Interloper
In only two days I’m moving house, which means that the site will be out of commission for a while, while we wait for our essential services (such as that they call the “internet”) to be reconnected.
Expect updates to resume later this month and in the meantime feel free to keep on posting in the [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 23rd February 2010 by Interloper
For the longest time, Ophelia and myself have lived alongside factories. You get used to it after a while: the inescapable dust that clings to everything, the whooping sirens that every dog in the neighbourhood howls along with and the multitude of mysterious bangs, crashes and thuds that echo through the night.
Recently we got word [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 16th February 2010 by Interloper
Okay, so it’d probably never happen; but what if it did? For a moment it appears as though the Pope is throwing his hands in the air as a show of surrender, but maybe it’s because he just don’t care. And you can see by the gleam in his eye that he’s planning something. Does [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 11th February 2010 by Interloper
“There is a place not far from here,
In fact, it’s rather near to here,
Step away from the reality you see,
And you’ll see the reality that belongs to me…”
For many years now the Shrine has featured a forum accompanying the site, that’s intended to be a place for people to come together and share their opinions [...]
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Posted on Friday, 5th February 2010 by Interloper
Apparently “Captain Supermarket” is what they call Army of Darkness in Japan.
I especially like the Bruce Campbell soup. Click for full-size:
Thanks Rolling_Go!
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