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Blog themes

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

You know, it’s amazingly hard to find a theme that’s good, right off the rack.

If they look good (and are free), then there’s usually something else wrong with them… Like they break tracking, or some of the plugins don’t work, or the whole thing’s been encrypted so you can’t remove links to the “buy viagra now” site in the footer.

Soooo, we’re back to the old theme, simply because it looked ok, and didn’t break anything.

If anyone has some theme suggestions for me, link them in the comments. I’m actually willing to pay for a theme that’s decent, but even those are hard to find.

Oh yeah, and I’m still looking for people to write goth content, particularly reviews.

Hemotropes express properties of negative pressure

Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Science Vampires: Every school should have one

Science Vampires: Every school should have one

Or, for those that don’t speak Yoonilecchoorese “Vampires suck”…

But why am I expressing this in even wankier, more academically clouded, terms than usual? Because the Australian Center for the Moving Image is having a series of academic talks about the place of vampires in modern popular culture:

http://www.acmi.net.au/studio_vampires.aspx

I don’t know if I actually have the time to get there, but I’m definitely interested in going. Edutainment at it’s finest, after all.

I should point out that Dr Walton, the chair of the discussion panel, is one of my more enjoyed academics thanks to a paper of hers I saw earlier on the year in regards to animation, which you may read here.

Minor changes to site

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

When the original reason for buying the www.gothclub.com.au domain flittered away, my next idea for it was to make it a hub of the local goth club community.

To that end, I’ve always wanted a few other people contributing content… But it never really happened for whatever reason. I’m assuming because not enough people really know about the site yet.

Well, I’m going to change all that shortly, but before I do, I’d like to get some more writers on board writing about the things that I have almost zero interest in. Mostly because it gives a wider variety of content… But also because it takes the stress off me to keep this stuff updated regularly. Lastly because it provides people with a bit of variety of writing style. Let’s face it, we all know I’m one of the most amazing writers of the modern world, but if you eater angus beef every night, it gets boring after a while. Especially if you’re a vegan.

Soooo if you’re an aspiring article writer, or just want to have a rant or two in a public forum, by all means, become a writer for the Goth Club!

Just go an use the newly installed Contact form and ask for an account.

Writers will even get their own profile pages. Zounds!

Stalkey Stalkey

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

 

But baby, I love you so much

But baby, I love you so much

As we’re all entirely aware from anecdotal evidence, teenagers become a lot more easily obsessed with stuff than regular, normal human beings. They begin to behave oddly. They collect things about the object of their obsession. Like photos, news clippings, memorabilia, bits of my hair, faked items on eBay in the hopes that they’re real.

 

Those kinds of things.

What you may not have been aware of was that these teenagers, usually girls that like my hair, are also substantially more likely to turn violent than their adult counterparts.

Frankly, I can see where this becomes totally awesome though. 

As we all know, teenagers are impressionable, naive and easily manipulated. They also tend to hallucinate their own versions of reality which may or may not involve being raped in front of a live TV Studio audience*. So the upside comes in when you start directing their violent tendencies towards you into a more constructive pursuit, such as violent tendencies towards others. 

 

Back, and to the left... Baaack, and to the left.

Back, and to the left... Baaack, and to the left.

Go into business with a bevvy of martial artist, gun crazed, blood lusting, sexy teenagers for hire. You’ll have clients lining up. Just make sure you’re discreet about selling the girls out, because while the world loves sexy violence perpetrated by 15 year olds in skirts shorter than my briefs, apparently it’s not cool for those girls to actually be doing what 15 year olds have been doing naturally since time began.

 

If you’ve only got one stalker, this may not really be all that possible, unless they’re insanely good at the violence. But surely it can’t be all that hard to get multiple stalkers and slowly warp their minds. I have friends that seem to do it on nearly every interstate trip we take to one of the many and varied conventions we attend each year… And he wasn’t even goth until last year!
 

Admittedly, one of those stalkers did turn out to be a guy. 
But this is the 21st century, so that kind of thing is ok now.

 

*Least tasteful product plug EVER! :D