Copycat

With the rapid growth of the copycat industry there is now a dizzying variety of knock-off phone brands. One has recently appeared (with) president Obama as its spokesman and sports a beaming Obama on its advertisements. “This is my Blackberry,” Obama...

Art and the Hobby: illustration, fine art and street art

Hi everyone,This is a little embarrassing. It’s uh, been quite a while hasn’t it? Thank the various gods and philosophies for Dave G and Thuloid, hey? Those guys… they’re really holding it together while the rest of us take five. Oh and...

Top X!

OK so I’ve dropped all pretense of weeklitude. Behold: a “sort of within a fortnight(ish) of the last one” Top X!There has been a lot of really great stuff on the rolls, and it was hard to choose. Especially since some were continuations of posts...

Weekly Top X!

Hi everyone, beat ronin here again with a (sort of) weekly Top X!First up… I try to steer clear of spotlighting posts from the blogs of our own HoP writers, unless of course they really deserve it (and everyone else has dropped the ball that week). This post by...

Why the 40k universe should stay right where it is

Hi everyone,So I had this big convoluted post written about why I don’t think the 40k universe needs to be advanced in terms of storyline. It was inspired by a conversation I had with Thor and a few other assorted riff-raff the other week. I think it’s...