A weapon, an ointment,
A mask for these sodium clouds.
A thousand years of history in each prong,
And in each a perfect angle, sets against the orange sky.
Mar 202010
Dec 192009
When I was ten or eleven,
My mother had misfortune,
When an old friend died.
We called him uncle, but a friend he was,
And from his estate inherited
My first clock radio.
He smoked, and in all that was his,
Tobacco fumes remained.
The radio must once have been
The state of the art.
A digital display was rendered
Using flipping number panels.
Like a Hitchcock film it told the time.
On this device, after much tuning,
I found Radio 2. And there it was,
To dulcet Irish tones I would awake,
Only half aware of what was said,
But music well remembered.
Now I am thirty-eight, and upstairs
Sleeps a five month baby boy.
I listen for the last time
To the same familiar voice,
And I remember, sad from my remembered bed,
Feelin’ Groovy, Leo Sayer,
Mr Po-wo-wostman.
Dec 102009
(It’s my dad. I haven’t drawn anything beyond conference call doodles since junior school. I used Inkscape. Undo makes drawing a bit easier. I am not an artist.)
Dec 012009
ASCIIpOrtal, the free and funky game by Joe Larson, has been entered for the Independent Game Festival (IGF) 2010 awards.
Why do I/why should you care?
- ASCIIpOrtal is a very playable little puzzle game with a great sense of atmosphere
- It’s free and has some nice little game mechanics and suchlike
- I did the sounds and music
Check it out at www.cymonsgames.com/asciiportal and if you have any strong positive opinions, make noise about it and let’s see if we can keep the profile nice and high and IGF judge-visible :]
For more info about the music, go here (work in progress page with some additional downloads).