Author Archives: Jon Bounds

Writer, honest. Currently working on Pier Review “a journey to the outcrops of a dying culture”.

Used to do Birmingham: It’s Not Shit, Dirty Bristow, 11-11-11, Twitpanto et al.

The miner and the copper

24 February 2009 – 1:02 pm

Great piece of writing, about t one of the abiding images of the 1984 miners strike – "Guardian photographer Don McPhee's picture of a picketing miner facing up to an officer. But what happened to the two protagonists?". There's also a bit about it on Inside Out, BBC1, 7.30pm 24/2 in Yorkshire, if it appears […]

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Tea Fu

20 February 2009 – 9:44 pm

Tea Fu is the ancient art of persuading others to make you a cuppa. Most often practised in dwellings, the Tea Fu master will use psychological tricksterism as tea always tastes better when someone else has made it. The true master will also attempt workplace Tea Fu. I’ve made a little twitterbot (using twitter search, […]

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Jimmy Hill Verses The Jam

20 February 2009 – 9:13 pm

The other thing we used to do, instead or at the same time as making books, was testing out the capabilities of Flash — by making things like this:

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Friends and sweary flash

20 February 2009 – 9:29 am

Almost ten years ago, I was working at friends of ED — a web design book firm. The imprint is still going, but is owned by an American publisher rather than two brothers who set up shop in Acock’s Green. For a couple of years it rode the “creative” wave of flash design, which in […]

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What made me weird

18 February 2009 – 2:36 pm

I know I’m weird, most people are but it takes a bit of self awareness and a sort of forthright bravery to admit it. Inspired by this blog post, here’s five things that made me weird: Monty Python — or the realisation that humour didn’t need to be dumb at least.  It’s probably the ‘Marxism […]

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Half Map Half Biscuit

18 February 2009 – 10:27 am

A map of everywhere mentioned in a Half Man Half Biscuit song. Genuis psychogeography.

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4 chan

17 February 2009 – 5:50 pm

Chris Poole, a.k.a. moot, is the creator of 4chan.org – the Washinton Post explores how come he doesn’t make any money.  Something I can associate with.

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Black dog on my shoulder

14 February 2009 – 5:50 pm

Following on from the warmly received post on the happiness of various cat food models, it’s only inevitable that I should be looking at dogs next. After this, who knows. I did have a look to see whether the fish on the fish food packaging looked happy, but they’re a bunch of cold-blooded emotionless bastards. […]

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The quiz that wasn’t

13 February 2009 – 11:13 am

Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch Twestival in Birmingham was so packed with fun that I don’t think anyone got time to do the quiz that I’d prepared. So, I present it here – no entry free but you can still donate to Charity:Water if you like. It’s here as a PDF: twestival quiz Why not have […]

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Radio Free Horse Shit For The Garden

9 February 2009 – 12:54 pm

If you like the Two Ronnies your first thought when using the word Rhubarb is probably “manure”, but no more. At least until they run out of themes and end up doing a gardening-with-poo based show, Danny Smith et al’s Rhubarb Radio show puts all effluent fertilizer thoughts out of my head. It replaced them […]

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