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The Japanese railway company, Wakayama Electric Railway, has seen a 10% increase in profits over the last year because of the stationmaster at one of the unmanned stations on the Kishigawa Line - a nine-year old cat called Tama.

After she was appointed stationmaster, she became a major tourist attraction and now she even has her own range of merchandise, that includes picture books, snacks and

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MY FIRE'S GONE OUT! How to Cope with Change in Your Work and Your Life is an excellent parable for our times! Best little book! Half hour read, common sense, inspiration, motivation!! Reminder 'change'=opportunity. Focus on what matters!  

Billed as the NEW ‘Who Moved My Cheese', Liam O'Connell uses ‘fire' as a metaphor for setting a new focus on what is really important to you, in your life and

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its and underground mag in europe found me and got 10,000 votes i was #1 out of 600 other people!

world here we come!!!!!!!

OK. One down.

A Lady who was a great gossip imagined she was sick and went to see her Doctor . Well Madam "he replied all you need is rest the lady was not happy with this and complained that the Doctor had not even asked to see her tongue,Oh,no Madam he answered I know without seeing it that it needs a rest too"

On Flickr via Jeremiah Owyang: Chart showing how to deal with potentially volatile blog posts according to the Air Force PA Agency (via cleanskies)

"If sexual tension interspersed with balletic bloodshed is thought to inspire murder, then why not ban Buffy?"
 Frank Fisher of has a go at the government's universal policing attitude in specific, the Coroners and Criminal Justice Bills. Or rather,

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I'm planning on launching my new 144 page mini comic graphic novel at LUC's eagerly anticipated 176 event on 27th June. Its going to be a good day: free tea and coffee for all, bring your own wine, and about 50 tables of comics with song and dance. And ringleader and Dr. Who scribe Oli Smith incurring all manner of legal charges for filming people!

Don't Get Lost has been a number of years in the

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Charlie Brooker paints figures from lots of perspectives. Maybe you've seen him on the telly. In his Guardian lense yesterday, Gordon Brownbum and the returning of vitriol.

Also, Frank Fisher boots Andy Burnham out of the chat room: worthwhile (Dec 29, 2008)

Dr Mel Gibson is quite good about getting comics into school libraries, and has waxed academic about them too. More here..

Michel Foucault...

A culmination of six months of promotion. A small collective of mini-comics creators break free from inadequate exhibition costs at major comics conventions and hold a festival of their own at Camden Market. Forty-eight cartoonists, no doors, no barcodes, no entrance price.

4:46pm I've wandered off, on my own in a happy space for a cigarette. Opposite the massage parlour, outside the robot

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Sometime in 2006, I resolved to work on a book.  That expressions a very handy for authors. The future and past marched into one another, scooping in arms and whirling me into a time vortex as it did so. Over the past year I've made significant attempts. Some of these have been based on early stage necessity instincts, others on stage five sexelebrations. 

 In late June though, I cracked it. With

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