Violent Acres is an anonymous blog that has been fast becoming unbelievably popular. It contains controversial, polarised views & stories written by someone who puts themselves forward as a married woman in her early thirties.

Everybody wants to know who VA is, and why they do what they do. Except me. I don’t care.

I just want to talk to you about comments, but before I do I want to share two posts from VA that I quite liked about political correctness and racism:

• I’m Sick Of Political Correctness
• Maggie and The Client

Now, about comments. Over at my day job I wrote a post about comments and the fact that how you manage your comments is up to you - it’s your blog.

A blog, if you ask me, is a set of writings presented in a reverse chronological order. Commenting is an optional extra.

What does this have to do with Violent Acres?

I liked this, from the FAQ:

9. Why don’t you allow comments on your site? Why don’t you post your email address?

Well, I think that’s pretty obvious, don’t you?

Because I don’t want to interact with you.

I don’t want to feel obligated to reply to your boring emails. I don’t want to take time out of my day to moderate your silly little comments. I don’t want to run in your cliquey high school social circles and I don’t want to be a part of your immature little Internet wars. I don’t want to be your friend.

Networking is just a fancy way to say ass kissing and a link from you is not important enough to me that I’d actually pretend to like you. Besides, I don’t need my virtual dick sucked to feel good about myself in the morning.

My Canadian cousin mentioned this film to me the other evening, and by odd coincidence I stumbled upon a reference to it today and thought I would share it with you.

‘Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom’, directed by Daniel O’Hara is a flawed but interesting short film. The look and feel of the film is gorgeous, but not really suited to the piece if you ask me - this is essentially a one gag film with a couple of different spins on the gag thrown in, but the style is slow and easy going where it should really be fast and snappy to get the laughs.

Still, it’s watchable and does highlight the demise of our native tongue - a theme the director seems to be continuing with - check out his follow up ‘Fluent Dysphasia’ with Stephen Rhea.

You can watch Fluent Dysphasia on Atom Films. Fluent Dysphasia starts out well, and at first seems like the director may have found an approach to the theme more suited to his style, but it kind of fizzles out after the first five minutes or so…

Still, possibly a director to watch - both films show a lot of potential.

Another from the random sketches department. I have no idea why I like this so much, I don’t even really know where the idea came from. I think I was working on a logo which I thought might have eyes in it at the time and this appeared amongst the scribblings.

I intentionally kept this one sketchy and kind of lumpy, but a refined version might be nice too.

While doing some ’spring cleaning’ I found a copy of the Where’s Me Culture magazine/newspapery thing, and on the back of it was this ‘Down With TV’ image which I drew.

I quite liked it, so I dug up the file and thought I’d throw it up here.

Down With TV was a concept from somebody by ‘Izzo’ who was involved in Where’s Me Culture - if he finds his way here, make yourself known!

Also, as far as I remember it was the guy behind Whazon (a free listing of what’s on available in Cities in Ireland) who put together this brilliant logo for Down With Tv.

The very cool logo for Down With TV was designed by John Foley of Bite! Design.

Unfortunately, I don’t think Down With TV ever became what it could have, there was talk of a website and stuff, but it never happened. I take some tiny responsibility for that, as I moved to Dublin after telling the guy behind it I’d meet up with him in Cork to discuss his website options, so that meeting never happened!

Where’s Me Culture was a kind of alternative creative group who got together to compliment/oppose the main Cork Capital of Culture 2005.
Where’s Me Culture. Ah the nostalgia.

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