Tuesday, July 05, 2005

Why Georgio trumps Stevie G and other summery news

I don't know but it seems everything has gone very quiet around here. Site traffic has dropped, there's very few people commenting and my credits at blogexplosion seem to be dwindling at a snail's pace. I guess it's because of the summer and people have better things to be doing than sitting at their computers, reading our funny cartoons.

Anyway for those that are interested. The latest Digital Strips podcast features an interview with Sébastien Dumesnil and Robert Nichols, the filmmakers behind the now infamous documentary 'Adventures Into Digital Comics'.

Also, Krishna M. Sadasivam has uploaded the second installment of his how to create a PCW tutorial.

Regular readers will know of my interest in football (soccer) and my support for Liverpool. Well then, you won't be in the least surprised to discover that I feel the need to comment on this. Stevie Gerrard has been holding the club to ransom for months now. He wanted to see the club was moving forward. Midway through last season, I was pretty much resigned to losing him. In fact, I was happy for him to go. He's been disruptive and clearly thinks that he's bigger than the club. Then we won the Champions League, the biggest competition in football. So suddenly, Stevie was staying - his love for the club, that made him what he is, won through. But we should have all known. There was no great epiphany, he didn't suddenly see the light and realise he was just a cog, albeit a very important one, in the the wheels of the Liverpool Rafalution. So he's going after all. Good. He can piss off. Micheal Owen went to Real Madrid to win medals and ended up sitting on the bench, while his former team-mates won the Champions League in one of the best finals of the tournaments history. Now Stevie Gerrard can fuck off too. The 30 odd million the club get for him will replace him two to three times over and it's Rafa's name that will go down in club history. While Stevie G will be remembered largely for being a Judas.

Elsewhere though, another contract saga came to a close last week. George O'Callaghan has finally agreed to put pen to paper on a new contract at Cork City. The creative midfielder stated that he felt leaving the club before helping them to a championship title is something he could have regretted for the rest of his career. Cork are currently on top of the league and looking strong.