So, um, Happy Easter there. Yeah, fell off the radar for a bit.

Biggest bit of news would be that the Studio has its venue and date for the next major exhibition of Fizzers caricatures. We can't formally announce it yet, but we're excited.

Secondly, the Scottish Government finally published the Creative Scotland bill that will bring the country's new arts agency into being. The SAU already have some pretty strong opinions on it which will be published soon. Read here of a government that feels commercially driven endeavours like advertising, architecture, broadcasting, fashion and games software should be developed by the same body charged with the fine and performing arts, who want to push culture to the fore of society's agenda yet refuse to define it for fear of being "prohibitive and exclusive", who feel no need to give "statutory acknowledgement" to the self-same artists from whom true culture flows and then consider the terrifying implications; a Scotland where the "sexiest" ideas grab the funding, culture goes no further than marketing exercises and pretty much every day is Tartan Day.

Rant over.

I'm still working on my conclusive article about computers n'at, after which the topic will be banned from this blog. I'm also thinking about writing an essay about the Iron Man/Batman/Hellboy troika hitting cinemas soon. All three characters have, at one time or other, occupied the top of my favourite comics list so my eighteen year old self would be exploding with joy at this convergence. Whether or not I am now, and why, will be worth exploring. I think. But I'm a geek and a navel gazer. So why so at odds with the mores of the internet? Damn.