Craig Crane

The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

So, today there is a meeting at C4 to decide the fate of BB and CBB. We all know why… and I am amazed it has taken this long.

Reality TV shows as a genre is nothing more than Eye Cancer, not candy. It rots the very fabric of the soul, and if you subscribe to any of it, the rest of your life must be one expansive vacuum of nothingness.

I PRAY THAT THEY AXE THE SHOW AND THAT THE TREND FOR WATCHING PEOPLE LIVE LIVES AS OPPOSSED TO LIVING YOUR OWN DIES WITH IT.

I know the Power button gives me the choice to not watch it, and that is the function of the TV that I use. I dont watch this crap. So why am I so irked by it… well, basically because it has taken up so much of peoples time, to the point where it gets discussed in the halls of power.

Bollox!

Im glad carphone Warehouse backed out…. I hope its just the start of the genre’s downward spiral into oblivion, taking every fucking b,c,d and z list “celeb” with them, down to hell to suck on Satan’s c**k (as per the small print on any contract they signed before selling their soul for the miserable 15 minutes they have forced upon us.

Enough is enough and Im glad I got that of my chest!

Now, if only well eductated hacks would not feed the fire of wannabe has-beens, we could just all get on with life, save the world and perhaps start to live together, as oppossed to encouraging this fucking horrendous mentality of constant one-upmanship (which is essentially the one common trait that drives shite like Big Brother and Im a celebrity, get me a panto!).

Action Man arrived this week (again!) and this time it was the adventurer with the mountaineer set as well. Next up, its time for the Deep Sea diver, providing I can get it shipped with gripping hands!

Fuckers!

I quit smoking a few years back. Best “life affirming” thing I have ever done…

Whilst talking about it at work, I came up with the following:

Best way to quit is just to stop buying cigarettes, and breaking the cycle of things you would also associate with it, such as coffee or booze… drink *shed* loads of water and just get past the first 7 days without smoking, then the next, then the next and so on and so forth.

For me, the only way I could do it was to be very regimented about the process, and fully understanding why I had to stop… then my 5 year old made me promise not to smoke again (even though I never smoked in the house, she knew what I was doing out in the garden, no matter what the weather was like…)…. and that’s just something you really cant argue with.

The money saved went towards diving, dvd’s and nice stuff…

Lets say I had smoked 18 years, and on average, 20 a day. that’s 1 pack whose average price over an 18 year period is something along the lines of 4 quid over that time….

£26280!!!!

If I were to continue smoking for another ten years, you can be certain that you would be looking at an average price of 6 pound a pack adding a further

£39420 to your already impressive amount of cash that you have quite literally set light to and have nothing to show for it

Running / swimming will also further convince you that these things should no longer be a part of your life

Next on the list of things to find is the Palitoy Bradgate Commader Power with Gripping hands….

Not an easy task.

well, after months of doing bits of this and bits of that at work… animation, rigging, UV’ing, etc etc etc I realised that I have not done any modelling since july, bar the wet gear I made for some pirates last week.

So, for my own sanity, and mostly for my own pleasure here is the start of THE SEA CREATURE.

If it bears a close semblance to the seat creature from Simply Maya, thats because I have that as my reference.

OK, so here is the thing….. I really like the fact that someone had the fantastic notion to bring back the original action man, and do it so darn well.

Kudos to Hasbro for giving them license to do it, because lets face it, new Hasbro Action man is just a little gay really. My generations Action Man was tough, went to war, escaped Colditz or would Ski across Nazi occupied Glaciers with Stolen Plans to German weapons.

Modern Hasbro Action Man wears Lycra and roller blades! What more can you say other than ITS NOT RIGHT!!!!!

So, number two to the collection is the Red Beret Para. Granted, the one I had as a child had the rubber Red Beret, which I prefer, but that can be sourced on Ebay with very little hassle.

Great tune, but the video???

Pure 80’s cheese!