Breaking tradition here a little by posting something that has nothing to do with me or my halfbaked photography, but I caught the trailer this morning for Ridley Scott’s upcoming “Alien prequel,” Prometheus, and I’ve since gone nuts with nerdy desire.

So here’s the trailer and a bunch of screengrabs, just to engage the parts of your mind that are too busy being shagged sideways by the video.

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Here’s a little ‘toy’ statuette that arrived in the mail last week. And it’s the weirdest experience I’ve had in so long.

What you’re looking at is ‘The Shirt Ninja,’ a pseudonym for the main character of a popular webcomic called Real Life.

I actually stopped reading Real Life about a year ago. Not because of anything to do with the comic though. I simply dropped off the face of the internets for a while and never got around to returning to my old reads when I finally found more time to be online.

So when I got a phone call from my dad last week to tell me that “some package is here for you mate, it’s got ‘real life’ or something like that on the box.” My brain broke. I had no idea what he was talking about.

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