So christmas has been survived again, thankyou to all who tried to kill me with food and drink over the festy season.

 As I lie in bed considering the beginning of a new year and my impending 30th birthday the wind rages outside in a fittingly apocolyptic way. I'm never fond of New Years - which seems to be full of the desperate urge to shed the seaweed of the year and look foward with a frenzied optimisim that will be dashed as the light of January first starts to hurt your hungover eyes on its long march to giving your brain a good kicking.

So instead I've decided to look at reasons to be cheerful about 2008 from a pop-cultural perspective.

The Dark Knight.

More of Darwyn Cooke's New Frontier

Pushing out beyond the web 2.0 apps that everyone loves so much and foraying back into the distant past of the early '00s I've decided that I need a blog. No more fucking travelling bears and chain letters, no more people I don't care to phone or see often sharing photos of their children - nope just shit that I think is cool. So there it is my first post - only seven years behind the zeitgeist...