Are you ‘radicalised’?
When is ‘radical’ not radical? (Publish and be damned.)
Society and how we live
Is there light at the end of the tunnel? It’s a long tunnel …
Post-election ‘blues’
Where are we going? If we can decide on a destination how do we get there?
OUCH! That’s hot!
Did you ever imagine Dougal and Zebedee would be ‘name-checked’ in a political blog? You’re obviously new round these parts
Tyranny of social media
Can he hide? Can he escape? What can beat a cup of tea or coffee with a living, vaguely breathing … Continue reading
Baby is born SHOCK!
Do ‘Royal’ babies come from Fortnum & Mason?
Welcome
FIVE YEARS; and we’re still here! If you are a first-time visitor to Storyboard4 you are welcome. No … genuinely … ignore the forsakes … You are genuinely welcome.
There is one overriding principle: contributors only publish material on Storyboard4 when they have the time and energy. If you’re expecting minute-by-minute updates on our bowel movements go and get yourself a therapist. Some of us have to write ‘shite’ for sundry magazines. Strange, we know, but it helps to pay the rent and ‘utilities’ bills. Sad, but true.
There will be some changes soon on this site, whims of fancy, good ideas and ‘shite’ ideas … You’ll just have to wait and see. THIS SITE HAS BEEN TAKEN OVER! The ‘Lounger’ and ‘HC’ are now in control. “What happens if I press this butto …” BOOOM! “I think if we sneak out of that door over there nobody will notice.” “Was this a ‘palace’ coup?” “Have you ever seen #* ******* **?” “No.” “Good … That’s settled.”
Storyboard4TM recently found a spare half hour to work out why “box.net” was not working. Simple. It was no longer operating in the way it had done and we have had to adjust the link to various collections: Lounger diaries and past S4 posts etc. The link can be found in the left-hand column under “for download”. As a first the S4 posts 2014 are available as a PDF and an ePub. We have quite a lot to learn about ePubs. Oh, and a message to all you ‘spammers’: don’t treat us as if we’re several planks short of a floorboard. We will promote certain campaigns and charities but we generally avoid advertising. If you want to advertise, and you would have to pay, then it is abundantly clear how to contact us. Fifty-sixty links to online sales outlets for ‘rip-off’ shades will go straight in the bin. But then, you’re probably not reading this are you WANKER!
Storyboard4TM is a radical, progressive media collective that spills its bleeding heart out to … local charities and campaigns who seek our assistance. We help them speak; click on “About us/sales talk” above for the full frontal. Our particular bug-bears are: mental health, disability and social care generally.
But, let us guess, that is not why you are here. You want dirt, gossip and … Well, you may have come to the right place. There is only one condition: you have to be serious about your ‘punishment and reward’. Entrance to Storyboard4TM is free; escape is expensive. We are like nits; we grow on you. Think about it.
Current phlegm can be found above. Unfortunately, everyone involved has to make their meagre living in the ‘meeja’ world doing something else. If we could guarantee a living from this you could no doubt expect spittle 24 hours a day. We wouldn’t want that would we? Would we?
Alongside the ever-so-important posts we have regular columns:
• The Lounger diaries: world-famous, utterly puerile, award-winning even (but we don’t like to boast). Click on the menu above or here. The 2014 collection is now available for download as a PDF or ePub (see left hand column). The ePub is not, as yet, compatible with Kindle; we’re working on that.
• Paws4thought: two cool cats chew the Tuna. They are not “aristocats”; they are proletariacats. And … “Miaoooow!” How do they pass the time in Feline-land?. Menu above or here.
• “We’ve met Lord Lucan”: two crabby, philosophical “do-gooders” who’ve seen it all, been there and … well … are on respite. Actually, they’re both dead in case you hadn’t worked that out. They may be exhumed at a later date (Yuk!). From April 2015 Storyboard4™ will be publishing, for the very first time, a selection of short stories from a pit-head worker from the long-closed Desford (Leicestershire) colliery who died in a mining accident back in the early 1960s. Even relatively small English county villages had ‘industries’ in those days. Click on “Desford tales” above. Tell us what you think.
Storyboard4 endeavours to maintain an ethical editorial policy, drawing on the experience and practice of other, similar, online publishers. If you wish to propose a post or other idea we can be contacted by email.
Storyboard4TM editorial collective as proposed by the Lounger and HC
with no opposition
and a happy new year to you all
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Updated 5 May 2015
Cartoon attack
REUTERS ARE saying that
“Federal agents for years monitored one of the two gunmen who were shot dead after opening fire with assault rifles at a heavily guarded Texas exhibit of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad.
Two government sources who asked not to be named said the gunmen were roommates Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi, of Phoenix. Court documents show Simpson had been under surveillance since 2006 and was convicted in 2011 of lying to FBI agents over his desire to join violent jihad in Somalia.
FBI agents and police searched the two men’s home at the Autumn Ridge Apartments in north-central Phoenix on Monday, cordoning off the complex and evacuating residents for several hours.”
My … my former colleagues get around. If only they had attended the workshop on objectivity
Greece
MANY EURO ZONE governments are having difficulties getting their tiny ideological, austerity driven, heads around the concept that Greece’s Syriza government is not too keen on being bound by the promises of the country’s former conservative-led administration. Reuters have reported that Syriza prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, has gone so far as to reaffirm his commitment to remaining within his government’s ‘anti-austerity’ mandate. ‘Like it or lump it’ you could say. There have, however, been assiduous moves to sideline Syriza finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, who we are constantly reminded is a Marxist academic. Shocking! Syriza are walking a tactical tightrope (don’t you just love that unorthodox alliteration). Storyboard4 are supporting them. We may not always agree with every tactical nuance they employ. When was the last time you agreed with a comrade 100%?
Coyote
THE WEIRD and wonderful to start the week. Reuters have reported that a wild female Coyote was restrained and tranquillised (“contained, darted and secured”) outside a bijou Manhattan café. They will be “released into an appropriate wilderness area somewhere in New York City”. That shouldn’t be too difficult. Earlier this month a Coyote was discovered in the Chelsea neighbourhood although whether they were looking for the infamous Chelsea Hotel no-one is quite sure.
DWP stops answering questions
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has carried out its threat to stop answering any questions from the country’s only disability news agency.
The DWP’s chief press officer (disability) had previously warned that he and his staff would stop dealing with Disability News Service (DNS) if it refused to change its procedures.
DWP has repeatedly missed deadlines, but has begun insisting that if and when it finally produces a late comment – even if produced hours after stories have been sent out to subscribers and have been published – DNS should update its website to show the government’s response.
John Pring, the disabled editor of DNS, has pointed out that if he was to do so, he would also have to alert every one of the agency’s subscribers with updates every time a comment arrived after deadline, as well as offering the service demanded by DWP to every other organisation and individual that had been asked to comment on a story that week.
Pring has also told DWP that its habit of frequently missing deadlines and leaving it until the last possible moment to provide a comment has already had a negative impact on his mental health.
The DWPs chief press officer (disability) has said: “Thanks for the opportunity to comment on your forthcoming peer review story but, as discussed previously, we won’t be offering any responses to DNS articles until we can agree on working practices.
“That basic principle is that, if we are to have a working relationship, it should be one which is fair; in which standard conventions are observed; and in which the time and effort that you put into writing your stories and the time and effort that my staff put into answering your questions are given equal respect.”
He added: “I don’t find it particularly surprising that a self-selecting group of your Twitter followers, close contacts and subscribers who have chosen to comment would take your side over ours in this, or indeed any, disagreement.
Abridged from an article by John Pring, 17 April on the DNS site
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