[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-help-im-stuck-in-a-horror-film":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"I'm in the deepest throes of deadline work right now, and I had to go back to the studio after dinner to do some more work... only to be greeted by this! Our studio guard gnome... IT'S ALIVE.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/guardgnome2-863143c735.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI'd never seen the little guy at the front door lit up before, didn't even know it could light up. And it was lit for no apparent reason, there was no one around. A portent of something very evil, surely.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/guardgnome1-78ffb09314.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd Kate Middleton! Surely not a portent of evil... unless she's drawn by one \u003Cb>David O'Connell\u003C/b>. You can pick up your copy of this \u003Ca href=\"http://tozocomic.livejournal.com/110068.html\">fab looking mini comic\u003C/a> this Saturday at the \u003Cb>London Comic & Small Press Expo\u003C/b> (\u003Ca href=\"http://www.comicsbeat.com/2011/03/10/to-do-saturday-london-comic-small-press-expo/\">new \u003Ci>Comics Beat\u003C/i> article about it here\u003C/a>). \\r\n\\r\nDue to dire deadline straits, I sadly won't be able to stay at Expo all day. If you want me to sign a copy of \u003Ci>Vern and Lettuce\u003C/i> or \u003Ci>Birdsong\u003C/i>, you'll be able to find me, for sure, at \u003Cb>The Fleece Station table between 10am-1pm\u003C/b>. It's killing me that I can't stay around longer! Boo.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://tozocomic.livejournal.com/110068.html\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/km-3d898aab60.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\u003Ci>'Kate Middleton, in her own words', transcribed by David O'Connell\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nOkay, a sketch for today, here's one I drew with my sister when I took her to the \u003Ca href=\"http://russelldavies.typepad.com/ateaandathink/2004/06/regency_cafe_17.html\">Regency Cafe\u003C/a> after we visited the Tate Britain. It's a grand old caff where, like this gentleman, you can get a good plate of ham, egg and chips. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/regency_caff1-93945645bb.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Veggie horror images under the cut-->\\r\nIn the morning, we'd run a few errands in our nearby neighbourhood of Peckham, which is a fabulous London tourist stop in that my sister saw loads of things she'd never see in her hometown. (Back to the horror film theme if you're a vegetarian, apologies.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/peckham_4-7f0686cb9d.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI once took photos at a butcher in Brixton and almost got my head chopped off and camera taken away because I think I caught some dodgy dealing or illegally hired staff on film. But my sister asked permission and charmed the employees and they let us take lots of photos. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/peckham_1-f343a31ed0.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nYou can't buy these in Sainsbury's.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/peckham_2-a5ab9a05c2.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermalt\">Supermalt\u003C/a> is our local drink of choice. It's very tasty, a lot like Russian \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvas\">kvas\u003C/a>. Above it sit \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelabi\">Jelabi\u003C/a> sweets, which are so sugary they can make you go cross-eyed.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/peckham_3-afb13e814f.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nIf you're ever in Peckham and fancy sampling the local delicacies, this is the best cafe for it, with its mix of Nigerian and south asian food. Not for vegetarians. You'll get a big plate of meat and curries for a fiver and a ball of pulped yam to wipe it up.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/peckham_5-cf1c7be6cf.jpg\">","2011-03-11T10:51:00.000Z","help-im-stuck-in-a-horror-film",[],"help! i'm stuck in a horror film!",1776628719860]