Max Connell: Archive

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Joke I heard yesterday:

"We don't serve neutrinos in here"

A neutrino walks into a bar.

Sep 28th

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Sep 28th

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Aug 17th

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“Norway’s Prime Minister is a liberal atheist, they have one of the best...”

– Matthew Trevithick, responding to this story, “Former Bush Official Places Blame For Oslo Attack On Norwegians For Not Being ‘Serious’ About Terrorism,” with a comment that wins the universe. (via cognitivedissonance)

Jul 27th

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Jun 29th

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Man loops his voice into spectacular song: 'Made'... →

Jun 25th

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Jun 25th

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Temple Meads Station

Jun 24th

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The Slow Gun

When the Fame War reached its peak, just as in any overlong and tiresome conflict, a super weapon was sought. Many ideas were tried and tested by both sides, the Defaming Ray could only effect a small group for a short time and the Death of Art Launcher did nothing but misfire. As the body count climbed ever higher and higher, the need and desperation for a solution welled up as if ready to burst....

Jun 23rd

Apr 14th

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Target Practice.

The revolver’s wooden grip was soft and well worn, moulded over four years of handling to the contours of her hand. It reminded Jessie of her father; it felt like home. Her father had given her the gun as a gift on her tenth birthday, it was little more than a child’s toy, nothing as powerful as her father’s own weapon, but her mother had protested non the less saying it was no...

Apr 14th

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Mar 18th

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Treasure of the Aramax Pt 7: The Asteroid Field

A dalliance with deadly rocks… Jan was determined not to be talked round. He had his feelings on the case of the mysterious Doctor Axi, and that was going to be that. It took Rai over half an hour and several failed arguments, including explaining all the reasons why Doctor Axi had been wrongfully accused, how useful his knowledge of ancient technology would be on Tellos and how he could...

Mar 17th

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Feb 4th

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Treasure of the Aramax Pt 6: The Doctor

“What do you mean, ‘It was you.’?” Asked Jan. Rai desperately tried to put the thoughts in her head back in some kind of order now that things had calmed down a little. “Last night, I was thinking about this ridiculous quest of yours and I remembered, I know someone who might be able to help us.” She looked sheepish, “So… I sent him a message. They...

Feb 3rd

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Dec 20th

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Dec 20th

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Dec 20th

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Dec 20th

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Dec 20th

The 40 Worst Rob Liefeld Drawings: CASUALTY OF... →

Dec 17th

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Treasure of the Aramax Pt 5: Compromising...

Rai deals with an unwanted interloper… The bounty hunter was outside. So was Alan, struggling against the Bounty Hunter’s arm around his neck and glancing fearfully between the gun against his head and Rai as she closed the door to the store and moved cautiously toward them. Rai thought, surely this couldn’t be the shifty Gren Jan had talked about. He looked like a scared child. There was...

Dec 16th

Dec 12th

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The Message

Dan’s phone buzzed happily in his pocket. He relaxed his grip on the rifle and reached to find it and opened the message. It was from Alex: ‘Yo dude, we still on for this evening? I’ve only just got tea on so probably won’t be out till about 9.’ Shit! Not only did this message remind him that the duty he’d been pulled for was cutting into long overdue leave,...

Dec 12th

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Treasue of the Aramax Pt 4: The Unwanted Visitor

Complications arise as the gang get ready to leave… Jan felt happier having his old fixer on the team. Back in the days after the war they had made quite the formidable team and had made themselves quite rich before things went bad and Rai had to get out, and it was good to know she would be on hand should things get difficult. They couldn’t get off-world straight away, Rai had a few...

Dec 2nd

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Treasue of the Aramax Pt 3: It's no castle...

Jan and Alan journey to Mars to begin assembling a team for the job… The journey to Mars had been fairly uneventful. Alan had returned, just after the disappearance of the ever-dramatic Mr. Graves, clutching a strange package which he stowed away out of Jan’s sight once aboard the ship and, after some trial and error, they left the station. The flight took place mostly in relative...

Nov 18th

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Nov 13th

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Treasure of the Aramax Pt 2: Alan's Errand

Alan meets an unusual shopkeeper… Alan scurried along the corridor past restaurants and tax-free supermarkets away from his Human companions. He had enjoyed his little bit of playacting but Humans were so easy to manipulate, rarely seeing a deception unless it was presented and explained to them. The Gren were not victims of the same stupidity. When Alan’s ancestors first encountered...

Nov 11th

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Hal - Episode 1: The Turning Tides An audio drama...

Nov 3rd

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Treasure of the Aramax Pt 1: The Proposition

Conversations started with strangers in bars never end well… “You are from the Earthworld, yes?” “Sorry?” Jan looked round at where the trilling voice had come from to see a young Gren staring at him in some drunken wonder. “You are from the Earthworld. I am correct?” “Yeah, what of it?” Jan was in no mood to talk. He had been dumped on...

Oct 28th

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Space Heaters

Space is too damn cold. Thought Alex, wrapping a second blanket around herself as she stared out at the uninspiring celestial backdrop. The mug of coffee doing little to warm her aching fingers, neither were the fingerless gloves. “It’s too damn cold!” She shouted down to Mike, the ship’s pilot, in his chair below her observation balcony. “Nothing I can do about it!...

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Oct 18th

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It's a dirty job...

This was never the life I planned for myself. Truth is I never really had much of a plan. Growing up my parents always went with the stock phrase for parents with thoroughly middle-of-the-road kids, it doesn’t matter what you do, Jim, so long as you’re happy. I worked hard at school but I was no great sports star or maths whizz, I was just distinctly average. I wasn’t massively...

Oct 14th

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Oct 12th

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The Ambassadors

An über-short piece written on the bus: There’s an old homeless man at the bus stop. Stinking of tobacco, stale urine and alcohol, he cheerily brandishes a surprisingly clean looking harmonica and hurls ‘good humored’ insults in a near unintelligible Glaswegian accent at those who pass by. He laughs when they reel back inevitably from the smell. Not everyone passes by. A couple...

Oct 7th

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Sep 17th