The Whatsname Universal Oracle

ART AT ITS BEST part the second

As I promised, here are some more future Tate Prize contenders that YOU, dear reader, can have the first chance at grabbing. They are all by me, and they are all fully consistent with a list of their own properties, physical and ideological. Some are old, some are new and some are in whatever that third category is that's neither old nor new.

Each is priced at a modestly ostentatious price of 250 British pounds. For this money you can own the original A4 artwork, rather than the medium resolution version you can downgrasp from the interwebnetdatanetworkinfomatrix.

Here is the first. It is real.

 

 Here is the second. Real it is.

Here is the third. Is it real?

A Tale of Suspense

I shall tell you a tale so SHOCKING that your very wits will be shaken and verily you will TREMBLE mightily.

Whatsname Merchandise Offer

Exclusive to readers of The Whatsname Blog is this spectacular special offer! Yes, that's right! I'm offering you folks out there the chance to prance around in your very own Whatsname T-shirt! AND - wait for it - you can also be the proud owner of your very own Whatsname tin bucket, for all your waste disposal needs!

TeamWhatsname

Credits: all work on this blog is credited as follows, in random alphabetical order:

• Gary Docherty: political analysis
• Penny Stevenson: environment and green issues
• Alex Neville: jokes and surreal humour
• James Alexander: media studies, and the psychopathology of Conservatism [no, seriously].
• Ron Mackie: art, design and photography
• Hannah Breslin: cartoonist and general background research
• and finally, me, Roger Kaplan: writer, cartoonist, site co-ordinator and publicity operative.

TeamWhatsname** are a dedicated team of researchers, who supply much of the background information for my major essays. They also contribute articles in their own right, and because we all share the same world-view, we have reached a mutual agreement whereby Whatsname is our common pen-name.

This formidable team have many excellent qualities that make this non-award-winning Superblog the quality creation it is.

TeamWhatsname are:

• Industrious
• Conscientious
• Uncompromising in their search for the truth
• Fearless
• Incisively curious
• Diligent
• Bold
• Brave
• Thesaurus fanatics
• Courageous
• Relentlessly probing
• Non-existent

         

Separate, we're invincible; together, we're unstoppable.

Get on the Whatsname Freedom Train, folks, because with TeamWhatsname on your side, you need fear no one - NO ONE, I say!

That's right. TeamWhatsname are kicking arse and taking names.

TeamWhatsname. Say it.

** Ok. I admit it. There's no one here but me, Roger Kaplan.

Shops & Restaurants in Edinborough

TAKE A BUTCHER'S at the photo of the Passage to India restaurant. When I first saw this place, on Union Place opposite the Edinburgh Playhouse, I said unto myself, 'Oi! That's Sir Alec Guinness!'