July 2nd, 2008
Toasty
If the films are to believed the future will be run by computers… and whilst we can get a little hysterical about the world-conquering type, I’d like you to spare a moment for our slave computers.
They are the ones that we have chained to a lifespan of domesticity… they’re in our ovens, our washing machines and our vacuum cleaners…. They’ll be the ones mopping up all the blood after the revolution.
Still, I’m not looking forward to the day that someone can hack into my fridge to make it order an obscene amount of beer for itself, but I am looking forward to using it as an excuse… that and being able to break kitchen appliances on a whole new level.
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It looks like an architectural rendering of the Fiery Church of the Electric Bread.
Holy toast batman,
I did notice the crucifix like nature of the lever, just before I scanned the comic. It was unintentional, modeled on my own toaster…
The church of toast would be great though. The whole bread and wine nature of christianity replaced with tea and toast. Mmm, sacreligious.
I wish I could cram more symbolism into my comics, but in this case I can’t take any credit for it, just co-incidence.
It reminds me of the side of a building on the outskirts of Manchester… It has a crucifix attached to it and the word ‘Jesus’ just below it… and just below that a sign with an arrow saying ‘bingo’.
It looks like it says ‘Jesus bingo’ which sounds like an awful lot of fun.
Oddly I have been unable to find any pictures on it on the internet… I thought there would be loads.
Ya, is that bread lowerer supposed to look like a cross to signify the death of Toasty the Toaster? Or is it just an artistic coincidence?
Y’know, holy toast is just the sort of thing the south would have. They are ten kinds of tacky out here, and I’m not technically below the Mason-Dixon line (but I can see it from here).*
On a totally different note…I have always secretly wanted to set a toaster on fire. Also I want the dark blue maytag washer and dryer that you can SHOOT BASEBALLS AT OMG.
(looks at preceding sentence) …I am such an adult, omg. XD
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*I moved from CA to NC a fortnight ago, for those keeping score at home.
I could see it going down well there, holy toast. It has a nice ring to it too – you could have toaster with various religious-themed element patterns… the cross, the virgin Mary, the parting of the Red sea…
Melanthios’ Holy toast, available in 2009.
I hate to say it, but it’s been done. I lived in Virginia* for years, and there was a diner that served toast with toasted-in crosses on the fronts. It amazes me the things that get done in the South with regards to religion.
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*Melanthios, you’re crazy by the way. Moving into the Bible Belt? And from California too…. it must feel like a whole different world. You know that in Virginia (and I’m assuming that most of the South is like this) you can get fired for things like being gay, right?
I am gratified you see fit to pity me. Remember that saying ‘I hate to say’ really means you can’t wait to say it.
I have to say that the people here are much sweeter and more welcoming than the douches in California. O, and the sex is amazing, since I’ve been here. Then again, I am living a story in that I moved 3000 miles for the sake of love, and have my own happy ending.
I, personally, look forward to the day when all of my appliances will be connected to a single computer network and data will flow freely between them like syrup at a Quebecois pancake party.
Recently Eunsuk and I bought a new stereo. In theory, it does everything- play tapes, play CDs, play videos, play mp3s, rip mp3s… unfortunately, it doesn’t do everything in every way. It can play mp3s from the CD drive or from the USB port. It can play videos only from tthe CD drive, not from the USB port. It can rip music from CDs to mp3 files, but can’t do the same with music from the tape deck. Bah, I want no restrictions on my data-throwing! This is the 21st century dagnabbit! Where’s my jetpack? Where’s my spaceface?
I digress. It’s a pretty nice system despite the limitations.
I agree! It isn’t the future yet until we have flying cars!!!
Where’s the font of acquired wisdom that eludes me now?
Seriously.
MS Comic Sans?
I’m sure you could get that puppy stable if you just strapped a peltier to the side…
The geek force is strong with this one.
Peltier… lovely word for a lovely thing.
I don’t need no fancy future technology, I just want a tiny one-room apartment with the bathroom and kitchen and bedroom all in the same space so I never have to go outside eyeshot of my TV and computer. Also I want Tivo. I WILL NOT BE A SLAVE TO COMMERCIAL INTERRUPTIONS.
I pretty much have that now.
Except I have to leave my dongar to go to work, so I guess I miss out on the staying in bit.
On the bright side, work does let me play with lasers AND explosive gases.
And sturdy curtains to block out that annoying thing called sunlight. Glare, the enemy of the recluse.
No sunlight in an under ground coal mine.
Unless some thing has gone seriously wrong.
I noticed the cross thing straight away aswell, I am also curious about if it is symbolic.
Hey, I was looking at your recent crop of photographs… they’re seriously good… especially your post-sunset and quarry pics. Nice work, soldier.
Why thank you kind sir.
>Still, I’m not looking forward to the day that someone can hack into my fridge to make it order an obscene amount of beer for itself,
So long as I don’t have to pay for it, I am.
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One of my good friends is the guy that makes those slaves: he’s responsible for the firmware in some major brand of washing machine… Maytag, I think.
http://www.randesigner.com/
Neat character, and one of the best photographers I know. I wonder if he’s secretly programming them to destroy us all one day. I’ll have to ask him next time I’m out that way.
It’s a bit mid-80s doctor who… being chased down a corridor by a floor polisher… if that ever happens I now have someone to go after.
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How would you tell the Ss apart for the purpose of the game? maybe replace the first one with a Z so it’s Jezus. (Z-45, Z-45! JEEEZZZUUUSSSS!!!!!)
Anyway the Church of Tea & Christ isn’t sacrilegious, it’s yummy!
Slather, Bun, & the Holy Toast. Ecce Pani!
GIve us this day, our daily bread.
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daily toast
I have a sudden urge for toast.
No, I think you have the sudden urge to toast.