I think I've found the solution for my creative slump:

A FREAKIN' NEW COMPUTER!!!

Yup, an i7 mega-monster, running 64-bit Vista, with 8GB of RAM, will bring all that pent-up creativity bursting up to the Yatz surface. Prepare to be amazed!

And, even if it doesn't, imagine all the fun I'll be having - configuring, installing, buying new peripherals, copying endless gigabytes of audiobooks, comicbooks, music etc to new disks! Just the thought of this makes my sphincter clench shut!!

Yup, big week ahead.

And a bit of philosophy, courtesy of Canadian comedy troupe Radio Free Vestibule, which this week's big celebrity death reminded me of:

" Life - it's the worst, it sucks. The only thing you can hope for is to die young. For me it's too late, I'm an old man. But the children... The children, they have the hope, of dying young."