Told you- brute force often works

That's 1-0 for me over the PC. Next challenge will be graphic/layout formatting, which could be *the* new interior decorating craze.

Dream Sequence
Yet another wage to find- that for web designer- on top of a payroll already swelled by modern needs Chez Ion. Standing costs for any self-respecting household have to cover not just the minimal live-in butler, housekeeper, cook and coterie of maids, but also the services as required of life coach, personal trainer, pool cleaner, interior designer, landscape gardener, feng shui-ist and astrologer. And you simply *can't* get the same loyalty from these fickle contractors in this day and age. Frank Faw *knew* my Mercury was becoming retrograde, yet still skipped off for some tansy-scented, Daniel O'Donnell retreat with that mother of his who pretends to be crumbling when every vertebrae are reinforced with carbon-tempered steel. Faw of all people should know how this could affect someone with a highly-strung horoscope.




Lens is wiped clean of vaseline and refocused. Bridget O'Reilly's optical waves resolve into a Lichtenstein blow-up comic frame of a high-contrast mid-face shot, eyes blindfolded, nose polka-dotted with digitised shading and a mouth wrenched open and hatched black in raw pain. Lens zooms slowly deeper into the mouth until the screen is black.