Yes! That's right! DeScope, A Cranky Journal of Themed Design and Development is BACK, baby! Back from the shadows! Back from the brink! Back from beyond! back, uh . . . online . . .

Back with new content? Oh, hell no. Not yet. But, like, you know . . .

Hey, whattaya want, fre crying out stinking loud, hunh? We're back that's something, right?

So what does this mean to YOU, Mr. and/or Ms. Reader of Cranky Journals of Themed Entertainment and/or Development?

No, really: what does this mean to you? Anything? Something? Nothing? Other?

Wow . . . 89.3 percent "other." Wow and ow.

Look, here's the danged deal, drop me a line and say hello or something. Lemme know what's, like, you know, on your minds.

In the meanwhile (in between while) . . .

DeScope, A Cranky Journal of Themed Design and Development is BACK!

(There, that oughtta hold the little designers for a year or two . . .)

"COMEDY FOR SMART PEOPLE"
by Rich Procter

Peter Bergman, member of the Firesign Theatre, died last Friday (March 9, 2011).

To anybody under 40, this probably won't mean a hecukuva lot. To people of a certain age—I'm 60, born in 1951—this is . . . well . . . profoundly sad. The Firesign Theatre changed my life. The were as brash as the Beatles, funnier than Monty Python, smarter than Thomas Pynchon, jazzier than Miles Davis . . .
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"Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur"

"The world wants to be deceived, so let it be deceived."

A nice, dead language-y quote that, like all such quotes anywhere and everywhere, used to give the illusion of classiness in the absense of that self-same quality.

Attributed (as we all know) to Petronius, but it might have been some apple-polisher or someone else for all we know.

And the Hits Just Keep On Comin'!