My favourite Ska track ever. Shame the video isn't particularly inspiring but just sit back and imagine yourself on that train to Rainbow City (making sure you are very careful when passing Prince Buster's house).

To ease the chasms of time leading up to the new Star Trek film I thought I would give Exotic Trousers readers the opportunity to listen to an audio version of a lost classic Trek episode.

Star Trek: The Angriness of Rojay is a play I wrote some years back and forced some of my mates to act in. I use the word "act" loosely. And wrongly. I myself play Dr Mcoy, Uhura (cough), High Priest Pee-Niss, Rojay and the Klingon that sounds a bit like Mr Kipling (and Dr McCoy). Some of the loosest acting comes from me.

The script was written to the same style and quality as the toons posted here on Exotic Trousers... I'm afraid. Please expect jokes worth an entire agricultural economy's worth of corn. Especially one for which I am truly sorry.

If you still want to, you can hear it here:

The Angriness of Rojay

It is the question that has puzzled the ancients, especially if they have lived to the year 2007. What is the best version of King Kong ever committed to celluloid? Is it the thirties version with its stop motion wizardry, unreal and gloomy atmosphere and perfect length and structure, yet undeniable black and whiteness and a vegetarian dinosaur that eats people. Is it the noughties version with its superior special effects, realistic ape behaviour, emotional relevance, acrobatic dinosaurs and three hours longness. Or is it the seventies version with its big snake?

I believe the most effective way to measure the relative merits of each film is to see which Kong could have the others in a fight.

Now the noughties Kong is a bit of a bruiser and can give the slap to several tyrannosaurs at once. The thirties Kong had a bit of trouble with only one tyrannosaur until it fatally broke its jaw and jam came out. The seventies Kong fought a big snake.

But the thirties and seventies Kongs could band together and pull the plug on the expensive computer that houses the not really there noughties Kong. And for good measure they could break the neck of the computer nerd who created him. But then the seventies Kong, who is a man in a suit, could take hold of the thirties Kong, who is 12 inches tall and made of plasticine, and throw him out of the window to the street below, where he would be run over by a Fiat Panda.

So there you have it. The 1976 version of King Kong, with Jeff Bridges and Jessica Lange, is best.

To further demonstrate my IT skills, last night I was able to work out how to use and recharge my new digital camera in two and a quarter hours (rounded down to two hours).

How do like the taste of them apples, Rob so-called webmaster? I suspect you will find it bitter and unpleasant, like cooking apples covered in wee.

Cheers, Sim

Hi, this is Sim and despite what Rob says, I am actually well versed in IT skills. In fact I have successfully set up an X-Box with little help (not X-Box Live though, I’m not a genius).

Anyway, this is just a short note to say hello and hope you enjoy at least some of what there is to offer. My intention is that there will eventually be a vasty vault of cartoons on many various subjects. I’ll also be spouting regular gibberish now that I’ve managed to work out how to post properly.

Cheers.

Edit - I've just discovered why I've been unable to post for more than a week. Rob accidentally forgot to allow me update access.