THE DADDINO FAMILY TREASURY OF CHRISTMASES PAST
Christmas 1971

My first Christmas. Perhaps someone thought it would be cute to let the six-month-old me wade in a sea of wrapped presents. At that age, I’m not sure what it would’ve accompl[…]

In ensemble films, the credits often come up in alphabetical order. This can create a few problems with nominal star billing, but promotes the idea that all the actors are equal and were just part of a big gang in filming. Nevertheless the big stars […]

Oh Crikey: The Ayingerbrau Challenge – worthy cultural event AND they’ve got behind the save the Fat Man petition, which is steaming ahead with 136 signatures to date. We are still waiting for a reply from Herr Mayor of Aying, largely bec[…]

AND THE WORLD SAID…
“1921: On March 21, vivacious American-born Lady Astor faced an intruder at her Devonshire home threatening to kill her. After coaxing him into a calmer frame of mind, Lady Astor got him out of the house. She then ga[…]

(I know the other list is not quite finished yet, but two weeks ago, this list was compiled in the usual manner in the pub and will probably fail to be counted down accurately as per usual leaving you tantalised. The order of films was supposed to in[…]

The revisionist logic of the ‘New Cold War’ is worked through in the ideological forging-house of Amazon.com customer reviews:
‘As you might expect, a 70 year old communist propoganda film is not gripping entertainment.
The first &#[…]

Bernard Cohen (Flowers Central)
Last Thursday I was talking to a fellow FTer about those Roy Lichtensteins where our Roy took the energy and the drippage of abstract impressionism and reproduced it with cartoony flatness.
Bernard Cohen seems to be r[…]

Elfster: whether any of the people who I’ve involved in it would agree I don’t know, but I feel I must use this month’s Blog 7 to pimp for Elfster, an automated Secret Santa service. The site suggests it’s a classic old-school[…]

Hurrah for more pub quiz victory! (Glasgow edition) I rather like my handwriting. It’s all swirls and flourishes, and it has quiz benefits if, hem hem, your quizmaster can’t decipher what you’ve put. Q: What was the name of the Fren[…]

Food Vs Fun
This is what I went to for our work Christmas do. It reinforced my suspicions that food and fun do not mix. This is the first time I’ve been to one of these ‘dinner plus entertainment’ things, you see them advertised on […]