Two docs in shaky-cam.
1: Mondovino, in cinemas today, arguably the best of this year’s documentary explosion. Like The Corporation it’s an investigation of global capitalism, but rooted in a concrete analysis of one product: wine, openin[…]

When Santas Clash!
“Some of them are believed to have overindulged in alcohol…”[…]

The Advent Calendar Of Comics: Dec 10[…]

Pub Science Experiment #1
Pub 6: The Railway, Station Rise, SE27
Category: Railway
There’s no mistaking the Railwayness of this place. It’s a hop, step and stumble from the side door to the front of Tulse Hill station.
What’s more […]

THE DADDINO FAMILY TREASURY OF CHRISTMASES PAST
Christmas 1974

One Christmas (not sure which) I received the General Electric Show ‘N Tell, a filmstrip-viewer/turntable that looked like a bright red television set. One time when I was bored, I[…]

The Advent Calendar Of Comics: Dec 9

(via Culture Schlock Jukebox). “In the first [story], Superman must act when an evil scientist connects every nuclear missile on the planet to the button with which the President is about to light the White[…]

My dark secret!
I was talking about this with Dr T last week and I realised the awful truth….
I don’t really give a monkey’s about the latest round of the ‘rockism debate’. Or much else.
More power and total respect to t[…]

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3: BILL AND TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE
Who are Bill S. Preston Esquire and Ted “Theodore” Logan? What lessons can we learn from their excellent adventure? Perhaps the only lesson is the piece of philosophy which, onc[…]

Politics Can’t Kill The Situationist International. Not really DYS, but this needs attention. Having spent the ’70s making trad-left agit-prop plays, David Edgar now sees the ‘light’: ‘Thirty years later, the miners&#821[…]

What happened next
Portraits of the German 1974 World Cup Winning Team from a recent edition of Der Spiegel.
The same pages washed through Google’s translate tool are here in case you wanted to read the text in appalling English which adds noth[…]