England, Their England
Reading through the latest Marvel Essential volume, collecting loads of Tomb Of Dracula, I came across something that reminded me of a special small pleasure of mine in American comics. On the splash page of issue 7, when Marv […]

Even in this ever-shrinking world in which we live in non-Brits may not know about the Cheeky Girls phenomenon. They are two bony sisters from Transylvania who have finagled a comedy appearance on a reality pop show into becoming something close to a[…]

Terrific article by Mark Morris on some bits and bobs of contemporary art. He nails the easy / hard / hard / easy issue which seems to lie somewhere near the bottom of many ill-informed critiques of art now, including a glorious swipe at anyone who t[…]

For any of you who missed the Freaky Trigger Christmas Party yesterday, not only did you miss a cracking good time but you missed my Nuclear War Set which (from memory) ran as follows. Note real actual Doomsday at end.
ELECTRIC SIX – “Nuc[…]

But often find myself lacking the basic knowledge to help me understand infinity. So, I turn to children’s books! Currently I have The Number Devil on rotation. But what does Amazon recommend to me? Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi – M[…]

Double retro as I blog a link to an essay about The Changes (the 1975 kids telly drama) on Robin Carmody’s Elidor that was put up over a year ago. Sorry to Robin for not checking his site often enough ”I remember he e-mailed me a while ba[…]

THE ADVENT CALENDAR OF ALCOHOL – 9th December (8%-9%): Duvel
It was February, it was cold, it was a Publog unDiplomatic five-headed fact-finding mission to Brussels. It was that key landmark birthday for the vinyl obsessive: I was turning 33 an[…]