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[…]

FT TOP 100 FILMS
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[…]

And now “We Are the World” part two! — oh good god:
Jermaine Dupri has been called on to produce an updated version of one of the (if not the) most legendary collaborations of all time, “We Are the World.”
“It&#821[…]

A heart-warming and implicitly anti-rockist letter to The Times from an Oxford legend:
Sir, The outcry against David and Victoria Beckham as Joseph and Mary is risible. What character tests were imposed on the persons so portrayed in the churches and[…]

The Man Who Ate The 747 is a cute little book. It is a romance which is neither Danielle Steele doorstep thick, or branded via Mills & Boon. Romance fiction has a bad name, and yet historically the romance was a more than respectable genre. Ben […]

De Hems, the continental beer palace off Shaftesbury Avenue, is by nature an upmarket boozer. Its range of beers is well-regarded and it presents them with style, though usually I find it a bit too busy and noisy for my liking. But even taking De Hem[…]

ONE LINE FILM REVIEW:
Aaltra is a Belgian Inside I’m Dancing, but without the dancing inside bit.[…]