THE FUTURE HAS ARRIVED
Look! Silver jump suits and everything. My favourite is the “i-foot”: “a two-legged mountable robot like device that can be controlled with a joystick.” JOYSTICK?? Take this seriously and plug it direct[…]

No trip to Finland is complete without a visit to Santa’s village in Lapland. It was September outside but in a tiny corner of Lapland it is Christmas all year round. The ‘village’ is a mix of log-cabin chintz and blocky granite sou[…]

Usually Christmas films have the bonhomie of the season coupled with the goodwill-to-all-men message pushed to the fore. This is the meaning of Christmas to these films and thus are more than able to hang saccharine, feel-good fairy tales on the Yule[…]

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[…]