They are the eggmen, we are the victims — Anthony M found this and we trembled in fear/laughed uproariously in untrammelled glee/both (choose as appropriate): a modern day version of Styx covering “I Am the Walrus”. It’s not t[…]

Happy Now by Charles Higson
Is Higson our leading renaissance man? Modest success as a pop star, writing for Reeves & Mortimer, a leading performer in The Fast Show, and also a fine novelist – I suppose Jonathan Miller ranks higher in such[…]

aka: The Ewok Adventure aka CARAVAN OF COURAGE.
Y’see in the States this was a TV spesh. In the UK it was emblazoned across cinemas as a surprisingly unwanted follow up to star wars’ least favourite characters. It is a bit like Raiders Of[…]

Japanese Inro by Julia Hutt
Inro were small sectioned lacquerware boxes, generally a little smaller than a cigarette packet, which wealthy Japanese wore dangling from their sash-belts from the 17th Century until around a hundred years ago, when Weste[…]

The Advent Calendar Of Comics: Dec 12[…]

THE DADDINO FAMILY TREASURY OF CHRISTMASES PAST
Christmas 1975

L-R: Tommy, Dad, Bobby, Me (just barely visible to the right)
The loud, fussy stripes of post-QEFTSG pr’t-‘-porter men’s fashion didn’t come out of a vacuum, you […]