PLONKED DOWN IN MAIDA VALE – I had one small glass of BBC white wine last night. I am still feeling the after effects. I think they must make it by getting hold of a loads of toxins, probably scraped from underneath the mixing desks, and fermen[…]

As far as I could work out, the main connection between Christmas and The Hudsucker Proxy is that it snows near the end. Why we still have this ridiculous link between snow and Christmas, at least in the UK, is beyond me. I think I have only ever see[…]

THE DADDINO FAMILY TREASURY OF CHRISTMASES PAST
Christmas 1977

L-R: me, Holly, mom, Tommy
I think I asked my mom to make the horsie kiss the dog. I love the look on my mother’s face, it’s so maudlin.
The dog was Holly, by the way. She ma[…]

The new face of Creationism.
CNN ran a story yesterday on the Intelligent Design Network’s proposed revisions to the science standards set by the Kansas School Board. It should come as a surprise to no one that this is happening in Kansas, […]

FT TOP 100 FILMS
So with one to go, to be posted tomorrow, here have a quick overview of the FreakyTrigger Top 100 films: 100-2:
100. Citizen Kane
99. Star Wars: A New Hope
98. Raiders Of The Lost Ark
97. Bringing Up Baby
96. Godfather II
95. Some Li[…]

1947 version. It really is no contest. Cute little Nathalie Wood versus that kid from Mathilda who looks like she is constantly sucking a thistle. No, we like our sugar coated sentimentality dished up firmly with a black and white spoon. Though perh[…]

THE DADDINO FAMILY TREASURY OF CHRISTMASES PAST
Christmas 1977

L-R: Tommy, Me
North Bellmore is less than thirty miles away, but I go into Manhattan exactly twice in the 1970’s: one in a class trip to the United Nations in 1979 and other is fo[…]

Phantom of the Opera

Corsets in, breasts out, masks on and mouths open wide; the phantom is back. I’ve heard complaints that to enjoy a film like Phantom, you have to like musicals. Well if you don’t like the idea of sweeping orchestra[…]

Babbage Minifig Not Included
LEGO logic gates! Via Slashdot.[…]

Office Christmas Meal
It was our ‘team Christmas meal’ last night, in deepest, Burberry Essex. A local Chinese restaurant was suggested. “It’s a decent Chinky.”
We revved up for dinner in a pub I can only describe as shi[…]