“time to give yrself into strange gods’ hands”: or how an IT GUY saved my BACON at the mere small cost only of the sacrifice of my DIGNITY hurrah ugh groo
mark s (by email): dear lovely IT Guy One , IT Guy Two says you sometimes un[…]

Does the umpteenth rehashing of rockism-bashing get your blood boiling? Not as much as rockism itself, and the upcoming NFT ‘Easy Riders, Raging Hormones I [Heart] the ’70s’ Fest provides plenty of that. The programme notes posit an[…]

Band Aid 20 is now squatting atop the charts and I feel I can safely bring an end to my “History Of Band Aid” charity appeal. If you recall it involved me giving a pound to charity for every link this got. The links keep trickling in and […]

I was a touch hasty in stating there were no amputee/one-armed players in top flight football. H’kan S’derstjerna, a Swede who is a key player for Fredrikstad FK – as pointed out by OleM in the comments box below.
The EA Sports FIF[…]

Come on, did you really think this would not make the list? (I tried my hardest to veto it out of contrarianism…) Does this need to be a Christmas film at all? The plot would work at any time of the year. That said, the Christmas setting does p[…]

Napoleon Dynamite as a film is a canvas stretched thinly over its 86 minute running time. Nevertheless as a comedy where nearly all the laughs rely on the deadpan responses of its characters to the other grotesques in the film, it is remarkably succe[…]

The Advent Calendar Of Comics: Dec 8[…]

Good news for all you lefthanders out there.
If widespread hand-to-hand combat breaks out in your society, you’re likely to flourish!
The side effects include reduced lifespan, low birthweight and increased incidence of immune and nervous disor[…]

ILXor.com is back! — just a quick report to note that Andrew has scrounged up the source of the problem and put in a hopefully sufficient enough temporary fix for the moment. Rah![…]

THE DADDINO FAMILY TREASURY OF CHRISTMASES PAST
Christmas 1973

L-R: Me(?); Nanny, Grandpa, Mom
This time you can click on the pic to get a higher-res image, not that it’ll do much good here. Save for the Santa pic, all of the earlier pictures […]