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haha i’m actually only linking this higher maths blog bcz…
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haha i’m actually only linking this higher maths blog bcz it only just started and the blogger wonders how quickly ppl will notice it and i wish to demonstrate the instant omniscience everywhere of PBS[…]

Once upon a time in the mid-’90s
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Once upon a time in the mid-’90s, I was cruising towards winning a very nice 100/1 fixed odds bet on 4 draws. It would have worked, too, if it hadn’t been for some dumb ref who awarded Tottenham a last-minute, edge-of-the-area free kick w[…]

Matt DC has somewhat stolen my thunder on
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Matt DC has somewhat stolen my thunder on this ILX thread about Northfork. You see rather than go on an in depth discussion of this dreamlike collection of impressions which passes itself off as a movie, I was going to mention the “What you tal[…]

When Titans Clash: Kirby vs Tezuka
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When Titans Clash: Kirby vs Tezuka
Jack Kirby is known as the King among fans of American comics, and it’s fair enough. He was there at the start of superheroes (creating Captain America), he created the first romance comics, the first mystical[…]

Wrestlemania 20
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Wrestlemania 20
This year’s mega-event from World Wrestling Entertainment had the tagline “Where it all begins…again”, of which I can make no sense, but there were hints towards one interesting development. Larger men, brawler[…]

Not to rob Mr Sinker of propriatorial ownership on stories about If…
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Not to rob Mr Sinker of propriatorial ownership on stories about If… (What will happen to the world if he claims copyright on this hypotheticval opener), a stumbled across article on Lindsay Anderson’s lost film about Wham! in China. Biza[…]

Lack of updates from me has been due to awful computer crisis
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This has relegated me to blogging on something straight out of the seventies, with a keyboard not dissimilar to the early Tandy micro-computers. This of course is thoroughly apt for a short piece about Starsky & Hutch. Not just because my compute[…]

What happened to Doomlord’s mask?
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What happened to Doomlord’s mask?
(Dez Skinn is too harsh on photo-stories here I feel. If anyone wants to see a full-on feature on the 80s Eagle revival with its photo-strips, just let me know… or it might happen anyway…)[…]

Read Misty online!!
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Read Misty online!! – lovingly detailed site dedicated to Misty including reproductions of the original issues! Even if you don’t have time to look at the reprints at least check out the cover gallery.[…]

Girls’ Comics
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Girls’ Comics: Dragged screaming from the K-Punk comments box, this link leads to an excellent essay by Miriam Hurst on the British girls’ comics of the 1970s. Hurst makes intelligent points though you can’t go far wrong in this ter[…]

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