Just a quick urgent note to say that Freaky Trigger’s esteemed CHEESE CORRESPONDENT Marna made this^^^ — and that the closing date for pledge contributions to fund a printed edition is Friday pub-time.
(For details run film, and then go[…]

This is a project gradually to read and discuss the hundred or so books for children written between the mid-50s and his death in 2010 by disgraced author William Mayne, starting with a rereading of the 30-odd that I own or know. I talked a little a[…]

Tom linked to this at Blue Lines, but not everyone is on Tumblr. More here.
For the puzzled: Japanese schoolgirls re-enacting magical martial arts moves from manga, photographing and uploading them. For the record: AMAZING.
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(quick notes on a partial late-night viewing)
Reliably, Julian Temple still really annoys me. It was already a third of the way in when I switched his Doctor Feelgood doc (I’d only just got in and hadn’t realised BBC4 were screening it to[…]

The Periodic Table of Metal
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It’s 22 years since I last saw Kraftwerk, in Brixton in 1991. I was glad I went but I think I was disappointed, though I probably didn’t say so at the time. I saw them again last week — well, Ralf and his hireling mannequins, and th[…]

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From The Bondage of the Will, pg. 113 of Luther’s Works, Vol. 33
For more in like vein, check the Martin Luther Insult Generator[…]

Beyond the hills the far horizon/In the purple evening sky/
You’ll find the Valley of Valhalla/There when you die
^^^Actual Young Avengers/Old Boney M fanfic crossover aka ‘By the Rivers of Piflheim’
*Post title courtesy piratemoggy[…]

1: I saw this last night (2D/24fps) and here are my notes
2: which is to say SPOILERS and DO NOT READ IF YOU HATE MORE FvCKING ELVES and ABANDON DIGNITY ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE and — above all — BEWARE THE CAVE TROLL IN THE ROOM
3: bcz, in […]