No trip to Finland is complete without a visit to Santa’s village in Lapland. It was September outside but in a tiny corner of Lapland it is Christmas all year round. The ‘village’ is a mix of log-cabin chintz and blocky granite sou[…]

The Advent Calendar Of Comics: Dec 10[…]

The Advent Calendar Of Comics: Dec 9

(via Culture Schlock Jukebox). “In the first [story], Superman must act when an evil scientist connects every nuclear missile on the planet to the button with which the President is about to light the White[…]

My dark secret!
I was talking about this with Dr T last week and I realised the awful truth….
I don’t really give a monkey’s about the latest round of the ‘rockism debate’. Or much else.
More power and total respect to t[…]

De Hems, the continental beer palace off Shaftesbury Avenue, is by nature an upmarket boozer. Its range of beers is well-regarded and it presents them with style, though usually I find it a bit too busy and noisy for my liking. But even taking De Hem[…]

Alternative Band Aid Lyrics
(as featured in Guardian Society yesterday)
Take your pick from the intentionally funny –
“It’s christmas time and there’s no need to be afraid
It’s christmas time, Bono’s here and he&#8[…]

Fantasy Football
(For the tiny handful of TMFD readers who don’t know about it…)
The Exeter City fans on TMFD have been rather quiet about it – whether through modesty or shock I’m not sure – but ECFC won their FA Cup 2n[…]

End-Times Economics
The Good News! We (well, those of us who were interested) have got our tickets for Gurls Aloud at the Hammersmith Apollo on May 28. See you there poppists!
The Other News: Apparently after booking fees etc. are taken into account […]

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 […]

The Advent Calendar Of Comics: Dec 8[…]