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[…]

Hard-working words
I saw in Smiths last night that Stephen Donaldson had written one last Thomas Covenant book. Imagine my delight! Not at the existence of the book, you understand – more tedious leprosy shenanigans I expect – but at Dona[…]

The Advent Calendar Of Comics: Dec 7[…]

“In my box are such delights…” 2 of 3. (following this)
It’s easy to forget that the cosy children’s classics the BBC adapted in the 1980s had, when written, acute psychological relevance to their audience. OK that audie[…]

“In my box are such delights…”: 1 of 3.
The Box Of Delights DVD does itself no favours by opening with a montage of adverts for other BBC “children’s classics” – The Chronicles Of Narnia, The Borrowers, Five […]

Christmas! Nudity! Pop! Dwarves! This one has it all![…]

The Advent Calendar Of Comics: Dec 6[…]