B-b-but that’s not about Christmas, participants whinged. You better believe it is. As a nipper “We’re Off To See The Wizard” was more of a carol to me than “Silent Night”. Dorothy’s ruby slippers conjured up[…]

Pub Science Experiment #1
Pub 5: The Railway Tavern, Crouch End Hill, N8
Category: Railway
First things first: this Railway is not near a railway. There was a railway around here once, but it’s long gone.
The next thing I should say is that I […]

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

Test Match – The Best Christmas Present Ever
Or at least, the most pleasure I ever got from an old skool (non-computer) game.
There was a Subbuteo forerunner to Test Match. In typical Subbuteo style, it came with loads of static extras; nice l[…]

There has to be a Boyzone.
Any list will always have a Boyzone in it. The nature of Freaky Trigger lists is that by the time you get to the top most people have run out of their favourite items, and everyone gets much more competitive. So to get in i[…]

THE DADDINO FAMILY TREASURY OF CHRISTMASES PAST
Christmas 1973

L-R: Tommy, Bobby
It’s a pretty safe bet that everything you see in this photo is probably in a landfill somewhere.’
OK, now that I’ve gotten the sweeping statement out[…]

THE DADDINO FAMILY TREASURY OF CHRISTMASES PAST
Christmas 1972

L-R: Bobby, Dad
Dad is thirty-two here, a year younger than I am now, yet eternally a leap ahead of me. However old I get, I will always look at this photo and see someone my senior. Oth[…]

I have recently read John Gray’s Straw Dogs and my pained response may or may not produce something longer from me at a later point. For now I am content just to blog this essay by Keith Sutherland from the academic Journal of Consciousness Stu[…]

aka Santa Claus Conquers The Martians, which gives away a bit too much of the plot in my opinion. I would imagine that this film is exactly what Mystery Science Theatre 3000 was designed for: schlocky half arsed plots, lousy set design and a star who[…]

The Advent Calendar Of Comics: Dec 6[…]