Well there has to be a Santa serial killer movie doesn’t there? After all the threat of Santa knowing who is naughty or nice only really pays off on the nice side. Perhaps if you are really naughty, Santa might slit your throat instead.
I have […]

THE DADDINO FAMILY TREASURY OF CHRISTMASES PAST
Christmas Eve 1976

L-R: Santa Claus, me, Tommy, Bobby
The Young Kurt Cobain Chronicles, Part 27:’wherein our rock-star-to-be thanks Santa for bringing the Beatles into his miserable little life.
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Ostentatious Displays of Christmas-ness- An Observation.
Whilst walking home from work, I was taken by the number of houses that had their Christmas trees facing out from the front room window, so that all who could walk by could see. Is there some s[…]

The Advent Calendar Of Comics: Dec 13

I owned this one![…]

Hmm, chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your toes, Steve McQueen bouncing a baseball against his prison door. All signs of the UK Christmas in the early eighties. Again why exactly The Great Escape became linked directly with C[…]

As much as good cheer, each Christmas reliably heralds right-wing reactionary outcry over “multi-culturalism”. This year is no different. Most notably, Bill O’Reilly informed a caller that if he was upset that the U.S., a “Chr[…]

aka: The Ewok Adventure aka CARAVAN OF COURAGE.
Y’see in the States this was a TV spesh. In the UK it was emblazoned across cinemas as a surprisingly unwanted follow up to star wars’ least favourite characters. It is a bit like Raiders Of[…]

The Advent Calendar Of Comics: Dec 12[…]

THE DADDINO FAMILY TREASURY OF CHRISTMASES PAST
Christmas 1975

L-R: Tommy, Dad, Bobby, Me (just barely visible to the right)
The loud, fussy stripes of post-QEFTSG pr’t-‘-porter men’s fashion didn’t come out of a vacuum, you […]

THE DADDINO FAMILY TREASURY OF CHRISTMASES PAST
Christmas 1975

A little scaled-down from previous Christmases, not like I cared then. Stockings and associated piles go from L-R Tommy, Bobby and me. Took a look at a few of the things I dawdled over i[…]