Posts from November, 2008

Manky Toy Show is Go!

Friday, 5th December, 2008 @ 9.00 p.m. Pencil that date and that time into your diaries. If you don't have a diary then sprint madly...

Museum of Cultural Waste: In the Land That Invented the Future

A week or two ago, while she sat diligently at her desk attending to her many labours, my wife's gaze passed over an object that instantly...

Positions for Labour

Earlier this afternoon, as Jess & I sat watching a Kerrywoman pull a plastic baby out of a woolen womb, a single A4 sheet was...

The Manky Toy Show 2008: The Countdown Begins…

Ask square and un-hip members of society what the highlight of their 2007 Christmas season was and they'll most likely answer: the...

Batmangled

Was in HMV the other day and noticed that Batman: The Movie (a full-length theatrical spin-off of the '60s series) has undergone something...

Manky Toy Monday: Rapid, Fighter, Apex

I've mentioned (somewhere) before that I, like most children, was more than happy to mix, match and mash together toy worlds and universes...

Naughty Boys, Lucky Bags, and Karl’s Lovely Wig

And so the brother (he who used to love jam sandwiches more than life itself) is married. Saturday's celebratory fancy dress part-tay...