Posts from December, 2008

Things I Saved From a Skip: 1 – Jinty Annual 1981

Given the (rather amusing) collapse of the global financial system, 2009 should prove a big year for rummaging through skips. While...

Hang a shining star upon the highest bough

Just popping in briefly to wish one and all a Merry Post-solstice Wintermass X-festival. Uncle Phil Spector (the world's Christmassiest...

Zero Tolerance & Infinite Justice: The Nick O’Teen Story

A recent discussion on the dubious "pleasures" of EU/Swiss propagandic comics set the memory banks whizzing, fizzing and grinding....

Why does Santa Sound Like George from Glenroe?

Yesterday afternoon the Christmas market in Clarenbridge (normally a haven of gentle family fun) found itself terrorised by the appearance...

None for Anyone in the Audience: The 2008 Manky Toy Show – Live!

9.00 – A pair of cheap, stained curtains open. A thin figure bounds jovially through them and onto the stage. A glamorous, heavily...