Category archives: Museum
The Museum of Cultural Waste: 1970s Vinyl and the Pornification of all things
Listen, for any length of time, to the likes of Joe Duffy (Ireland’s patron saint of reactionary hand-wringers) and you’ll come away a) outraged and dismayed, and, b) hopelessly misinformed about absolutely everything. One misapprehension you might end up suffering… continue reading »
The 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 made her think of me. What was this strange and captivating artefact? A leather-bound… continue reading »
The Museum of Cultural Waste: Kid Kore “Apache”
If there’s one lesson I’ve learned from my numerous trips to charity shops (on both sides of the Irish sea) it is (alas) to expect the expected. For while such places hold out the slight promise of rare oddities and… continue reading »
The Museum of Cultural Waste: Quicksilver
Plain People of Ireland: (brightly) “Well”, as the divil once said, “That’s the Christmas over for another year thank God!” Myself: Indeed. A bloated orgy of drink, turkey and ostentatious consumption… Plain People of Ireland: (unsure) That’s right… Myself:…a lurid… continue reading »
The Museum of Cultural Waste: Mandy 1973
The second entry to go on display in fustar.info’s Museum of Cultural Waste is not (I admit) wholly dissimilar from the first entry. I’d intended to drift away from vintage Girls’ comics and discuss (say) the merits of James Last… continue reading »
The Flights of Flopear
Due to popular demand, or, more precisely, the demand of a single individual (“graylien”), I hereby present another offering from the Bunty Book for Girls 1983. “More Flopear content! More Flopear content!”, he begged. Wish granted. “The Flights of Flopear”,1… continue reading »
The Museum of Cultural Waste: Bunty for Girls 1983
Since local supplies of shoddy, cheap toys remain limited and undependable, I thought it might prove vaguely amusing to launch a new series on the blog formerly known as fustar.org. Since its inception Fústar’s subtitle has been (the uncatchy) “Recycling… continue reading »
