Eugene Lambert
Very sad to hear about the passing of the mighty Eugene Lambert. Way back when this blog was a bumbling, stumbling and mewling babe,...
Television Category
Upon Death’s Purple Altar: The 2009 Manky Toy Show – Live!
(Curtain draws back to reveal…not a stage, but bare concrete walls atop a bare concrete floor. On this floor are two bins. In...
Upside-Down and Downside-Up, Mirror Magic Means Much Mixing
While Gregory Gráinneog and his wretched companions eke out a miserable existence above ground (on a scorched and ruined earth), below...
The Nightmarish Post-Apocalyptic Hell-world of Gregory Gráinneog
Though casual viewers of Bosco may retain fond memories of a show jam-packed with incident, energy and excitement (singing, dancing,...
Bits/Bobs/Odds/Ends/Awards (and Boggly eyes)
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After culls and purges vicious enough to shame Uncle Joe Stalin, 5 battered & wobbly survivors are left (just about) standing...
A Wiping We Will Go (a.k.a. Incongruous Baby Products)
In between trips back and forth to the hospital, bouts of shopping, spells of baby-room-readying, lengthy crying/laughing sessions...
Don’t Grimace, Be Happy Meal
Back in the early years of this decade, when fustar.info was but a faint twinkle in the deepest recesses of mine eye, I was a reasonably...
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...
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...
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...
Dreadful Thoughts: I May Have Snookered Myself…
Pot the red 'n' screw back, for the yellow, green, brown, blue, pink 'n' black…1
Near enough to the last minute I know, but...
Twinkle Twirl… you’re wonderful…!!!!!
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As the "Dreadful Thoughts" club badges begin to wing their way around this wide world (i.e. Ireland) my thoughts have turned from...
Manky Toy Monday: Little Animal Telephone
Though this vale of tears we call the world is plentifully stocked with bleak places and spaces – Abu Ghraib, Chernobyl, Auschwitz-Birkenau...
V: Friendship is Universal
When I was but a small, nervous, big-eyed child (in the late 70s/early 80s) two parental fears dominated all others. One concerned...
