I stand corrected!

Listening to Johnson’s lyrics for two hours back to back he’s always been an appealingly clumsy lyricist, prone to puns and slogans. Sweet Bird of Truth for example would have Tennessee turning in his grave. One […]

Melodrama you say? ‘Who knows if it’s real Or something we’re both dreaming of’ Excessively sentimental – check. Scoundrel – check Pinch of fromage – check. Sixties you say. Here’s the perhaps superior original.

Indeed also collected these pre-2000AD days. Commando very superior to War Picture Library. In addition to all those ‘Englander pig dog’ and ‘Achtung Spitfire!’have become family phrases. Curiously, with no […]

I think one of the things I love about particularly Wagner and Grant’s writing for Dredd is how they would alternate year-long epics like the Judge Child, Apocalypse War, Song of the Surfer, Mecanismo, Necropolis […]

I could eat one can perhaps, but not a whole row

@sewer-robot the thing is (like many classic strips) Flesh was insanely violent and had no sympathetic characters. It would surely have ended up like the first Dredd movie.

@bamber @jaygee I’m under no illusion that my collection will enable me to retire – the early issues are all ripped, incomplete and so on. Later issues seem to be worth very little. I think if I have a plan it’s […]

I have been unsuccessful in the Edgbaston ticket ballot for England v India but have another chance in the ‘second chance’ sale afterwards once the ballot winners have had at it. Currently England appear to be […]

Ah seventies comics. First question – who else has the comic they first read aged 12 in 1977, still delivered weekly. Just me then who is still a squaxx dek thargo. I first encountered 2000AD at a charity […]

The use of music in this film does ask a number of questions. It’s a celebration and homage to a century of black music, from Joplin and Robeson to EWF. Some of the juxtapositions are incredibly powerful. But at […]

Another vote for the Guinness, Mrs Moles had it at a pub lunch yesterday. Helps us in the week when you want a beer in hand but also it’s only say Tuesday. The Paulaner weissbier 0 also good.

It is an excellent listen, though as ever with Bowie he is the essence of an unreliable narrator. I was in Berlin last summer and makes me want to go back again straight away. Also another excuse to post this:

As a Man City fan from well before the current era, can I add Georgi Kinkladze from the nineties as an exemplary maverick. Dribble past ten players, bend a free kick from thirty yards…but playing his own game […]

Absolutely, a maverick is someone who works within an existing structure but seeks to subvert or offer a contrary opinion. An eccentric has their own alternative and entirely personal structures. Hence Tom Cruise […]

The social realist Bob Dylan.

Lovely post as ever glad your family made it through. Springsteen songs that cause a pricking in the eyes: Racing In The Streets, The River and this one.

but someone has to drop out to make way for Travis or 50 Cent – temptation surely to cull stuff before the eighties? Though why say 12 Dreams of Dr Sardonicus was not culled beats me.