Tremendous 1971 BBC documentary on the ‘children’s leisure’ industry (toys, books, TV). Interviewees include Leon Garfield, Alan Garner, Biddy Baxter & Oliver Postgate, with delightful footage of Postgate & Firmin making Clangers m.youtube.com/watch?v=xyK6...
I hope now he’s completed Asda he’ll move on to Budgens…
From this month’s Fortean Times. I’m sort of in awe
Unexpectedly hot photo of the late great Bud Cort. Harold and PHWOARED more like!
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Tomorrow, episode 7 of PantoSplaining drops at linktr.ee/PantoSplaining.
This time we're off to Billingham with Grotbags and her famous avian enemy... Orville?
Many years ago I bought a book about homosexuality in animals from a charity shop (It had a fantastic writeup in the Fortean Times just a couple of months previous) & the tiny elderly lady behind the counter peered up at me & said “This your sort of thing, is it?”
Thing I love about this is that wanting to read a book called Fetish Girls is one thing but being willing to ask a hard of hearing elderly charity shop volunteer to get a book called Fetish Girls out of the window for you is quite another
And when he’s not naked he wears the most extraordinary 1969 ‘gay’ outfits. All chains and frills.
It was mainly posted for your benefit
It’s what he would have wanted
This is currently on Amazon Prime. Yul Brynner & Edward Woodward undercover to smash often naked gay gangster Charles Gray’s racket. With Graham Crowden as an assassin with a deadly umbrella. Remarkable stuff.
Bold window display at the British Heart Foundation in Hove
Today would have been my 20th anniversary if I hadn’t been left back in November. Anyway, somehow, I’m still here
Surely the most appropriate film to ever be released on blu-ray
Watching the best George Formby film (the one with the dream sequence where he punches Hitler then goes to Heaven, which has signs reading “British passport holders only”)
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Tinder has a new feature where it suggests people for you based on taste in music. You’d be surprised how few men are into You Won’t Find Another Fool Like Me & the Farmhouse Kitchen theme.
I often find myself looking at this on the shelf and thinking “Could you not just have put 1-7?”
I take it this means there was a lot of porn
“Out of the darkness, the Screamers attack” as Peter Purves’ narration on the soundtrack has it
Of course the best thing about the newly found Dr Who episodes is that one of them includes monsters called Screamers
Good morning
Spectacular name
Love how when promoting the 2nd series of The Muppet Show to British journalists Jim Henson introduced the new character of intrepid journalist Fleet Scribbler. The hacks were enamoured, huge press was guaranteed, the character was swiftly dropped after publication
Mine is perfectly rational
Every time Stephen Fry’s voiceover kicks in on the Sainsbury’s adverts I just think “What the fuck’s it got to do with you?”
It’s 20 years this month since I met the man I thought for 19 years I’d be with for the rest of my life. And I know, as much as I thought I knew that, that I’ll never find love again. Maybe I’m wrong, I’ve got a lot of experience of being wrong too.