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Gritty Sausage presents Beetle of the Plants
One of the countless things they left out of Battle of the Planets: Mark and Jason ninja backstreet dustup. Watch for Mark's "Damn these white slacks!" moment. :D ( Read more... ) -
The Flamingo Flame ... ?
Hee hee hee. I have Gatchman vol 1 and it's got awful English subtitles. (Not that you can't largely follow the story without them.) I'm currently watching The Phantom Boat From The Hell and wondering why the heck so much entirely innocent animation (Princess and Keyop Jun and Jinpei waterskiing, Jason Joe looking cool in shades, etc) was lopped ( Read more... ) -
"God, I love American cars."
The joys of rewatching half-forgotten old TV faves: I've just seen baby!Edward James Olmos and baby!Dean Stockwell exchange gunfire, followed by sarcastic remarks from baby!Jerry Hardin. (For certain values of "baby" here, you must understand.) It's the 1985 Miami Vice episode Bushido, from which also comes the ever-useful quote, "WHAT THE HELL IS ( Read more... ) -
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What the heck was that TV show they made us watch in primary school in the seventies, where the kids go into the bush with their teacher, who falls off a cliff and perishes, and then it's so cold they have to burn their map to light a fire? I assume it was an Australian show - there was a lot of British telly around, but it must be tougher to get ( Read more... ) -
Juvenilia
Possibly my earliest recorded foray into the Calliopean art is a dubious hand-written novel, Death Upon A Kiss, reproduced in its entirety here for your edification:
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Zadie Smith was twenty-two when she started looking for a publisher for White Teeth? And only twenty-five when it was published in 2000?! Someone kill me! -
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So, what were you doing on Wednesday 26 September 1979? People in Canberra were watching a surprising amount of the test pattern. And, of course, Doctor Who, although I'm not certain which episode. Not to mention Harry Butler and The Inventors. And Community Billboard! For some reason this fascinated me as a child, especially the inexplicable ( Read more... )
