Last Saturday's (17 March) Archive Hour programme on BBC Radio 4 dealt with the Argentinean seizure of the Falkland Islands ("Malvinas" to the Argentines) on 19 March 1982: "Strangers in the Night." It's a riveting show which makes generous use of archival audio broadcasts from the territory's radio station, FIBS (Falkland Islands Broadcast ( Read more... )

(OR: "With Hyper-Power Comes Hyper-Responsibility")

Long-time readers know that I have no compunctions about describing myself as a mostly recovered Marvel Zombie (TM); in other words, while I used to buy a large amount of superhero comics -- primarily those published by Marvel Comics (whose product characters include Spider-Man, the Fantastic ( Read more... )

I'm on my way, I'm joinin' in...

Spotted on ezrael's LJ: apparently there's a meme sweeping the LiveJournal Nation that involves posting the lyrics to your favorite anti-war song of the moment.

Since ezrael posted Black Sabbath's muy schweeeeet "War Pigs," I had to scratch my head for a minute to come up with one (and no, I didn't pick P.F. Sloan's "Eve of ( Read more... )