While I’ve mentioned F. R. Stubbs before, I don’t think I’ve actually posted the Stubbs ghost sign that sits on the corner of Merchantgate and Walmgate.
F. R. Stubbs, Ironmonger
Category: Ephemera
VTV – Music Video Station
This is rather charming: VTV – Music Video Station, an MTV parody that only plays odd and terrible songs.
The Beadlean Library
The Fence has an interesting little article about Jeremy Beadle and his rather large collection of books – though, of course, like any article of this nature it’s not just about Beadle and his rather large collection of books.
A Macintosh Independence Day
I’ve started to develop a fondness for these older computer adverts. This ‘Apple/Independence Day’ tie-in ad – from the dark days of 1996 when Apple was on the cusp of bankruptcy and Jobs was yet to return – feels comfortingly of that moment.
Continue reading “A Macintosh Independence Day”The Doctor Shops for a Minicomputer…
And here’s a rather nice pair of Doctor Who-themed adverts for the Prime Computer range of minicomputers. There are so fairly obvious hints that Tom Baker and Lalla Ward are phoning it in but the shoutout to their current – but brief – marriage is rather nice.
A VJ Day Topper in Malton
In spite of what I said previously, this blog’s descent into postbox topper groupie-ism appears to continue.
This time Malton sees a simple – yet effective – topper to mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day on the 15th of August.
It’s more than a little warm…
…why am I sat in front of a wall of screens?
P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-Pancake Day!
Halloween Horrors: The Mr Blobby Collection
As it’s halloween then it’s probably time to point out the greatest collection of evil around – The Mr Blobby Collection. It’s an entire site dedicated to the Great Satan himself – Mr Blobby!
Gamera vs. Zigra, 1971
The rather lovely (and incredibly kitschy!) poster for 1971’s Gamera vs. Zigra.