A Little More Web Kipple
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.
…why am I sat in front of a wall of screens?
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!
The rather lovely (and incredibly kitschy!) poster for 1971’s Gamera vs. Zigra.
And so I ended up on the VHistory blog where, hidden in one of the sites earlier posts, I came across an early trailer for the first series of Red Dwarf.
Whist poking around on the BBC Genome website trying to find out the original airdate for Band of Brothers I wandered across this rather surprising warning…
And the BBC Archive has coughed up a lovely spot of old industrial folk music from the early 1970s. It’s certainly worth a listen and it’d be nice if the entirety of that edition of Omnibus somehow managed to make it to iPlayer…
From October 2023’s Ansible:
40 Years Ago, a Japanese con publication printed many ‘messages of support’ from UK/US authors. J.G. Ballard rose to the occasion: ‘That great feat of arms, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour on December 7, 1941, must now be repeated in the realm of the imagination — let the SF writers of Japan set out across the skies of the human psyche, each carrying a piece of that explosive future which will torpedo the battleships of complacency and inertia!’ (Ansible 35, October 1983)
Anisble, October 2023
From anyone else that would be a little on the nose, but from a man with Ballard’s history with the Japanese it’s something else entirely!
