Posts under ‘pop culture’

One of the most frustrating things about my hard drive failing last year was that I lost all of the work I'd been doing in BookSmart, the software used to make books on Blurb. Well, yesterday I took advantage of the crappy weather to get started on a new one. I didn't expect to finish [...]

but I am getting over a fortnight of being ill and I am still somewhat brane ded.
Have some belated new year wishes from a pair of cats playing a mandolin and a banjo, which I picked up at last month's Ephemera Society Bazaar, instead.

We like a lot of stuff here at Mondo Towers, and today I added a sidebar widget from Amazon, with links to books and films I recommend. In case you're reading this via the feed; it looks like this:

The only trouble is that it seems to make the page a little slow in loading, and [...]

That was almost a whole month without me posting anything here, or on Flickr. To be fair, there were some fairly extenuating circumstances which led to my absence: to wit, my hard drive failed and, lo, there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth….

As I mentioned in my last post, I spent last weekend looking at more arty stuff. It started in Trafalgar Square on Saturday morning to see my friend Myk Reeve posing on the fourth plinth as part of Antony Gormley's One and Other. He was the fifth of six people that I've met to appear [...]

En route from The Glasshouse to (see previous post) to meet friends near London Bridge, I wandered past the Old Operating Theatre and Herb Garret. I usually give museums a miss during Open House by dint of the fact that they're accessible at other times, but I had some time to kill and it's been [...]

My chums Sarah, Gary and Viviane share a studio in an old police station building in Deptford. They've all made comics about sheep, so they called their studio the Fleece Station. Reading stuff on Sarah's blog about settling in there was pretty interesting, but on Saturday they had a studio-warming party, which gave me an [...]

In my quest to visit NotLondon this summer, Iwent to the seaside twice last week. I love the seaside. I've got a couple of posts to write up about my visits to Bexhill and Hastings (last Wednesday) and Frinton and Walton (last Saturday), but in the meantime, here's something completely different. A couple of interesting [...]

Sarah's posted the mega-long list of children's books she used in her talk at last weekend's Caption: loads of great-looking books for you to check out. Just browsing through those will keep you occupied for hours.
This post on Roald Dahl covers popped up in Paul K's shared GR items last week, and today I discovered [...]

I wasn't going to post anything today, but here's a quickie anyway. In my last post, I mentioned Jenny Everywhere, the open source comic character created by Steven and a bunch of others several years ago.
This morning, for some reason, I put pen to paper and knocked up a quick sketch of her within [...]