tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post9090391673633476309..comments2024-03-13T07:34:24.149+00:00Comments on The Age of Uncertainty: More Book CoversSteerforthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-41759856738668209842012-03-07T10:33:17.178+00:002012-03-07T10:33:17.178+00:00Thanks - an example of YouTube at its best.Thanks - an example of YouTube at its best.Steerforthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-69171680404327231712012-03-07T10:13:44.333+00:002012-03-07T10:13:44.333+00:00Poor Brautigan. Here's his daughter reading on...Poor Brautigan. Here's his daughter reading one of his stories, on his birthday. Affecting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNCaGTCOdd8The Parrothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05294135126053849897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-81293665856623907532012-02-28T22:21:44.454+00:002012-02-28T22:21:44.454+00:00I used to like the Doctor Who annuals - there was ...I used to like the Doctor Who annuals - there was a whole parallel series of Dalek cartoon stories without the Doctor, if I remember rightly the Daleks were fighting something called the Anti Dalek Force. This all originated as a an attempt by Terry nation to spin off the Daleks in the Us with their own series. That never came to anything, but it turned up in the annuals.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17256244895723910890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-9316410316838775482012-02-28T20:32:30.148+00:002012-02-28T20:32:30.148+00:00Awful. They'd be on 'Watchdog' now, wi...Awful. They'd be on 'Watchdog' now, with a scary mother shouting "I bought this annual for my little kiddie..."Steerforthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-13990165384506978382012-02-28T20:32:27.671+00:002012-02-28T20:32:27.671+00:00Awful. They'd be on 'Watchdog' now, wi...Awful. They'd be on 'Watchdog' now, with a scary mother shouting "I bought this annual for my little kiddie..."Steerforthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-50677907746230059772012-02-28T17:13:23.003+00:002012-02-28T17:13:23.003+00:00I loved my Whoopee and Monster Fun annuals, but ye...I loved my Whoopee and Monster Fun annuals, but yes, the TV ones were diabolical. Here's a page from what I believe must have been the very worst:<br /><br />http://www.flickr.com/photos/bollops/5588582303/in/set-1275496/<br /><br />Can anybody beat that?Bollopshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08370552901325861855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-37148584870688128522012-02-28T14:32:17.435+00:002012-02-28T14:32:17.435+00:00Presumably Mr Brautigan reached the age at which h...Presumably Mr Brautigan reached the age at which his dodgy haircut and moustache no longer worked in pulling the birds.<br /><br />What a grim line in fiction he appeared to write.The Poet Laura-eatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07779308486569849157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-29046095201227396682012-02-28T11:25:28.890+00:002012-02-28T11:25:28.890+00:00Richmonde - It is rather unsavoury, I agree.
Mart...Richmonde - It is rather unsavoury, I agree.<br /><br />Martin - It's quite uncanny - separated at birth?<br /><br />Biscuit - I've seen some of those Brownie annuals - they must have made Britain seem an even odder place than it is.<br /><br />Lucy - You should write a memoir. If it's half as entertaining as your blog, it will be a great read.<br /><br />Tim - That reminds me of 'Class War' in the 1980s, which advised its readers to attack toffs with something rather unpleasant: "Lurk, strike and leg-it!"<br /><br />James - Thanks for the link. I shall have to get hold of a copy.Steerforthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-52318853848910335832012-02-28T09:47:21.554+00:002012-02-28T09:47:21.554+00:00Brautigan's fragmentary novel 'Trout Fishi...Brautigan's fragmentary novel 'Trout Fishing in America' is wonderful - poetic and funny. I must have read it fifty times. There's a website devoted to the book and its author:<br /><br />www.brautigan.net<br /><br />I wrote something about it here:<br /><br />http://jamesrussellontheweb.blogspot.com/2010/08/ps-to-trout-fishing-in-america.html <br /><br />He did have a terrible haircut, but he had a way with words too...James Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03199461104138671799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-58286445517023421412012-02-28T00:15:59.859+00:002012-02-28T00:15:59.859+00:00Little do Sam and Dave know, but the grinning urch...Little do Sam and Dave know, but the grinning urchin's snowball has something small and vile inside - the still-beating heart of George Osborne. Take that, Bullingdon!Tim Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14681067872556519250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-43741698601669803342012-02-27T19:40:38.170+00:002012-02-27T19:40:38.170+00:00Lucky you getting a current annual as a gift. Try ...Lucky you getting a current annual as a gift. Try a pile of out-of-date annuals with the wordsearches filled in and 'Angie luvs Johnnie' scrawled on each page. No wonder I didn't turn out right.<br /><br />Love the quip about the Camerons.<br /><br />Lucylucy joyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04863146546863419637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-24794799656102325272012-02-27T17:25:55.964+00:002012-02-27T17:25:55.964+00:00I actually have that Brautigan book, as well as se...I actually have that Brautigan book, as well as several others: I read him quite a lot in high school, for some reason. I guess because they were boho, and I was desperate to look intelligent and hip.<br /><br />When I was in Brownies one of the leaders used to bring in annuals that were sent to her from England and I thought they were so exotic. We don't have really have anything comparable here, other than I suppose the comic-book annuals (Archie and the like).Biscuithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09943228742048113256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-51625505178058684732012-02-27T17:02:22.811+00:002012-02-27T17:02:22.811+00:00Brautigan bears an uncanny resemblance to Vivian S...Brautigan bears an uncanny resemblance to Vivian Stanshall.Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13494219959077922220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-51153361177924906802012-02-27T16:00:07.812+00:002012-02-27T16:00:07.812+00:00The "Ideal" book is a 50s glamour girl w...The "Ideal" book is a 50s glamour girl with a child's face pasted in. Ugh!Lucy R. Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08632983296994349550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-3171899825398469932012-02-27T13:13:03.869+00:002012-02-27T13:13:03.869+00:00You're right - the annuals based on comics wer...You're right - the annuals based on comics weren't too bad. The worst offenders were the tv tie-ins. I found a 1975 Doctor Who annual the other week and it was awful - no photos or articles about Dalek guns vs Cybermen ones (and frankly that's all I wanted to know when I was 10), just some really dull short stories with drawings that looked nothing like the Doctor.<br /><br />Kids today...they don't know how lucky they are ;)Steerforthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07627936539372313828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32570460.post-33562628657911902422012-02-27T13:03:56.988+00:002012-02-27T13:03:56.988+00:00You’re absolutely right about the annuals, they ne...You’re absolutely right about the annuals, they never lived up to expectations. The girly ones I had in the 60s had too much ‘pop’ stuff in. I remember my brother's Eagle and Dare in the 50s though being jampacked with stories - or am I looking back through rose coloured spectacles? <br /><br />Speaking of which, isn’t that what you wear when you write (and read) historical romances? They’d need to be very rosy if you were going to find any ‘romance’ in a story called ‘The Abortion’.Little Nellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11862657943846727987noreply@blogger.com