Issue 51

Zippo distraction Bill’s column is still on the drawing board due to a slight problem with the alleged Zippo he bought in San Francisco. Well, it turned out not to be a Zippo after all, but a Taiwanese replica, and that has led to a revision of the image used in his world-famous Zippo clip…

Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. ..the sushi bar in the arcade and had some sushi rolls and miso soup before finally heading to the carpark and my date with the supermarket. When I got to the carpark I was astonished to find the lone busker still baying at the sullen sky, so I walked up…

..shared it is apparent from the other descriptions that we were really in different places at what may well have been different times. Occasionally I find that people have appropriated my life and memories as their own which seems to cruelly deny my existence. If someone else was leading my life what was I doing…

.. footnote as it’s not at the bottom of the page ) there are some interesting parallels with another of my favourite movies ‘Ikuru”, the far more understated yet more touching work, by the great Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. If I have any regular readers they may, hopefully, have realised that I am not a…

..days as a kindy kid armed with gallons of foul-smelling poster paints that always ended up resolving to the colour of shit), has different cultural connotations around the world and at different times in its history. ‘..it was an act of true cowardice and I consider it appropriate that the Australian team were wearing yellow.’…

..in our collective brain I had my subject. The first thing to do was listen to Ad Nauseam and see whether it had dated or indeed had retained any of the elements that made it funny – or shocking – in the first place. I’d heard the first in the series (Live) many decades ago…