John Lydon

Happy Birthday to John Lydon / Johnny Rotten, 54 today.

When there's no future there can be no sin

We're the flowers in the dustbin

We're the poison in the human machine

We're the future, your future

God Save The Queen - we mean it, man

There is no future and England's dreaming

Revenge Of The BSOD

So, my home PC has crashed again and is displaying the dreaded Blue Screen Of Death. I'm posting this at work which is something I really hate doing.
I'd been out of the loop for a week or so, due to my Mum being ill, but now it looks like I'll be out of action for a while longer. Hopefully I won't be away too long.....

( The above picture has nothing to do with what I've just said - I just like it! )

Randomiser III

Your (more or less ) weekly random selection from the dusty visual vaults of the Glass Walking-Stick.....

Can't stop the signal

Forgive me Blog, for I have sinned: this is my first confession in 10 days.

My Mum's been ill for the past week ( but seems to be on the mend now ), so I've been stopping over her place to look after her and consequently haven't been messing about on t'internet. Got loadsa catching up to do.....

I've been watching a lot of Firefly recently, so I thought I'd share the following with you - one of the best fan-made videos on YouTube. It really is a great piece of editing and is set to my favourite Killers song: All These Things That I've Done.

Enjoy.

Before The Thaw II ( Last snow pictures...honest! )

Before The Thaw

Randomiser II

Let's get random.....

.....with more from the visual vaults of The Glass Walking-Stick.

The Big Man and The Time Traveller

Happy Birthday to The Big Man, Clarence Clemons, 68 today. Bruce Springsteen says of Clemons: "You all want to be him but you can't."

And Happy Birthday to Rod Taylor, rugged leading man of The Time Machine and The Birds, 80 today.

Great Brrrrrritain

England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland under a blanket of snow 7th Jan. 2009.

Steranko Saturdays: Way Out West

Tex Dawson, Gun-Slinger no.1 from Jan. 1973.

Yet another of the reprint titles that flooded the American comic book market in the early '70s. As far as I can find out this was the only issue and reprinted 1950's cowboy stories by John Romita, George Tuska and Al Williamson.

A very minor footnote in Marvel's history but a lovely cover by Mr. S.

Soundtrack: Here Comes The Sun by The Beatles. ( I don't think so: just more snow! )

Elvis Aaron Presley

8th Jan. 1935 - 16th Aug. 1977

Do you feel lovely, er, lucky...punk?

I'm grateful ( not to mention amazed! ) to have received a One Lovely Blog Award from super-cool blogger, Wiec?, overlord of When Is Evil Cool?, Random Picture Day and Doom Base. Phew! He's a busy guy! How he finds time for his world domination plans as well, I don't know!

Seriously, check out his blogs, they'll add an extra layer of awesomeness to your life :-)

As a recipient of this prestigious virtual award I'm supposed to pass it on to 15 worthy individuals who brighten up the blogosphere with their words of wisdom. That's a tall order, as I Follow so many great blogs and I'd hate to upset anyone I leave off the list. Suffice it to say, the following 15 are some of the most interesting, diverse and just plain cool blogs around, and if I did leave you out - I still love ya!

I'd like to nominate the following bloggers/blogs for the One Lovely Blog Award:

( Drumroll please..... )

http://adventuresinnerdliness.blogspot.com/

http://www.badlibrarianship.com/

http://booksteveslibrary.blogspot.com/

http://bronzeagebabies.blogspot.com/

http://bronzeageofblogs.blogspot.com/

http://calvinscanadiancaveofcool.blogspot.com/

http://capesonfilm.blogspot.com/

http://draculand.blogspot.com/

http://heartinajar.blogspot.com/

http://momo-musings.blogspot.com/

http://www.my-silvermac.com/

http://paiwings.blogspot.com/

http://scaresarah.blogspot.com/

http://thatbaldyfella.blogspot.com/

http://vaultofthebankrobber.blogspot.com/

OK, as you can see, I've linked to these blogs' web addresses. Now, I'm not the most internet-literate blogger around these 'ere parts so, although most people would just change the link to an underlined title or a word e.g. "here", I don't know how to do that. Something to do with html I should imagine. If anyone wants to help out an old dinosaur such as myself, any tech advice would be appreciated.

Once again, thanks be to wiec? and to all a good night.....

Soundtrack: Lungs by Florence & The Machine

Snow joke: this weather's a nightmare!

The snow that's crippled most of this country over the last week finally hit Gloucestershire today. As you can see, James was up for it!

( Here's Jasper enjoying (?) his first experience of the cold, white stuff. )

But while some people were having a good time.....

..... It was taking me nearly 3 hours to do my usual 20- minutes -journey- home from work!

Which was no fun at all.

Randomiser

Random treats from the visual vaults of The Glass Walking-Stick.....

Steranko Saturdays: The Invaders

I found this artwork on t'internet today but I can't remember where I nicked it from, so apologies etc.

Apparently Steranko produced this for a trading-card company as a triptych of images, depicting the greatest heroes of Timely/Marvel's Golden Age. ( So, no room for The Whizzer or The Fin. Shame. )

Soundtrack: Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! by The Beatles