Viva Brazil: The Official film of 1962 Fifa World Cup Chile (1962)

The internet is telling me something . . .

Confused? Befuddled? Don't worry, Urban Dictionary is your friend.

An honorary Aussie writes . . . .

I Swear I Was There: Sex Pistols, Manchester and the Gig That Changed the World by David Nolan (Music Press Books 2006)

STEVE DIGGLE: They say all these people were there. I don’t remember any of them being there. But then I wouldn’t have known Morrissey from fucking Adam. I never saw Wilson either – but I was short-sighted in those days…

HOWARD DEVOTO: The only people, apart from Pete Shelley, myself, Steve Diggle and all the Pistols crew that I’d be reasonably certain were there were Paul Morley and Morrissey.

The Equalizer (2014)

Cooking on gas . . .

Oops, I did it again. (Owen's into Britney Spears at the moment.)

It appears that if I play darts whilst making the kids food, I will NEARLY hit 180s. Good to know . . . and the kids will just have to get used to eating 14 meals a day:

Happy St Andrews Day . . .

. . . to all the neds, huns, teuchtars, fur coat and no knickers types, the ninety-minute nationalists and the shortbread biscuit brigade.*



* Don't be offended. I'm in there somewhere, myself.

Whilst making the kids some toast . . .

So bastard close. And it's been awhile as well.

The World According to Garp (1982)

In Order of Disappearance (2014)

Hang 'Em High (1968)

The Chain (1984)

Million Dollar Legs (1932)

Rashomon (1950)

A Slack Parent writes . . .

Genuine question. That job lot of Doctor Spock books that I bought from a charity shop all those years ago for the price of a jumbo-sized Mars Bar are not providing me with any answers:

#SlackParenting

Zéro de conduite (1933)

Now That's What I Call My Favourite Halloween Joke . . .

Still my favourite Halloween themed joke. Three years running now. Funnier than every episode of Treehouse of Horror:

Never Mind The Ballots

#SPGB #MidTermElections #SocialistStandard #OldSPGBJokes

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936)

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)

Knock off sheepskin jackets for goalposts

Brilliant pic from the '70s. Sadly, I will still dressing like this in 1981. I didn't stand a chance.

#ChildhoodTraumas

Boys’ pen, Anfield. Photo by Pete Marlowe

Escape from New York (1981)

Game Night (2018)

Galaxy Quest (1999)

Black '47 (2018)

Superbad (2007)

The Old Dark House (1932)

Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)

The Damned: Don't You Wish That We Were Dead (2015)

Manic Internet Preacher

Whilst the SPGB website continues to do its extended impersonation of Lord Lucan, here's just another cheap excuse to once again bring attention to the Socialist Standard Past and Present blog. This morning it chalked up its 8,000th post. Telegrams were read, hosannas were sung and Paul Hollywood refused my request to bake a cake.

Feel free to check it out at your leisure. Discover new (old) Socialist Standard writers such as May Otway, John A. Dawson and Eddie Critchfield. (All top notch writers, in my humble opinion). Sit and wonder if any SPGBers went to the cinema before 1943, and, just think, if the early Impossiblists had hated capitalism as much as they hated John Burns and Will Thorne back in the day, we'd have arrived at socialism  thirteen years before the "White Horse" FA Cup final.

http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/

A pained armchair fan writes . . .

The Mean Machine (1974)

C'est Magnifique

They welcome the chase, don't you know?

Sep 2, 2018: Celtic 1 R*ngers 0

Don't be fooled by the seemingly close result. R*ngers got their arse handed to them on a cheap knock off plate from the Barras. Hit the woodwork four times, dealt with some dodgy refereeing and all the media talk of Slippy G. closing the gap is postponed for another couple of weeks.

Boyata was immense . . .  Brown didn't rise to the bait and the provocations  . . . and this screen grab suggests Nacho Novo wishes he was somewhere else:

Still Crazy (1998)

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

Just spitballing for a second . . .

I'm thinking of renaming the blog 'My Life as a Screen Grab'. What do you think?

The Quick and the Dead (1995)

Declaration of Purpose

An exiled SPGBer writes  . . .

I just knew all those decades of membership, with its attendant recitation of the D of P both morning and night - and four times on a Sunday - would finally result in a, erm, result:

Bingo, as Jack, Alex and Tommy used to say in the old Communist Club.

Shaun of the Dead (2004)

Scum (1977)

Red Riding 1983 (2009)

The Long Good Friday (1980)

Red Riding 1980 (2009)

Red Riding 1974 (2009)

Bad News Bears (1976)

The Glasgow School (2016)

Pride (2014)