Showing posts with label Archie McPhee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Archie McPhee. Show all posts

17 November 2009

Sorry, Andrew, but...


Yet another distraction for when I am watching Andrew Marr, I can think of him looking like this guy: Bibo!

It's hard to watch The Making of Modern Britain and think of the guy as some sort of cartoon character.

Then, this Nazi from the Telegraph writes this nasty review of The Making of Modern Britain. I mean it's pretty obvious that Charles Moore is some form of reactionary from his review of the show. Not to mention the Telegraph is pretty right wing (but I still like reading it).

I mean Marr makes me seem Conservative, but Moore really goes overboard when it comes to trashing 'Red Andy'.

Well, all I can say is "Here, you look just like that Andrew Marr... you poor bugger."

More Archie McPhee!


Of course as someone who finds things like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Lost in Austen to be really cool, this Jane Austen Action Figure is top flight!

What will they think of next?

From the latest Archie McPhee Catalogue, Absinthe Floss


La Fée Verté in the guise of glide! What a concept!

Wait, it gets better. Archie McPhee has an entire page of weird little absinthe items on their site. The mints and gumballs seem a bit weird. But not as weird as absinthe lip balm! Although, the absinthe I've tried had an anise flavour and was fairly sweet (I can't imagine adding sugar to it).

Absinthe in the fin de siècle (19th, not late 20th century revival) was supposed to be fairly bitter hence the sugar. There is one painting of someone sucking a cork to get rid of the taste. I think the recent versions are not a noxious as what I've heard was in absinthe ancienne mixtures. Of course, that was before the pure food and drug movement.

I have to admit to drinking the stuff, but never more than a glass a pop. And it wasn't as exciting as this clip from Moulin Rouge



Kylie as tinkerbell on acid, which just happened to be the best part of the film.

She's not too bad as Little Red Riding Hood either!

Although, the write ups for Absinthe tend to be a bit of puffery. Such as this from Oscar Wilde:
"The first stage is like ordinary drinking, the second when you begin to see monstrous and cruel things, but if you can persevere you will enter in upon the third stage where you see things that you want to see, wonderful curious things." "Absinthe has a wonderful colour, green. A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?"

The funniest depiction of Absinthe is in Black Books when Manny Bianco is locked in the store and drinks a whole bottle of absinthe in The Big Lock-Out

"Let me be mad, mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world."--Marie Corelli