Arts
In Chaos there is Fertility
I would be very surprised if any of you good Going Postal readers would say of Sir Malcolm Arnold “never heard of him” when I tell you that he was the composer of film scores [more…]
Movies
20th Century
Advertising
Advertising seems to be almost everywhere these days, I don’t really object to it in principle as, without it, much of the world as we know it would look very different, but much modern advertising [more…]
Arts
Recipe – Bobo’s Big Man Buns
My Old Dad was an infantryman in World War Two, and he didn’t have an easy time of it. He did start the war off with quite a stroke of luck, though. When his battalion [more…]
Arts
The Odyssey updated
The 20th Century produced two updated versions of Homer’s Odyssey. The first was the James Joyce novel Ulysses, which compressed Odysseus’s decade of wandering down to an arbitrary day, June 16 1904, & a single [more…]
20th Century
By the Numbers
On Going Postal we have a number of radio hams (holders of the Amateur Radio Broadcast Licence), and lots of others who have radio equipment with that tantalising logo on the tuning dial “SW”. SW [more…]
20th Century
The stuff that dreams are made of . . .
In an apartment close to the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco, Dashiell Hammett wrote perhaps the best structured of all private-eye novels. The Maltese Falcon originally appeared as a five part serial in the [more…]
Arts
“Yippee Ki Yay, Ya Wee Fanny” – A Polis Sco’lan Christmas Tale
Ah pure cannae be f**ked wi’ Chrishmas. Brengs back a loadae sh*te memries fae when ah wis a wean. Wha hod f**kin’ hee haw cuz ma da spent aw tha dole money oan drenk an [more…]
20th Century
Just another Film
“In the good old days, when the studio factories stretched across Los Angeles under an achingly blue unsullied sky, the end of production of one film was barely distinguishable from the last hours of the [more…]
Arts
Preaching With Kipper : Why I’m Right and You’re WRONG!
I was absolutely disgusted to log on the other day to see after I went to bed some of y’all were trying to argue that The Spy Who Loved Me wasn’t the best bond film!!! [more…]