Braw Books: November 2016

Saturday 19 November 2016

A Chronicle Of Doom....

The Lady From Shanghai vs. The (a)Gent From Edinburgh.... 'Thor'sday' saw Agent Rob make a (cold) snap-enough decision to visit Agent Johnny only to be surprised by a somewhat sparser than expected Ice Station - about 25% of the S.H.I.E.L.D. Archives have been removed and put into storage to allow essential 'heating wurks' to be carried out - and a very chatty John G. (which, considering Agent Rob wiz unable to find More4+1 on Freeview, meant he'd blundered in a good 40 minutes into The Lady From Shanghai). Our Man In Pester Wails was, however, unperturbed by this interruption - seems he'd been too busy readin' The Shadow and had in fact missed the beginning of the fillum himself - and was quite happy to chunter contentedly over the top of the final hour and twenty minutes....

Naturally the swill was 'kranked' open immediately upon arrival and, having watched the concluding ten minutes of Aces High efter wur Lady it wiz decided the 'one-eyed-god' be laid to rest fer the duration of the afternoon, calling upon Agent Rob's 'music box' ter soundtrack the ever-dwindling of time.... The unfortunate passing of Robert Vaughn ("oh, f*ck") - though perhaps this will see a welcome return of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. to our 'tell-aye' screens - the writings of Brian Aldiss and Cordwainer Smith and The Avengers (UK) and their featuring in a vintage T.V. Comic Annual - Our Man had two recently purchased editions - were all topics fer discussion. But these dead couldn't stay grateful forever, and soon it wiz time fer Agent Rob to gulp down his third pint and depart fer the city to see Agent Austin, where he wiz pretty sure there was a copy of Alec: The Years Have Pants awaitin' at Deadhead Comics....

Sights: The Lady From Shanghai....

Sounds: Blows Against The Empire by Paul Kantner, Grace Slick and Jefferson Starship: Memory Span by The Lines: Sea Within A Sea by The Horrors and Good Morning Little Schoolgirl and Dark Star (Two from Two From The Vault) by Grateful Dead....