Strangely Perfect

By Don Martin(1931 – 2000) Taken from “Mad’s Maddest Artist Don Martin Steps Out”

Well I Never! ..should be the title of this post.  Having lived in the South-West for nearly quarter of a century, it’s come as a complete shock to me to discover that my favourite vacuum cleaner (if there is such a thing, I’m now defining it here!) is little old Henry, and it’s made about [...]

Via TheP5 I spotted this amazing graphs site http://graphjam.com which is right up my street of pseudo-graphology!  Try it out, it’s infectious – or make your own! Try this one, for instance. or this one: Which neatly ties in with a Rocket Mole discovered graphic from a while back: Oh the huge manatee.  Funny as [...]

A Week is a Long Time in.. Q.  In What? In prison – yes obviously In politics – yes In a relationship – well yes, especially the past week for me In Between News Items…. Yes! That’s the one! Last week it was announced to the world that 196 convicted French prisoners are going to [...]

Enough of your bum faggery you fag-ended Gash Hound! This can be used in all sorts of situations e.g Phoning Granny Shopping for vegetables Enticing friends to finish their drinks quickly Running a charity shop While waiting for change on the bus While waiting for directions from the policeman in Trafalgar Square While waiting for [...]

A Case of One Man’s Cake is Another Man’s Poison I first read the short story, “The Bureau d’Exchange de Maux” by Lord Dunsany, in the late seventies in a compilation, probably a Panther Books one.  It’s staggering simplicity is matched by the masterful telling. View Larger Map Later, in (a sort of) homage, Crawling [...]

Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources Two Films in a Great Story you Must See Before you Die. Today, Claude Berri died.  A common Frenchman who directed a duo of extraordinary films about common people, their loves, jealousies, humour, insecurities and real needs in a harsh land. The beautifully told plot unfolds to it’s [...]

It must be ties of karma from the distant past that have destined you to become my disciple at a time like this. – Nichiren Daishonin, The Heritage of The Ultimate Law of Life, WND1, p217 Or the Inter-Connectedness of all things Like ALL people in Western Europe, I’m a racial mongrel.  And I observe [...]

After the recent evacuative pleasure I had after eating several serious amounts of short-grain brown rice, I was reminded of something I saved to my hard drive a while ago that I got from the web. So I  thought I’d share the anally comic missive below with everyone.  I don’t claim it’s a work of [...]

Way back, I think three of us (me, Jeff and Jim from Derrim) went across to South Shields on the Freda Cunningham (the ferry) at lunchtime and in the naff pub next to the ferry landing our drinks got well and truly spiked. We only went for a pint or three and we were up [...]

Rocket Mole here. This is a nifty wee strip from the magnificent Cyanide and Happiness. Two words that rarely coincidence. <—– I can spoke good England. Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

  Angst in East Lancs Wasteland This was the banner headline in NME I think for the gig at the Leigh Festival in 1979. Either that or Sounds or Melody Maker, and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t Sounds or MM. Two things stick in my mind about the gig (we played in the afternoon) apart [...]

The state of the world and stuff has been getting me down again recently, so just for me, I’m putting my favourite one-page gag of all time up again as a post. It’s by the late great Don Martin who was a major dude at Mad Magazine for many years. A lot of the magazine [...]

I’m just reminded about what this all means so I’d better describe a little known part of Crawling Chaos history that might explain the weird recordings floating about… Crawling Chaos had a bit of a fan club, that is, they received mail (this was pre-internet etc) from all sorts of oddballs across the globe. Some [...]