21st Century Crimson King

In the Court of the Crimson King

by proggers King Crimson 1969

for Warren Z.

The track was played in the modern film The Children of Men.

The album of the same name includes the track 21st Century Schizoid Man, a favourite of Wotan.

The SWORD Dyna Soar was the song's contemporary.

Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This

Whilst whirling your Nuclear Pulse round the room and dusting down your Moon Prospector why not treat yourself to a bag of your favourite vintage sweeties like the one's we've been chewing over on the blog. In the UK you could stop by at the scrummy Lancastrian online shop A Quarter Pound Of [sweetie images borrowed from it] and immerse yourself in toffee heaven!

PS. Did anyone have a toy sweet shop/ post office/ bus ticket machine as a wee one?

Oh Henry!

The two times I've gone Stateside I've always made sure I partook of the local confections. The three yum yums I remember the most are: Oh Henry! like a cross between a Milky Way and a Snickers; Almond M & M's, need I say more, blissful and last but not least, Hostess Twinkies, which are more of a cake than a sweet but I do love them so!

US readers like Richard will be able to get these goodies down the corner shop but the rest of must try importers. In the UK we have, for example, instore in LIDL and ALDI and online you could try the Stateside Candy Co. Oh Henry!

Shards of SWORDS: My First Web Site

Looking through my portable hard-drive I was chuffed to find that at some point I saved most of the web-page layouts from my first SWORD site before it was wiped by AOL or Yahoo [this is the third]. Now how I did this I just can't remember as they date from the days of floppy disks way back in 1999/ 2000. I seem to remember emailing them from my ancient PC to my laptop years ago after floppies had vanished and home computers only had USB sockets. Amazingly, all the copy pages I have still have working hot links to each other. I remember creating it in something called Dreamweaver I think. Rather basic now, it's been fun seeing it all again. You'll get a something of the flavour of it from these miniature screengrabs. It wasn't on the net that long before being a victim of web slinging!

Thank God it's Friday Night Record Cover Quiz 2

OK Swordies, round 1 was no problem for you! Time to flex those Sixties and Seventies neurons even harder with this lot. To give as many readers a go as poss, just post one answer: artist and LP name. Kapow! Groovy man!

Thank God it's Friday Night Record Cover Quiz

Right, you've watched the old shows, you've sucked the old sweets. Now it's time to play the old records. Well, name the LP records actually: artist and album name. One guess per Swordie please. Let's rock!

Six Pack

Saw these Six Wheelers in cyberspace. The top one's Russian. The middle ones are SHADOMobile rip offs called Emergency Squad [these used to be sold loose as well 'cos I bought one in the late Eighties]. Bottom one's by Nanyang.

Seize A Salad

Drumsticks and Fruit Salads just for Toad!

What our mouths were made for!

........and all still available!