Ambrand posted a set of Mario Lanza classics but forgot this, one of the greatest songs ever conceived, from The Student Prince. Edmund Purdom is lip-synching to Lanza’s vocals because he’d gained too much weight to play the part.

Not a lot of people know this, outside of Ghana that is, but the small West African country has a bit of a thriving homegrown movie industry. Dazed Digital has a collection of posters, some of which are their own takes on Hollywood blockbusters and what I assume are Honk Kong martial arts flicks, that Pascal Saumade discovered painted on sackcloth and posted to the walls of Ghanaian ghettos.

Albuskina is her flickr tag but apart from that I don’t really know anything about her. Just a bit bored and ended up looking around self-portraits, as I do. I was really struck by a number of her pics - not all of them including the lady herself either. Not that you should consider that any sort of redemption.

Nobbled from The Community At Large, sorry lads but I had to, a Filipino Batman & Robin. It even has it’s own IMDB page complete with humourless user comment.

Green Ink, who himself is now running his editorial cartoons on Irish Election, singled out one of the strips we did for them as his favourite political cartoon of 2006. Which, you’ve got to say, is kind of nice. We did a few of them before the workload got to be too much for Frank and, well, I kind of miss them. There’s still the Top Chumps project but that’s kind of faltered too. Though it will be back once we’ve recovered from Christmas and the New Year.

This particular cartoon was a reference to Michael McDowell being announced as Tanaiste. There had been talk of a leadership challenge within the PD ranks for months before Mary Harney resigned. Once she’d gone there were supposedly three candidates for the job - Tom Parlon, Liz O’Donnell and McDowell - but everyone knew who’d get it. After that the Tanaiste post was a mere formality but you just know that Big Mac sups his morning coffee out of a ‘World’s Best Tanaiste’ mug.