Looks Unfamiliar With Katy Brent: "I've Never Been Though Because Spiders"
There’s a brand new Looks Unfamiliar out now in which I’m joined by novelist Katy Brent - author of How To Kill Men And Get Away With It and the forthcoming The Murder After The Night Before - for a chat about Australian weird-out children’s sitcom Round The Twist, wilderness years animated Star Wars spinoff Ewoks, the ill-advised craze for heat-sensitive colour-changing Global Hypercolor clothing, revolting puppet monster sensation Boglins, weirdly scheduled sitcom about an alien girl who could stop time Out Of This World, newspaper strip superhero team-up cartoon Defenders Of The Earth and highly confiscated bubblegum card craze Garbage Pail Kids, which somehow managed to be even more revolting than Boglins. There’s also a bit of chat about some plastic birds with long hair that you could clip on your finger which Katy remembers but just couldn’t put a name to, so if you can, we’d be delighted to know. It’s waiting for you now - and hopefully no Garbage Pail Kids are waiting for you - here.
In other news, I’m currently putting the finishing touches to a new anthology entitled Keep Left Swipe Right, which has a lot of new features in and some exceptionally lengthy and hopefully equally amusing and entertaining updates to some more familiar ones. In the meantime, you can get my collection of festive-themed thoughts Can’t Help Christmas - currently with 10% off using the code BRISK10 - from here. And now, back to Don’t You Want Me?’s rather quite splendid episode on Barbie. Sindy’s boyfriend was called Paul, Catrin - I’m not even a girl and I know that!!