# "Some guy on the net thinks I suck, and he should know - he's got his own blog..." # - Ben Folds
Back in the dark ages that most people know as the mid-1980s, a primary-school aged C.G.Allan was hooked on a kids TV show called Look and Read. The show had a weird floating alien (or was he a robot?) presenter called Wordy and various story segments, including short serialised screen adaptations of stories like the spooky "Dark Towers". But it's a tiny animated clip about building words that stays with me most today...