Zimbiotes!

That's Me Being Clever Again
At least in my own head.  It's my head, I'll do what I like with it!  You may recall me banging on about "Invader Zim" yesterday.  Remember?  Oh, okay, allow me to prod that sloven Art into action:

Zim in all his awfulness

       You ought to also recall me describing Darling Daughter and Tom as fans of IZ, and coming up with the hilarious noun "Zimbies" for them*.  Well, I'm not sure if anyone not a biologist or scientist would get the "Zimbiote" pun - derived from "Symbiote". 
     Okay, enough Intro, let the motley begin.

"Alas, Babylon" By Pat Frank
Well well here comes Hell, you might say.  Conrad was poring over a list of 21 Post-Apocalyptic novels, one of which is the named above, and - Hay Pesto! - he discovered that it exists for free as a PDF, which he is now reading.
     "Oh I say," I hear you comment.  "What's with the 'Hell' comment?"
     It's not a cheery laugh-fest, I warn you, it's Nuclear War, 1959 version thereof, so no Polaris or B52s or Minuteman systems, and they call the Sinister satellites "Sputniks".

Not sure what this design should be.

     Just up my street, in fact.  And it's free!

Greater Manchester
I think this term needs to be explained to anyone not from the Allotment of Eden, because it sounds like an assumption of superiority, if nothing else.  GM is actually a region, at the centre of which is Gomorrah-on-the-Irwell Manchester, the patent 
City of Sin, or at least City of Big Naughty.  It is surrounded by 9 other regions, viz:

Putting the Grate in Greater

     Conrad currently resides in Oldham, or Babylon-Lite if you want a better descriptor, 
about as far north as you can get and not be in Rochdale (a.k.a. Mini-Ur).
     So!  I think that resolves matters, although the UK does, naturally, retain it's inherent greatness, so much so that we don't need to actually put the word in there.

Hello Anon
Unusually, another Comment has been added to the blog archives, but since they haven't registered, it's only down as coming from "Anon".  They corrected Conrad about his use of "Money being the root of all evil", and said they liked the Saracen fullback, which probably refers to the Saracen Armoured Personnel Carrier, rather than the rugby team.

Business-like and ugly - again, like a rugby fullback

     If this is so, then it's probably someone from the SOTCW, or a rugby fan.

Back On About Darling Daughter
DD - or Sal, if you want a proper name** - is currently hastening to complete her final art project for her Design degree, which has to be handed in at the end of next week.  She has a talent for art, which is fortunate.  Here is proof: Art?

     As I said, a talent for art, but not spelling - there are 2 'P's in "Appreciate.  Don't worry about my being an hideous nit-picking spelling pedant, DD never reads BOOJUM!  Which is a source of unending torment to me, as her wildly-creative father.  Well, creative with words; in terms of art I cannot even draw a straight line with a ruler.

A Failure With The Trailer
As you should surely know by now, Conrad is an anorak of the worst kind, who carefully took time whilst watching "Guardians of the Galaxy 2" to make notes about it, in his notebook - certainly not on the Devil's Digital Device.  And before that I made notes about the trailers.  So it's time to review that***.
     I did notice a theme in all 5 trailers - THINGS EXPLODING!  THINGS EXPLODING LOUDLY!!  THINGS EXPLODING LOUDLY BIGLY^!!!
     "Alien Covenant": You just have to know that any film with "Alien" in the title is not going to have a happy ending, and this ends up in a rush of - you may have guessed this - things exploding.  People arrive on a planet and aliens kill them, the end.

BIG EXPLOSIONS!!!

     "Kingsman 2":  I didn't get the subtitle, but here we have Eggsy doing some stunts and a lot of - you guessed - things exploding.  In London.  I think that's the twist.

Not quite sure where the pugs fit in.

     "Transmorphers": only joking, it was "Transformers" crossed with King Arthur in a very confusing way, only resolving when there were things exploding.  Yes, King Arthur.
     "Wonder Woman": This appears to be set in the First Unpleasantness, so the background of things exploding does have a certain legitimacy.
     "Pirates of the Caribbean": The title here promises that it's the last one, for which Conrad is profoundly grateful.  Jack Sparrow and zombies. Plus things exploding.

Zombie sparrow.  Close enough.

*  It is hilarious. It is!
**  You weirdo!
***  You don't get a choice.  Sorry.
^  I've decided this is a word,so it is.