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15 Apr 2024
Fran Lock: In Praise of the Exclamation Mark!
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I have to admit, I've never been a big fan of the exclamation point ... It may have a perfectly respectable Latin origin and have b...
31 Jan 2024
Three French Suicides: In Memory of Olga Georges-Picot, Christine Pascal, and Gilles Deleuze
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Christine Pascal, Gilles Deleuze & Olga Georges-Picot I. Last night, on TV, they were showing one of my favourite films: the Briti...
27 Nov 2023
I Have Nothing To Say
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Jiggs the Chimp as Ollie's evolutionary predecessor in the Laurel and Hardy film Dirty Work , (dir. Lloyd French 1933) Sometime...
11 Oct 2023
I Love You in Velvet (and Silk Underwear): Notes on the Wagner Case
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Richard Wagner in a velvet jacket and hat (1871) There's a man I simply dote on / unlike others of his ilk A velvet cloak and hat on...
10 Oct 2023
It's Creepy and It's Kooky, Mysterious and Spooky: Mark Fisher's The Weird and the Eerie (Part 1)
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Front cover image from Mark Fisher's The Weird and the Eerie (Repeater Books, 2016) I. Let me confess from the outset that one ...
9 Oct 2023
When Jerry Seinfeld and Quentin Tarantino Met Lawrence Tierney ...
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Lawrence Tierney as Elaine's father Alton Benes Seinfeld (S2/E3, 1991) I. Twice recently, I have encountered a Lawrence Tierney...
5 Jul 2023
Well There's Nothing More Revolutionary Than Calling for Communism Then Diddling the Maid
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Helene Demuth (1820-1890) This morning, whilst reading on the subject of famous last words, I discovered that Karl Marx had little time ...
24 Nov 2022
No Hugging, No Learning (Torpedo the Ark 10th Anniversary Post)
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I. This post - post number 1977 - marks the 10th anniversary of Torpedo the Ark [1] and, fear not, there's no Elvis, Beatles or ...
15 Oct 2022
The Three Ruperts: Bear, Rigsby & Pupkin
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I. The modern English name Rupert is a truncation of the Latin Rupertus , which derives from Old High German Hruodoperht (or Hruodob...
8 Oct 2021
You Know We're Living in a Society
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George Costanza: defender of society and civilisation - 'The Chinese Restaurant', Seinfeld , S02/E11, (1991): click here . In th...
4 Jul 2020
Ghost Variations: Notes on the Madness of Robert Schumann
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Robert Schumann (1810-1856) German Romantic composer, critic, and madman In the season two episode of Seinfeld entitled '...
27 Jun 2020
A Touch of Evil à la D. H. Lawrence
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Detail from the poster for Touch of Evil (Universal Pictures, 1958), starring Charlton Heston as Hadrian, Janet Leigh as Matilda, and...
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