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18 Jul 2025

That Time I Met Mr Pickle ...

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  I.    One of my favourite scenes in  The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle  (1980) is the closing animated sequence in which McLaren and...
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17 Jul 2025

On Beryl Battersby and Chrissy Plummer

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Paula Wilcox as Beryl Battersby in  The Lovers  (ITV 1970-71) and Chrissy Plummer in  Man About the House  (ITV 1973-76)     I.    There are...
15 Jul 2025

Diary Snippets, Faded Memories, and Missed Opportunities from July 1985

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Portrait of the Artist ... (1985)     Monday 1 July   Sent my proposal for a Malcolm McLaren biography to another 13 publishers. [1]     Tue...
14 Jul 2025

I Stood Watching the Shadowy Fish ... Notes on the First Line of D. H. Lawrence's 'The White Peacock'

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   I.    The opening line from Lawrence's debut novel, The White Peacock  (1911), reads:    "I stood watching the shadowy fish slid...
12 Jul 2025

Why Growing Up is So Problematic for an Artist

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@artstoheartsproject  (Instagram 3 July 2025)   'The first half of life is learning to be an adult and the second half is learning to be...
11 Jul 2025

On the Death of Rudolph Valentino

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Rudolph Valentino being mourned as he lies in state at the  Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel (August 1926)       I.   A century on, and the ...
10 Jul 2025

D. H. Lawrence and Rudolph Valentino: the Priest of Love Versus the Latin Lover

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Messrs. Lawrence (1885-1930) and Valentino (1895-1926)    Oh Mister Rudolph Valentino / I know I've got the Valentino blues   And when ...
7 Jul 2025

Heads You Lose

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  All compounded things are subject to vanish . [1]     I.    Pretty much everyone seems to admire those monolithic human figures with giant...
6 Jul 2025

A Brief Note on the Material Basis of Identity by Jazz Griffin

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Jazz Griffin: the Invisible Punk   (SA/2025) [1]      I.    A recently published post on the way in which my memory of the past is inextrica...