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23 Jul 2025
From Railway Child to Girl About the House: In Praise of Sally Thomsett
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Sally Thomsett as Phyllis Waterbury in The Railway Children (1970) and as Jo in Man About the House (ITV 1973-76) I. Even though t...
21 Jul 2025
On the Law of Inertia and the Principle of Evil
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Portrait of Isaac Newton by Godfrey Keller (1689) with the addition of Newton's Law of Inertia I. Like many people who posses...
20 Jul 2025
On the Art and Politics of Triviality (Wilde Vs Adorno)
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) / Theodor W. Adorno (1903 - 1969) I. The narrator of Lady Chatterley's Lover identified the modern er...
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 ...
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