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9 Sept 2026

If You're Going to Protest, Do It With Panache (Sans Balaclava)

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Patrick Macnee as John Steed showing Englishmen  everywhere how it should be done (sans balaclava)      I.    When I was a young child in th...
8 Sept 2026

Never Mind the Swankers, Here's ...

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(dir.  Jeppe Rønde, 2004) [1]   'A silk necktie reflected in a shard of broken mirror, a picture  of Elvis taped to a rusty locker ... W...
7 Sept 2026

Domestication Lost Overnight: Fun and Games with Killing Joke

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Poster advertising the Killing Joke album    Fire Dances  (1983)   Get out my way - we go / Take back those ways you know  Fun and games com...
4 Sept 2026

Leaving the Human Circus: Why Joseph Merrick Should Have Become-Elephant

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Poster for  The Elephant Man   (dir. David Lynch, 1980)     I.    Not everybody who saw David Lynch's mawkish and moralising movie The E...
3 Sept 2026

Dancing in the Rain: Notes on The Wild Boys

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Simon, John, Andy, Nick, and Roger -  the (not so) Wild Boys of Duran Duran  Photo by Mike Owen (1984)   I.   Just to be clear: I don't ...
2 Sept 2026

A Little Slice of Post-Punk Music History: How Lieutenant Lush Became Boy George

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Annabella Lwin and George O'Dowd (Lt. Lush) Photo by Kevin Cummins (1981)   Sex gang children gang up on you, jump on top, on top of you...
1 Sept 2026

Visions of Malcolm

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Malcolm McLaren as played on screen by David Hayman (1986),  Mark Gatiss (2010), and Thomas Brodie-Sangster (2022)     I.    I am not an act...