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Photo of Soo Catwoman by Ray Stevenson (1976) The slogan is a paraphrase of a sentence written by Walter Benjamin [1]     "Why do we fe...

Bev Hillier photographed in the office at Just Seventeen   (Soho, 1984)   Entry from The Von Hell Diaries Wednesday 11 July 1984     As I h...

Sex Pistols: 'Submission' (1977) [1]   I.    According to Rotten's recollection, it was Malcolm who suggested the band should wr...

Malcolm McLaren - Boy George - Adam Ant The South Bank Show (S8/E9 - 1984)   The South Bank Show is a British television programme which ...

Dirk Bogarde as Gustav von Aschenbach in Death in Venice (1971)     I.    For gentlemen of a certain age - let's say over 50 - be they ...

Lasius plasticus   I.    The world isn't actually going to turn Day-Glo as Poly Styrene predicted [1] , but it - and the life that it su...

Iconic image of Tyler Durden  by digital artist Gedo: gedogfx   If you turn the other cheek, you will get a harder blow on it than you got ...

Zabrena: Historically Accurate: Ancient Egypt / Cleopatra Makeup Tutorial YouTube (8 Oct 2014): click here .  One of the...

Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988)  The New York Times Magazine  (10 Feb 1985) "Being a black man", says Ekow...

We are the psycho-ceramics;  the cracked pots of mankind. A friend writes to complain about my use of the pejorative term  c...

Lady Gaga             Princess Julia             Countess Alex Zapak Female devotees of art-pop seem to have a fascination with...

Adam Ant has a new album out. It's his first in a very long time and it has a very long title. I wish him all the best with it, a...