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5 Oct 2026

Eight Diary Fragments from 1981 with Reference to Malcolm McLaren and My Teenage Politics

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Malcolm Mclaren holding Vol. II (1981) of  The Von Hell Diaries  (1980-89)     1981 was a big year for me: I turned eighteen (13 Feb); I lef...
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27 Jan 2026

Deep in Vogue: How Madonna Threw Some Shade and Out Posed McLaren on the Ballroom Floor

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  Malcolm Mclaren and Madonna Face Off     'This has got to be a special tribute to the Houses of New York ...' I.    Is voguing  - ...
28 Nov 2025

On Kissing the Gunner's Daughter (Another Post in Response to Simon Solomon)

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Image: Marian S. Carson Collection  at the Library of Congress     I.  A common form of corporal punishment for boys and junior officers in ...
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4 Oct 2024

On Subcultural Barbarism

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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...
16 Jul 2024

Memories of Summer '84: Stringfellows

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Bev Hillier photographed in the office at Just Seventeen   (Soho, 1984)   Entry from The Von Hell Diaries Wednesday 11 July 1984     As I h...
20 Apr 2023

Submission

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Sex Pistols: 'Submission' (1977) [1]   I.    According to Rotten's recollection, it was Malcolm who suggested the band should wr...
10 Apr 2023

When Melvyn Met Malcolm (A Brief Reflection on The South Bank Show Episode 178)

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Malcolm McLaren - Boy George - Adam Ant The South Bank Show (S8/E9 - 1984)   The South Bank Show is a British television programme which ...
3 Nov 2022

There's No Fool Like an Old Fool: Notes on the Case of Gustav von Aschenbach

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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 ...
10 Apr 2021

Plastic Ants (There Might Come a Day When They're Treading On You)

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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...