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  Mariateresa Aiello: The Flâneur (Ink on paper, 2011) sketchbloom.com     "Around 1840 it was briefly fashionable to take turtles for...

  Sex Pistols on Carnaby Street  Photo by Ray Stevenson (1976)   I.    Ian Trowell's dead knot essay [a] provides a fascinating insigh...

Johnny Rotten as an Abject Antihero   (SA/2024)     I.    Following publication of a recent post on Johnny Rotten as an abject antihero , a ...

Johnny Rotten: Now and Then   "Since he has nothing, since he is nothing, he can sacrifice everything." - Julia Kristeva [1]    ...

Statue of Pál Pató in Svodín, Slovakia [1]     You know when your procrastination is becoming serious when you choose to write a post on pro...

Jordan as SEX punk (1976)  and Worlds End pirate (1981)   'Twas a sunny day when I went to play down by the deep blue sea   I jumped abo...

Malcolm McLaren: screenshot taken from the video for  'Punk It Up' (dir. Ian Gabriel): click here .  A Sex Pistol - that's what ...

Johnny Rotten expresses how I felt post-screening.     I.   'Come along to the 100 Club,' she said, 'they're screening The G...

Sex Pistols: Friggin' in the Riggin'   (Virgin Records, 1979) [1]     I.    As many readers will recall, The Great Rock 'n'...

  Joe, Johnny, and Jello in their pre-punk days   One of the defining characteristics of punks back in the day, was that they hated the comp...

All the curly young punks: Michael Collins and Adam Ant (top row)  Mick Jones and Me (bottom row)*     I.    Short spiky hair - often dyed a...

Film director Julien Temple (the punk generation's Jean Vigo)     Born on this day, in 1953, the British filmmaker Julien Temple is - wi...

Laura Oldfield Ford Ferrier Estate (2010)     I.   Many years before Laura Oldfield Ford published her Savage Messiah [a] , the Specials h...