torpedo the ark

Alejandro Mogollo Art on X @alemogolloart     I.    Someone called me a human sponge the other day, implying that I simply absorb other peo...

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...

  I have to admit, I've never been a big fan of the exclamation point ...    It may have a perfectly respectable Latin origin and have b...

Christine Pascal, Gilles Deleuze & Olga Georges-Picot     I.   Last night, on TV, they were showing one of my favourite films: the Briti...

Jiggs the Chimp as Ollie's evolutionary predecessor in   the Laurel and Hardy film Dirty Work , (dir. Lloyd French 1933)       Sometime...

Richard Wagner in a velvet jacket and hat (1871)   There's a man I simply dote on / unlike others of his ilk  A velvet cloak and hat on...

Front cover image from Mark Fisher's  The Weird and the Eerie (Repeater Books, 2016)     I.    Let me confess from the outset that one ...

Lawrence Tierney as Elaine's father Alton Benes  Seinfeld (S2/E3, 1991)     I.    Twice recently, I have encountered a Lawrence Tierney...

Helene Demuth (1820-1890)     This morning, whilst reading on the subject of famous last words, I discovered that Karl Marx had little time ...

    I.    This post - post number 1977 - marks the 10th anniversary of Torpedo the Ark [1] and, fear not, there's no Elvis, Beatles or ...

    I.    The modern English name Rupert is a truncation of the Latin Rupertus , which derives from Old High German Hruodoperht (or Hruodob...

George Costanza: defender of society and civilisation - 'The Chinese Restaurant', Seinfeld , S02/E11, (1991): click here .     In th...