torpedo the ark

Der det er kvinne er det svane     I.    Perhaps my favourite sequence of poems by D. H. Lawrence is inspired by the Leda myth and playfull...

Sean Connery as James Bond and Claudine Auger as Domino  in Thunderball (dir. Terence Young, 1965)   Everyone loves gingham, don't the...

  Jo Davidson's clay bust of D. H. Lawrence made four days before the  latter's death on 2 March 1930. Lawrence judged the result me...

Banksy: Girl with Balloon (London, 2002)    (Note the chalked message on the wall; if that doesn't make you want to  vomit, pop the ba...

  This is the Money Calm Bull     I.    One of the ads on TV that I find intriguing (and, indeed, faintly amusing) is by an online price com...

Photo by Debra Heaphy (2012)   The Old Order Amish [1] are a strange people; Christian traditionalists of Swiss-German origin, they are cl...

  I.    Perhaps seduced by its cynical charm, I've always had a thing for the political term and concept of a useful idiot ...   That i...

Apple with maggot linocut by linocutboy on tumblr.com     I.    In a short piece of fragmentary writing, D. H. Lawrence laughably declares h...

Members of Extinction Rebellion's Red Brigade who have  come to save the world with mime and religious rhetoric. Photo by Sibylla Bam Ba...

    The chemical element carbon seems to have a bad press these days; people dream of becoming carbon neutral and achieving net zero carbo...