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Cover design by Jamie Reid for the Sex Pistols' compilation album  Flogging a Dead Horse (Virgin Records, 1980), featuring the gold  di...

Messrs. Lovecraft and Burns   I.   My love is like a red, red rose ...    For many people - indeed, we can almost certainly say most peop...

Punctum Books (2013)     I.   When I hear the term geophilosophy my first thought is not to Deleuze and Guattari's work, but, rather, b...

Decay is the Laboratory of Life (SA/2023)     Because so much of my thinking has been informed by the work of D. H. Lawrence - and because,...

Three Cool Cats: CC, Room 8, and Henri, le Chat Noir     Opening Remarks     Some cats have so captured human affection that they've sec...

Three Cool Cats: Félicette, Casper, and Oscar     Opening Remarks    Although human cruelty towards cats has a long and terrible history - I...

Jiggs and Dorothy Lamour on set in 1936 filming Her Jungle Love (1938),  where things started happily enough, but sadly ended in tears ... ...

Martine Beswick as Queen Kari and Edina Ronay as slave girl Saria  in Prehistoric Women (dir. Michael Carreras, 1967)     I.    I like a goo...

Top: Brigit Forsyth as Thelma Ferris ( née Chambers)  Bottom: Sheila Fearn as Audrey and Anita Carey as Susan   Whatever Happened to the Li...

  Malcolm outside his notorious boutique  at 430 King's Road (1976)     I.    When it comes to the band's name, there's an argum...