torpedo the ark

Images used for the posts published on this date in  2013, 2018, and 2022     Sometimes - especially those times when, like today, I can'...

Horses, horses, horses, horses! [1] I.   Yesterday morning, I was in a central London café sipping a mint tea when, suddenly, from the othe...

Gideon Falter: chief executive of the  Campaign Against Antisemitism   In response to a recent post [1] in which I stuck up for the right t...

Poster design for Pretty Vacant - The Story of Punk & New Wave   (Not exactly Jamie Reid, is it?)     I.    Shortly before he died in Ap...

An unidentified policeman prevents Gideon Falter  from crossing the road      I have to admit, I was never a fan of the BBC satirical sketch...

Prado (aka Count Linska de Castillon) L'homme le plus intéressant du monde "Crime is glorified, because it is one of the fine arts,...

Fig. 1: Paul Gauguin: Jug Self-portrait (1889) Fig. 2: Friar Tuck character jug made in England (mid-20thC)   I.    The 19th-century French...

  Fran Lock in human and hyena form     Fran Lock likes to describe her poetic practice as feral - by which she means "omnivorous, opp...

  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...

Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena   (SA/2024)     In 2022 NASA assembled an independent study team [1] to analyse what are known as unident...