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11 Jan 2025

Where Every White Face ... Remembering That Time When the Clash Went on Their Very Own Dreadlock Holiday

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  They got the sun and they got the palm trees ...  I'd stay and be a tourist, but I can't take the gun play   I.    As we all know,...
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9 Jan 2025

Colour Her Gone: In Memory of Pauline Boty

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Pauline Boty (1938-1966)  photographed in 1962   'Actresses often have tiny brains. Painters often have large beards.  Imagine a brainy...
7 Jan 2025

Who is Mencius Moldbug?

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Photo of Curtis Yarvin  By David Merfield (2023)    'It is much easier to delude others if at the same time you delude yourself.'   ...
5 Jan 2025

Authorial Insouciance contra Editorial Zeal

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What do I care if "e" is somewhere upside down?     I.    I was amused to see John Worthen's 'Corrections to the Cambridge...
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4 Jan 2025

Zen Fascism on the London Underground (Don't Be Kind - Be Cruel!)

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Toby Triumph and one of his posters produced for  Transport for London's # TravelKind campaign  tobytriumph.com     I.    Transport for...
3 Jan 2025

Bee Consciousness: the Latest Buzz from the World of Melittology (and How D. H. Lawrence Stung First)

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Lars Chittka: The Mind of a Bee (Princeton University Press, 2022) Stephen Buchmann: What a Bee Knows (Island Press, 2023)   I.    Accordi...
2 Jan 2025

On Herman Melville's Moby-Dick & Larry David's Mopey Dick

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Leon Black / Herman Melville / Moby Dick     I.    A friend of mine, Anja, has decided to read Melville's epic novel Moby-Dick (1851) b...
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1 Jan 2025

Torpedo the Ark Post 2399 on SCP-2399

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SCP Foundation logo     According to the SCP Foundation [1] , there's a complex alien superstructure (known as a Malfunctioning Destroy...
31 Dec 2024

Philosophy on the Catwalk: In Praise of an Exterminating Angel Dressed in Lambskin

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Model wearing an Emilio Parka and Ezio Trousers by Loro Piana loropiana.com [1]   It takes a lot of courage to sail gaily, in super-soft sh...
29 Dec 2024

The Vivienne Westwood Story: Will It All End In Tears?

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Palace X Vivienne Westwood (Autumn 2024) Click here and/or here for more details.  Photo by Shoichi Aoki.     I.    It's exactly two y...