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Betty, Wilma, Barney, and Fred enjoying a good laugh The Flintstones (Hanna-Barbera Productions, 1960-66)       A question I am often asked...

    One of the questions I'm often asked is: Why write?   Well, in part, it's because, like Kafka, I think a non-writing writer risk...

  Patricia Laffan as Nyah in the kinky sci-fi classic  Devil Girl from Mars (dir. David MacDonald, 1954)   "They're scared of girl...

A mottoware jug made by the Watcombe Pottery (Torquay) [1] For many years, my mother owned a little ceramic jug decorated with a picture of ...

Cover of the Float Up CP album    Kill Me in the Morning (1985) ft. Neneh Cherry     It was only when reading a review of Neneh Cherry'...

Stephen Alexander: Hypomnema (2025)     I.    Is blogging really so different from the ancient Greek practice of providing a written commen...

Messrs. Stevenson and Wobble back in the day     I recently came across a book review by Jah Wobble which opens with the former PiL bass pla...

Malcolm McLaren, photographed by Bob Gruen in NYC,  jumping in front of a Richard Hambleton Shadowman ,     whilst an amused Andrea Linz loo...

Ruby Neri: The Wheel of Life (2024) Soft pastel on paper (182 x 131.5 cm) massimodecarlo.com     I.    Last month, a series of wildfires af...

Photo by Angela Boehm from the Minus 30 series [1] I.    According to Rupert Birkin, there are two contrasting forms of abstraction via wh...