‘Barbara Windsor smacked our bottoms!’ Pet Shop Boys on showstopping visuals, horrified bosses – and snubbing the queen As a 600-page doorstopper celebrates their groundbreaking costumes, gigs, sleeves and videos, the duo talk about ‘side-stepping the pop-star thing’ – and the naked trampolinist EMI had to censor

I'm proud to have co-authored Pet Shop Boys Volume, published this week

great piece by @alexneedham.bsky.social

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nice

William Blake, 1793

This post concerns an impending death; my own.

Did all the talk of William Blake and prophecy, Christ, vision, and prophecy, prepare the Traveller at all? Absolutely, yes I said yes It did Yes!

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David Bowie and the Droog Superior: Violence and the Dame Memories of the young Bowie are of his glamour, otherworldliness, and gay / bisexual advocacy. But that's not the whole story – another part being quietly forgotten by a sanitising media.

It's time to write about the departed but ever-present David Bowie, so here we go...

Memories of the young Bowie are of his glamour, otherworldliness, and gay / bisexual advocacy. But that's not the whole story – another part being quietly forgotten by a sanitising media.

I was invited to speak by Emerson Tan, whose midlife-crisis 50th birthday party was transformed by him into a festival of ideas. Here's the presentation I gave, on how we got from agricultural societies to Trump and climate collapse.

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Happy Birthday, William Blake #3
from The Brilliant New Hercules: A Blake Reader
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Happy Birthday, William Blake #2
from The Brilliant New Hercules: A Blake Reader
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happy birthday, William Blake

Treena Balds (@treenabalds) @Timothy Morton, you’ve really outdone yourself this time expressing the devastation and pathos—but also the warmth and hope we feel because our family and friends and neighbors (i.e., you guys!) who ...

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Leonor Fini, The Useless Dress (1964)

The Surreal Cabbage and Caillois's Stones In which the wonder-inducing properties of cabbages, the Surealist kitchen, and Roger Caillois's study of the forms of stones are discussed.

Considering a red cabbage recently, it occurred to me how odd it is that the Surrealists made so little use of the wonder-inducing properties of such vegetables, and why they hadn’t speculated more widely on the implications of their existence.
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Michael Moynihan's Siege Mentality Written back in 2010, before a lot of the fascist underground went overground with Trump, looking at the links between the post-industrial underground and hardcore Nazi terrorists.

An old article by me reposted, on how the post-industrial, Neo-folk scene helped build fascist terrorism.

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Georges Bataille was a passionate advocate for William Blake among the Surrealists. But how did he connect Blake to his own philosophy of excess? Bataille scholar, Stuart Kendall, explains

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Waitrose axed autistic volunteer after request for paid work Tom Boyd, 27, had spent more than 600 hours at the Cheadle Hulme store in Greater Manchester since 2021

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4 years and 600 hours of service, and here is still worth nothing to #waitrose

Danny Thompson, Bassist Who Defied Folk Conventions, Dies at 86

no firewall link to danny's nyt obit

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"Authoritarianism, it's a cancer. The symptoms are here, today... We thought it couldn't happen here... and now the disease is growing, metastasizing in America. But there is a cure—it requires you. On October 18, Americans will stand up, peacefully, for what makes America, America." nokings.org

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Hertling: His comments about putting hands back on recruits… We moved away from that 30 years ago because it’s ineffective…

You know where it didn’t go away? The Russian army.

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They Have Taken Away My Lord, and I Know Not Where They Have Laid Him Christ and Cosmopolis 6, Reflections on the Resurrection 5

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"Show of Force" And the revival of democracy

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St Basil and the Hedgehog of Regret Thoughts on regret, animals and forms of geriatric emotional compression.

Now that I am retired, getting older increasingly feels as if everyone and everything is receding from me. I am far from the first older person to notice this. But as the space clears, other things rush in.

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