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Dealing with your naked truth
Read more: Dealing with your naked truthIf television is not pandering to the fantasies of people wanting a place in the sun or, at least, a new location, it is offering a new skin for them to live in. This is cheap-shot reality viewing and, in some ways, it is TV’s own version of Second Life, the Internet-based virtual community discussed… Know More
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The case of the Sudanese teddy bear
Read more: The case of the Sudanese teddy bearAlexander Pope satirised the enmity between families caused by a suitor’s removal of a lock of a woman’s hair without permission, in Rape of the Lock, by comparing it to the rape of Helen of Troy and the untold misbehaviour of the Gods. The ‘storm in a teacup’ that underpins such satire comes to mind… Know More
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Naked animosity
Read more: Naked animosityHere is one of the drawings referred to in the last blog. If you are interested in seeing more of the artist’s work, email me on my website and I will forward your email to her. Know More
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More sex problems
Read more: More sex problemsI met up briefly with an old friend the other day, in Gerona, northern Spain. She is an Austrian painter. Recently she attended a master class with an international array of well-known artists and part of the work they were set involved ten minute life studies, a traditional exercise in observation and line. The nudes… Know More
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Sex sex sex sex sex
Read more: Sex sex sex sex sexAlways an attention grabbing headline, don’t you think? Anyway, it is an appropriate handle for what follows. I went to the Barbican yesterday to see the Seduction exhibition. It is an arty form of what you might see in the various sex museums throughout Europe, such as the one in the Pigalle in Paris. Drawings,… Know More
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Celebrating psychopathy…
Read more: Celebrating psychopathy…It was reported, during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, that the numbers of deranged adults who were admitted to psychiatric institutions was at an all time low. Psychopathy had its outlet in killings, kneecapping and other forms of intimidation. There was a grim social place and status for the aberrant. In Basra, women, sometimes with… Know More
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“Too much in the sun”
Read more: “Too much in the sun”This paraphrase of a mourning and recalcitrant Hamlet, not wanting to spend time in the glitzy court of his murderous stepfather, came to mind with the latest knockabout findings of health scientists. For years the skin cancer lobby would have us returning to those Victorian days of white skins and multi-layered clothing, parasols and factor… Know More
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Are they taking the Mickey?
Read more: Are they taking the Mickey?If it had been April the First everyone could have laughed. If you were a science fiction reader or a pro-life activist maybe the lips were puckered and the eyes narrowed as the news came out that mice have been modified, genetically, to run kilometres instead of metres before being exhausted, to eat like a… Know More
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God “guess what I’ve heard!”
Read more: God “guess what I’ve heard!”Over the last few years, as technology has moved from pen to typewriter, to typewriter with a memory and finally to the computer into which I am presently feeding my thoughts, a certain set of possibilities and potentials have been put in train. Whether it be with a text on a mobile or a sudden… Know More
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Drink? Fat chance!
Read more: Drink? Fat chance!Our physical selves are much in the news these days. By 2050 the majority of UK citizens will be clinically obese. At the same time the current epidemic of binge drinking has been augmented by middle class quaffing. And it, too, is projected to get worse. As a sometime resident of a village near Guildford,… Know More