Columbo meets an early pro-sporno Having given up on Netflix and the 21st Century, I’ve been watching Columbo – Amazon Prime Video have the first seven seasons (1971-8), gloriously restored, and digitally remastered in HD. Always a high-production value show, it can now be… Read More »The Curious Case of the Killer Buttocks
You may have seen this photo of four young (white) working class lads minding their own business enjoying an evening on the town together, dressed in the way many working class lads dress these days – showing off their ink,… Read More »Tight Trousers & Slut-Shaming
There’s a new edition of Gore Vidal’s best, most prophetic – and by far his funniest – book, Myra Breckinridge. The protagonist of this 1968 satirical novel, in case you should somehow be unaware of this seminal text, is a… Read More »Gore, Myra, Camille & Me
It’s LGBT History Month. So I thought I would share with you my hitherto hidden love for my favourite ‘gay’ novel. The Heart In Exile, published in the UK in 1953, by Rodney Garland – real name Adam Martin De… Read More »The Heart in Exile – The Strange Case of the Peculiarly Prescient Pre-Gay Novel
Mark Simpson gets mixed messages on the High Street (Another ‘lost’ Attitude column – this one from 1999) It was one of those indecently mild winter days. The sort that makes everyone feel a little bit naughty. As if… Read More »Cruising the Streets
Mark Simpson meets Mr Devo turned Mutato (Details magazine, 1998) Before the First World War, a bunch of Italian avant-gardistes called the Futurists, who didn’t get out much and got turned on by steam trains, thought technology offered the possibility… Read More »Mark Mothersbaugh’s Mutation