Dr John Cameron Hartley
@drjchartley.bsky.social
"He's not a philosopher, that's just the name of the degree, dear."
Equally shaming, the post-war diminution of these women, Miller, Carrington, as ‘Muses’, by the Surrealists, despite the amazing & traumatic lives they had led.
December 4, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Equally shaming, the post-war diminution of these women, Miller, Carrington, as ‘Muses’, by the Surrealists, despite the amazing & traumatic lives they had led.
Miller’s journalism shows that she was contemptuous of German civilians’ head-in-sand reaction to the war – ‘we were not Nazis’ – as they waved to her &, astonishingly, invited her to dinner!
December 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Miller’s journalism shows that she was contemptuous of German civilians’ head-in-sand reaction to the war – ‘we were not Nazis’ – as they waved to her &, astonishingly, invited her to dinner!
Interesting, & indeed heartening, that American Vogue chose to publish Miller’s Dachau pictures; would that happen now?
December 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Interesting, & indeed heartening, that American Vogue chose to publish Miller’s Dachau pictures; would that happen now?
Always a curious feeling when an artist you’ve admired for years, ‘suddenly’, pops into public consciousness (see Leonora Carrington). And always worth remembering that, just because you like and admire someone’s work, they’re not your property!
December 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Always a curious feeling when an artist you’ve admired for years, ‘suddenly’, pops into public consciousness (see Leonora Carrington). And always worth remembering that, just because you like and admire someone’s work, they’re not your property!
Well, we all have our opinions, but the 70s were fine, it was the 80s were shite - context is everything.
I lived through all that too.
I lived through all that too.
November 15, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Well, we all have our opinions, but the 70s were fine, it was the 80s were shite - context is everything.
I lived through all that too.
I lived through all that too.
Haha!
Wondered where you lot were!
Result!
Wondered where you lot were!
Result!
November 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Haha!
Wondered where you lot were!
Result!
Wondered where you lot were!
Result!
Sort of 'Inaction Figures'?
November 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Sort of 'Inaction Figures'?
Thanks Sam, was a pleasure doing it!
November 2, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Thanks Sam, was a pleasure doing it!
‘Horace Walpole planted his absurd helmet just where he pleased and you could take it or leave it.’
Hugh Walpole, ‘The Waverley Pageant’ (London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1932), pp. xxiv-xxv.
Hugh Walpole, ‘The Waverley Pageant’ (London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1932), pp. xxiv-xxv.
October 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM
‘Horace Walpole planted his absurd helmet just where he pleased and you could take it or leave it.’
Hugh Walpole, ‘The Waverley Pageant’ (London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1932), pp. xxiv-xxv.
Hugh Walpole, ‘The Waverley Pageant’ (London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1932), pp. xxiv-xxv.
I found Unorna & Keyork interesting characters, but the Wanderer was just annoying, & the racism made the whole thing unpalatable.
October 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I found Unorna & Keyork interesting characters, but the Wanderer was just annoying, & the racism made the whole thing unpalatable.
Yes, the curious dichotomy, the young man presented as being ok, the exaggerated descriptions of the others, & then the attempted justification for presenting the horrible torture sequence, by claiming it was based on some documented 'incident' - just no.
October 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Yes, the curious dichotomy, the young man presented as being ok, the exaggerated descriptions of the others, & then the attempted justification for presenting the horrible torture sequence, by claiming it was based on some documented 'incident' - just no.
The short stories are excellent though, 'The Screaming Skull', 'The Upper Berth', 'For the Blood is the Life'.
The anti-semitism in the title story is truly horrific & ruins any positive feelings about the rest.
The anti-semitism in the title story is truly horrific & ruins any positive feelings about the rest.
October 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The short stories are excellent though, 'The Screaming Skull', 'The Upper Berth', 'For the Blood is the Life'.
The anti-semitism in the title story is truly horrific & ruins any positive feelings about the rest.
The anti-semitism in the title story is truly horrific & ruins any positive feelings about the rest.
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I don't know if you've read many but I feel like Hugh's murder-y homoerotic Gothic pulp might fall into your wheelhouse... @kjcharleswriter.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I don't know if you've read many but I feel like Hugh's murder-y homoerotic Gothic pulp might fall into your wheelhouse... @kjcharleswriter.com
Reposted by Dr John Cameron Hartley
He was much better in 'Thunderbirds Are Go!'
October 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
He was much better in 'Thunderbirds Are Go!'
Oh, good grief, take us now Lord!
'I can't live without my......' What?
Someone will have to tell me the line, because I can't bring myself to watch it again.
Withering S**** as we might say up North (rhymes with Height)
'I can't live without my......' What?
Someone will have to tell me the line, because I can't bring myself to watch it again.
Withering S**** as we might say up North (rhymes with Height)
October 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Oh, good grief, take us now Lord!
'I can't live without my......' What?
Someone will have to tell me the line, because I can't bring myself to watch it again.
Withering S**** as we might say up North (rhymes with Height)
'I can't live without my......' What?
Someone will have to tell me the line, because I can't bring myself to watch it again.
Withering S**** as we might say up North (rhymes with Height)
I'm old enough to remember seeing the original show on TV.
October 17, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I'm old enough to remember seeing the original show on TV.