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John M. Gilheany
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"Books are for writing not for reading." 📚

Quentin Crisp 💫

I write stuff anyway: medium.com/@nuromanca

#Copywriter
An endless learning adventure... #Construction #Trades #Careers
October 10, 2025 at 7:27 AM
🤜 'keeping a hand in' 🤛

Where have all the 1st Fix chippies gone... 🫥 🫥 🫥 🫥 🫥

There's something satisfying about turning trusses and timber lengths into exact structures.

Old school #carpentry methods + a touch of trig 📐 🙈
October 10, 2025 at 7:26 AM
"The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us."

#QuentinCrisp

#SuperSoulSunday
September 7, 2025 at 10:29 AM
"A bit too early for coffee; I'll have a scotch".

Peter Wyngarde's detective/author bon vivant #JasonKing

And perhaps the most #70s remark of all time 🥃 🚬

#SaturdayStyle 🧣
#SaturdayMorning 😜
August 23, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Before I was booted off the other place for being beastly to ᵣussians 🇷🇺 🗑️

#80sFashion #NewRomantics #80s
medium.com/@nuromanca/n...
August 17, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Crisp's First Law: "If you feel that you cannot comply with the morality of the world, you must do everything else you can to be agreeable.”

#QuentinCrisp
August 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
An articulate, effete and relatively youthful #JohnLydon

Whose #70s to #90s interviews capture a delightful repertoire of weary wit and ironic detachment - all while traipsing through absolute acres of ennui... 😏

Well worth investigating 😄 😂 😜
August 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
"I had fallen in love with myself. To have a girlfriend would now be unfaithful".

Sebastian Horsley

'Dandy in the Underworld - an unauthorised autobiography' (2007)
August 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
"Men today do not understand the power of wardrobe. It takes balls to be a #dandy ."

Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen in fine fettle 🔥
August 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Electric Dreams... a bit beyond AI fulfillment 😐

(as yet) 🎹 🤖

#GenX #Numanoid #MidlifeCrisis yr12 #TransformationThursday 🥸
July 31, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Fine and Dandy and More Besides! 💫⭐✨

#AdamAnt #AdamAndTheAnts #80s #Retro #MidWeek #MoodLift 😎
July 30, 2025 at 7:55 AM
It's lovely to escape to a quiet dungeon of #KnightLore every so often... 🧙‍♂️

#RetroGame #RetroGaming #ZXspectrum
July 29, 2025 at 6:45 AM
July 28, 2025 at 11:39 AM
"There are three great men of our age: myself, Napoleon, and Brummell. But of us three, the greatest of all is Brummell".

#LordByron

A sentiment explored in the apocryphal BBC4 drama 'This Charming Man' (2006)

#Regency #BeauBrummell #Byron #JamesPurefoy #HughBonneville #MatthewRhys
July 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
#BenjaminDisraeli

"It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being".

'The Young Duke' (1831)
July 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
#QuentinCrisp

"In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast".
July 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
#PeterEgan as 'The #PrinceRegent ' - going on #GeorgeIV in the BBC drama (1979)

A delightful, alluring and astutely witty portrayal of the spectacular #Regency fop 🤩

#NigelDavenport weighs in splendidly, as an exasperated #GeorgeIII

(DVD of the 6-part series released in 2016)
July 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
#IanMcShane elegantly evokes the #Dandy days of #Victorian PM Benjamin Disraeli 🎩

Count D'Orsay and Edward Bulwer-Lytton - other leading beaux - are captured in equally exquisite style.

A reasonably lavish ITV series from 1978, released on DVD 2007
July 25, 2025 at 9:05 AM
#PeterWyngarde

"I'm 50% vegetarian, 100% bisexual."
July 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
#NoelCoward

"I was unwise enough to be photographed in bed wearing a Chinese dressing gown and an expression of advanced degeneracy. This last was accidental and was caused by blinking at the flashlight, but it emblazoned my unquestionable decadence firmly on to the minds of all who saw it." 📸
July 23, 2025 at 11:50 AM
A banquet of Dandy Decor 🧣

Anthony Andrews, in majestic mode, as Lord Sebastian Flyte ✨

A glorious spectacle (even without Aloysius the🧸)

#BridesheadRevisited #EvelynWaugh #Vintage #1920s #BrightYoungThings #Style #HomeDecor
July 17, 2025 at 1:52 PM
'When the virus of love enflames your brain try to remember that grafting is for trees and cleaving is for snails and you are neither'.

Quentin Crisp
July 1, 2025 at 10:33 AM
#NewRomantic aspiration at its most ethereal ✨ #80s

youtu.be/0Dd_FLg9u0o?...
June 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
'Fallen Angels' by Mike McMahon

An image that's somehow slid beyond fan awareness... despite the artist's cult status among #JudgeDredd & #2000ad readers.

From a colour photocopy of a fading t-shirt (on sale around 1987)

Awaiting re-issue 😉 @2000ad.bsky.social

#ComicArt
June 26, 2025 at 11:43 AM
A spot of 'old school' ink & Lettratone #JudgeDredd fan art ✍🏻 ✒️🩶

#Minimalist #ClearLine #ComicArt #2000ad
June 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM