Category Archives: England

THE SEASON FOR GIVING

December 26, 2024 – 4:01 am

December 1985 Vonelli the Floridian art dealer invited Lizzie and me to celebrate Christmas on the Isle of Wight. I told her about the trip in a Bastille cafe. THe singer and I had been having an affair for the past month. Neither of us pretended that we were serious about our time together. Nobody […]

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AFTERNOON by Tom Poulton

October 7, 2024 – 3:23 pm

Now this is a drawing from the 1960s by a great English illustrator. How daring. How very very naughty. Tom Poulton. Now more than ever.

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Osama’s Brother

September 11, 2024 – 9:01 am

Back in 1984 I was visiting friends in London. Vonelli was living behind Harrods. A small studio in which Eric Burdon of the Animals’ wrote SAN FRANCISCO NIGHTS. This landlady was from America. Her daughter was a beauty. Her boyfriend was a Saudi pilot. he bought us champagne. Crystal not Moet. His girlfriend introduced him […]

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Foamhenge

June 21, 2024 – 2:58 am

Stonehenge in Wilshire England has existed as a solar calendar for over 10,000 years. The current stone structures were erected around 5000 years ago. Access to the monoliths was restricted by the English Heritage Commission in 1977, although I can recall visiting the epic steles with a British friend in the 1990s. Few tourists were […]

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In Vino Veritas or Oblivio

June 20, 2024 – 12:03 pm

From 1847 to her death in 1901 Queen Victoria had ruled the British Empire from Osbourne House on the Isle of Wight. Prince Albert, her consort, had designed the royal residence with the aid of Thomas Cubitt, the London architect. Once finished the Italian Renaissance palazzo on the Solent Osbourne House served as a refuge […]

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