‘Beware! Beware! We are not to be trifled with’: The work of pioneering genderqueer artist Gluck
Gluck, circa 1924. Hannah Gluckstein preferred to be called Peter or Hig but liked “Gluck, no prefix, suffix or quotes” best. Gluck. A functional name.…
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‘I Want Candy’: (or how I stopped worrying and loved the Strangeloves)
As many of you reading this might already know Bow Wow Wow’s “I Want Candy” (which was never much of a hit record anywhere despite…
The snarling glam punk of obscure Japanese band, Rouge
Rouge was a ‘70s glam band that are barely known outside of their home country of Japan. This colorful group was inspired by the likes…
The ‘Confessions’ of Karl Marx (or these are a few of his favorite things)
Karl Marx always looked like he had birds nesting in his beard or maybe a smorgasbord of food debris clogging up his grizzled follicles from…
Cheech & Chong’s classic ‘Basketball Jones’ cartoon
“That basketball was like…a basketball to me” –Basketball Jones “Basketball Jones” was a song/routine/character from Cheech & Chong’s 1973 Los Cochinos (“The Pigs”) record. The…