Tag Archives: John Cleese

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Posted on February 22, 2012 by Dave

Anyone game for fish slapping? … Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) Michael Palin! Like a lot of people a certain age, I discovered them not long after PBS began picking up their shows in the … Continue reading →

HATTER'S SHAKES': GOING GAGA FOR ROYALTY'S SAKE

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Dave

Wearing a hat can make you a bit mad. Or so tradition has it, and British royalty are known to be sticklers for tradition. The felt hat industry has been traced to the mid seventeenth- century in France, and it … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alexander McQueen, Alice In Wonderland, Charles Pachter, Isaac Oliver, John Cleese, Lady Gaga, Lewis Carroll, Lord Twining, Louis Mariette, Martin Knelman, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Peter Cook, Philip Treacy, Robert Crab, The Mad Hatter, Theophilus Carter | Leave a comment

BARBARIANS & BLINDED BY THE DARKNESS

Posted on May 29, 2010 by Dave

It’s been a long time, since anyone has been successfully convincing that with the collapse of the Roman empire, an objectively superior civilisation somehow ‘fell’, whatever that means, leading to ‘dark ages’ from which the peoples of Europe would … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Adrian Murdoch, Attila the Hun, Ben Stiller Night at the Museum, Constantine Petrou Cavafy, Coppergate Helmet, David Frum, Eric Idle, Garth Williams British Museum, Harold Lamb, Historian Strabo, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Aillagon, John Cleese, Jonathan Swift, Julius Ceasar, Monty Python Flying Circus, Monty Python Life of Brian, mud-brick.com, Rene Chateaubriand, Rugero Deodato, Ruggero Deodato, staffordshire hoard, Tacitus, Tacitus Roman Historian, Teutoburg Forest Battle, The Dark Ages, The Dark Ages Society united Kingdom, The Noble Savage, www.darkagessociety.co.uk, York helmet | Leave a comment

Jung & the Monty Python Flying Complex

Posted on July 11, 2009 by Dave

Absurd. To create a comedy show, that would redefine the idiom and defy imitation. The Monty Python Flying Circus television series actively offended against the limits of moral code in terms of content and style of presentation. Most of the … Continue reading →