Posts tagged England
Living with Isherwood
“Christopher Isherwood As a Pioneer In The World Of Male-Male Relationships On The Wrong Side Of The Law… Women lived together on all sorts of terms, with varying degrees of opacity. But how many male-male couples can one think of, before the twentieth century, who had some version of a marriage? The 1890s seem to have seen the beginning of the bold experiment. The two artists Charles Shannon and Charles Ricketts lived together in Chelsea. The socialist Edward Carpenter and his friend George Merrill in Derbyshire, and the American Ned Warren (owner of the Warren Cup, now in the British Museum) and John Marshall in their Sussex home, stand out as articulate pioneers in an age more likely to be dominated by fear and denial.”
The Singh Twins - “two artist sisters who work as one, mix the personal and the political, pollution and Power Rangers, in their vivid paintings” Also, the twins site.
The 6th Annual Chap Olympiad 2010 - “A man smokes his traditional pipe at the ‘The Chap’s Olympiad’ in central London on July 17, 2010.’The Chap’ is a light-hearted magazine, aimed at revisiting the fashions and pastimes of the polite aspects of 1920’s to 1950’s England. The annual Olympiad event sees competitors take part in events such the ‘Cucumber Sandwich Discus’, ‘The Umbrella Joust’ and ‘The Tug of Hair’”. (Submitted by: @SFranciscoTweet)
Come on now, the officiating in the World Cup has been stellar, England’s goal did not count and here’s proof.
