By Mark Simpson (Arena Hommes Plus, Spring 2008) German is a punishing tongue. It is, as anyone who has tried to learn it can tell you, very precise, very strict. Very unforgiving. So imagine what it’s like actually being German. It’s a fact hardly acknowledged that if the Germans have… Read More »The Pleasure Principle: BMW’s Art Cars
Mark Simpson on the Cold War with Cuddly Toys (Arena Hommes Plus, Spring 2008) The titanic Superpower confrontation of the early 1980s between the Soviet Union and the United States saw the deployment of several new and terrifying strategic weapons systems, including Cruise Missiles, Pershings, SS-20s, B1 Bombers, and SDI/Star… Read More »Fluffy Ideology: The Cold War With Cuddly Toys
Yesterday’s London Times ran a three page piece called ‘Oral History’ interviewing some of the ‘players’ (or perhaps ‘chancers’ would be more accurate) in the Monica Lewinsky ‘scandal’ that was to engulf the Clinton Presidency for more than a year, lead to his impeachment and, very nearly, to his departure… Read More »The Sex Terror Revisited
Yes, the festering season is upon us – that fag-end, cold-turkey, limbo-time between Xmas and NY that cruelly drags out the whole experience by another four days – but feels like a fortnight of 1970s Sundays.
By Mark Simpson (Arena Hommes Plus, Winter 2007) Is it… him? Is it really the man who ended the Cold War? The man who brought down the Berlin Wall – the human face of Soviet Communism, the last face of Soviet Communism? Is he still alive? What in Lenin’s name… Read More »Gorby Vuitton