This next image is from Adolphe Armand Braun’s Hieroglyphic or Greek Method of Life Drawing, published in 1916.

Erin updates:

CRIMINAL of the day is Nigel Darren Ball, 52, of Peacock, Wakefield.

At Wakefield Magistrates’ Court, Balls is quoted:

“I went to buy some goldfish but had to fill out a form with my details on it. That’s what got me.”

Earlier in the day, Ball has stolen a fish tank from the Pets at Home on Westgate Retail Park, Wakefield, Yorkshire.

Prosecutor Rory Byrne explains:

“As brazen as anything he lifted the fish tank off the shelf, as big as it is, and simply walked out of the store. Some sight it must have been, he walks from the retail park holding an umbrella and a fish tank, and walks as far as the Peacock Estate. No one saw it at the time.”

Ball then returned to the store to buy a fish. When the shop assistant asked Ball what kind of tank he had, the villain pointed to one near the shelf he stole from. He was asked the fill out a pet ownership form, including his name and address. The worker noticed that a tank was missing, and checked the CCTV.

Ball admitted theft.

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WHO killed the Allen Saxe Park dragon? The city of Arlington, Texas, wants to know who cut off the dragon’s head?

The dragon is called Nessie. And now that the head has gone, there is something newsworthy about Nessie’s head. We are invited to look at what isn’t there.

Loch Ness, home to the orignal Nessie, is famous because of what we can’t see. The monster that makes the place noteworthy is the one thing that’s missing from it. As soon as the monster is revealed, the interest in Loch Ness will peak and then rapidly subside. So it will be with the Arlington Nessie. The park should leave the object headless or else replace that missing head with different heads, say, of local celebrities.

In the meanwhile, round up the usual suspects.

IN 1969, Pippi Longstocking (aka Pippi Långstrump) was a TV star. Living in her father’s cottage Villa Villekulla, Pippi was free to run and play with her monkey and horse. In this clip, Pippi hangs out with her neighbours Tommy and Annika. The action has been subtitled in English. We see Pippi discover a new flower sent from Japan. She wonders what it should be called. She settles on “spunk”. The caption writer does relent with a single “spoonk”. But soon Pippi is yelling “spunk” at the top of her lungs.

LAWYERS, as we know, are all shark-eyed monsters. Another thing we all know is that judges are worse. The law is filled with dreadful humans, all jockeying for position constantly and tearing holes in people who have no idea how to deal with their steely nerve brain blitzing mindgames.

And so, to America, where a judge has issued a strict dress code to female lawyers in Tennessee who are no longer allowed to wear ‘inappropriate outfits’.

Or, as you know them, skirts.

Judge Royce Taylor said he has received complaints from a number of attorneys about some of their fellow professionals’ clothes. Clearly, this is an attempt to undermine the credibility of rivals or out-and-out old-school sexism, but the judge was good to back up the complaints.

The Tennessean reports that many women were turning up to court dressed in ‘revealing blouses, miniskirts and, in at least one instance, sweatpants’.

And so, to address the issue, Judge Taylor decided to write a letter to the women asking them to adopt a more conservative dress code. Of course, imaginary men in the sky got involved.

“All you have to do is go to church and see what people used to wear — hats, gloves, long dresses — have long been gone away with,” he wrote. “But I found that county judges here weren’t holding women to the same standard as men.”

The letter adds: “I have advised some women attorneys that a jacket with sleeves below the elbow is appropriate or a professional dress equivalent. Your personal appearance in court is a reflection upon the entire legal profession.”

Judges – they’re aroused by almost everything aren’t they? The dirty buggers.

TO the MISS USA contests, where Miss Utah, Marissa Powell, is contemplating gender inequality. Competitors of beauty pageants are given a rough time, frequently. Not wanting to buck the trend, we’re going to point and laugh at a young woman trying to talk and think at the same time while being stared at by loads of people who want her to fail.

Marissa Powell was competing in Las Vegas when she was asked by host Nene Leakes:

“A recent report shows that in 40% of American families with children, women are the primary earners yet they continue to earn less than men. What does it say about society?”

The answer is, of course, “Life is unfair and we need to stop the patriarchal ideas that ensure women remained underpaid, but then, that patriarchy keeps Miss USA in business, so I’d be out of a gig now, wouldn’t I bucko? So the answer is: Don’t ask a question like to someone who just wants to wear a tiara, okay?”

Naturally, Powell couldn’t say that, so she struggled and struggled, with her mouth doing it’s best to fill the gaps while her brain whirred.

“I think we can relate this back to education and how we are continuing to try to strive to… figure out how to create jobs right now. That is the biggest problem and I think, especially the men are seen as the leaders of this and so we need to try and figure out how to create education better so we can solve this problem.”

Of course, Marissa didn’t win the title, which went to Erin Brady, who used to be Miss Connecticut.

“There’s a one in two chance that by 2100 there’ll be no human beings left on this planet. The planet will exist, but it’s just that my granddaughter won’t be part of it. And I think that’s a pretty alarming statistic, probability, one in two chance if we don’t correct our behaviours.”

Not even the lizard people?

There is no proof that they were more effective in getting punters in to watch the film. But the billboards would have been more beautiful:

Gremlins

Artist: Jan Mlodozeniec
Year: 1985

Roman Holiday

Artist: Jerzy Flisak
Year: 1959

Cabaret

Artist: Wiktor Gorka
Year: 1973

Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown

Artist: Hanna Bodnar
Year: 1978

Sleeping Beauty

Artist: Hanna Bodnar
Year: 1962

Sunset Boulevard

Artist: Waldemar Swierzy
Year: 1957

101 Dalmatians

Artist: Liliana Baczewska
Year: 1967

Willow

Artist: Wieslaw Walkuski
Year: 1989

Young Frankenstein

Artist: Jerzy Flisak
Year: 1979

Planet of the Apes

Artist: Eryk Lipinski
Year: 1969

Poltergeist

Artist: Jakub Erol
Year: 1984

Alien

Artist: Jakub Erol
Year: 1980

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Artist: Grzegorz Marszalek
Year: 1983

Dirty Dancing

Artist: Mieczyslaw Wasilewski
Year: 1989

Tootsie

Artist: Wieslaw Walkuski
Year: 1984

Dances with Wolves

Artist: Andrzej Pagowski

Year: 1991

Cleopatra

Artist: Eryk Lipinski
Year: 1968

The Return of the Pink Panther

Artist: Edward Lutczyn
Year: 1977

Star Wars

Artist: Jakub Erol
Year: 1978

The Empire Strikes Back

Artist: Miroslaw Lakomski
Year: 1983

Return of the Jedi

Artist: Witold Dybowski
Year: 1984

2001 : A Space Odyssey

Artist: Wiktor Gorka
Year: 1973

Working Girl

Artist: Andrzej Pagowski
Year: 1990

Weekend at Bernie’s

Artist: Jakub Erol
Year: 1990

War Games

Artist: Mieczyslaw Wasilewski
Year: 1985

Wall Street

Artist: Andrzej Pagowski
Year: 1988

Vertigo

Artist: Roman Cieslewicz
Year: 1963

The Birds

Artist: Bronislaw Zelek
Year: 1965

Rosemary’s Baby

Artist: Andrzej Pagowski
Year: 1984

Taxi Driver

Artist: Andrzej Klimowski

Year: 1978

The Untouchables

Artist: Mieczyslaw Wasilewski
Year: 1987

Paper Moon

Artist: Jerzy Flisak
Year: 1975

Fatal Attraction

Artist: Maciej Kalkus
Year: 1988

The Godfather

Artist: Tomasz Ruminski

Year: 1973

The Godfather: Part II

Artist: Andrzej Klimowski
Year: 1976

The Terminator

Artist: Jakub Erol
Year: 1987

Empire of the Sun

Artist: Andrzej Pagowski
Year: 1989

Back to the Future

Artist: Mieczyslaw Wasilewski
Year: 1986

Sabrina

Artist: Maciej Zbikowski
Year: 1967

Ordinary People

Artist: Jan Mlodozeniec
Year: 1983

Terms of Endearment

Artist: Andrzej Pagowski
Year: 1985

The Graduate

Artist: Maciej Zbikowski
Year: 1973

The Muppet Movie

Artist: Waldemar Swierzy
Year: 1982

Labyrinth

Artist: Wieslaw Walkuski
Year: 1987

Dumbo

Artist: Anna Huskowska
Year: 1961

Spotter: Buzzfeed

WHAT did the Sun have to say about Prism, the pact between technology companies and the US and UK Governments to store data on all internet users?

“They’re not remotely interested in the millions of ordinary citizens leading law-abiding lives.”

It’s not hacking. It’s harvesting. The Sun added:

“This ‘Big Brother’ nightmare is a hysterical fantasy hyped mainly by the Left.”

 

But what did the Sun have to say about news that Government should regulate the Press?

BIG BROTHER REALLY IS WATCHING

Today, while you may be watching Big Brother on TV, Big Brother is CERTAINLY watching you.

In the novel, the ruling party’s Thought Police keep track of everyone’s every move via telescreens.

Orwell wrote of the sinister device installed in hero Winston Smith’s flat: “Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it — moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well.”

Today in the UK, there is approximately one CCTV camera for every 32 citizens, with 1.85million cameras trained upon us day and night.
These cameras are now so powerful they can zoom in close enough to read a text on your mobile phone.

Meanwhile, Google can collate information to profile its users according to their web searches.

The Sun also noted in a piece about “Privacy War“:

“IF you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever”. George Orwell wrote this in his book Nineteen Eighty-Four — whose message is as relevant today as it was when he wrote it in 1949.

And:

So. Don’t worry about being watched. It’s not as if the watchers sell off the data on you…

Two women in Bihar, India, severed their father-in-law’s hands. They say he repeatedly tried to molest them. Deputy Superintendent of Police Krishna Kumar Singh told media:

“The hands of Radheyshyam Singh, a resident of Bhanas village under Dinara block in Rohtas district, were chopped off by his daughters-in-law after he attempted to molest them.They overpowered him and chopped off both his hands with a sharp weapon (cleaver).”

Police are investigating.

In Papua New Guinea an 18-year-old decapitated her father. He’d raped her. She chopped his head off with a bush knife.

Local church leader, Pastor Lucas Kumi, says the villagers are protesting the girl form any attempts to arrest her. They say the dead father was evil:

‘The people and leaders in our area went and saw the headless body of the father after the girl reported the incident to them and explained why she had killed her father. The father went to his daughter’s room in the night and raped her repeatedly. The father wanted to rape his daughter again in the morning and that was when the young girl picked up the bush knife and chopped her father’s head off. We’ve all agreed that she is free to stay in the community because the father deserved to die.  The daughter did what she did because of the trauma and the evil actions of her father, so that is why we have all agreed that she remains in the community.”

“The community have also agreed not to conduct any formal burial service for the father.”

How’s that for justice?

Nigella Lawson attacked by husband: See shocking pictures of Charles Saatchi repeatedly squeezing TV chef’s throat

Adding:

Her eyes are transfixed as she struggles to prise away the powerful hand squeezing around her throat.

Dramatic and ugly stuff. But we don’t know the whys and wherefores. All we have is the Mirror’s interpretation of a photograph.

But lest you think it a private matter, the Mirror tells us just how awful it is. A nameless onlooker tells us that Mr Saatchi was “menacing“, and:

“It was utterly shocking to watch,” said one onlooker. “I have no doubt she was scared. It was horrific, ­really. She was very tearful and was ­constantly dabbing her eyes.

“Nigella was very, very upset. She had a real look of fear on her face. No man should do that to a woman. She raised her voice and got angry but at the same time was trying to calm him down, almost like you would try to calm down a child. The kiss was a strange thing. He was being ­intimidating, ­threatening.

“And yet she kissed him. She ­appeared to be a woman who loves him but was clearly unable to stop him being abusive, ­frightening and ­disrespectful to her.”

So how does the Sunday People convey this apparent horror? With a pun. It was “BOILING POINT”. So. Was it serious enough for a front-page shocker or something of nothing worthy of a joke? The Sunday People and Mirror seem undecided.

MADELEINE McCANN: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at the missing child ion the news:

Sunday Express (front page): “Police hint at New Maddie Breakthrough”

Number of breakthroughs to date: zero. What’s this new one? The paper says detectives have “signalled they are on the brink” of a breakthrough. in the “six year mystery”.

Really? What was said and done?

Daily Mirror: “Madeleine McCann search taken over by Scotland Yard”

Is that important?

It is the most significant development for her parents since their little girl went missing in Praia da Luz, Portugal

The facts:

Scotland Yard is launching a new investigation into the case of missing Madeleine ­McCann…

It is the first time UK police will actively investigate the case. A source close to the family said: “Clearly this is a major development and Kate and Gerry welcome it. It’s a big step forward in finding Madeleine and bringing those responsible to justice. The Met have gone from reviewing the case to fully investigating it which makes it much more likely that this will be solved.”…

Frustrated UK detectives asked Home Secretary Theresa May to fund their own investigation and she agreed.

It is expected to at least double the £5million that has already been spent on the review.

Why would British detectives be any better than the Portuguese ones? Could they be any worse?

Daily Mail:

Scotland Yard takes over the inquiry into Maddie’s disappearance from Portuguese police after they fail to make a breakthrough in six years

Good news.

It follows a two-year, £5million Met review of her disappearance.

This has identified more than 20 potential suspects and dozens of new leads – but despite the progress made by the review team, the Portuguese authorities have refused to reopen their inquiry. Officials in Portugal say that under the country’s laws they can only reopen the case if there is new evidence, and the new leads do not provide sufficient grounds.

But Met detectives insist their leads could, if properly investigated, result in new evidence and perhaps the case being solved.

Could. If, Perhaps. Is that what the Express means by a “hint”?

Time for a theory:

Last month, the Mail revealed how as part of the review, Yard detectives had flown to Switzerland to probe the movements of one of the country’s most notorious child snatchers, Urs Hans von Aesch.

The 67-year-old was one of many potential suspects dismissed prematurely by Portuguese police.

Von Aesch kidnapped and murdered a five-year-old girl in his native Switzerland less than three months after Madeleine was abducted. He took his own life after killing his victim, who looked remarkably like Maddie.

The Home Office said in a statement:

“The Home Office remains committed to supporting the search for Madeleine McCann and we have always said we would provide the Metropolitan Police with the resources they need to investigate her disappearance.”

Such are the facts…

IN Belfast, anti-G8 protestors have been demonstrating against fracking, bombing, arresting imprisoning and capitalism. How many were on the march?

Press Association: “Hundreds of protesters, advocating a variety of causes, braved torrential rain as they walked through streets.”

Independent: 1.500

What was it like:

Staff in the nearby Post Office danced to the beat of stilt walking drummers alongside an open-sided van carrying trade unionists dressed as characters from the Wizard of Oz.

The protest was organised by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions.

ICTU chair Pamela Dooley told the crowd: “Today is a defining moment in our history.”

History can be a cruel judge.

ITV:

Police say there were around 1,500 protesters. I would say there few more, but not the 5,000 that had been expected.

Express:

 Police outnumber protesters during peaceful anti-G8 protests in Belfast

Can it get any beter?

A separate concert for the IF anti-food poverty campaign, spearheaded by charities working in the developing world, will be held in the city’s Botanic Gardens this afternoon with acts including indie rockers Two Door Cinema Club.

The concert has been sold out, with around 8,000 people due to attend, organisers said.

At once point union flag protestors met the anti G8 protesters.

One loyalist protesting about a Belfast city council decision to only fly the Union flag on certain days disrupted the march before being surrounded by police and led away. At Belfast city hall, around 100 loyalist protesters are cordoned off by the police and kept away from the G8 protesters.

Today is actually one of the days that the council is flying the union flag, in honour of the Queen’s birthday.

Amnesty International’s Patrick Corttigan called for the Russians to free the members of Pussy Riot, telling the crowd: “Belfast is a punk city and here’s a punk message to you – free Pussy Riot.”

It was not a defining moment in history for punks.

CARINE Patry Hoskins earned £218,606 for her work on the Leveson Inquiry into media standards. He worked on the Inquiry between July 2011 and November 2012.

Hoskins, a married mother of two interviewed witnesses. She reviewed their statements and conducted legal research. She was fact checking.

Hoskins began a relationships with barrister David Sherborne, who had represented phone hacking victims. Four months before the inquiry ended the pair went on holiday together to Santorini.

Conservative MP Rob Wilson says two lawyers working on different sides of the inquiry geting involved with one another as the inquiry into standards is ongoing was “completely inappropriate”.

Lord Justice Leveson said Hoskins showed a “real commitment” to her work on the inquiry.

But what about that holiday? The Sun (prop. R. Murdoch), which is no fan of Lord Leveson, says that whilst away…

They claimed they discussed “the possibility of a future relationship” and decided against it. But they later changed their minds and became a couple after the inquiry ended last November.

Nicely put. The Sun gave its readers an offer:

Been flirting like mad with each other at work but still unsure whether to cross that line of love and start a full-blown affair? We are giving away a FREE holiday for two romantic readers to the beautiful Greek island of Santorini!’

Rachel Johnson opined:

So it’s all very amusing – for us, at any rate. Plus ‘going to Santorini’ now enters the lexicon, along with ‘crossing the Rubicon’ when it comes to statutory regulation of the press, and ‘Ugandan discussions’, when it comes to sexual relations.

Ugandan Discussion is a phrase favoured by Private Eye magazine. It nails Hoskins’ fact checking:

Who is that hunky barrister over there?

Is he married?

What’s Santorini like at this time of year?

Will they start referring to the job as fuck checking?

Hoskins was, of course, the Woman On the Left. The Sun reported:

CARINE Patry Hoskins became known as “the woman on the left” during the inquiry — after TV cameras appeared to catch her swooning over Hugh Grant. The lawyer was given the nickname due to her seating position next to lead counsel Robert Jay QC at the press ethics hearings. TV viewers watched as she seemingly hung on Grant’s every word during the two-and-a-half hours he was quizzed by Mr Jay.

On Sky TV (prop. R. Murdoch) Adam Bouton was scathing of Hoskins: He saw her looking at the Guardian editor, Alan Rusbridger, and tweeted:

“The incompetence of Leveson beggars belief. Why on earth has #womanontheleft been called in to simper at Alan Rusbridger?”

The New Statesman’s Helen Lewis tweeted: “Adam Boulton neatly illustrating my belief that the #womanontheleft hashtag was used by some to belittle Patry Hoskins’s abilities…”

True enough. Whilst Hoskins is in the line of fire, the worst thing fired at Mr Sherborne is that he is “perma-tanned” (all papers).

Looks like it was wasn’t all room service in Santoni, after all, allegedly…

BEfore wothe world’s Troubels:

Spotter: Brian Whelan

ARE schools failing boys? Joshua Welch was suspended from Park Elementary School in Baltimore, Maryland, for fashioning his snack into a pistol. His rustication lasted for two days. Joshua explained his art:

“It was already a rectangle. I just kept on biting it and biting it and tore off the top of it and kind of looked like a gun.”

Adding for clarity’s sake:

“But it wasn’t.”

Sure. If you could make real guns from pastry, the French would never have been undone so easily by the Germans.

It is alleged that Joshua brandished the pastry and declared “Bang! Bang!” The Choux-ter was, blessedly, not loaded with raisins.

“One of our students used food to make inappropriate gestures.”

Joshua’s parent want the suspension removed from his permanent record. Because this is America, Joshua and his family rely on a lawyer in place of common sense. Robin Ficker, the boy’s brief, is taking the matter to the school board. He tells the Baltimore Sun

“If this school can’t educate a seven-year-old without putting him out of school, how are they going to deal with 17-year-olds?”

One would suggest a chemical cosh, the police force and / or prison.

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HUSBANDS, as we know, are all stupid. TV adverts constantly tell us so. And so, to a tale of a man who sold his wife’s wedding ring for $10 (£6) when it was worth $23,000 (£15,000).

The ring was placed in a plain watch box by Racquel Cloutier before she went off to hospital to have her fifth baby. Get that? She was going through labour for the fifth time and the stupid husband thought he’d help her out. Not by being present at the birth, but rather, pissing around with boxes.

Racquel wanted to keep her diamond ring safe from her 2-year-old twin boys while she was having another one, so her husband Eric decided to take part in the community garage sale so that the kids would be kept busy.

And so, he put the watch box up for sale which someone bought it for $10.

Racquel realised that her ring was missing a day after she returned from the hospital, because she knows things like that because she’s married to a useless lump, RIGHT LADIES?

She said: “I go into my husband’s closet, can’t find the box, and then he tells me he sold it. I said, ‘You sold it? What do you mean you sold it?’ I immediately started crying.”

Racquel hopes that the buyer returns it, saying: ”I would never, ever keep the ring if I had found it. If you’re honest, you’re honest. Clearly, the ring was in the box by accident.”

Typical man – useless. Typical woman – mental. Typical writer, commenting on it – judgemental.

MODERN etiquette: Whose side are you on in this story of mobility scooter rider v cyclist?

At around 3pm in Ranelagh Road, Ipswich, the elderly female scooter driver collided with a  younger male cyclist.

The cyclist was tossed from his bike into the River Orwell.

The woman did not stop.

Which party do you sympathise with?

You can drive both bicycles and mobility scooters without tax or insurance. You can use the roads paid for by other drivers who do have to have tax and insurance. Fast cycling and mobility scooter driving will not get you points on a licence.

But there are differences.

Under Laws HA 1835 sect 72 & R(S)A 1984, sect 129 of the Highway Code, cyclists must not ride on the pavement.

Mobility scooter riders are allowed on both pavement and road. The Highway Code states:

You MUST follow the same rules about using lights, indicators and horns as for other road vehicles, if your vehicle is fitted with them

But:

When you are on the road you should obey the guidance and rules for other vehicles; when on the pavement you should follow the guidance and rules for pedestrians.

So scooterists must obey the same rules as all other road vehicles but can have no lights and ride on the pavement.

If you have faster scooter, you might need a licence. This is not for the driver. This is for the vehicle.

These faster scooters are limited to 8mph, yet:

These vehicles MUST NOT be used on motorways (see Rule 253). They should not be used on unrestricted dual carriageways where the speed limit exceeds 50 mph (80 km/h) but if they are used on these dual carriageways, they MUST have a flashing amber beacon.

You can ride a 8mph scooter on a dual carriage way so long as you have a light on a stick. Given the very high cost of motor insurance, why don’t the young all get these scooters?

It’s also true to say that you require no licence to walk nor jog. People emerging from shops are not required to wait at the traffic lights until the pavements are clear. And that too is incredible…

WHO duct taped a child to a wall in Saudi Arabia? The hunt is on.

Surprisingly, Saudi Arabia has a Human Human Rights Commission, and it’s leading the search. Maatouq Al-Sharif works there. He says, ”what happened to the child is violation of his right, and this is a criminal offence.” Sharif says the tapers need to be dealt with so that others may be “deterred”.

Chopping off a limb or three should do it.

He adds:

“Such behaviour has an impact on the child’s personality. This also promotes the culture of violence against children… the child has no power to defend himself, and there is a penalty for such acts even if it isn’t known to Saudis that such deeds are punishable. Parents do not own their children. Children have human rights.”

What the penalty is seems unclear. Maybe the child will be removed from their parents and brought up by a State which forbids all females from voting, and traveling, studying, or working without permission from their male guardians, locks people up without trial, discriminates against religious minorities, lashes men for wearing women’s clothes in private, and recently executed a man who was arrested for theft aged 15.

The parents of the child taped to the wall should present themselves as artists depicting the rest of their child’s life in this bastion of human rights…

Most eyes, of course, are on the topless women. But we’ve noticed that the arresting police are caught between having a peek and looking bemused, scared or officious.

The Bored

The I Wonder What He’s Up To Over There?

The Stags Meet The Rowdy Hens in Cardiff City Centre

The Tight-Lipped

The Tantrum Tamer

The I Can’t Believe I Get Paid To Do This’

The Paternal

The Look Ma, I’m Famous

The I’m Trying Hard Not To Look  Nor Touch Her Primary Sexual Characteristics

The Leave It, Luv, He’s Not Worth It’

The Never Accept Lifts From Unlicensed Mini-Cabs

The I’m Trying Hard Not To Touch Her Whilst Touching Her

The I Hope To God Someone Else Deals With Her

The Laughing Women and The Man Who Wants To Record the Naked Ladies and See Them With His Naked Eyes At The Same Time – With Knee Enthusiast

The Hands Are Faster Then The Eyes

The Rock, Paper, Scissors

The I’ve Got Her Arm, You Get Everything Else’

The Weekend In Hamburg High Fivers

The Lamp Post Guard Has It Covered

The Gentleman

The I Wish I Was Wearing Dark Glasses, Too

The Blues Heads

There Are No Female Photographers – FACT!

The I Treat Women As My Equals

The Hat Glove

The I Got You Now

The Dogger

The Man In The Pink Tie Is Just Checking 

Hands Where We Can See Them

The Women Are Allowed To Look

The Family Business

THE Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra tells the story of the pianist and his lover Scott Thorson (pictured above in a Boston eatery back in 1981). Predictably, Thorson has been promoting the hell out of himself. The highlight of his memory banks is his tale of a six-year long romance with Michael Jackson.

 “Liberace introduced me and Michael in the late 1970s. It was right around the time Thriller was coming out and Michael and I became lovers. Our relationship went on for six or seven years. Michael was very generous too. He treated me well. Liberace and I had both undergone plastic surgery around the same time Michael underwent a nose job because he didn’t think he was handsome. We all healed together at the Liberace compound in Palm Springs.”

It’s a wonderful tableau. But can it be true.

PopBitch has produced proof that Thorson and Jackson met and hung out together. In this 1981 photo, Scott Thorson is sitting next to Michael Jackson, being driven around Beaulieu Motor Museum with Liberace by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu.

Liberace did love a big car. Her he is posing with a a one-of-a-kind 1956 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud I on Feb. 21, 1985. The car was originally designed for Elizabeth Taylor, Jackson’s close pal. Isn’t Hollywood wonderfully incestuous…