{"id":1739,"date":"2008-09-07T20:18:42","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T20:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/07\/edwardian_mashe\/"},"modified":"2024-11-28T08:06:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T13:06:02","slug":"edwardian_mashe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/07\/edwardian_mashe\/","title":{"rendered":"Edwardian masher"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I\u2019m on this Joe Orton<\/a> kick<\/a>,<\/strong> here’s another great bit from the diaries<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Saturday 15 April<\/i><\/p>\n

Watched Doctor Who on television. Rubbish, but there’s a young boy in it who’s worth looking at; like an Edwardian masher<\/a> at a Gaiety<\/a> show, I mentally undress him. I\u2019m sure the BBC would horrified if they realised that even a science fiction series can be used erotically.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Judging from the date, I\u2019m assuming that the episode in question was part of “The Faceless Ones<\/a>“, and that the alluring lad in question was probably young sailor Ben Jackson<\/a>, played by Michael Craze<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Ben<\/a><\/p>\n

“Edwardian masher at a Gaiety show” is my new favorite phrase, by the way. And though Orton is a good enough writer for that quip to feel very off the cuff, it’s actually the one instance in his diaries where I spotted him re-using an earlier joke. On the 24th of January, 1967, Orton paid a visit to meet Paul McCartney<\/a> and Brian Epstein<\/a> to talk about writing a script for the next Beatles<\/a> movie. During the course of the evening, a pop group called the Easybeats<\/a> drop by, about whom he says:<\/p>\n

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…about five very young and pretty boys trooped in. I rather hoped this was the evening’s entertainments. It wasn’t, though. …After a while we went downstairs. The Easybeats still there. The girl went away. I talked to the leading Easybeat. Feeling slightly like an Edwardian masher with a Gaiety Girl<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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While I\u2019m on this Joe Orton kick, here’s another great bit from the diaries: Saturday 15 April Watched Doctor Who on television. Rubbish, but there’s a young boy in it who’s worth looking at; like an Edwardian masher at a Gaiety show, I mentally undress him. I\u2019m sure the BBC would horrified if they realised … Continue reading “Edwardian masher”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracultural","category-ultragay","category-ultranerdy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71717,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions\/71717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}