England's One & Only. By Uncle Monty.

England's One & Only True Dandy.

By Uncle Monty.

Lead Photo By Carl Hancocks.

Story Photos, Art Graphic & Peter Bird

Photograb By Alex Albion.
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Only very early this morning, while going thru my

65 or so e-mails after being away for the past 2½

days up at Lake Windermere, did I learn of the drug

overdose and shocking death of Sebastian Horsley

at age 47, who was England's one & only true

dandy of this our Internet Age.

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I first met him in 2007 at my Covent Garden Big Issue

pitch when he stopped to buy half-a-dozen copies of

the issue from me. He first checked to be sure he was

included in the short article written about him in

that issue of The Big Issue. He was.

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What I liked about Sebastian was that we hit it right

off famously from almost the first word go. Although

I didn't know much about him then, I quickly realized

he was an oddball character and a pure English

eccentric of which we have so few left today ...
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He was deeply concerned about the poor and the

marginalized, even has a man who came from a wealthy
family of which Sebastian Horsley's own father made

pork pies and then amassed huge profits of TWO

BILLION quid all in his own right by selling his

popular pies to Marks & Spencer!!
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From time to time, he, SH, would stop at my Big

Issue pitch again and we'd have a good right old

chat of whatever topic took our fancy on that day.

He was very kind to me, personally, was Sebastian.

He always ensured to buy his copies of The Big

Issue from me and to add a small "drop," too.

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And from time to time, Sebastian Horsley would

also hit the news headlines of which one of the

most notable was when he last trotted off to America

to give an invited speech at some literary conference

there. On his arrival, he was quickly frog-marched and

bungled back on the plane by cold U.S. immigration

agents who refused him admission to then George Bush's

America. His “crime” was that he was absurdly different

and the Yanks couldn’t or wouldn't tolerate England’s

one and only true dandy that Sebastion Horsley was. At

that time, I wrote my own story of what happened to hm.
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When he stopped by again at my Big Issue pitch

about a month or six weeks later after his despicable

American treatment, Sebastian made no mention of it

to me. I didn't ask him about it, since I had already

read all about the whole nasty incident in print and

on the internet with alot of misgivings knowing, like

I do, how Americans can be so philistine and un-

forgiving about certain people and things they

don't like. Such is part of the "deculturalization"

and "mental ignorance" of the American

thought process and closed mindset.

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Looking back now on the life of Sebastian Horsley,

I must say I feel to a large degree that his life

was wasted and totally self-centred, too. To be

a true dandy, like he was, I think it becomes a

kind of self-destructive lifestyle in its own way.

Don't ask me to explain why, but somehow my

gut feelings say that about Sebastian. His deadly

drug overdose only confirms my sense of his

wasted life and his self-destructive mode. My

only pity is that I wish I could have gotten to

know him better not as a dandy per se, but

rather as a person who was obviously talented

and well-educated. How he decided to become

an English dandy is what I would have really

liked to have known from Sebastian Horsley

himself in his own unique words. But such

is not to be, anymore.

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In any event, I am glad to have known him

and to have shared our intellect and strong

minds together whenever we met at my Big

Issue pitch that is no more since my ruthless

suspension by Peter Bird of The Big Issue. I'm

pretty certain that had Sebastian Horsley lived

and then became aware of what The Big Issue

was upto concerning me and my pitch, he would

have rallied in open support of me no matter

what other people may badly say of me.

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RIP, Sebastian! You've left your mark as

England's one and only true dandy that you

most certainly was. They will no longer be

seeing you in those familiar places in Soho

that you so loved and where so many loved

you for being the best dandy of London, too.

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Art Graphic of the Late Sebastian Horsley.

Sebastian Horsley: Dandy, bohemian and denizen of Soho

whose life was his greatest artwork. By Tim Fountain.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/sebastian-horsley-dandy-bohemian-and-denizen-of-soho-whose-life-was-his-greatest-artwork-2005991.html

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Lasting Tribute blog: Controversial British artist Sebastian ...
British artist, writer and modern dandy ...

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Remembering gladly, Uncle Monty.

+St. Cyril, 2010.

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Pope Lashes Out at Belgium After Raid on Church.

By Rachel Donadio.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/28/world/europe/28vatican.html
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What the Belgian police did last week by its outrageous

police raids of the Mechelen homes and offices of the Cardinal,

the Archbishop-Emeritus, the detaining of nine innocent bishops,

and the police desecration of the prelates’ graves at the Cathedral

of Mechelen was, in my Anglican opinion, equivalent to the goose-

step Gestapo raiding the synagogues and condemning the

rabbinical lives of the rabbis. Truly, Uncle Monty.
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Friend Amy Grant. Not The Famous One!

How The Big Issue Lost 25,000 Quid.
By Uncle Monty. The story is still unfolding

for me. But at the end of the day, the losers

are still without a doubt Peter and John Bird.
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Vile Peter Bird of The Big Issue.

Finally, The Big Issue has come a cropper itself,

like it has made me, by its own unjustness, spiteful-

ness and malice. The intriguing story of how it just

lost £25,000 shows me how the Good Lord works

in mysterious ways ... The full story will go online

after my upcoming holiday next month to South

Africa at the kind behest of my dear friend

Elizabeth Middleton of Durban. I am looking

forward to visitng Zud Africa again ...
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The lead photo at the top of the page is that of me

and Myrna Hancocks standing against the backdrop

of the United Masonic Lodge at London's Great

Queen Street. She and her hubby Carl arrived

from Aussieland for their annual visit to London

and Wales on Tuesday and we promptly got to-

gether the next day for a good morning breakfast.

Carl is the one who took the photo of Myrna and me.

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The past week has been a busy one aside from spending

two days near my pitch in continuing to collect more

petition signatures from friends and customers in my

ongoing public protest against The Big Issue, and

more specifically, against Peter and John Bird.

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My next article this week - My Protest Sites

Revisited - will give more specific updates to you

all of the current standoff between me and The

Big Issue. There hasn't been a word or any kind

of movement from the folks at The Big Issue,

who seemed to have now dug in completely and

who refuse to acknowledge that I even exist save

for their desire to character assassinate me at

every turn and opportunity they can get.

So, more coming soon ...

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