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The last time I wore anything with a motif on it was my bile-inducing bottle-green school jumper; complete with a crest involving a javelin. Since then I’ve despised clothes with “stuff” on it. From the…
What’s about 9cm long, garish pink, and - judging by the pictures on the packaging - guaranteed to make women of all ages and races deliriously happy? The morning after the Navy Yard shooting, I walked…
I’m big on spells. Not like the hubble bubble, toil and trouble witchcrafty palaver, but the idea of being in a trance after a terrific book or film. That lovely bubble of having just experienced something…
Given that I played Jagged Little Pill quite a lot in 1995, I’ve got many Alanis Morissette memories. A favourite involves being at her concert and - choreographed perfectly to illustrate the “when you…
Aside from the thorough creepiness of children singing love songs, my main problem with TV singing contests is the karaoke-ness of it all. Singers - many able to hit all the right notes and sound thoroughly…
When discussing pain, my brother has a habit of likening every malady to childbirth. So intense is his agony. Dad’s approach is a tad less histrionic. His test centres on whether something hurts more or…
I held out as long as I could. Truly, I did. I was all set to let the story slide into obscurity. To not feed the purpose-built publicity stunt ever more bloody attention. But then then I kept thinking…
Him: I like Baroque music, what about you? Me: I’m a bit more into Baroque-n Social Scene. An exchange that encapsulates the oddity of spending lots of time with a lovely bloke who is pretty much the Anti-Lauren…
Quite a few years ago now - I was an undergrad at the time - I was writing on sadomasochism in cinema. My rationale, of course, was simply any excuse to rewatch one of my all time favourite films, The…
Like the time in the 1990s when he pronounced that he wouldn’t watch Seinfeld because he didn’t like the promos. Like the time in the 2000s when he parted ways with Law and Order because it was “becoming…