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Writing of social media having a “field day” is wasted energy. Brouhahas about bullshit are a daily occurrence. There are people - evidently with more spare time than me - who are ravenously scouring content…
Culturally most of us know that it’s inappropriate to talk about a person’s weight gain. While apparently the tabloids, gossip magazines and gutter websites missed that memo - and regularly run their pasta…
Labour market data tells me that at my age, 36, I should’ve had a portfolio of different employers by now. In my case, I’ve been with the same one since 2000. While it still feels novel to be in staff…
In the lead up to its US release, American television was running a curious tout. Apparently, Me Before You was better than The Fault in Their Stars. Um, way to set the bar nice and low. Along with the…
As a Cinema Studies undergrad, falling asleep during films was a pretty common occurence. In a poorly ventilated Carlton theatre, I’d sleep through a litany of titles deemed, curiously, as classics but…
This article contains minor spoilers about a film that, admittedly, doesn’t have a great deal of plot twists. For the first half of How to Be Single I assumed I’d write about watching it – and liking it…
Last year, in a very small town with a pretty big university, I wrote a forthcoming book called Internet and Intimacy. A minor point in my book but one with some happily tangential relevance to a slew…
I’d just done a radio interview about The Bachelor. About whether I thought I could watch low-brow television and remain a good feminist. (Whatever that means). I’m an enabler in most areas of life; watch…
There’s visceral reluctance on my part to write anything about Mark Latham’s latest shenanigans. My default policy is to not feed the delusions of egotists who thrive on attention, be it good, be it bad…
A friend - both close and a little odd odd - gave me a novel a few days before I left on a long haul fight. In The Unlikely Event. Judy Blume’s first novel in fifteen years, I like to believe that the…