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Among Donald Trump’s recent lunatic splutterings were some notably venomous comments about Fox journalist Megan Kelly. America’s favourite madman accused her of having “blood coming out of her whatever…
As someone who spends a good chunk of time happily consuming, and writing about pop culture, there are occasions – rare, but jarring – when something becomes popular, becomes a juggernaut, and I’m left…
Whenever corpse desecration comes up in conversation - not a totally infrequent occurrence - my Dad’s position is that he doesn’t really care what happens to his body after he dies. That perverse experiments…
So it ticked all the boxes for the kind of story I’d post on Facebook. A British woman, Michelle Thomas – gorgeous, though that probably shouldn’t matter - goes on a Tinder date. The evening goes swimmingly…
I’d first attempted to watch The Newsroom when it premiered back in 2012. I watched two, maybe three episodes. I felt manipulated. I felt embarrassed that I’d been manipulated. So I stopped. Cold turkey…
Finally! A selfie stick I can actually get behind. Or under. Or over, even, depending on my mood. A couple of weeks ago, in a splendid scene of suburban domesticity, I’d made a batch of gnocchi and we…
I’d been given a copy of The Body Shop Book one Christmas back in my mid-teens. A good decade has passed since I’ve laid eyes on it but there’s a bit I still sometimes think about. Amid the exfoliation…
A pair of lovely Swedes were in town this week to interview me for a local TV show. The topic was masturbation because it is of course, my area of greatest proficiency. The duo - who had been in Melbourne…
The trailer for Foxcatcher did something miraculous: it lulled me into thinking that sport and male competition - two things I have pretty much no interest in - could be made watchable and perhaps even…
There’s a bit during the titular interview when talk-show host Dave Skylark (James Franco) reads aloud the lyrics to Katy Perry’s “Firework”. A closeted fan, the Supreme Leader (Randall Park) pleads to…