Mark Simpson: “the world’s most perceptive writer about modern masculinity”
I have been saying this ever since I bought It’s a queer world in 1996, and I say it every time I read another book, another weblog, every time I…
Trololo, it’s meme heaven
Thanks to Maria via Facebook for this one: And if you’re thinking what on EARTH is that, that’s just what I thought, while recognizing instantly that this had all the…
The not so swinging 60s
Gypsy Creams (via Metafilter) is a collection of scanned articles and adverts from women’s magazines of the 1960s with commentary by Tanya Jones. I can’t wait for her to post…
More sexist crap about ballet
I was looking for a sentence in Rupert Christiansen’s article in last week’s Telegraph (‘The New Recruits to Ballet’s Boot Camp’) that might serve as an example of a new…
Krava-hydrates
Breakfast for me is a serious business: it’s got to be slow release, with protein, and low GI. I’m not an ascetic, I just like food too much: I’d no…
By the way…a message from Bill Hicks to New Labour
New Labour has just been admonished for allegedly breaking privacy rules by spamming the phonelines of 500,000 people with a pre-recorded message by Vera Duckworth from Corrie, according to the…