From a piece on feminist attitudes to pornography: Also, we always tend to worry about blue-collar dudes knocking one off over Zoo in factory toilets. What about the way people like Sade might be taught in lecture theatres, for instance? To my shame, my first thoughts on reading this paragraph were: 1) how the hell … Continue reading Possibly I think about bad 80s pop too much
Month: July 2007
Do you remember the Terrible Story of Lawless British Youth from last year, of the Evil Callous Teens who squished bowling alley technician Ferdinand Dela Cruz to death by chucking a ball at the machine he was working on, triggering the mechanism? Some months later following an inquest, it turns out that the poor bloke … Continue reading How journalism works (part n of n^x)
As part of a mildly annoying meme, Larry Teabag has asked me to list eight facts about myself: 1) I once failed to eat a kilo of corned beef for a bet, coming in with a time of 65 seconds; 2) I'm the sixth person in my immediate family to be called 'John Oliver Band', … Continue reading Me me meme