Once Were Farmers
I have recently negotiated my way through a big book. For me, 500+ pages is big but this felt bigger and part of the reason it felt that way is because I didn’t stop...
Category: Culture
The Princess’s Gambit
Let me first say that today was a mental health day. It was a time for unwinding, recharging, resting, reading and distancing myself from routines. I still had the final episode of the Netflix...
Must See Hybrid Social Events of the Future
So, there you are at your front door. You have been vaccinated, your family has been vaccinated, your community has been vaccinated – In fact, much of your planet has been vaccinated. No, we...
Mayday Mayday Mayday
This is not a distress call. I am not in distress. I’ve been told that saying these words falsely over the airwaves is a federal crime in the U.S. and can result in a...
All-Time Top 10: Comic Book Heroes
Now that I’m a ‘serious’ writer I’m not supposed to talk about pop culture and the 80’s and celebrity gossip and the like. No, it’s all high-art for me. None of that cheddar and...
Get it Down Your Nek
Once a upon a time there was a man from Christchurch who performed a kegstand for 43 seconds and died shortly afterwards. I know it starts like a fairy tale but it is in...
All-Time Top 10: National Flags
So which came first the chicken or the egg? Surely it was the egg because you can’t get those cute little fluffy baby chicks without first hatching them from eggs. Oh hang on, who...
Happy Celtic New Year!!!
I used to think Halloween was an American holiday. And who could blame me. If movies and television were to be believed in my youth, then it was a festivity taken very seriously in...
The Rise and Rise of Redneck TV
I don’t watch a lot of television these days. There was a time when I watched an unnatural amount of television but that was when I was a kid with an animation addiction. As...
All-Time Top 10: Bucket List Items.
‘Number one – End poverty, Number Two – Get knighthood, Number three – Marry a TV Presenter, Number Four’…I’m quoting Bob Geldof’s bucket list here not mine. He has been having trouble ending third...
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