Entertainment - Sunday, December 10th 2017
Reading time 5 minutes
If you’re like me, and I do hope you are, you spend an unusual amount of time thinking about the 1997 animated feature film Anastasia. Read more…
Entertainment - Tuesday, December 5th 2017
Reading time 3 minutes
Entertainment, Featured, Fiction - Sunday, December 3rd 2017
Reading time 5 minutes
This weekend was significant for two reasons, the first of which is that I re-read Mallory Ortberg’s Things I Believe About Anna Wintour’s Affair With Bob Marley. The second is that I watched five episodes of Nigella Lawson’s At My Table, a TV show in which we are invited to watch Nigella eat, walk around her house, sit on her stairs in a kimono, and add spoonfuls of Aleppo pepper to eggs and yoghurt. Read more…
Entertainment, Life - Thursday, October 22nd 2015
Reading time 5 minutes
This week, I went to Graceland for the first time. Graceland needs no explanation yet simultaneously demands it. Graceland is the Momma and the Poppa of tourist traps. It is Disneyland for old people, the Eiffel Tower for people whose more present reality is Paris, Texas. I have wanted to go my entire life, and Graceland knows this. This is why Graceland charges $35 dollars entry fee, and why its tour packages go up to $150 just to see the inside of Elvis’ private jet. Graceland is too expensive. It knows it’s too expensive. What are you going to do, not go? it sneers, as you hand over your money. Read more…
Entertainment, Life, Lists - Friday, March 6th 2015
Reading time 5 minutes
Sex is Terrible and We Should All Give It Up
This, I suspect, will be a hard sell.
People have been enjoying having sex with each other since the dawn of time but I’m here to tell you that people are WRONG. Every major religion has agreed that baking the lust cake and placing it in your oven will send you straight to hell, and it’s about time we listened. Read more…