Over the weekend Maggie Stiefvater wrote about the implications of book piracy and, when the Internet told her off, told a story about dealing with book piracy. You can read them both at your leisure (the story is worth five minutes of your time for its sneaky genius alone). Today I want to talk about […]
Category: Fuckin’ Idiots
Phnom Penh Part 3: the Killing Fields of Choeung Ek & Tuol Sleng Museum
We only really went to Phnom Penh for two places, and those places are horrible. But I’d be a terrible person if I didn’t talk about it, so… SOME HISTORY: in 1975 a radical communist group, the Khmer Rouge, seized power of Cambodia’s government with a vision to turn Cambodia into a ‘communist agrarian utopia’, […]
So this could be my last blog ever before a lady president’s elected! Or it could be my last blog ever before my friends move continents.
I got the first round of at least three vaccinations on Friday and had to spend the afternoon napping. I’m not sure if the sudden intake of hep A/hep B/typhoid into my system knocked me out or if I’m just really fucking tired but I went for a run this morning and I swear the […]
Turns of Phrase That Can Go Fuck Themselves (part one, probably)
Look, we all hate certain words and phrases. Here are some that make me automatically loathe the person using them. The word ‘poorly’ One is ill, or sick, or unwell, or puking, or suffering from a mild boat of putrid throat. I don’t think one is ever really poorly, because it only seems to be brandished about […]
Christmas in September, and Other Small Ways I Damn My Soul to Hell
I wasn’t sure of a lot growing up – books disintegrate in the bath some days, but on others they just go crackly and if that’s not a sign the universe is a risky place, I don’t know what is – but I was sure of one thing: Christmas marketing in September is for wankers. There is […]
Well, It’s a Good Thing We Weren’t Planning on Winning Eurovision Again
I thought I’d let the dust settle on last Thursday before attempting to write a coherent sentence about it, but at this rate that won’t happen until 2025, so I thought I might as well write anyway. I’ve not had a hugely pleasant week, to be honest. It’s hard to run marketing campaigns when no one’s […]
Indifferent Ignorance Awards 2015
Here we go again… Record of the Year My stereo has been home to two CDs more than any others this year: Chantal Claret’s Battles of a Heavy Heart, which if God existed would be available in all good music shops with a world tour. As it is you can buy it directly from Chantal’s site […]
In Which I Learn to Spell Srebrenica, and Use it a Lot
It’s always a bit strange to have two big anniversaries at the same time, and I’m really glad one of them was mentioned on the radio this morning or I would have gone about blissfully unaware of the cosmic irony/coincidence/shitfest. I was about to ask how many of you remember Srebrenica , but I don’t actually […]
