>…I was 20, and I thought that everything would be oh so fucking sweet and cool, and everyone would be doing things they’d really love, and expectations would only grow and grow as achievements were continually being ticked off and logged away as successes in people’s life experience folders. The folders they keep in theContinue reading “13 years ago…”
Category Archives: Social/Political Commentary
Money
>Like nearly everyone else I have some, want more and need less. I am smart enough to know that it delivers little in terms of genuine happiness, but I also reconcile this with the knowledge that I know exactly what I would do if I came into some money. Of course, I would use itContinue reading “Money”
Travelling
No, I don’t mean travelling as in ‘I’m going travelling in my gap year’, which is so abhorrent a conceit as to make my bile rise into my nasal cavity. I simply mean travelling in its literal sense of moving from one place to another. It’s one of the ironies of successful modern living that,Continue reading “Travelling”
Cricket: Local
I should perhaps be more specific here. ‘Local’ cricket in this post does not mean village cricket, it means County cricket. Village cricket could honestly take up a couple of posts on its own, but it would be nothing to do with cricket, it would be entirely about the associated politics and background scandal. CountyContinue reading “Cricket: Local”
Comics as Literature
In modern culture the blurring of lines between genres, or indeed the format they’re distributed in, is not only prevalent, it’s increasing. The advent of the graphic novel elevated comics away from the ‘Zap’ ‘Pow’ world of underpants worn on the outside, and childish visions of superpowers solving the world’s problems with a wave ofContinue reading “Comics as Literature”
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