January 2012
3 posts
This is my Popfession →
popfessions:
I liked early Westlife…
The wait is over!
I like that the Popfessions crew dug out a picture of Westlife where Shane’s jawline is not that pronounced.
EDIT: It is quite literally “early Westlife” (no Bry(i)an or Nicky, see?). AMAZING.
“Workbrain likes two things: food and sleep. If I eat food, it pats me on the...”
– Workbrain « Enemies of Reason
December 2011
5 posts
4 tags
Area woman 'okay' with her diminished expectations
I don’t know if it comes across in this Tumblr often, but I really like making grand plans.
I found an A4 blank notebook, and the first three/four pages are scrawled with the synopsis and chapter plan for the children’s book I want to write. There’s a draft pitch email, waiting for me to finish it and send it off on Tuesday morning. I’ve set up a YA reviews and analysis...
“First footing is the tradition where, after the bells, neighbours and friends...”
– Pit them away hen! My guide to a real Scottish Hogmanay | Shelagh McKinlay | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
- Which reminds me. Obligatory New Year’s Resolution post soon.
“I can’t wait!” - you
“Jack bent down and scooped up the kitten, holding her up to the mirror above the...”
– Navigating Love and Autism - NYTimes.com
“Table41 knows that engaging content is the pièce de résistance. Here’s a...”
– Table41 Media Kit, by Daniel McGillivray | Splitsider
- I wish this was real.
October 2011
1 post
July 2011
3 posts
3 tags
Things I learned and wanted to write about after T...
Awww, remember this?
I have to apologise to those who actually read my sample column. I didn’t go through with the camping after all.
I know, what a coward. But I have my reasons. As the weeks and days flew through before T itself, I was too busy with work and family issues to get around to buying the tent, the groundsheet, the pegs, the sleeping bags, the inflatable mattress and pillow,...
CSI: Popmusic: What Is 'A Great Live Band'? →
fantasticfantastic:
It’s a fairly common phrase among music fans, that so-and-so is “a really great live band,” as if this is something that can be empirically measured, outside of the music that they are playing. But can it really? Would I enjoy going to see a singer or band whose music leaves me cold? What would…
June 2011
2 posts
2 tags
Overwhelmed
UPDATE: Reading this again, I didn’t catch that one of my tags was spelled wrongly. Apologies.
I slept really badly last night.
With my head resting against the corner of the bed and the small room as always, I imagined it blowing up to every corner. My eyes were bulging in turn, stretching out as my forehead became even more bulbous. It would be bad enough like this, but throughout the...
May 2011
6 posts
“(Oprah once rented the videogame Halo thinking it was a science fiction movie....”
– You Can Make It Up: Oprah Closes Her Blockbuster Video Account After 25 Years | Videogum
“Do something else besides feminism. I’m serious… Please, find something else you...”
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DEAR GOD YES. For the love of women, let this happen. More city council meetings, less “awareness raising.”
(from here)
Whatever this is, yes, okay. Also maybe not even “as a feminist?” Like, maybe just be a great person in whatever field you are in? Gayist, womanist, manist, animalist,...
“People with mental illnesses don’t get the admiring/pitying, “Ah, how dignified...”
– The Downsides of Dignity/Hardest Hit March « Seaneen Molloy
BRYAN ADAMS – “(Everything I Do) I Do It For You” →
tomewing:
perpetua:
Tom Ewing listened to Bryan Adams’ hit ballad 16 times in a row and wrote about it each time. The song holds the record for the longest consecutive run at the top of the British pop chart — 16 weeks, hence 16 listens. Excellent post!
I’m just glad it’s finished :)
Real British hero!
(UPDATE: Reading the Adamsmageddon liveblog brought back memories of an intentionally...
April 2011
1 post
“Any visits to Fortnum & Mason’s by protesters will only be to marvel...”
– Pro-cuts activists to stage ‘polite’ London demonstration | Politics | The Guardian
- Somebody should take one for the team. Well don’t look at me!
March 2011
5 posts
February 2011
5 posts
Yeah, continent of North America, you wish you... →
- Naturally, there’s a parody twitter account.
January 2011
11 posts
“N hiz stable lissnenin to da mooziks dat waz REAL golfz moozik like MCR and...”
– have u ebeh heardz uv clozin a gddaned doorz? Chapter 1, a Bible fanfic - FanFiction.Net
- There are five chapters of this. FIVE.
(“Thanks” Fuck Yeah Terrible Gay Erotica)
Two churches located across the street from each...
wizasaur:
-prettyprettyplease:
ultraball:
paranoidrobot:
…Do the Presbyterians think Rocks are animals?
ALL ROCKS GO TO HEAVEN
CONVERTING TO CATHOLICISM DOES NOT MAGICALLY GRANT YOUR DOG A SOUL.
WOW. EPIC CATHOLIC WIN.
Hee.
“Pleased as I am that a firm line is being taken against this pair and their...”
– Sadly, Andy Gray didn’t develop his ideas about women in a vacuum | Deborah Orr (no relation!) | Comment is free | The Guardian
“WRONG!” shouts Julian as the music abruptly stops. “You are ALL puppets. You are...”
– Betfair Poker (Betfairpoker) on Twitter
- SO GOOOOOOOD
“Ooooh! Oooh! New Blahniks! AL BUYDA!”
– Imaginary Lines From an Imaginary 9/11 Sex and the City Episode | The Hairpin
- Franco_pie.gif
My 500-word "Spend Valentine's Day with Dru Hill...
joemande:
Dear Dru Hill,
Hello, my name is Joe Mande. Let me start by saying that I don’t normally address my essays “to” a specific person or party. But, then again, this no ordinary essay now is it? I am writing you (Omarion, Jazz, Tao, and Nokio (especially Nokio!)) to formally enter myself into the first “Spend Valentine’s Day with Dru Hill in Atlantic City” contest. According to the rules...
“Bet you are all wondering if Claudia ever got over that whole living in...”
– The Baby-sitters Club: Where Are They Now? | The Hairpin
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That's your boyfriend: Nick Clegg
[Edit: This is terrible second-person Mary Sue fan fiction, and may take several liberties with the truth]
Judging by the way your eyes just glazed over there and then, your boyfriend didn’t need to remind you to switch the TV off before Tool Academy last night.
I mean, why would you want to continue reminding yourself about how amazing your life is with such a patient, hard-working,...
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Expectations versus Reality
It’s January 4. I should have known that writing out 3-400 words on my New Year’s WRITING(!) Resolutions was easier than actually putting them into place.
Expectation 1: This morning, I would have emailed clear, interesting pitches to commissioning editors who felt like they were on top of their game and totally not sleepwalking through the first half hour back in work. These pitches...
December 2010
3 posts
2 tags
Waiting for 2012
Alright everybody, I should be getting ready for a Hogmanay party, but I’m wasting time with this survey. Feel free to ask more on my answers (don’t ask).
1. What did you do in 2010 that you’d never done before?
Quit a supposed dream job, spent at least one night away from home alone.
2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I’ve...
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New Year's Writing Resolutions
On the way home from work this afternoon, I bought a couple of writing magazines supposedly on a whim. Of course, last night, I did bore some Videogum Monsters about how I was the world’s worst freelance journalist because of my inability to pitch editors, and throughout work, I spent lulls thinking about what pitch ideas were swirling in my head and what specialisms I need to read and act...
November 2010
6 posts
“Located on the border between Tory Chelsea and blue-blooded Fulham, it’s...”
– Maggie’s nightclub – the ultimate tribute to Thatcher | Politics | The Guardian
- That’s your nightclub.
“Olly Murs, aka human equivalent of Snow White’s Dopey has struck again. In this...”
– X FACTOR’S NICOLO REVIEWS THE SINGLES | VICE MUSIC BLOG
- YES.
