I look as if I’ve just killed someone with my bare hands. It’s only paint but the dark brownish-red dots splotches on my palms and nails ringed in non-cosmetic scarlet are suggestive. Part of me wishes it were true. It would open up a range of new employment opportunities. Bodyguard. Assassin. Ninja. Gun for hire.… [Read more…]
November 4, 2011
Last year I wrote a column for Snipe pondering the continued existence of News of the World How the News of the World avoids prosecution under the Trade Descriptions Act is one of life’s little mysteries. The venerable tabloid stakes its reputation almost entirely on elaborate entrapment schemes designed to catch gullible semi-public figures with… [Read more…]
February 10, 2011
This, from Three Guineas by one of my favourite writers: Virginia Woolf As a woman, I have no country. As a woman, I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.
January 29, 2011
As I mentioned before, I write a media column for London alternative newspaper Snipe . I’d sort of forgotten about writing this column, but reading it back, I quite like it, and repost it here to prove that, despite my incessent bitching about the evils of the media, sometimes there’s good stuff too — and… [Read more…]
February 11, 2009
Originally published in The Daily Pennsylvanian, Autumn 2000 Columbine. I remember the day that name became a national byword, much in the same way I remember the day Princess Diana died or the way those slightly older than I remember the Challenger disaster. They didn’t know, at first, how many were dead; estimates ran up… [Read more…]
October 29, 2008
Thanks to Google I’ve just stumbled across a column I wrote for the Daily Pennsylvanian some eight years ago. I was their foreign correspondent for a term, while studying at London’s King’s College. An excruciating tutorial there formed the basis for this column. All I could think was that I’ll never be able to open… [Read more…]
April 25, 2008
Originally published in Dummy Dan Sartain plays rock’n’roll. Real rock’n’roll. Like young Elvis did, like his hero Chuck Berry did. Onstage at the Astoria he first looks small and very alone; almost obscured by stacks of equipment for the next band. Then he smashes out an opening chord and his sole accompanist beats furiously at… [Read more…]
April 25, 2008
Originally published in Q magazine Interview with Glastonbury founder and Q Award winner Michael Eavis at the Q Awards 2005 What are you Drinking? I’ve had a glass of white wine, but I probably shouldn’t have. Have you made any new friends? Anyone you want to meet? It was good to see Chris [Martin] again.… [Read more…]
November 10, 2011
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