Fado: Untouchable Culture

Fado has been given World Heritage status by UNESCO. I know that a lot of tree-huggers out there are rejoicing right now, but what does this really mean for the average Joe like you and me?

Your Body is a Traitor and Needs to be Broken

Your body isn’t your friend – it’s your slave. Keep it on a short leash or forever pay the price.

Fact: the body talks tough, but it’s a pussy. Every tiny departure from it’s strict and absolute ideal is met with a raft of physiological moanings.

Kill Plan B

So you’re a writer working in a bookshop. You’re a painter selling art supplies. A guitarist cleaning floors in a recording studio.

It’s all kinda in the field you wanna break into, but not quite. And not original.

Nasty business all this.

Polanski Unshackled

Today the newspapers in Switzerland heralded the ‘liberation’ of Roman Polanski. You know the chappy; film director, slain wife, pesky rape case hanging over his head for some thirty years. And what’s more – Switzerland is refusing to extradite him to the States. Oh happy day! I can hear the bell ringers mounting the tower steps even as I write this.