For all those girls out there wondering how to kiss with confidence, MSN Women has some advice that Doktor Frank characterises as “how to kiss your boyfriend if he’s secretly gay“.
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15Feb05 — 1
Bang
I bought a copy of Kate Fox’s Watching The English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour a few weeks back. I’ve not really had time to read it of course. So far I’ve managed three chapters: “The Weather” (which, appropriately, opens the book), “Linguistic Class Codes”, and “Rules of Sex”. It’s pretty accurate so far—so […]
Read More14Feb05 — 4
Don’t Panic
I think the quote at the end of this piece is probably accurate. It undercuts the rest by saying that fears of a new, aggressive strain of HIV are “a storm in a teacup” [© Benjamin Mackie 2004]. But ten years ago I was sitting in a common room when one of the most senior […]
Read More02Feb05 — 3
Another Fast Show Reference
“Me, former President of the The United States, Bill “Slick Willie” Clinton? In south Asia? Surrounded by orphaned destitute girls? Working for the UN? With my reputation? What were they thinking?” [Yanks The deficit-challenged should go here for an explanation.]
Read More30Jan05 — 1
Clap Clap Clap
The “file not found” error message on counsell.com features Maryam, the daughter of my friend Nicholas, whom I last saw when I turned up one week early for his and Hind‘s Christmas dinner party. We shared a frozen pizza in his kitchen. Hind was on a train. This week computational-biologist-turned-epidemiologist Nick became the second one […]
Read More17Jan05 — 0
Ouch
Anthony and Jackie are both ‘Blogging about pain: Jackie about the pain women experience when giving birth and Anthony about the pain men ignore when they have long nails stuck in their heads. “The nail was embedded 4cm into his brain—barely missing his right eye. Six days after his 6 January work accident, Mr Lawler […]
Read More16Jan05 — 1
Radio Porn
Kirsty Young has been standing in for wrinkly Yorkshireman Michael Parkinson on his Radio 2 show lately. Her voice is pure sex. When she read out the title of a book in her orgulous Scottish husk: “Why The Whales Came“, I listened and could picture both voiceless labio-velar fricatives blossom perfectly. The whales were probably […]
Read More14Jan05 — 0
One Whiner, One Woman
As Tim Worstall notes, Maureen Dowd is whining again. This time, apparently, men want to be mothered before they will marry. She writes: “I’d been noticing a trend along these lines, as famous and powerful men took up with the young women whose job it was to tend to them and care for them in […]
Read More10Jan05 — 3
Veg Talk
Despite their claims for its health benefits, I remember it always seemed to be the vegetarians at college that who had the weight problems (either under- or over-) and the interesting skin conditions. The latter could have been caused by all the roll-ups they smoked, I suppose; but one undergraduate female dallied with veganism for […]
Read More09Jan05 — 1
How’s About It, Then?
Amazon’s UK book best-seller list brings you the five most effective chat-up lines in the country: The Personal Trainer: “I Can Make You Thin.” The European Porn Star: “I haff come to turn you on, and I haff a vehr big drill.” The Latin Lover: “Bonjour, mademoiselle.“ The Cheeky “Cockney” Lad: “Awight, darlin’?“ The Prince: […]
Read More08Jan05 — 6
Toonophilia Too Far
There was some discussion here about the sexual allure of Elastigirl—who, in the recent Incredibles film has grown up (and out) to become Elastiwoman-with-three-kids—not to mention that of her cartoon co-star Mirage. From Betty Boop to Scooby Doo‘s Daphne to Jessica Rabbit there are quite a few celluloid celebrities—made of rather than just printed onto […]
Read More02Jan05 — 5
That Time Of The Month Year
Last year I had the unusual and unblogged pleasure of attending a birthday party where the majority of the guests were professional opera singers. It took place in the basement room of a London restaurant. If you try hard you can imagine what the rendition of “Happy Birthday” sounded like. The birthday girl has a […]
Read More30Dec04 — 0
Pistons At Noon
Our former colony across The Pond preserves the tradition of duelling suitors in its own special way: “The parking lot of C & W Auto Glass was the scene of a violent automotive encounter Monday, when two Godfrey men repeatedly rammed vehicles in a quarrel that broke out over the affections of a woman… “…The […]
Read More24Dec04 — 0
More Bimbo Fun
I watched The Incredibles with the Anonymous Economist earlier this week. It is superb. See it. The movie takes a strong philosophical line on the question of unusual excellence and the way contemporary institutions, especially educational ones, do their best to smother it: “When everyone is special, no one is.” This quote encapsulates the underlying […]
Read More23Dec04 — 0
Blonde Celebrity In Least Convincing “I Am Not A Bimbo” Protest Ever
Read all abaht it! I’m fuming,’ said the 21-year-old. ‘I sat there with a fleshcoloured bikini on and they have air-brushed the whole thing out. ‘That’s not my belly button. I’ve got a sticky out belly button and it’s pierced,’ she added. ‘They’re not my boobs either.’ Ellison, currently starring in the film version of […]
Read More21Dec04 — 1
Odd Man Out
In case anyone was wondering, I did not have sexual relations with that woman.
Read More16Dec04 — 0
Multiplication
The nerds at Slashdot have been discussing the book Mathematics and Sex by Australian mathematician Clio Cresswell. She was once voted one of the 25 most beautiful people in Australia. For a mathematician she’s pretty fine [large jpg], but for a cookery writer she’s no great shakes. Amongst other gems, the book applies insights gained […]
Read More16Dec04 — 1
Obscene Publications
Have you got any hardcore? Y’know: Naomi Does Najaf? No, sir. Maybe some stuff with, er, children? Like the Pilger one in the paediatrics wards or that Moore one with the kids flying kites? I’m afraid not. I bet you like a bit of amateur, though, dontcha? You must have “The Best of After Hours […]
Read More10Dec04 — 1
Thank You
It’s a shame that casualsavant didn’t send me The Metrosexual Guide sooner. The chapter on sex in particular has been a revelation. I understand now, for example, where I went wrong with that Canadian girl who told me she was “really into” Ralph Fiennes: “Uniforms and situations involving authority figures can be fun, though it’s […]
Read More08Dec04 — 2
Sting, Pitt, Kravitz, McGregor, Banderas, Geek
I had dinner this evening with a nice Filipina post-doc yeast geneticist who, like all of her countrywomen when newly arrived in a location beyond their islands, was carrying something on behalf of another Filipina, in this case a gift from casualsavant for me. Now that I have a copy of The Metrosexual Guide To […]
Read More06Dec04 — 0
“Viagra” For Women
I am a hypothetical man with an even more hypothetical woman. She doesn’t enjoy having sex with me. Chance that this is because:- I never listen to anything she says: 16 percent The only thing about me that ever turned her on was my after-tax income: 13 percent I am too heavy-handed: 7 percent I am too light-fingered: 8 percent I am […]
Read More05Dec04 — 0
A Clarification
Before anyone gets the wrong idea, I called David Blunkett “Herr Blunkett” last week because I had been having lunch with a German friend who complimented the British on their relatively relaxed attitude to rules. No one has done so yet, but there’s no need to invoke Godwin’s law. I don’t admire Blunkett’s fondness for […]
Read More02Dec04 — 2
Boldly
Like Herr Blunkett, I have had access to one of Her Britannic Majesty’s rail warrant thingies—in my case for going about the country on Medical Research Council business. If I’d known I could use it to send my girlfriend first class, I’d, er, have got myself a girlfriend. I would so. I could have one […]
Read More01Dec04 — 0
Self-Oppression
Gosh! Wow! According to the Beeb, women eighty years ago were writing diaries similar to Bridget’s! It’s like they were ahead of their time! Or, or…
Read More30Nov04 — 4
Movie Round-Up
It’s been said before that big studios often release the same story two or three times within a couple of years: Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica, Armageddon and Deep Impact, The Others and The Sixth Sense. Over at Apple’s trailers site, the latest Hollywood obsession seems to be women dealing with the disappearance or reappearance […]
Read More28Nov04 — 4
Not Much Like The Future Of “Dance”
When my friend Leasey took me out clubbing in Cambridge with her friends recently, they made a point of avoiding “Ballare”. I now know why. Like many other passengers on the sinking ship that was the Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre, a lovely Swedish girl is leaving it next week. I am with her, […]
Read More14Nov04 — 0
Surf’s Up!
Within hours of the story breaking, who is number 2 for “Boris Johnson” “sex scandal”? PooterGeek braces for the hits as Britain’s Webheads ride the wave this-a-way.
Read More13Nov04 — 5
Car Crash Radio
[Before I start, I’m just going to say something about my editorial policy. A tiresome Leftie elsewhere in the ‘Blogosphere was taking Norm to task the other day for writing about cricket while Fallujah burned or something like that. This has been a week of Important Events in the World, but a week of froth […]
Read More11Nov04 — 15
v. v. shit
Bridget Jones II is so bad on so many levels that it will be difficult for me to keep this post deservingly short. If you’re in a hurry, read my title. [But first, in answer to Eric’s thoughtful enquiry, I have not been following anything like my usual routine lately. That, my being ill over […]
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