Quarks and their Sexual Preferences
“The top is so massive and short-lived that it does not live long enough to combine with other quarks to form a hadron.”
(this = muster mark s’s contribution to bloomsday obv)[…]

BRUB! BRUB! BRUB![…]

Everything You Need by A.L. Kennedy
I read her Looking For The Possible Dance several months ago, and liked it enough that I bought some more by her, but I wasn’t expecting to be anything like as impressed by this tremendous novel.
It’s a[…]

Anthony Easton says:
Some of this film reviews on IMDB claim that it is far fetched, that straight camps do not exist, and others talk of it as a piece of homosexual propaganda, making fun of the vert services young queers might need. The first shoul[…]

I have to admit from the start, I have never found Molly Ringwald pretty in anything, let alone pink so my views of this film are initially tainted. And I do remember upon first viewing thinking it absolutely ridiculous that Andie ends up with bland […]

THE ORDINARY BOYS
Have we stooped so low that new bands start sounding like the abstruse unloved band of old. I was not surprised when Suede rocked up ripping off Bowie. Bowie had hits after all (somehow, I blame the government for not locking up his[…]

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Since Otar Left is the best French film I have seen in ages. This may be in part because it is set and stars predominantly Georgians. Or it might be because it is the debut feature of Julie Bertucelli whose previous gigs have been Assistant Directing[…]

Girls Aloud-The Show
Tom may have already written about this, but we can call this a remix. Obviously when the initial rush subsides we will all be properly capable of analysing this record, in a measured and balanced way. Ugh!

The most striking thi[…]

Whilst obviously I am keenly aware that everyone is innocent until proven guilty, there’s still a degree of heart-warming satisfaction to a story like this, especially after the good news about the fit and proper persons test DB mentioned below[…]