Lollipops are not the same as chicken drumsticks. I'm not just talking about the difference between sugar and animal tissue. In fact, if you care to know, meat has no sugar content. And true love is not supposed to have any secret ingredient of hate. If...
art + energy = artergy. That's a completely made up word that has some vaguely relevant ring to it. I enjoy it because it kind of includes artery, and something of strategy. It's hard to imagine how down and out an artwork would have to be...
When I grew up there wasn't such a thing as a shopping mall. Ok, so there were covered centres where shops were circled around an escalator, but you didn't hang out there. You did your shopping quickly, then went home. There was the odd coffee...
The art of kissing is multifaceted. The sentence sets me off with its reference to corny mainstream magazine culture where you have guides to everyday problems like losing weight or building muscle. But what’s multifaceted about kissing is that naturally a kiss changes when it...
It was only when I got to America that I discovered that cotton candy is what we call candy floss. Honestly, until that moment I thought that anything flossy was something stringy that cleans your teeth. Dental floss is not something you buy for children...
Joy is the sound of arriving at home and hearing children laughing. Joy is the smell you get when the pizza box opens, and the air is filled with just the right amount of garlic. Joy is streaming music online and getting two songs playing, without...
Once upon a time there were four cows: a brown one, a white one, a pink one and a yellow one. Everyone who saw them knew a basic fact about each of them. The brown cow was chocolate flavoured, the white one was vanilla, the...
The batmobile of 1966 was probably the first gay family car. I came up with that statistic while remembering about the sleek black design with those wild fishtales, and the red trim. And the stylish wavy windscreen the guys perched behind. Good enough for Batman...
If it never stops raining at least we will remember the sunshine. That's the thing about images that are implanted in our memories, and good weather is a sort of backdrop to the main event. It helps if the weather is appropriate to the experience. Like...
If it never stops raining at least we will remember the sunshine. That's the thing about images that are implanted in our memories, and good weather is a sort of backdrop to the main event. It helps if the weather is appropriate to the experience. Like...