After many years of trying, and several years after my sister, I have finally had something published in a broadsheet.
An article pitched by my talented friend Morwenna was published by The Observer this Sunday, bearing a Nell Frizzell byline.
If you want to contribute to the death of print journalism, then you can read it here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/aug/16/asian-models-fashion-catwalk-success
Now [...]
Just Twitter for dogs really aren’t they?
Here is a typical morning in the life of a New Media Woofer.
Wake up.
Scratch.
Try to sniff own bum.
Go to the park to check tweets.
Cock leg.
Leave new update on bin.
Help idiot with stick.
Cock leg again.
Leave comment on friend’s post.
Sit by bench inhaling morning cigarette.
Sniff new Twitter account on bench.
Go home [...]
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West is truly a masterpiece.
By which I mean that after about two hours of looking at it I had almost no idea what was going on, why everyone else around me still seemed to be looking at it and was wondering if I could get away with [...]
Here is an article I wrote for the workwear blog Director-e. Apparently, some of you wanted to see it.
Fifty years ago, the chances that metal, sculpted, hip-widening, semi-armoured cocktail dresses would be worn on the red carpet must have seemed about as likely as a man walking on the moon. Well, just ten years later, [...]
For those of you who haven’t enjoyed that most sublime* of all life’s great pleasures, then let me tell you a little about visiting Market Drayton.
Market Drayton is a small market town in North Shropshire famous for three things. Firstly, it is famous for absolutely fabricating its own history, by writing on various bits of [...]
Rum, buggery and the lash. No, no, not Tom Cruise’s holiday itinerary, but the very nautical substance that has been running through the veins of fashion since Coco swam the Chanel. Sea for the season, if you will.
Nothing epitomised this trend for marine engineering more than stripes. Oh yes, there were little anchors [...]
John Hughes, the cinematic visionary behind such masterpieces as Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Home Alone and Uncle Buck has finally left this mortal coil, to join the big heartache prom party in the sky.
This raises a significant problem for a certain fulsome-lipped actor, whose career is about [...]
Here’s an opening sentence to get your taste buds watering:
Bifidobacterium animalis is a gram-positive anaerobic rod-shaped bacterium, which can be found in the large intestines of most mammals.
Rod. Sexy. Large. Sexy. Animalis. Sexy. Anaerobic. Sounds sexy to me.
In short, Danone have made yoghurt, bacteria, constipation and flatulence sexy. Damn sexy. People may scoff at the [...]