Issue 64

Anyway, the moment I shed a tear in Ricki and the Flash happened to be a line from Rick Springfield’s character (Greg) when he was putting the word on Meryl Streep’s character, (Ricki aka Linda) which, coincidentally is one of the lines featured in the trailer (that I fortunately didn’t see beforehand) so it must…

..when the relatively youthful and decidedly hip Sommelier appeared and, with gay abandon, she led the decision to place the nights drinking menu in his capable hands. And why not? It is not called a wine room for nothing. He knew the list intimately, having selected them personally, and given the criteria of an approximate…

..bodies from work place accidents, car accidents etc. putting viewers off their late night snacks and giving their children nightmares for weeks. Drink-driving is one issue that could do with some positivity in its treatment. While I tend to agree that some cultural revision of young people’s attitude to drinking in this country is overdue,…

.. sound of rain relentlessly thundering down on my roof – and filtering down through the loungeroom ceiling into my now inadequate symphony of pots and pans and thudding damply onto the attractive pooh-brown carpet. I realised that I was far too annoyed to go back to sleep, and concluded that the light was only…

Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. Fortunately, the musty halls of every single-sex (male) secondary educational institution that ever was, haunted as they inevitably are by variously amusing and resentful, but universally misogynist masters, taught us impressionable acne-faced boys that we could exact a subtle, but satisfying revenge on womankind, employing the very weapon our mothers…

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