15 Media clichés that make your skin crawl
I know that journalists in the “popular” press are obliged to use language with which readers can identify easily, but there are some terms in common use that drive me up the wall – cheesy, old fashioned, done to death and BORING. See how many of these make you cringe, too… Swears like a trooper [...]
Where Adidas is coming up short?
A recent blog on here stimulated an interesting discussion in relation to aesthetics – and how it is a seemingly unavoidable issue in the entertainment industry. The truth is that the vast majority of us react instinctively to each other based on aesthetics, no matter how we might try to deny our propensity to do [...]
Do you really need to be pretty to be happy?
A guest post from Karen August at Fashion Puppets Why do luxury brands claim they want to appeal to successful, intelligent and self-confident women and at the same time seem to address their advertising to the dumbest and most insecure women? I don’t believe that successful, intelligent and self-confident women can be persuaded into buying [...]
Disenchanted? Let down by society? Don’t make me laugh #londonriots
Let me tell you a little bit about me. I was abandoned by my birth mother at 18 months old (she left me with a neighbour while she went ‘shopping’ and never came back). I was sent to a state subsidised boarding school at 14 and put into care at 15 (I deserved it, I [...]
All that jazz – All in A Day
If I sat down and really thought about what I could achieve in a single day, I might be able to come up with some interesting challenges that I think might be possible…. but record a whole album? Well that would probably not be one of them, even if I had the requisite talents. But [...]
 is a switch-hitter and Necar Zadegan’s (@zadegan) favourite is the sex scene – the secrets behind Elena Undone){kind=link}
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