Tag: Carousel

• Why lampposts are better than LinkedIn for dating

  Jan 7

  Imagine using LinkedIn as a dating app. Imagine using LinkedIn, full stop… more ›

• There are no clocks or calendars here

  Oct 8

  An soldier injured on a mission in Afghanistan wakes up in a remote village. There, a mysterious boy offers to send him back in time… more ›

• He was quite beside himself

  Oct 1

  How realistic can a dream be? more ›

• The Human League – ‘Louise’ (bar by bar review)

  Apr 2

  The video for “Louise” involves a canal boat, a car crash, and some grammatically-inept notes, which seem to have nothing to do with the song. more ›

• Neneh Cherry – ‘Heart’ (bar by bar review)

  Mar 15

  Did you know that that David Fincher directed this video? Did you know it was even a single? Well, there are reasons why you didn’t… more ›

• Earth Wind and Fire – ‘Magnetic’ (bar by bar review)

  Mar 12

  This video is so 1980s it hurts (in a neon-dystopia kind of way). more ›

• Steps – ‘Story of a Heart’ (bar by bar review)

  Mar 7

  Who’s stupid enough to review music videos in the same way as football and cricket matches? Well, me, apparently. more ›

• An outbreak of Christmas Spirit

  Dec 14

  A bacteriologist is abducted by Amazon Service Representatives after she stumbles on the hidden meaning of Christmas. more ›

• Elves, dwarves and trolls

  Dec 4

  Being a comment on the reaction in certain quarters to Amazon Prime Video’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power”. more ›

• It’s okay to just wear “clothes”

  Dec 1

  Just about the queerest poem I’ve written… and yet, also, not more ›

• The Bug Squad

  Nov 27

  In the midst of a post-Brexit civil war, a sniper from the Remainer armies comes face to face with an enemy beyond comprehension. more ›

• Growing up “gay” (with the “gay” in air quotes)

  Nov 7

  Nope, it’s this one. This one is positively, definitely and absolutely the queerest poem I’ve ever written, I think. more ›

• An evening reading poems to my Cat

  Nov 6

  It started out as a funny poem and then it took this sad turn that I wasn’t expecting. Poems can do that. more ›

• The Amateur Poetry Workshop Blues

  Nov 1

  Here’s another poem inspired by true events (I really did go to a Facebook Group Organised, Council Subsidised, Peak District Rural Library Amateur Poetry Workshop). more ›

• Review: Dragman, by Steven Appleby

  Oct 9

  Funny, sad, touching, triggering, endearing and heartwarming, and that’s just the cover. Read it, now. more ›