A disappointing date with Top Gun: Maverick I know this will come as a terrible, crushing blow to him, but sometimes you have to speak bluntly. And there’s no easy way of saying this. I don’t fancy Tom Cruise anymore. Like millions of others around the world, I fell in… Read More »Sorry Tom, I’ve Lost That Loving Feeling
Dispatch from the gun-filled frontline of male vanity My gym recently had a makeover. Previously owned by a budget chain known for the lowest membership fees in the business – and for its large free weights’ areas – it went bankrupt during Rona restrictions and was bought for a song… Read More »Male Changing Area
I now have a Substack. It’s a newsletter-type blogging platform that’s all the rage – or was a year or two ago. I’m always late to the party. It has some advantages, including ease of use, over good old WordPress, the platform I’ve been using here for many years, and… Read More »Mark Simpson now on Substack
This is rather embarrassing to admit, but I watched nine hours of the doc Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek. And there’s no Bill Shatner – probably they couldn’t afford his newly minted sub-orbital astronaut ass (at 90-years-young). As I’m really only a proper Trekkie – or so I… Read More »Warped Drives: 55 (ish) Years of Star Trek Kinkery
Last week, on Christmas Day, for old times’ sake – which there seems to be rather a lot of in my middle age – I watched on BBC2 a recently rediscovered early episode of Morecambe & Wise from 1970, which had previously been thought ‘lost‘. British comedy duo Eric Morecambe… Read More »Newlyweds, Oldlyweds, & the Lost ‘Innocence’ of Morecambe & Wise