Mark Simpson reviews Another Bloody Love Letter, by Anthony Loyd Independent on Sunday, 11 March 2007 ‘People have on occasion asked me to reveal the most shocking sight I have ever seen,” writes Anthony Loyd, Times war correspondent, ex-Army officer and ex-heroin addict. “They want a little vicarious hit off… Read More »Snorting Gunpowder: Another Bloody Love Letter
Following my previous post about straight male cockwatching, I should point out that some straight blokes are quite open about their size queenery – and in fact keen to shove it down your throat. Particularly drunk soldiers from Liverpool propping up the urinal. It seems to be part of the… Read More »The Size Queenery of Straight Men
A recent study using the new-fangled science of ‘eyetracking’ to improve the readability of online pages seems to have produced, erm, prominent proof of the eye-catching power of Sporno. For men. The eye-popping graph above appeared on the Annenberg Online Journalism Review’s dignified website with the sober, explanatory rubric: ‘Although… Read More »The ‘Fascinating’ Science of Sporno: Why Men Meat-Gaze
Yesterday’s Daily Mirror, Britain’s second most popular newspaper, and supposedly the ‘progressive’ tab compared to The Sun, carried a special treat for its readers. On the front page of this family paper was a picture of hunky England cricketers Jon Lewis and Jimmy Anderson moving in for a tasty tongue sandwich. The… Read More »England’s Cricketers in Snogging Shocker!
Saint Morrissey has been published in Finland by rather tasteful, rather arty publisher Sammakko, translated by Antti Nylen. Proving that the Morrissey illness is no respecter of national boundaries St Moz has also been translated into Greek, Bulgarian and American. ‘That’s all very well,’ I hear you mutter at the back, ‘but… Read More »Saint Morrissey translated into Finnish