Sporno featured in the New York Times’ ‘Ideas of the Year’
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/magazine/10section3b.t-6.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
‘Living Icons’
Morrissey is one of the three finalists in BBC2’s ‘Living Icon’ middle-class popularity contest. He’s up against David hush-we-don’t-want-to-frighten-the-gorillas Attenborough and Sir Paul twist-and-shout McCartney. Now, all such contests are silly by definition, even and perhaps especially when they appear on BBC2. But given the strategic use of the word… Read More »‘Living Icons’
Keane Fury Over Roasting Romp
I don’t blame Keane for being furious. I’m positively seething myself that no one invited me either. ‘Stars in sick orgy’ (strapline to the print version – doesn’t appear online) Another example of how sporno is fast becoming porno – or is porno becoming sporno? Tabloid newspapers in the UK… Read More »Keane Fury Over Roasting Romp
We’re Better at Everything, Mate: Australia’s Sports Complex
By Mark Simpson, Independent on Sunday (December 3, 2006) We all know that Australians are better than us. Better looking, better at sport, better at partying, better at sex, better at reality TV shows. Mostly because they told us so. Very loudly. Little wonder recent Government figures showed half the… Read More »We’re Better at Everything, Mate: Australia’s Sports Complex
A Little Bit of Give & Take
Mark Simpson sees Take That eaten alive at Wembley Arena Originally appeared in Attitude magazine, October 1994 and collected in It’s a Queer World IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY, Maenads were “frenzied women worshippers of Bacchus” who were inclined to “rend to pieces” unfortunate men who passed their way. They were known… Read More »A Little Bit of Give & Take