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
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
Ooo-la-la! The 2007 Dieux du Stade calendar is upon us and it seems to be even naughtier, even saucier — and somehow even more graphic — than last year’s. How do they do that? Without actually using those rugby balls as sex toys instead of just holding them that way?… Read More »Sporno Gets Even More Spornographic
I finally saw the new Bond film starring the new Bond Daniel Craig last night (my OUT essay was written sight unseen – winging it entirely by the seat of Craig’s pants). The new Bond delivered. Some (swooningly subjective) observations: Bond is now the ‘Bond Girl’ of the opening credits.… Read More »Bashing Bond’s Blond Bollocks
I recently happened on these Second World War ‘True Towel Tales’ US magazine ads for Buna bath-towels on the web. I could say something about lost ‘innocence’ and how in the past a lack of knowingness could, paradoxically, mean more explicitness. Or how patriotic gay porn was being used to… Read More »Saucy Army Bathtime With Buna Bath-towels