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Postmodernism

I’ve never really been able to grasp the concept of postmodernism. I remember a long conversation at book club once where one of our members tried to explain it to the rest of us but despite her efforts I was still none the wiser. Until now.
I am currently reading Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe’s [...]

The Dark Knight

I was very excited about this film in the run up to its release. In fact I can’t remember another time I’ve been this excited about the release of a film. I was even more excited to find that some leave I’d booked ages ago happened to coincide exactly with the release date. So I [...]

Reading List

Apparently the National Endowment of the Arts estimates that most American adults have read just six of the 100 books on the list below. There’s much speculation in the blogosphere about where this list actually came from as there’s no sign of it on the NEA website or the site for their Big Read project. [...]

The return of fridge poetry

Now we’re in our new house I’ve got the fridge poetry out again. Our creations come from Freaky Fridge Poetry and Queer Fridge Poetry.
The following are the first two poems on our new fridge:
My lesbian partner
Together our happy family
Will survive & celebrate in this straight world
– by Laura
Discover a rainbow
Be open, outlandish and unusual
You are [...]