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Why are those girls even friends?
Helen Garner writes of the real life friendship between Anu Singh and Madhavi Rao in her book Joe Cinque’s Consolation: Perhaps they are most flagrant in adolescence: one girl is wild, bossy, selfish,...
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Crap I’ve Been Watching On Netflix
There’s this study where people are asked which movies off a list they want to watch. People pick the movie equivalent of Literature, the good films they think they should watch in order to be...
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The Wire Ruined Me For Other TV (For A Little While)
The Wire Is NOT Like Dickens from Salon A poster with all the main characters from The Wire on it, from co.Design What Stringer Bell Can Teach Us About Gangs, from The Society Pages An interview on...
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Weird Humans: Not actually the Internet’s fault
If you’re in the habit of second hand shopping for books at the Mitchell Dump you end up with a rather strange collection on your reading pile. One of my finds is a falling-apart Penguin paperback...
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In Which I Now Have A Mobile Phone And Nobody Is Confused
My love of online shopping correlates exactly with my hatred of going to the actual shops. Why do I dislike shops so much? I don’t know. It’s crowded. I can never find stuff because shops keep...
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PSA For Ladies In Particular: The heavier you are the stronger your bones.
Scientists at the University of Auckland have been studying bones and calcium supplements, and I think it’s of interest to all women, in particular, not just for bone reasons. Prof Ian Reid talks to...
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Best Stuff Of 2015
BEST MOVIES I watched a lot of movies this year because: Netflix. What Maisie Knew: I showed this to my seven-year-old because she was complaining that her parents always ‘agree with each other’ (and...
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