Mark Simpson's Blog, page 5

Oh God, That Light!

So, I got around to reading Kenneth Cook’s 1961 novel Wake in Fright (recommended by S.J. Watson) which the film of the same name was based on, and which I wrote about here. It is a remarkable, vivid, and wry piece of writing, still fresh after over half a century, and I thoroughly recommend it. The prose is sparse… Read More »Oh God, That Light!

The Curious Case of the Killer Buttocks

Columbo meets an early pro-sporno Having given up on Netflix and the 21st Century, I’ve been watching Columbo – Amazon Prime Video have the first seven seasons (1971-8), gloriously restored, and digitally remastered in HD. Always a high-production value show, it can now be appreciated as never before – in detail. I love Columbo because there’s none of that annoying ‘whodunnit’… Read More »The Curious Case of the Killer Buttocks

‘First Time in the Yabba, Mate?’

My pal Graham recently drew my attention to the 1971 Australian film Wake in Fright, which is now available to watch in full, in a gloriously restored, uncensored HD on YouTube. I have no idea why he thought I would be interested in a film about homosociality, repressed homosexuality, and drunken depravity. Wake in Fright is a classic… Read More »‘First Time in the Yabba, Mate?’

Metrosexual Ex-Rep. Raps Metros

Madison Cawthorn’s Big Butch Exit North Carolina Representative Madison Cawthorn, a wheelchair user after a 2014 car accident, used his final address on the House floor last week to bemoan “soft metrosexuals” and give today’s men a stern spanking: “Our young men are taught that weakness is strength, that delicacy is desirable, and that being… Read More »Metrosexual Ex-Rep. Raps Metros

Daniel Craig Escapes Bond’s Closet

Daniel Craig’s new ad for Belvedere vodka is quite the gay divorcee statement. In the ad, directed by Thor‘s Taika Waititi, fifty-four-year-old Craig (happily married to Rachel Weisz since 2011), sheds his 007 white tuxedo strai(gh)tjacket, dons a tarty black tank top, silver chain necklace and leathers, shows us his delts, bis, tris and ink (a… Read More »Daniel Craig Escapes Bond’s Closet

Spornosexuals: A Permanent, Pectacular Revolution

Everything you wanted to know about 2nd gen metrosexuality & ‘androgyny on androgens’ but were afraid to ask Originally published in 2018 (in Spanish) in the Catalan anthropological periodical Quaderns (No. 34, 2018). Expanded from a feature written for GQ Style (‘Attack of the Spornosexuals’), and a lecture I gave at Men in Movement in Barcelona in 2015, organised… Read More »Spornosexuals: A Permanent, Pectacular Revolution

The World’s Biggest Fetish

Mark Simpson on those ‘Massive Cock’ docs A long, long time ago, I appeared on a documentary called The World’s Biggest Penis. Although this will surprise some of my critics, I was not the subject of the doc. Nor was I demonstrating. I was merely a talking, er, head. Remember when there was such a thing as a ‘cultural… Read More »The World’s Biggest Fetish

Meet the Typosexual: How the Spornosexual Lost a Vowel

Last month The Mirror (and several other outlets) ran a ‘story’ about a Brazilian influencer and model called Arthur O Urso who ‘came out as spornsexual’ [sic] ‘after spending the last few months focussing on body exercises’. It ‘sports’ ‘the headline: Spornsexual man with eight wives says his partners all demand he has a six-pack And the… Read More »Meet the Typosexual: How the Spornosexual Lost a Vowel

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Thor Blimey

Allow me to add two hours to your life. Above are the only two good bits from Thor: Love & Thunder. You’re welcome. Chris Hemsworth seems to have been styled, airbrushed, lit – and restrained in gold chains – by Pierre et Gilles. But somehow even gayer. In fact, he’s been stripped naked and chained by… Read More »Thor Blimey

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An Audience With Divine David

David Hoyle is appearing at London’s Soho Theatre at the end of this month in a new show called Ten Commandments. Here, for posterity, is an early interview he granted me in his Divine David days that wasn’t previously available online. Mark Simpson meets the leggy, legendary performance artist David Hoyle. (Attitude, October 1996) The theme… Read More »An Audience With Divine David

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