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August 31, 2022
(Taken in for) Questioning
Is Pride season over yet? Does it in fact ever end nowadays? Like the ever extending and complicating rainbow flags and acronyms it is, by definition, never finished. There is always more ‘work’ to be done. Some hitherto undiscovered shame to be extirpated. Some ‘awareness’ to be ‘raised’. Some invisibility to be visibled. Some neglected… Read More »(Taken in for) Questioning
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August 23, 2022
Cool New World
Mark Simpson’s love-affair with American engineering – & engineered Americans My first trip to the US, as a spotty provincial English teenager, was teeth-chatteringly exciting. Not least because it was also my first experience of space travel. My mum and dad took me and my younger brother on one those new budget fly-drive packages to… Read More »Cool New World
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July 29, 2022
Meet the Metrosexual – Twenty Years On
Twenty years ago my essay ‘Meet the Metrosexual’ was published on the (then) popular online US magazine Salon.com, introducing my insistently pretty offspring to America. Both the piece and he went virulently viral, starting an outbreak of global metrosexmania that lasted years. Thousands of media outlets ran items on him. Several books were written about him. The American Dialect Society named… Read More »Meet the Metrosexual – Twenty Years On
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July 18, 2022
Elvis: The Fully Clothed Striptease Artist
How Luhrmann’s ‘Elvis’ biopic undresses your mind Twenty-two years ago, when this now heavily skid-marked millennium was still brand, spanking new, I went to see a restored, remastered version of the classic 1970 rockumentary Elvis: That’s The Way It Is, about Mr Presley’s return to live performance in Vegas. I swooned, screamed, and got a more… Read More »Elvis: The Fully Clothed Striptease Artist
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June 4, 2022
Sorry Tom, I’ve Lost That Loving Feeling
A disappointing date with Top Gun: Maverick I know this will come as a terrible, crushing blow to him, but sometimes you have to speak bluntly. And there’s no easy way of saying this. I don’t fancy Tom Cruise anymore. Like millions of others around the world, I fell in love with him as the… Read More »Sorry Tom, I’ve Lost That Loving Feeling
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I’ve Lost That Loving Feeling
A disappointing date with Top Gun: Maverick I know this will come as a terrible, crushing blow to him, but sometimes you have to speak bluntly. And there’s no easy way of saying this. I don’t fancy Tom Cruise anymore. Like millions of others around the world, I fell in love with him as the… Read More »I’ve Lost That Loving Feeling
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May 19, 2022
Male Changing Area
Dispatch from the gun-filled frontline of male vanity My gym recently had a makeover. Previously owned by a budget chain known for the lowest membership fees in the business – and for its large free weights’ areas – it went bankrupt during Rona restrictions and was bought for a song by a still budget, but… Read More »Male Changing Area
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May 11, 2022
Mark Simpson now on Substack
I now have a Substack. It’s a newsletter-type blogging platform that’s all the rage – or was a year or two ago. I’m always late to the party. It has some advantages, including ease of use, over good old WordPress, the platform I’ve been using here for many years, and Mailchimp the newsletter/mailing service I… Read More »Mark Simpson now on Substack
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May 7, 2022
Warped Drives: 55 (ish) Years of Star Trek Kinkery
This is rather embarrassing to admit, but I watched nine hours of the doc Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek. And there’s no Bill Shatner – probably they couldn’t afford his newly-minted sub-orbital astronaut ass. As I’m really only a proper Trekkie – or so I like to tell myself – for the original… Read More »Warped Drives: 55 (ish) Years of Star Trek Kinkery
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December 31, 2021
Newlyweds, Oldlyweds, & the Lost ‘Innocence’ of Morecambe & Wise
Last week, on Christmas Day, for old times’ sake – which there seems to be rather a lot of in my middle age – I watched on BBC2 a recently rediscovered early episode of Morecambe & Wise from 1970, which had previously been thought ‘lost‘. British comedy duo Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, a kind… Read More »Newlyweds, Oldlyweds, & the Lost ‘Innocence’ of Morecambe & Wise
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