I met an expat lady at GUM, Moscow's fanciest department store, the other day, and wound up horrifying her. She had asked me for directions in Russian, and I had noticed her accent, and spoke to her...
Rudely awakened from his Swedish love nest, cold-blooded American Jack executes three people. The striking landscape he inhabits is too exposed, too clear from the clutter of civilisation to...
In a recent interview with Anderson Cooper, Eminem posed an interesting question: Why does he seem to be the focus of intense media scrutiny when it comes to his homophobic and sexist lyrics?...
The other day, I saw a pretty classic drunken fight. I was just at the beginning at what I assumed would be a delicious nap - having drunk a concoction that contained heated-up rum, coconut milk and...
“Love! What is it? Most natural painkiller there is.” The last written words of William S. Burroughs tell us everything and nothing about the Harvard educated King of the Beats. How would he...
Hey girl in the strobing light What your mama never told ya Love hurts when you do it right You can cry when you get older - Robyn Last weekend, an old friend of mine was in town. I jokingly...
Welcome to Hailsham boarding school. Beautifully secluded in the English countryside, Hailsham embodies all that is best in traditional British values: fair play, justice and a stiff upper lip....
Viv Richards, the peerless genius of West Indian batsmen, fixes the camera with his steely glare. The very same one he used when joining combat with the best bowlers in the world before hammering...
Gordon Gekko has been lying low. Biding his time in sing-sing away from the dollars and the greed and the sub-prime madness; he’s been plotting his come back with a Machiavellian precision as...
A few months ago, I insulted someone horribly. Darting about outside in a helpless panic, I had accosted a young man who was, by the looks of him, just trying to get home after a long day. "Do you...
