If you're new here, why not subscribe to our email updates or follow us on Facebook? You can also add us to your Google Reader. Thanks for visiting! Goodness. And I thought I had some interesting in-laws to deal with, what with the whole being asked to sleep in cemeteries thing, helping to prepare for the end of the world, nodding along with Chinese karaoke,...

Im going to let you (you being the entire internet) in on a secret. When I was a teen, I was a goth. I played the guitar, read lots of depressing Russian literature, wrote terrible poetry, and even worse short stories. (Occasionally, foolish people paid me for them, helping entrench my emoness [emosity?] even further.) I, like Janet Adley...

Sometimes I think Im a bit of a slow learner. Why is it that the books I put off reading the longest are always the ones that end up resonating with me the most? Perhaps its that Im getting old and the plasticity of my brain isnt what it used to be, or that Im settling quite comfily into the staid mindset that comes with...

A couple of years ago, at a wedding (a crazy wedding at that), I was chatting to a couple of Aussies who had relocated to San Francisco in order to seek investment for their tech start-up. Or, more accurately, theyd relocated near'San Francisco, because apparently the rent there is so high that its liable to give you a nose bleed. And I thought...

Having got myself into the odd twitter battle over annoying coinages such as intrepreneur and staycation, I have to say that a book with the title'Adorkable'didnt quite endear itself to me right away. Indeed, I spent a good bit of time warily circling it lest it throw a series of other horrendous neologisms my way. And,...

According to Etsy, anything more than 30 years old is considered to be vintage, meaning that pretty soon, mullets, blue eye shadow and Labyrinth'will be able to be found online at horrendously marked up prices, all in the name of a vintage 80s revival. In three years time, Im'going to be vintage. Dear God. But anyway. Though being a child of the...