mona lisa musta had the highway blues
When you’re a culture nerd who has built a life with another culture nerd, every surface has the potential to be a shelf. Which is why, when I read this essay by Gabe Bullard, I wanted to build something around it: “I’m staring at an odd corner in our apartment where two walls meet and […]
Read MoreA year-end/year-beginning essay ft. aging out of oversharing, turning 40, parental death, reckoning with one's own main character energy and Frank Turner.
Read MoreSome time towards the end of 2021, I realised that my hair had stopped growing. For years now, it’s been a bit of a joke between my barber and I. I’ll grow my hair down past my shoulders, colour it in chunks and then cut it just below my ears. Long in the wintertime, brushed […]
Read MoreBack in October, Fiona Apple – whose Fetch the Bolt Cutters, released in April, captured a particular early pandemic mood – was interviewed by Emily Nussbaum for The New Yorker Festival. “I think we women should be marrying our friends,” she told the journalist. “We have sexual freedom! We have dogs! We have fun! We […]
Read MoreI cried at the Bells. I didn’t think I was going to, but as Susan Calman counted down to midnight – huge numbers flashing on screen as shots of Scottish landmarks whizzed by – I felt something rising up through my chest. Some tangled knot of anxiety and depression and grief and exhaustion. Something that […]
Read MoreAfter eight months at home, and with a long winter looming, I realise how much of my life was based around a) going to work; and b) going to gigs. Work was the thing that got me out of the house every day: the reason I kept active; the reason I was in town for […]
Read MoreThis post contains PR samples but all views are my own and unbiased. I’m sure all of us have gotten into things we never expected to during lockdown. Me, for example, I practically have shares in my sister’s BFF’s Scentsy business (in my defence, this is now a three litter box household, what would you […]
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