Monthly Archives: September 2008

Giuseppe Mallia

If you’d like to see more of Giuseppe’s work, and you’d have to be mad not to, click here.

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Hang on! The worst is yet to come…

This is just one small frame from an entire comic devoted to the horrors of homosexuality. It was produced in the 1980s by someone called Dick Hafer, who clearly had issues. You can read the whole exhilarating opus here. And … Continue reading

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Creeps

This photograph gives me the creeps. I wanted to share them with you.

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Football

You may have noticed the conspicuous absence of football from this blog. One of the funniest, and most shocking, moments at the start of each new academic year is the one in which I’m outed by students as someone who … Continue reading

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New docs, old tricks

Medical faculties in Italy held their admission exams today, to decide the fortunate few thousand who’ll be working in the country’s hospitals and surgeries five, ten, fifteen years from now, depending on how long it takes them to butter their … Continue reading

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Family day

Cute, right? She’s Bristol, daughter of vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, and recently outed as seven months pregnant, which means the birth will coincide neatly with the election. He’s the prospective father. He’s called Levi Johnston, he’s also 17, and, according … Continue reading

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Ride the Word III

I’ll be reading something from my new collection of stories, The Scent of Cinnamon, at an event called Ride the Word III in London later this month, along with four other fine Salt writers. I’d love to see you there. … Continue reading

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Orangina? Are they sure?

http://www.youtube.com/v/kHA9Ig7HOGA&hl=en&fs=1What were the people who made this on? And when will they be handling the Tizer contract? I’m not sure that this makes me thirsty, but there are certainly moments when it makes me laugh. Which can’t be bad. And … Continue reading

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Yuri Buenaventura: Ne me quitte pas

http://www.youtube.com/v/hCNqemfACHw&hl=en&fs=1

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