Right. Finally. In response to the hashtag #drwho, here’s the other polaroid from that fateful day in 19**. It’s a companion piece to this post and accompanying image of me with Eric Morecambe. Have a lovely Saturday.
April 30, 2011
I’m ba-ack! Drowned out a little by a certain wedding, here’s the latest Pod delusion, including my piece on censorship of internet comments. I find myself increasingly nauseated by the wretched snark and spite you sometimes find on the lower half of the internet, especially, sadly, in the Guardian comments section. But what to do?… [Read more…]
March 16, 2011
I’ve been in a sort of survival mode during 2011 so far, which is why I haven’t blogged. Media kerfuffles have dropped way down my life list. I’ve been missing them though. And I’ve had quite a few headdesk moments following the ‘feminists vs porn’ debate. Here’s an interview with me by Bridget Freer in… [Read more…]
January 9, 2011
I’ve been meaning to blog about the professionally outraged for a while now. With great regularity, a social issue with strong opinions on either side will raise its head in the media, and the whole world goes berserk. Well, for ‘whole world’ read people in the media who follow each other on Twitter. I am… [Read more…]
January 3, 2011
Here is an evocatively faded polaroid of me aged 10 in 19** with Eric Morecambe. It was taken at a charity cricket match at a stately home somewhere in Leicestershire. I’m posting this in response to the hashtag #lametofame on Twitter. Enjoy.
January 1, 2011
First of all, happy new year to you all. My readers over the past week will know that things chez TG, like chez everyone else, don’t always go as planned. And so last night, which was of course New Year’s Eve. Sometime in my 30s I stopped getting paranoid about this one night of the… [Read more…]
December 25, 2010
There’s been a lot of It Gets Better in the mediasphere in the last few months. Dan Savage, Pixar, and others have all made laudable attempts to show young gay people that, however badly people are treating you now, life can improve, that you don’t always have to feel this bad, and that there are… [Read more…]
October 23, 2010
Now that we all have the word ‘recession’ firmly branded in our brains, is there any more to say about the difficult situation faced by authors these days? Does anyone really need another writer’s opinion on the world of book publishing today? Well, stuff it – here’s mine anyway. To those interested, it may serve… [Read more…]
September 12, 2010
All the talk of 9/11 takes me self-centredly back to my life in 2001, and how unhelpfully mad it was, how much worse it got, and the fact that a year and a day later, on September 12th 2002, I went out for the evening sober and stayed sober, and have remained that way until… [Read more…]
September 10, 2010
Okay, just one of my pictures is in it, but even so, it’s exciting. The PrintSpace has been running a monthly photography competition on Facebook. I won the autumn competition in 2009. SoShowMe is the resulting exhibition. Monday to Friday, 9-7pm until September 15th. 74 Kingsland Road E2 8DL. If you can’t make it, here’s… [Read more…]
April 30, 2011
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