This is a satirical post and I am exaggerating to get a point across. Please do not take literally. You’re walking down the street, and all of a sudden you see two guys. One approaches you. Baggy trousers showing off his pink boxers, big hoodie and a cocky grin. He […]
2019
All my blog posts from 2019.
The Shining: Book vs Film
I first watched The Shining when I was sixteen with a friend. Neither of us adored it. It was an okay movie with some humorous and creepy parts but had a boring slow-moving atmosphere to it. It wasn’t a particularly terrifying film. I’ve seen it a couple times since and […]
On Character
Martin Luther King once said that he dreamed of a world where we judged people based on the content of their character, not the colour of their skin. Sadly we still have yet to enter that world. But what is character? Character is what makes us who we are inside. […]
Thoughts On The Gillette Ad
This article is about the 2019 Gillette ad that sparked online debate. Video is below. I think the Gillette ad has a nice overall message and is very pro-men. It’s not shitting all over men at all. There are a few cringey bits but it’s an advert for men’s razor […]
Time (poem)
This poem ‘Time’ is included in my 2019 poetry collection Single Broke Female. So I couldn’t sleep and was awake all night. At seven AM these words came to mind: Time continues to fade into itselfOnce my friend; now my mockerShe scorns me, laughs at tomfooleryQuestioning; ‘why lie awake and […]
On Stephen King’s ‘It’
In 2015 I read a book called On Writing by Stephen King. I was aware that this man was one of the most prolific fiction writers out there. However, I was also aware he wrote horror, and being a scaredy-cat I was too afraid to read any of his books. […]