Community Facebook Pages are my Kardashians
“Did anyone hear strange noises at 4.00am this morning?” During one long night spent under the UV lights of Hertford’s (soon to be demolished) windowless library basement, I decided to join my local community Facebook page. In doing so, I hoped to feel the warm, albeit virtual, embrace of my s
Love Et Cetera
There is nothing sexy about tardiness, I remind my date as she rocks up outside the cinema a full ten minutes after our scheduled meeting time. And yet there is something about her arrival that immediately injects our first encounter with an air of the erotic. Perhaps it is the effusive hug with whi
Christmas shopping for one’s Oxford lover
Their first suggestion was innocent enough: a brightly patterned waist apron. Our investigator thought that a little too domestic, and asked for something more personal.
The Masked Man’s a Fag: From Lenny Bruce to South Park
Efraim Carlebach talks about his online project which traces a politics of masking in American popular culture through a montage of quotations, guided by a reinvented deck of tarot cards.
