January 2010
7 posts
Commitment
drinks
dinner
meet friends
minibreak
pet names
meet parents
admit how many people that you’ve slept with
meet colleagues
nicknames for each others genitals
move in together
cat
shared car
mortgage
trial separation
reconcilliation
holiday
breed
divorce
return to 1)
death
Gender Battlefield
Like many men of my generation, I am confused by my gender.
After the ‘new man’ of the eighties and the ‘rise of new laddism’ of the nineties, men my age have fallen between two stools. We’re too old (and in my case heavily built) for all this ‘metrosexual’ business (H&M T-Shirts won’t go over my shoulders) and too young to carry our children in...
Autobiography
Today is my birthday. I hate birthdays.
I’ve decided to celebrate by penning the opening paragraphs of my autobiography.
“My name is Matthew R. (Surname). I’m not telling you what the R is for. I use the initial in tribute to Hunter S. Thompson. Sometimes, when people ask what my middle name is, I tell them that it’s Raoul, but it isn’t really. (That’s a Hunter S....
Zeitgeist (ii)
Another game that some chums and I had been playing in the run up to the new year was to create lists of our favourite songs of those same decades with a view to using them as playlists for a themed party that, needless to say, has never been organised. I also used the exercise to compile a list of my favourite ten songs of the noughties for reference. They are (in no particular order): Amerie –...
Zeitgeist
The American American Dialect Society (ADS) has just published it’s “Word Of The Decade” (http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/01/11/google-beats-twitter-for-word-of-the-decade-2/). Their decision is apparently “Google”. (The word of the year was “Tweet”).
They specify, interestingly, that they refer to the verb of “Googling” rather than the...
Finding Nemo
Those that know me well would likely agree that I’m a great one for theories.
Having had a fairly scant degree of higher education and a prolonged history of smoking way too much pot (a long time ago, admittedly) I think I do a lot of what Rastafarians describe as ‘musing’.
I have a wide range of personal theories, encompassing topics as diverse as the origins of the species (and our symbiotic...
Resolutions
I arrived back at home after three weeks in a campervan in the early hours of this morning.
I have hitherto avoided making any new years resolutions, based on the fact that ‘giving up smoking’ would be unwise when sharing a 10’ x 6’ space with a sibling 24/7.
After five hours sleep, I arrived at work this morning to find 460 unread emails (I couldn’t login via VPN...