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Category Archives: Non-fictions

Houseworm’s wisdom

A little Ribena goes a long way on a beige carpet.

NB – Sports Direct

Dear SportsDirect.com, Thank you for your stream of PRICE CRASH!! special offer e-mails, coming in approx. twice a day for the past 9 days. What I would really like, though, is the trainers I ordered more than a week ago. Please feel free to let me know when they are on their way. (E-mail will […]

Pleasure

The brisk humiliation of a girl who hits on you, whom you had once hit on and were rejected.

A logical proposal

Do nice things for people. That way, they’ll be forced to kiss your ass.

Note to self

Do not expect your friends to take your love poems seriously.

Journalistic confession

There comes a moment, in the long night of every interview transcript, when you realise you’re actually quite irritated by the number of times you’ve cut the line ‘No, you’re absolutely right.’

Things, in retrospect, I probably shouldn’t have said to my girlfriend

# 34 I’m just saying, I kind of need a better offer if I’m not going to carry on reading my book…

Dialogue

– If you seriously expect me to stand here and listen while you say the things I know you’re going to say and you say the things you know I disagree with… well, then, you’re going to be gutted.

Hades

In H&M a black shop-assistant carts flaxen-haired dummies downstairs.

Middle-distant memory

of queuing outside the toilets with Roger McGough, talking about why we hate rap.