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Monday, October 9, 2017

. Volunteers had no recognised existence in England until May, 1859. — The Nelson Evening Mail, September 8 1908 . Everyone in Joe Orton’s social circle was called Kenneth. The word ‘truth’ has no exact equivalent in Welsh. The 8-hour workday doesn’t make sense. Sloths take five seconds to have sex, but a month to digest a […]

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Two birds, one stone

Friday, October 6, 2017

Dear Amorist, I recently made a joke about my pregnant wife – and found myself receiving several pointers. ‘Have lots of sex before the baby’s born,’ said one. ‘Watch loads of movies,’ said another. Couldn’t we just watch porn, and kill two birds with one stone? Yours, &c. ASH Smyth, by email

Filed in correspondence, Journalism | Also tagged advice, babies, birds, film, letters, pornography, pregnancy, The Amorist, women | Comments (0)

Failure to launch?

Thursday, September 14, 2017

To Daunt’s in Marylebone, last night, where former pretty-boy and nightclub bouncer (and Amorist ‘Fiascos’ columnist) Anthony McGowan launched his latest literary venture, The Art of Failing. Subtitled Notes from the Underdog, the book chronicles a year in the life of West Hampstead’s shambolic would-be flâneur, by way of library mishaps, bad packed lunches, and […]

Filed in correspondence, Journalism | Also tagged Anthony McGowan, bookshops, Charlie Campbell, cricket, Daunt, drink, Facebook, health, London, love, Oneworld Publications, parties, publishing, Sebastian Faulks, Stewart Lee, The Amorist, Tom Holland, West Hampstead, wives | Comments (0)

NEWS AT A GLANCE

Monday, September 11, 2017

. Miss Mary Elsen, of Chicago, is suing Dr. Charles Weser, a local doctor, for 60 breaches of promise during a four years’ courtship. — The Nelson Evening Mail, June 22 1912 . Soldiers are quite fond of children. Chopsticks are the reason the Chinese never invented custard. The senior members of the House of Commons are not […]

Filed in Journalism, NEWS AT A GLANCE | Also tagged actors, Americans, army, Belgium, chickens, clothing, custard, dairy, Elton Jantjies, Epicurus, fleas, French, hair care, Karl Marx, Nelson Evening Mail, Penge East, politics, religion, Richard E Grant, romance, rugby, shopping, South Africans, statuary, the Chinese, The Erotic Review, Tiberias, vanity, women | Comments (0)

An honest pisstake

Friday, September 8, 2017

Pissing Figures: 1280–2014 by Jean-Claude Lebensztejn (transl. Jeff Nagy) David Zwirner Books, 168pp, £11.95 . From a Cimabue cherub to Szydlowski/-lowska’s Lenin, simply everyone is pissing. In pen and ink, paint on canvas, plaster, wood, stone, polymer, block prints, engraving, chamber pots, aquatints, dishware, film, manuscripts, inlay, public statuary, trick-photography, and in a Japanese video […]

Filed in Journalism, review | Also tagged Abraham Bosse, Andrew Lincoln, art, Bartosz Szydlowski, books, Christ, Cimabue, criticism, Cupid, David Zwirner Books, history, Japan, Jean-Claude Lebensztejn, Jeff Nagy, Jeffrey Lebowski, Lenin, Malgorzata Szydlowska, Mars, Michelangelo, Paula Radcliffe, Snow White, The Amorist, the French, Titian, urine | Comments (0)

NEWS AT A GLANCE

Monday, August 28, 2017

. On the body of a man who committed suicide in the canal at New Gravel Lane, Stepney, a hospital card was found marked “delusions”.’ — The Nelson Evening Mail, January 6 1909 . The new Norwegian Bible translation is by no means a rush job. Gieves & Hawkes is the cheapest Top 10 London tailor. […]

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NEWS AT A GLANCE

Monday, August 21, 2017

. From the deepest pit we may see the stars. — The Nelson Evening Mail, August 28 1906 . Armadillos are incapable of irony. Greek prostitutes bill their clients in six-minute units. One of the stars of early-Nineties cult TV show Twin Peaks was called Suburbis Polaski. It is rarely useful to have studied Latin. A ‘wineglassful’ is an […]

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NEWS AT A GLANCE

Monday, May 22, 2017

. There are more fragrant white flowers than of any other colour. — The Nelson Evening Mail, July 13 1908 . The inhabitants of Ipswich are the least passionate in the UK, having sex on average only 18 times per annum. Gazelles are quite amenable to snuff. Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich was a fully-trained football referee and […]

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Monday, February 27, 2017

. A man is generally at his heaviest in his 40th year. — The Nelson Evening Mail, October 10 1906 . The Museum of Emotions in London has a game with yes/no answers. Adolf Hitler fixed the Nazi Party registrations, to make it seem they had more members than they did. The endnotes to David Foster […]

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NEWS AT A GLANCE

Monday, February 13, 2017

. The honorary freedom of the borough of Rye in Sussex confers upon the freemen the privilege of kissing the mayoress. — The Nelson Evening Mail, March 21 1907 . When you register your child at birth, it immediately becomes the legal property of the state. In WW2 German physicists were able to discern the […]

Filed in Journalism, NEWS AT A GLANCE | Also tagged Anthony McGowan, Bowling Green, Brian Moore, butterflies, campanology, children, death, drink, English, Germans, girlfriends, golf, Inverness, kangaroos, manicures, musicals, Nelson Evening Mail, OED, officialdom, physics, radio, Samuel Beckett, Sir Nicholas Gimcrack, snakes, Sussex, Thailand, the Dutch, work, WW2 | Comments (0)

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