is the age of celebrity worship coming to a close?
Over the past decade, we’ve seen the idealism of celebrity and wealth come crashing down in numerous scandals and legal disputes. With more of us financially struggling than ever, and with unrest steadily growing across the globe, are we finally shedding the idea that celebrities know any better than...
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when music is so bad it’s good
Sometimes music releases can be so horrendously awful that they somehow go full circle and become enjoyable. Is this musical brain rot for the masses? Probably, but I don’t mind. Lil Wayne released ‘Tha Carter VI’ last week and the reviews have been…well…mixed, to say the least. The series has been...
i think this is what they call imposter syndrome
you know it's real when you are who you think you are I’d say I always wanted to be a writer, but for the sake of honesty, I should admit that I initially hoped my life would look more like a Britney Spears music video – well choreographed,
the pressures of a hot summer
We’re fast approaching the start of the hot season. With festivals, holidays, nights out and travel aplenty, it can feel like you have to be your best self at all times. The real goal should be to push those pressures away. It might feel hard to believe if you’re currently...
a tale of two cities
I basically live in both Bristol and London these days, bouncing between either on a monthly basis thanks to the expensive miracle of modern trains. It’s not exactly how I saw myself existing at nearly thirty, but it’s a typical reality for many younger millennials and Gen Zers. When I...
hung-up on a hangover
A booze up can be a great time, but the hangover and anxiety seems to become more intense with age. Is there ever an obvious time to pack it in and call it a day? Before I start this week’s wildcard, let me quickly acknowledge how contradictory this looks. Last Sunday...
get me to a pub please
with all the buzz around Gen Z fitness and gym routines, it’s easy to forget the huge positives that come from spending time socialising and taking a break I moved to Bristol early last year, eager to be around more of my friends and to make a new start of things. Thirteen months later and I can’t say things have gone exactly as I had planned, but such is life. However,...
detaching from my internet self
It turns out that decades of unmoderated access to the internet might not actually be the best thing for my wellbeing? Last week, long-time YouTuber iDubbbzTV posted an hour-long takedown video of his former internet friend Ethan Klein, who runs a similarly popular channel called h3h3. Both were top creators on the platform ten years ago, producing reaction content, satirical parodies of prank videos, and mocking the still fairly-new phenomena of...
I just started running, for some reason
5k a day keeps the bad thoughts away…maybe? I’ve been training for a half marathon for just over seven months. Before last September I hadn’t undertaken any lengthy running since I was in school, an entire decade prior. In fact, since leaving education I’ve had a turbulent relationship with health and exercise, fluctuating between being a gluttonous sloth and an obsessive gym rat every year or so since about 2019. My problem...
The adult wrestling cult
‘you’re breaking the fourth wall!’ Wrestling is massive again, and I’m not quite sure how that happened. Every casual conversation I have with a group of lads seems to inevitably turn to how John Cena recently turned heel. Having not tuned in at 5 in the morning, my immense powers of deduction tell me that his character arc has probably gone from good to bad. I’m 30, my daughter is up at...
