Allow me to add two hours to your life. Above are the only two good bits from Thor: Love & Thunder. You’re welcome. Chris Hemsworth seems to have been styled, airbrushed, lit – and restrained in gold chains – by Pierre… Read More »Thor Blimey
Why are the gentlemen of the popular press so interested in George Michael’s manhood? Why won’t they leave it alone? In 1998, after stalking him for years, in a painful pincer movement with Beverly Hills Police Department’s finest, they finally… Read More »I Want Your Sex: Why the Press Can’t Leave George Michael’s Manhood Alone
by Mark Simpson (Independent on Sunday, 23/07/06) “Oh, Bertie, when are you going to write your memoirs?” asks punk academic Jon Savage at a chance meeting with the author in Berlin. Berties replies: “Oh, I don’t know, Jon… what would… Read More »Suburbohemian Rhapsody: review of ‘Berlin Bromley’
Mark Simpson on the rise and rise of ‘American air’ (London Times Magazine, 2003) ‘This is my home, this is America!’ a canned, generic male power-ballad singer, possibly on loan from those naff Gillette commercials, warbles over the P.A. The… Read More »Global Cooling: The Rise & Rise of ‘American Air’
ABC News tells us that ‘Metrosexual is out – macho is in’ It offers little evidence of this assertion other than a product-placement style interview with the editor of a glossy men’s magazine who will clearly say anything to sell his mag, including… Read More »The ‘new macho’ – just older, saggier, daggier metrosexuality
Just in time for the World Cup the July issue of the re-launched OUT features an essay by yours truly on the post-metrosexual pornolization of sport – or what I dub ‘sporno’. Here’s a (breathless) taster: ‘Sportsmen on this side… Read More »Sporno: where sport and porn meet and produce a spectacular money shot