Dreading having to have “the talk” with my son (i.e. what to do if a man shows up on our doorstep who looks exactly like me and claims that he’s the real William Gerrard and I’m an imposter 🙄)
mono no a-hair-e
probably a terrible faux-pas to wear fashionable 1910s footwear nowadays
Ringo has blisters because he's a drummer, John's are probably some horrible disease
you'd need a ghost reader to even try to read this much of one guy
buttermilk chicken thighs was my nickname in school
the guy from the copy pasta text!
it was a sign
I wanted to try Popeye's because it was featured heavily in an episode of Atlanta, and then the very next day I saw an ad saying they were opening one nearby
Brent Oil is called that because it originally comes from Brent Cross Shopping Centre
Anglo publishers would have beaten Annie Ernaux with hammers I'll tell you that much
If I ever open a restaurant be sure to book a table the first night, because it's all downhill from there
it's fun to learn how to cook a new dish because I know the first time will be delicious and all subsequent times it will be shit
an Adidas Samba law firm
I hate clothing-colour related social shibboleth slang: blue-stocking girlfriend, white-shoe firm boyfriend
weren't those just the days though?
At long last I am experiencing the sad divorce from the classic lit fic novel Don't Have a Sad Divorce
in a parallel world where all the tech oligarchs were into lit fic instead of sci fi they are having sad affairs and ruminating on identity, childhood, and loss instead of attempting to hasten the collapse of civilisation
that's definitely her
ooh, I love a little pronunciation guide at the beginning. It often solves quite a few made-up problems that editors find themselves worrying about
Edith Gowan-Speculoos?
Dolores Daumesnil-Higgins?
it was something with a double barrelled surname, something like Dorothy Sydney-Poitier but not that obviously
What was the name of that girl in college who borrowed my copy of Salvador Dali's insane autobiography and never gave it back?
Supporting our troops in the war against Scotch-Irish foodways
those archipelagos he likes doing would sound better
Imagine how good he’d be with a nice wet piano.
Miso soup is short for misogynist soup
"Entrance hidden by bricks and rubble"
