We all have friends we navigate tricky waters with - maybe they’re coupled up and their finances are entangled with somebody else’s, maybe they have a better-paid job than you, or are freelance and their income is intermittent, but we all have somebody in our lives for whom buying a wrongly-priced gift will send the... Continue Reading →
The Late-Romantic dot com Gift Guide – The Co-Worker You’re… Friends? With Now
This list also works for the office Secret Santa: it’s for somebody you chat to every day on a superficial level. Maybe you want to know them better, maybe you don’t, but you certainly don’t need to be spending a tonne on them… equally, though, a card might not cut it. Make them a mixtape.... Continue Reading →
Late Romantic began as a blog called 'theexjournalist' sometime around my late teens / early twenties. As I've moved tentatively towards placing greater values on privacy, professionality, and other projects, its appearance and content has changed, as has its hosting (1). It does appear to me that, however, over the years, the consistent function of... Continue Reading →
The Late-Romantic dot com Gift Guide – The Person You’re Saving for a House With
You clearly love this person a lot, but money is also clearly something you've discussed and you're on track for building a life together, which takes cash. How can you show your partner that you care in both the long and short-term? Etsy jewellery. People like pretty things, and rather than going for mall jewellery... Continue Reading →
November is for gift guides.
November is for gift guides. I always want these proposed Christmas lists to come out earlier rather than later to give you time to actually buy them: either to go to the store and get them, or to get them shipped and wrapped in plenty of time; to give you time with the Black Friday... Continue Reading →
Robert Owen & The Prisoner: Harmony in America
You might think that the only connection between these two erstwhile passions of mine is Wales: one is a story of dogged individualism seeking freedom, set against the backdrop of Portmerion, a peculiar citadel on the Welsh coast that is woven into the narrative of the whole show, whilst the other is a collectively-minded Welshman whose work prefigured Marx and Jamie Oliver, but when they put themselves in the American landscape both The Prisoner and Owen chose harmony as the word that would best encapsulate their American sojourn.
Some Thoughts On The Eras Tour Film
Hi, it's me, a veteran gig-goer, film fan, and card(igan)-carrying Swiftie, here to break down the Eras tour movie and tell you what you want to know. Beware setlist spoilers and biased criticism.
Sally Rooney as Arthur Koestler
Arthur Koestler, whose books show the mundane and interior lives of radicals, sits alongside our foremost millennial novelist, reading her works is reading a version of the anxieties and experiences my compatriots and I have lived.
In Defence of Gaylor
Taking stan wars seriously 2k23
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