A couple of my published articles...

Tax the Sacks
Eye Magazine, October 23 2003

Yesterday I bought a two-litre carton of milk at the corner store: four dollars and nine cents, and the nice lady pulled open a plastic bag and started to put the milk inside. “That’s grand”, said I, gripping the carton about the midriff. “I don’t need a bag.” Yes, I was saying, I can bear this carton the full fifty metres back to my house, without any plastic assistance.     CONTINUED...

The Call of the Braying Oaf
Eye Magazine, December 4, 2003

It was the opening scene of Kill Bill, and Uma Thurman had just plunged a knife into Vivica Fox. At once, it began: a high, warbling cackle that cut through the Varsity 3 like a buzzsaw screaming through a sheet of galvanized tin. The owner of this ice-pick laugh was sitting in my row. Male, early 30s, and keen to tell us all: “Look at me! I have such a refined sense of irony that I am highly amused by Tarantino’s wittily postmodern disembowellings and decapitations!” He spent the next two hours reminding the entire cinema of this fact.     CONTINUED...