For many, Christmas is exemplified by the consumption of alcohol before noon. People roll out of bed and keep on rolling straight into the booze cabinet – Champagne, Port, Brandy, Gin, hold the tonic – emerging only to leisurely swallow their own weight in meat and vegetables, before resuming the imbibing or yet more alcoholic [...]
Category Archives: Why I Love…
Why I Love… Christmas Telly
Also posted in Home, Love, Movies, Television, Why I Love... Tagged Film, Movies, Sexy telly, Telly, TV Shows 2 Comments
Why I Love… Black Beauty Supply Shops
I don’t have a clear memory of the first time I went to a ‘hair shop’, but I’ll wager that I was very young. The importance of hair for Black women starts early, so there’s no reason for me not to believe that I was in one while still in utero. Black beauty supply shops are [...]
Also posted in Hair, London, Love, Shopping, Why I Love... Tagged Black Hair, Customer Service, Hair, London 5 Comments
Why I Love… Chick Lit (Guest Post)
I’m very keen on this modern innovation called “outsourcing”. In that spirit, the lovely Ronke at The Musings of Ondo Lady has contributed to the Why I Love… series. Show her some love at her blog. Ta! Chick Lit has been dismissed and scoffed at as being cheap and trivial literature for shallow-minded girls. With a reputation [...]
Also posted in Books, Guest Post, Literature, Love, Why I Love... Tagged 'Lady Things', Chick Lit, Guest Post, Ondo Lady, Stereotypes, Writing 3 Comments
Why I Love… Agent 355
My friend John has given me many things over the course of our friendship – food, comfort, writing and editing advice and a SNL compilation DVD among them - and I hope to remain friends with him for a very long time. But I can tell our friendship has aleady peaked; and it has everything to [...]
Also posted in Books, Graphic Novels, Hair, Literature, Love, Why I Love... Tagged Agent 355, Feminism, Sonja Sohn, The Wire, Women, Y: The Last Man 2 Comments
Why I Love… Gilmore Girls
How often do you hear the name Lorelai? Outside of (one of my favourite films) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, hardly ever. It’s just not a Top 100 kind of name, is it? Which makes it all the more awesome that both of the titular Gilmore Girls are called Lorelai. And that’s just the tip of the [...]
Also posted in America, Love, Television, Why I Love... Tagged Alexis Bledel, Gilmore Girls, Lauren Graham, Lorelai Gilmore, TV Shows 6 Comments
Why I Love… Red Shoes
Before you ask, I don’t like The Wizard of Oz much. I didn’t find it a magical, transformative childhood event, the way so many people seemed to. But I do remember thinking that Dorothy’s glittery red pumps were the bee’s knees. With a slightly more adult palate, I discovered the subtle layers that underpin the film, and still [...]
Also posted in Fashion, Literature, Love, Movies, Style, Why I Love... Tagged Dorothy, Footwear, Hans Christian Andersen, Red Shoes No Knickers, The Red Shoes, The Wizard of Oz 2 Comments
New Blog Series Alert!
Hi everyone! I seem to have exclamation fever! See?! Just wanted to let you know to expect a new Blog Feature, capital B, cpaital F. Slightly older readers may remember a column that used to live in The Guardian’s g2 many years ago, called Why I Love… Everyday, a writer would expound their (sometimes) irrational [...]
Why I Love… The Princess Bride
I remember watching Robin Hood: Men in Tights, aged about 12, while on holiday from boarding school, and falling head over heels in love with Robin Hood himself, actor Cary Elwes. Shortly afterwards, I watched The Princess Bride and the focus of my crush shifted – I fell in love with a movie, and I haven’t looked [...]
Also posted in Culture, Humour, Literature, Love, Movies, Why I Love... Tagged As You Wish, Cary Elwes, Crush, Film, Inconceivable, Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride, Westley + Buttercup, Young Love 4 Comments
