Goodbye Leigh… hello Molly

As Penny pointed out yesterday, The Anti-Room liveth and we have some bad news and some good news. Our beloved Leigh is hanging up her very high heels to do other things, but we live in hope that she’ll drop by with the occasional comment. The good news is that we’ve been joined by a [...]

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Human Nature

“It’s not like in films, is it?” said Annie the ghost, in the most recent episode of Being Human, the blackly comic BBC drama that is, by a long, long way, the best thing I’ve seen on telly this year. She’s right. Being Human, like Buffy before it, brilliantly subverts horror and fantasy film conventions [...]

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It’s A Mad World

This is a spoiler-free post: Mad Men, the drama series about ad men on Madison Avenue in the early sixties, is probably the most written-about show on the planet right now. So here’s just what you need – another post on the subject. The second season has just kicked off on BBC4 but I finished [...]

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Me me me me

Respect where it’s due – my fellow Anti-Roomers are delightfully adept at keeping abreast of pop culture this and zeitgeist that. TV, music, film, fem-trends, they’ve got it all licked…and fair play to them. So I thought I’d leave them to it and post about my own specialist subject – ME.
I know – egomaniacal bint.
Anyway, [...]

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Shaving, waxing, Immacing, sanding, threading…body hair and what to do with it.

The Veet Bush post got me thinking about body hair. I’m currently rocking some very hairy legs. Before Christmas I decided I was going to stop shaving my legs because it’s a pain in the bum. No wait. That sounds like a grand feminist statement, which would be misleading. I stopped shaving my legs in [...]

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Return of the vampire

Vampires have been on my mind lately. Last week I gave myself the unparalleled luxury of taking in an early-evening screening of Twilight, the teen vamp movie based on Stephenie Mayer’s best-selling novel. The movie had all the elements of a great teen movie – major love interest and then major obstacle to that love [...]

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Cute Overload

Need something to cheer you up on this manky Monday morning? Check out my current favourite website in the world, the wondrous Fuck You, Penguin, in which someone who rightly fears the power of overwhelmingly cute animals “tells [the aforementioned adorable creatures] what’s what”. I think this one might be my all-time favourite, if only [...]

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Barrier free

Yesterday I went to the doctor to pick up my six-monthly prescription for the pill, despite the fact that I am still single after the foot-rub-guy. What can I say, I live in hope. Not to mention the fact that the pill makes periods carefree non-events that last three days.
Anyway, in the doctor’s waiting room [...]

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Internet gone, free time rediscovered

Phew! My internet was dead for a whole ten days last week and it felt like part of me was dead too. I still had access in my job, but it didn’t feel like enough. At the same time, all of a sudden my life didn’t feel as bitty as when I have internet access, [...]

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