The Oscars, driving and vacations…

Who (if anyone) watched the Oscars on Sunday night? Over here, this is obviously quite a big thing (well, someone has to watch it), so I felt obliged to indulge in a little American culture (oxymoron?). Nicole Kidman blubbing, Jack Nicholson still being a ladies man at the age of one hundred and four and …

Stereotypes: how much more is there to life?

Blur once pontificated, in their era defining 1990‘s album, that ‘there must be more to life than stereotypes’. Of course, sometimes there is, and yet why have we become so afraid of them? The politically correct (or should that be politically confused?) generation have undoubtedly shied away from stereotypes and their negative ramifications. And yet, …