THE WORLD *head in hands*
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A Word on Today and Some Other Days
The ‘start’ of My Chemical Romance has always been 11th September 2001. Unless you think it though, anyway, and then it’s more “sometime between 9/11 and 23rd July 2002 when their first album came out” (9/11 was the catalyst but I kind of think that it took five people making noise to properly get it going, Continue reading
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The Six O’Clock News: Back to School
Since this is most readers’ first week back at school (shout if you’re in another country though, or not a student!) I thought I’d do something on school, new terms, starting afresh etcetera. Back to work: 10 Worst Things About Post-Holiday Blues I love how sarcastic this Sean Coughlan guy is. One of my favourite Continue reading
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The Six O’Clock News: Greece & Eastern Europe
Since I got back from Greece this week, I thought I’d talk about some news stories about the Grecian part of Europe – or mostly, anyway. Armenian Culture in Turkey: From the Ashes The Armenian genocide comes up a few times in We Need to Talk About Kevin, which I read while I was away, and this story Continue reading
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A Moment of Holden Caulfield-Inspired Newspaper-Founded Moaning
This article is an interesting read, whether you’re a Government and Politics student or not. Okay, it’s mostly interesting if you’re a Politics student. Especially if, like me, you’ve had a teacher who taught the political parties topic with enough scepticism and class discussion that the students made up their own mind about which party Continue reading
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