As a Katherine, I’m quite happy for my name to be too pedestrian for the Kardashians if it means they never use it.

All true. I spend quite a lot of time in Egypt for work, and you can get alcohol pretty easily in most places (people shouldn’t drink alcohol according to Islam, but plenty do) - and, of course, in Cairo (especially Zamalek, as the author notes) you can get everything. The passage where the author is travelling alone…

You’re very welcome!

Lindy West has had a weekly column in The Guardian and done a couple of longer features for them recently. I was so pleased to see her there, because I was so sad when she left Jezebel, and it’s fantastic to see her getting her teeth into something a bit weightier than the Dirt Bag (though her Dirt Bags were THE BEST)!

The same thing happened to me last year when I was out doing stuff with my male (white, American) colleague last year on a dig in Luxor. (Everything in Egypt is mysteriously so much easier when you have a white male American with you!) But anyway, at first it was just little things, like when we would go into town to…

Oh yeah, especially those involving noted hispters Beyonce, Dolly Parton, and Metallica!

SANSA!

It goes after everything the Daily Mail holds dear, though, doesn't it? One of my favourite bits in the whole Harry Potter series is in The Prisoner of Azkaban, where it's mentioned that Uncle Vernon is reading the Daily Mail. I think I've also read somewhere that the Daily Prophet was also based on the Daily Mail.…

She was absolutely fantastic! I really thought she carried the whole thing brilliantly. I also loved Keeley Hawes as Samantha - don't know about anyone else, but it kind of crept up on me slowly in the book that Samantha has a drinking problem, but seeing her situation on screen in that way in a far more concentrated…

And so many of life's little lessons, like when she showed up at the Forbidden City and tried to tell people that the emperor was in danger, and got frustrated because nobody would listen to her, and Mushu was like, "Hey, you're a girl again, remember?" Fuck the patriarchy with a ton of fabulous fireworks, girl.

Yeah, but what about the lucky cricket? THE LUCKY CRICKET NEEDS TO BE IN IT. Or else dishonour on everyone involved, their cows, and their entire families.

My favourite, that I had from a guy friend a couple of weeks back: after not texting back for TWO AND A HALF WEEKS, he sent a text which began, "Sorry, I don't know how this got lost in the inbox!" This literally made me exclaim, "Oh, fuck OFF!" at my phone, especially as it was first thing on a bloody Sunday morning,…

How long before someone suggests that One Direction were jinxed by Taylor Swift releasing Style as a single, and this also gets to be all her fault?

Swiftly followed by, "OMG, Madeleine!"

I remember that more! I stayed up most of the night to watch that debate here in the UK (because I know how to waste my time wisely, clearly), and I thought the part where he said that he was doing his bit for gender equality in the workplace by ensuring that his female employees didn't have to work late so that they…

Pirates of Caribbean 5: Seriously, Another One? Yes, Another One

As someone who spends a fair bit of their academic/professional life actively trying to not piss off the Egyptian government in all of its manifestations, as they can be a little touchy about things sometimes, I must say, this was my first thought.

That was so interesting, I really enjoyed watching it. I thought it was very interesting when someone from the media made some kind of comment about how she didn't understand why William has such a massive problem with the paparazzi in particular and the media in general. Lady, let's just all think back to 1997, when h…

YES. That was magnificent. And how much fuss he made before they even left about not being allowed to take his own collection of period rifles with him, but having to use project-supplied modern Russian-made ones instead, and the mom of the family from Tennessee was just like, "If he says one more word about guns, I…

And they had quite long hair, didn't they, so yeah, go ahead and make that bottle last six months, ladies!