Then I'm happy to dance with the devil!

So, down here in the land of Oz, I came home from my midnight shift feeling utterly dispirited because my boss decided yesterday to publicly humiliate me by berating me for something which wasn't my fault in front of not only the entire staff but a whole bunch of customers as well. I was lying in bed, slightly tipsy…

If either of those women say it, I'm taking it as gospel til my dying day.

So, I think I have a handle on what shade is now, thanks to this glorious column. I have a question. Is it only shade if it is intended as an insult? Because I may have inadvertently been shading people for a very long time.

Baby stripper poles!

In my experience, chefs have a specific set of skill sets that qualify them more than some other people to work in a commercial kitchen. Knife and food prep skills, certainly, also above par time management and organisational skills. A thick skins, ability to work under pressure and to deal with idiots. It…

I have this idea that I don't ever want to meet celebrities that I admire, because if I met them and they turned out to be an asshole, or, you know, just having a bad day that one time I met them, it would alter my experience of their work. But I would honestly LOVE to meet Drew Barrymore. She just always seems like…

Okay, so I realise I'm about to out myself to the entire world as a makeup ignoramus (and potentially a failure as a woman) but WTF is a contour kit?

Sounds exhausting. I'm taking a sympathy nap now.

Oh, Kim KW, Bless!

My first thoughts were to The Night Circus as well and I immediately thought, "Who wouldn't want that?"

No, blow it out your ass because that is clearly NOT what she was saying. Just how you decided to interpret it. The fact is, women have been seen as less than men since virtually the dawn of time and our contribution to society considered nothing. Even if that contribition was "just" giving birth and raising…

I'm sorry, but, as a woman who has chosen to be child free I have only this to say to you, "Go blow it out your ass. This isn't about you. Don't make it about you."

I love (like, LOVE) Marion Cotillards dress and I'm not sure why. I'm wondering if it's because I adore her, although I have seen her wear things before that I have not enjoyed. I'm not sure I'd love it as much on anybody else (except maybe Tilda Swinton).

So, this seems to be the place to ask this (back in my old Jez days there used to be a forum where we could just all hang out and chat, but that doesn't seem to exist anymore). So, I'm coming to the US for the very first time in May and I'm visiting Vegas and New York. Vegas is for a friends wedding and I'll only be…

sigh.

I can't help thinking that there is no way this was "just an accident". I'm Australian. These foods do not carry the same racially sensitive associations down here and I can still see that this is grossly offensive. Surely nobody is that stupid?

This probably isn't as weird as my sisters and parents made me feel it was at the time, but whenever we went visiting my parents friends places when I was a kid, I would always go check out their bookcase and, if there was something that I wanted to read, I would just pull it out, start reading and check out for the…

Indeed. All that money that the lot of them have to throw around and they all prove that it can buy neither class nor dignity.

I've met French people, both in and outside of France and strangely they are as non-homogeneous a bunch of people as those living in any other country in the world.