Category Archives: Life

Petah Marian: Girrrl Gamer

My boyfriend plays video games for a living. I don’t get it. I really don’t get it. I mean, no offence to geeks, but aren’t games were for sweaty, socially-maladjusted 17 year-olds? In the interests of being a good girlfriend and for my own personal growth, I played Gears of War 2 while he was [...]

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Crart is short for Crap Art

As a child I developed this odd tradition with my father, which I think has turned into somewhat of a wider obsession, or maybe the obsession fueled the tradition, you never can tell with these things. Anyway, I defined an artistic movement called Crart or Crap Art. I’m not sure how it began but but [...]

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Wheat and fun free

I’ve recently been told to give up wheat as it has been making me ill. There are a lot of things that taste good that contain wheat, not only that there are a lot of wheaty things that are fairly central to my diet - Bagels, cereal and pasta being three. So naturally I’ve been [...]

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Are you bananas? IV dieting

I cannot believe the lengths other women will go to in order to become skinny. The Daily Mail has written a story today about how celebrities are using saline iv lines in order to get some nutrients and stave off hunger while they starve themselves.
I was shocked at the ridiculousness of it all today. [...]

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