Monthly Archives: January 2009

Stockport

I don’t really know if Stockport’s trying to be a city or a big town, and you get the idea that it doesn’t have a clue either. See, Stockport’s the bit that missed the toilet — bounced off the rim, the M60, the Manchester ringroad that is — and settled into the carpet halfway between the [...]
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Waking up gives you cancer

If you believe the paper you’re reading, waking up gives you cancer. Barbequed food gives you cancer, or God does. Cancer’s in the air, in your mobile phone, in the stuff you clean your oven with. If it’s not mutating those cells then it’s mutating those other ones. It’s patronising you from your box of cigarettes; [...]
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The mannequin

My mother’s road is a leafy provincial strip in a dying town. People have two cars, drink wine with their prozac, subscribe to Sky Sports and still think the internet’s biblical. It’s slippy when it’s cold and the train station wasn’t earmarked for improvements anyway, so nobody cares that Manchester voted against the conjection charge. It’s good if [...]
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