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If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.
It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.
It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket.
It's the time of year when the literati give advice on what we should be reading on our summer holidays. These terrifying lists often leave me appalled at my own ignorance, but also suspicious about the pretension of their advocates.
It's worth turning up to an awards gig if you know you've won one but, since you never do know, it's not worth it.
Listening to Chris Moyles on Radio 1 is the most miserable thing any human being can do, but attending awards ceremonies isn't far behind.
My eyebrows could do with a trim.
My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.
Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose.
Only the pun remains. The pun, beloved of Shakespeare, children and tabloid headline-writers, is normally eschewed in the modern, sophisticated circles in which I move.
Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.
Someone once described me as the Zelig of comedy, and I think I know what he means.
Sometimes it's bad to do something you've never done before.
Sometimes it's good to do something that you've never done before, so yesterday, I went out to buy Elton John's new album.
The best way to prepare for a night out with a Shakespearean tragedy is to do a bit of reading up in the afternoon, eat a light supper - perhaps Welsh rarebit - and then arrive early to do some stretching exercises in the foyer before curtain-up.
The Bible has no doubt had much influence in its time, but it provides very few laughs. None, in fact.
The book may be garbage, but if it weighs in at a kilo or more, I stand before its author in awe.
The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it.
The outfits come and go but there is a constant that I like about the catwalk model: the snotty expression.
The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.
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