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In what can only be known as a great discovery and even greater mistake, researchers have located another new year to add to their calendars, much to the upset of those hoping for planet-wide nullification. Scientists have been shocked to realise that there has been another year hiding just on the horizon, with technological devices only being able to identify 4543000020 possible rotations around the sun. This new year has appropriately been an unexpected shock, but most are not convinced that ...

Each visit, I look forward to the banter, the snark and most of all sitting shoulder to shoulder during a cozy brunch at the Ruby Slipper on Canal Street. This is Black joy. A love I share with my spry, septuagenarian friend. However, this time around, much of it is a no-go. She nixes all that fuzzy love shit on sight.  “Stella, no hug?” I ask open armed.  Lovingly she warns: “You stay your Black ass at that distance. Your hug is in the air.”  My eyes scan her back office. Shelves th...

We might not jetski across a sea but we understand the longing that inspired the feat Rachel Cooke © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Simon Maycock/Alamy Stock Photo My first reaction to “jetski man” was hysterical laughter. I couldn’t get over the idea that he thought it would take only 40 minutes to travel on his whizzy new water scooter from the Scottish coast to the Isle of Man – as if the Irish Sea was merely a dual carriageway and his ride a double-decker bu...

It cheers the soul that love will out, even during this great, dreadful Covid pause ‘In these strange, meanwhile times, jetski man, I concluded, is Everyman.’ Photograph: Simon Maycock/Alamy Stock Photo ‘In these strange, meanwhile times, jetski man, I concluded, is Everyman.’ Photograph: Simon Maycock/Alamy Stock Photo Sun 20 Dec 2020 02.18 EST Last modified on Sun 20 Dec 2020 13.30 EST My first reaction to “jetski man” was hysterical laughter. I couldn’t get over the idea that h...