I arrive late afternoon in Los Angeles and am greeted by award winning adult film director, Nica Noelle. I throw my luggage in the back of her car before she drives me to her home in the affluent Palos Verdes, southwest of central LA. Noelle has long, auburn hair; she...

"I need to be paralysed. It's an intense longing. I don't know that I have words to describe it today." This is Sean O'Conner, lifelong sufferer of Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID, also referred to as Amputee Identity Disorder). Until very recently I had never heard of BIID, nor had...

As a boy I would stare at the television screen in a state of subdued perplexity. The dark blue, the bright yellow, the turquoise, the white, the black; it all made for a jarring colour scheme, akin to the emetic discharge of a child who had hastily eaten half a...

Fifty Shades of Grey is a superb book; EL James has exceeded expectations to become the curator of an important and impressive literary milestone. This ex-TV producer from West London is now a global best-seller, and has set the record as being author of the fastest-selling paperback of all time,...

As someone who's enchanted by internet culture and its ability to make fascinating the nichest of niche subjects, I was naturally delighted when, late one evening, I stumbled upon an entire list of 'answer songs.'

I of course had no idea what an answer song was, but someone had...

It's 9.55am LA time. Rutger Hauer is still finishing his breakfast, "are you sure you don't want me to wait?" I ask, "might be a little hard to answer the questions whilst eating". "No." Is his immediate response, "I can think whilst chewing."

Rutger is a stage,...

For most of my adult life I've suffered from insomnia. I've tried many different supposed remedies, including hypnosis, intentional sleep deprivation, exercise, strict routines, warm milk before bed and even Zopiclone. None of the above has been particularly effective, with the exception of perhaps Zopiclone, which became useless after four...

Why is Keanu Reeves so sad? Can I haz cheeseburger? What does the double rainbow mean? As we all know, the internets is serious business and these question are worth considering. What do they all have in common? They're derived from internet memes, a peculiarity that can be best described...