Hauling Like A Brooligan

Stephen Gallagher

Category: autobiography

  • More Bones from the Kingdom

    Tastes vary. I can remember going to see an afternoon show of Tim Burton’s Mars Attacks with a group of friends and realising that, out of all the fellow-cheapskates and pensioners who made up the rest of the meagre discount-ticket audience, we were the only ones laughing. Looking around and seeing all those stony faces…

  • T*ts, Bangs, and Tenure

    I’ve a friend who’s a psychology PhD, struggling to establish herself on the academic ladder. She’s been told that in order to keep her job she has to get two papers published in a recognised journal. I’d always thought that publication in learned journals was a way for academics add to their income. Not so,…

  • BLADE RUNNER: the Toddler’s Lunchbox Edition

    A while back I saw an ad from someone offering the old laserdisc release of BLADE RUNNER for sale, calling it BLADE RUNNER: ORIGINAL VERSION, and describing it thus: “This is the original version of BLADE RUNNER before Ridley Scott f’d it up. This one has the voiceover and no cheesy dream sequence. Ltbx and…