I am by no means a wise man or best-selling writer, in fact if you ask me what of my dreams I have achieved thus…
neilcoppenNovember 20, 2008
Jesus jumped off my bathroom wall this morning. Cracked his sacred heart. Last night there was a police helly hovering over my head woke to…
neilcoppenOctober 28, 2008
I hate being advertised too, lumped into a demographic and assumed to be a certain type of individual, who will want to dress a certain…
neilcoppenOctober 21, 2008
Mr Armit Ooka (70) owner of the Shiraz cinema stares out solemnly from his box- office booth onto a bustling Victoria Street in Durban's rundown…
neilcoppenSeptember 22, 2008
The vagina used to be a conversational no no, that was until playwright and activist Eve Ensler's long- running stage play The Vagina Monologues managed…
neilcoppenAugust 13, 2008
What do a philosophising frog farmer, a ropey plastic surgeon, a fat-cat politician and a professional kidnapper all have in common? You might be forgiven…
neilcoppenJuly 24, 2008
He arrived when I was thirteen. I have a pen portrait of him in a journal marked November 1995. We picked him from a litter,…
neilcoppenJuly 22, 2008
Sixty ”“three old Frank Graham, might easily strike you as the type of eccentric grandpa who never quite got round to pawning off his childhood…
neilcoppenJuly 9, 2008
Lucy Walkers award ”“winning documentary ”˜Blindsight' falls into that category of ”˜triumph over adversity' documentary films. Films that have the ability to shift perceptions, shake…
neilcoppenJuly 5, 2008