Demystifying The Male Nude
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
Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
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
Blame the burning man on the Moon
We could of course blame it all on the moon-- this insanity. Last nights orb more ominous, potent, pregnant then ever. Such a force has…
neilcoppenMay 20, 2008
A post apocalyptic love story for these dark ages
With the power and water stations long collapsed and no diesel left to fuel their stagnant SUV's (let alone the standby generators) life had become…
neilcoppenApril 23, 2008
Too Many Crooks (A state of the nation undress)
On my recent three month travels in South America, I picked up a book by Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing titled 'The Prisons We Choose…
neilcoppenMarch 7, 2008
ON WHACKJOBS
In a continent gone loco, a universe crawling with itinerant nutters, Charles undoubtedly saw himself as a long standing pillar of sanity. I met him…
neilcoppenFebruary 19, 2008
Bolivia (part 2) Above and Below
A visit to the Patosi Silver Mines in Bolivia, to get an alternative view of the state of things, proves both frightening and enlightening. A…
neilcoppenDecember 16, 2007
UP IN THE AIR ATHEISM
Finding Atheism a godzillon metres above the ground,on a SAA flight to San Paulo, might not be the most advisable of epiphanies to find yourself…
neilcoppenNovember 22, 2007