mmoa_writes

Went to Camden after my morning shift, and, well to be honest I don't know what I was expecting (little short of total devastation, I suppose) but I couldn't help feeling a little let down. Comparatively recently, you see, there was a major fire that even had the BBC indulging in an unusually hyperbolic frame of being. I was quite worried when I heard the news, thinking that all Camden had been lost...

Yeah.

What was lost was the part of the Camden market which I swear that no one ever went to. Certainly there were never many people there whenever I ambled along, and it was the most run down, naff bit of the whole 'scene'. The only good things about it was a massive Gothic emporium that actually stocked some pretty interesting stuff (not just the usual synthetic black lace mini-petticoats and mock-velvet 'medieval' skirts...) and a shop owned by the loveliest Japanese girl which sold cheap-and-so-not-best-quality-but-still-pretty-good-anyway Lolita ware.

Knowing the people in charge of the shops I've just mentioned, I'd imagine they got their insurance all sorted out (for the Goths - Germans the lot of them - I'd say it was that good ol' Lutheran ethic at work). I was very nearly disappointed: so much for a tragedy of epic proportions.

Oh, and there's a really good article in the latest New Scientist about so-called 'scientific' books that seek to explain the difference between the sexes etc. The writer doesn't go into too much detail but exposes the illogic of so many of the prepositions and arguments that back them up with the scathing it deserves. Suffice to say for now on my part, I have never quite understood why the comparatively petty differences between the sexes should result in such major 'disparities' (which usually turn out to be extremes or cliches, oddly enough) and have never been given any fully convincing arguments either.