Monday, March 10, 2003
Let it be known, by the way, that I am not here intending to take the piss out of goths. The idiom of the lonely hearts page is always a strange and mutant thing, and it is just seeing it reapplied through a particular aesthetic lens that beguiles me. Trust me when I say I would rather drink red wine in a crypt with any of these wights than crack a chablis with the manifest of Oxford Romance, Bluesmatch or...well, I was going to tar Ivory Towers with the same brush, but I see that it is rather more democratic than its billing suggests - Loughborough is among its "top UK universities" - so perhaps not.

The idea of looking for a sweetheart based on sharing university is a slightly odd one, much odder than a shared sympathy in dress, music and literature, for example. But it does at least give me hope for the success of my latest venture, friendsreunitedwitheachothersgenitalia.com...

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