I grew up eating meat on an almost daily basis. My dad, as the guy who delivered meat to the stores, often got freebies from butchers he'd become friends with. Eating meat was completely normal and since my dad worked in the industry, I knew exactly what I was eating. Now that I'm more or less an adult, I don't eat as much meat anymore. My dad got a different job over a decade ago...
Miss Marvel has a special place in my heart. The very first thing I bought with my very first paycheck just so happened to be the very first big Miss Marvel comic book. The pretty hardcover one with tons of extra pages. You might have seen my review back in the day. I loved everything about it, from the art to the story to the little bits of Pakistani culture that made the whole thing...
No, Banksy didn't leave one of his famous Laugh Now monkeys on the streets of my country's capital. Sadly. We don't have that kind of luck in the Netherlands. We have a different kind of luck here: the Modern Contemporary Museum in Amsterdam, Moco for short, brought a Banksy exhibition to Holland. And you know me, I can't let a Banksy exhibition slide. The exhibition seems to be a permanent one for now, but each...
1 hour and 17 minutes. That's approximately how long it takes me to travel to Amsterdam by train. Yet for some reason I'd never been there. I'd been at the airport, sure. Dozens of times. The football stadium counts, I guess. In 2016 I visited a high school friend who studies there. And 10 years ago I went to the Van Gogh Museum with elementary school, but didn't see much apart from the backs of...