Herion Magnets

Acrylic painting by Newfoundland artist Allison Prior

Born Slippy

Choose life

Choose designer lingerie, in the vain hope of kicking some life back into a dead relationship. Choose handbags, choose high-heeled shoes, cashmere and silk, to make yourself feel what passes for happy. Choose an iPhone made in China by a woman who jumped out of a window and stick it in the pocket of your jacket fresh from a South-Asian firetrap. Choose Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram and a thousand others ways to spew your bile across people you've never met. Choose updating your profile, tell the world what you had for breakfast and hope that someone, somewhere cares. Choose looking up old flames, desperate to believe that you don't look as bad as they do. Choose live-blogging, from your first wank till your last breath; human inter

choose life

Simon David "Sick Boy" Williamson is the character of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting series. He was portrayed by great actor Johnny Lee Miller.