About The Author

John Ovans

John Ovans is from London, has smudgy, roundish glasses, and likes complaining about stuff on the Internet. Follow him @jphov, where he mainly tweets about Girls Aloud and eating veal, or on his blog, Beirut Bloopers.

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16 Mar 2015

How I Learnt to Be Happy in Shanghai

by John Ovans

John Ovans talks about what it’s like having a sense of adventure, but not much sense.
03 Jul 2014

A Tale of Two Hipster Cities

by John Ovans

The idea of "cool" isn't just local. John Ovans travels half-way around the world to escape artisanal beards, and finds more of the same.
15 Apr 2014

Don’t Be An Emotional Crackwhore

by John Ovans

How Upworthy is turning us into sappy fools.