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Monthly Archives: February 2014
Human Minds Working to Make Human Minds Heard
I have written this very late and I am tired, expect copious errors. Today, I had an EEG recording of my brain. I was warned that if there were any erratic results or anomalies, I would be advised to visit … Continue reading
Sitting in the Dry Bar of the Spiritual Journey
What is “spirituality”? Whenever I read about it, I seem none the wiser. It seems to be a catch all phrase for looking at something beautiful, or inhaling mountain air, or being immersed in looking at some butterflies, and thinking, … Continue reading
Ridiculous Thoughts of a Ridiculous Man – premature melancholy nostalgia
I have an unhealthy habit of experiencing premature melancholy nostalgia. This is a predilection for feeling sorrow for a loss that hasn’t happened yet. This seems the right sort of thing to type about on a Sunday afternoon having said … Continue reading
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These Spectacles Were Made for Browsing
What was the first thing I bought off the internet? Could it have been that signed photo of Denholm Elliott, or was it the Mark of the Devil official and unused promotional sick bag? I was hooked on Ebay for … Continue reading
Has My Mind Grown Up Yet? A Birthday Blog
Today, I am 45. I was born in a snowstorm. If I had gone backwards since then, rather than traveling forwards in time, It would be 6 years after the First world war, three years before Al Jolson spoke in … Continue reading
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And there was wailing and gnashing and sandwiches and sherry – on funeral imagination
The present can be a difficult place to occupy. Many people spent their days remembering how much better things were in the past, others look to a joyful future, it is just now that is always not quite what you … Continue reading
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Go To Sleep America…and Surrounding Areas… on Bill Hicks
here is unedited version of my article for Shortlist about Bill Hicks Time to realise you are aging, to face up to the fact that the early 90s wasn’t “recent”, that when you were a teenager, people like you looked … Continue reading
Your Culture is Ailing – fighting flames and Dettol
Looking back, would The Better Failures have been better as a club name than Your Culture is Ailing, Your Art is Dead? No. Good, that’s that sorted. The new night has begun, and once it has begun, it cannot be … Continue reading
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“Hey, you know when there’s utter silence just after you’ve said, ‘you know when…'”
On advice, I have reinstated the ‘this may well contain poor punctuation, grammar, and reasoning’ warning. When a good observational comedian says, “you know when (place human behaviour here)”, the whole pub room, theatre, or arena laugh. They have had their … Continue reading
The Burden of the Bookish
I have rid myself of most addictions, but still one persists. Sadly,in my weakness, I believe I will never shun it, due to it being the result of both nature and nurture. It has ramifications on health and can put … Continue reading
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