So where have I been this time? As I’m sure most people who’ve read this blog before realise, I don’t really exist much outside of work during December. Peak season — let’s not call it Christmas, that’s a joyous time of year and my favourite time of year, let’s not confuse it with THE LIVING …
Surfacing
I wrote two thirds of a blog I was practically convinced I’d finished and posted. I write my drafts in Evernote then flip them over to WordPress, so I did have a check, doubting memory and physical evidence all at once, and no...I hadn’t finished that blog. Or posted it. I mean, I remember why …
The Beginning
Another week off. I think I’ve definitely earned this one. I mean, I got home from work at 9:48pm last night. Bearing in mind that I work in retail and started work at 9am. I mean, I think that’s a fucking long day that I didn’t entirely get paid for (don’t worry, I can get …
Happy Halloween, Michael
My heart rate was 90BPM when I left the cinema last Friday night. My mate Vicky found this hilarious - she knows the feeling, her heart rate spiked to a cardiotastic 120BPM watching IT. It wasn’t quite fat-burning for me, but there’s proof if you need it that a good, tense or exciting movie is …
Get Out And Push
My first car made this really happy sound when something was going horribly wrong. Bada-ling! With all that kept going wrong with that one, it became a perky, chimey anxiety trigger—especially when it was accompanied by the amber plink of the engine light coming on. It made the same noise for anything - it’d warn …
Toxic Fandominity
I’ve wanted to write about fandom for a long time. I have many opinions on fandom—most of them not great, but there’s a real danger of tarring a lot of people with an unfair brush when it comes to discussing such things. I’ve started such an article many times over the past couple of years, …
Writr Does Bloggr About Grindr
I don’t think any other kind of app better sums up that whole love/hate Lifebox thing I was talking about before than...dating apps. That’s not to say I use a plural of dating apps — hmm, what’s the collective for a group of dating apps? An inconvenience? A desperation? A sad truth? — but I have …
Keeping the Lid on the Lifebox
I hate my phone. Well, no - I don’t. I don’t hate my phone. I don’t love my phone, either—well, actually, technically, I do love my phone, it’s a beautiful thing and very cool to me. But I hate it, too. I hate it as much as I love it. Because I do love it. …
Deep Submergence Writer
“The twenty-first century - mankind has colonised the last unexplored region on Earth: the ocean...” Anyone remember that? Ah, you all remember that. It was only…17 years ago? Shit—yeah, it wasn’t that long ago, just 17 years, come on…Well, for those of you pretending not to know what I’m talking about and those of you …
Twenty/20 Vision
This is the 20th blog of 2018. That’s pretty rubbish compared to what I was hoping to produce this year…but I think looking back at what I have written, I’ve kind of stumbled towards what I always wanted this blog to be…which was, largely, shamelessly representative of my interests and not tied solely to any …