Adventures in Everyday Madness Continuing
Without drugs, modern citizens are turning their eyes upon themselves as a way of coping with the insane demands of our digitally-liberated lives. I remember when I was a teenager and many commentators were welcoming the new dawn of technology as a liberation from work and an invitation to explore the boundaries of leisure. We... Continue Reading →
Life is sweetness wrapped in bile. It's the fruit from the tree that, once bitten, first assaults the taste; those first few moments of regret and dismay. The tongue takes some accustoming to such unwanted shocks and the mind has to readjust to the realisation that all encounters may taste this way. There is probably... Continue Reading →
Early hours and the cat is quietly telling me that I need to let her out. There is an unseasonal rain falling outside and a cold draft punches in as I open the door. "Are you sure about this?" I ask her, but she is already going into the night. It's just after 2am, the... Continue Reading →
Just A Quick Note on Feedback 1. uncountable noun If you get feedback on your work our progress, someone tells you how well or badly you are doing, and how you could improve. If you get good feedback you have worked or performed well. Continue to ask for feedback on your work. I was getting great feedback from my boss. 2. uncountable... Continue Reading →
Back in the day when we used motivational videos in assemblies, videos that told kids that they could be anything as long as they got at least a B at GCSE, I remember being a little bit taken in by the preposterous philosophy that we were selling. We were in of charge materials that could... Continue Reading →
Imagine that our lives are novels, ones that have been written by somebody else. Each morning, we open ourselves up to a new chapter. Sometimes it’s just an old paragraph that we have convinced ourselves that we have been working on; work in progress. When we first went through this it seemed alright, but we have... Continue Reading →
General cycling Soon Captain Candy will be pulling up outside. I've already memorised our conversation. I will enquire as to his wellbeing and he will talk for a good twenty-five minutes. The twenty-five minutes will not be good, but at least I've heard it all before. Many people tend to forget what they have already... Continue Reading →
Sunday, oh Sunday. Again I have ignored your directive to rest. I have transgressed the rule of God and have ventured out onto the roads of my native land. And I did so on a new bike. The real truth of the world is not to transgress God's laws but not to cross your wife's... Continue Reading →
AWOL, The Story Of Adam, is a dystopian novel set in the near future when wars and climate change have remade the world. No longer an logical world, civilization has compacted itself into small and isolated colonies. One such is the Citadel that is run by a government called The Family. The Citadel is a... Continue Reading →
