Archive for April, 2009

World domination is all a matter of interpretation

They say that I need a plan. Who­ever they are. I say that I have a plan. A twelve-step plan, I say. They ask if I am an alco­holic. I recon­sider my reply. They say that I need a plan. Who­ever they are. I say that plans are for career­ist swine, for cap­it­al­ist scum, for faceless […]

Self-publicity or nervous breakdown? You decide

If you think my writ­ing is impen­et­rable, obscure, even pre­ten­tious, then standby for a rev­el­a­tion, for I am about to speak plainly. Or should that be write plainly? I don’t know. Indeed, I prob­ably don’t care either. But whichever it is, I will be plain and simple and straight­for­ward in the deliv­ery of what I […]

Like therapy, minus the Freudian overtones

With an unchar­ac­ter­istic degree of self-confidence that briefly lulled me into think­ing I might be a ‘some­body’ in online writ­ing terms, I let Ryan Man­ning ask me a series of deep and mean­ing­ful ques­tions for his inter­view site, thunk. Good luck read­ing to the end of all I said. I was clearly labour­ing under the […]

Dead people’s things for sale #4

Kill all angels

Ima­gin­a­tion is a whore. A filthy yet fickle whore. Comes to me and for me, spread-eagled and pout­ing, offer­ing up everything on a wooden plat­ter. Then she with­draws, closes up and turns away. A frost des­cends. She’s ice cold, white and drained. yes i know you want fuck­ing angels and more fuck­ing angels and all […]