In this new — and God help you all, let’s hope mercifuily short — series of posts, I am seeking to shake, punch and kick some life into the diseased, fetid corpse of blogging by harking back to the medium’s golden age. When blogging used to be about the tedious minutiae of one’s life. When […]
I want to be a blogger. [Pause for effect.] Yes, you heard. Let me clarify that grandiose and possibly foolhardy statement. I want to be a normal blogger. No, really, I do. I want to post long-winded entries about my day at work, about getting so drunk last night that, like, I don’t even remember getting […]
I can barely believe what just happened! Indeed, I can so barely believe it that I am using exclamation marks in a flagrant and downright wilful fashion! Without due regard for health and safety laws! I have rarely been so animated! Or excitable! Where was I? Oh yes. What just happened, and barely believing it. Well, […]
There’s something I need to tell you. [Insert meaningless psychobabble here] “Where was I?“ There are many things I want to tell you. [Insert fleeting realisation here] “What was I going on about?“ There are so many things I have to share. [Insert stumbling explanations here] “How did we even get onto this subject?“ But […]
Whilst it is indeed true that I do own an extremely well-thumbed thesaurus, when indulging in yet another game of Scrabble I have also found that it greatly assists me in maintaining a winning rack of letters to think of the written inspiration provided by a select few personal publishing websites (or ‘blogs’, as I […]
If I had ever thought to lie awake at night and ponder what a fly might sound like when heard from a distance of approximately ten thousand miles away, I would have just received my answer. It sounds buzzy. There. In fact, it sounds almost exactly like a fly does if it is buzzing right […]