Archive for the Odds not ends category

Blogging as therapy #1

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 […]

Sans

Do make say think

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 home […]

One moment of excitable inhalation

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, I thought […]

Conversation v1.1

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 I keep los­ing the thread of what I’m say­ing.
         [Insert […]

Some words of enti(t)lement

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 […]

Buzz buzz in the eardrum

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 next to […]