Old Acquaintance
Out with the old, in with the new. It’s New Year. A time for parties and resolutions and bloody Jools Holland. A time for review-of-the-year shows and for drunks telling you that next year will be better for them. A time for bells ringing and people singing. A time of fireworks and pipers and a […]
Christmas Past
As the wind hurls its more miserable and wetter brother, the rain, against my attic windows, I sit and consider the Christmas season just passed. All in all, it wasn’t too bad. A rather splendid Christmas dinner at my in-laws began the Christmas Waist Expansion in earnest. Over the next few days, much beer was […]
The Day After Christmas
It is the day after Christmas and I’m in a bit of a weird mood. I suspect one of two things: My spleen has secreted excess humour – a black bile if you will – that has brought on a bout of melancholia. I’m getting fed up with the Christmas experience of staying at my […]
It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year…
…Not really, of course. It’s just Christmas. That being the case however, it seems traditional to offer some sort of Yuletide greeting to people – even weird, internet strangers who, more than likely, are reading this naked, smeared in goose-fat while performing strange, unsavoury acts with Toblerones and turkey-basters. So then, filthy internet-people, have yourselves […]
The Problem With LEDs
My itty-bitty bit of flash fiction, The Problem With LEDs, has been published over at Metazen. It will also appear in the Metazen Christmas Story Book which is being sold for charity. If you pop over and donate more than 15 Canadian dollars (via PayPal) on Metazen, you will receive a printed copy of the […]
All Change
As you may have noticed, if you’ve visited before, I have changed things considerably around here. Out is the old, grungy look and in is clean and crisp. It’s this season’s hottest new thing. Probably. Truth be told, I got pretty fed up with the old look ages ago but just didn’t get around to […]
Simon Pegg doesn’t like fast-moving zombies either
Forgive the poor quality but I was too lazy to do anything but take a picture of the drawing with my iPhone. What do you want? I don’t have Gary Larson’s money and time. Or his commitment or talent.
Middle-aged
I am no longer a young man. I’ve been aware of this for some time but it is occasionally driven home to me. Like now. Two beery nights and I’m a floppy, husk of a man. Two nights with too little sleep and too much beer and I look like the long-dead corpse of a […]
Grumpy
Today has been a grumpy day. For reasons I won’t go into, and that were no one person’s fault, a train of annoying events was set in motion as the cosmos continued its spiteful vendetta against me. I spent most of the afternoon grumping around the house, scowling and moaning to myself. I secreted myself […]
Gerry Hayes
I mostly sit around all day and drink tea. Occasionally, I write stuff and send it to strangers so they can humiliate me and deride my efforts. Other than the self-harm to dull the shame of failure, it's not a bad life. Like I say, there's tea.
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