Everydaystranger

See you March 11.

Last night I joined the bourgeois of the world, I decided to bite the bullet and actually take a very large step. I crossed over the border from territory I am comfortable with to territory I am not….
I tried to make some friends.
I am utter rubbish at making friends, and I am even worse [...]

Being the artist previously known as Suicidal, I spent a lot of time thinking about death. My death, in particular. You tend to have a bit of time on your hands while sitting on a bed in the white padded crazy room in the hospital, and I had a lot of time to [...]

As a child in Colorado Springs, I remember rushing to the radio first thing in my pajamas first thing in the morning, parking my butt on the hardwood floors, and listening to the school closings. More often than not we just got a late starting day, but with my heart in my throat as [...]

They say that modern media has desensitized us, and I would have to agree-I can watch TV shows or movies that show people being stabbed, and yet I know so well that it’s just TV, that at the end of the take the actor stands up and dusts himself off, reaching for coffee while simultaneously [...]

This morning was an exceptionally early morning as I slowly and quietly logged out of bed and took a shower, getting ready. Seeing as I would be presenting within three hours, I dressed well with my fluffy pink shrug that has become symbolic of all meetings urgent. I got to park next to [...]

I sit here at my PC, drinking too-strong coffee and debating at what point I should go and make some toast. The sun is a little marble that has just cleared the edge of the field outside my window, and it’s laying a thick blanket of fog on the ground which I see, on [...]

My very first car was a 1979 Buick Electra. I got it in 1990 when I was 16. It wasn’t a car so much as it was a land-running nautical vessel, the enormity of the car was something that often frightened me. It was a huge hulking brown car whose top was [...]

‘I think my nipples are ugly.’

Last night we watched a TV show which showed people who tackle forgiveness. In one story, a couple forgave the teenagers that used their son’s head as a football and let him die on a miserable and cold Surrey road. They decided not to go after his killers in any non-litigious method, and [...]

Did you know that Tuesday was National Pancake Day?
Seriously.
It was.
And I didn’t touch the damn things.
Earlier this month we had Groundhog Day. Tomorrow is National Darwin Day, where we celebrate the birth of Charles Darwin. It’s immediately followed by Valentine’s Day, where the hopes and dreams of women the world over are crushed [...]

Work is still going…and going….and going. I tend to blog by writing up a post in Word, riding on the train, winging it on a memory stick, and then posting it in the first 5 seconds I get, which is sometimes the only 5 seconds I get for the internet. I don’t mind-at [...]

My days are ordinary by many standards. There are many people that would look at the path and footsteps that my life takes me on and think: Pah. That’s just an ordinary walking path. There’s nothing significant there. You’re happy? So what. You’re crazy? Me too. You [...]

Angus’ house in Brighton has had a sale agreed on it, which is an enormous sigh of relief for almost everyone involved. It’s ready to go, sale moving on, and Angus’ insurance period expired just as the sale was agreed. Since the sale was moving through he decided not to renew it, as [...]

There’s this series of health books you can buy at the Newsagents every Sunday, these hardback Dorint Kinderslee-looking things that they advertised on the TV, but which we are not interested in. It’s this “A-Z of the body” type series, all 26 of them, and you can buy each new addition each week to [...]