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I thought I'd share this with you, to highlight the difficulties us dayjob shifting arty types who don't languish on the dole have to endure; 2nd June 2008 Dear Mr Masters Thank you for your reminder. My name will not be unknown to you as I used to work in your office until January this year. I would like to take this opportunity to extend my salutations to my former colleagues. I must apologise for my continued difficulty to pay my Council Tax instalments on time. This is largely down to a… Continue

Ok, so recently once again I started the whole fitness thing again. It's something I really have to throw myself into in order to keep it up, diet, regular exercise the whole thing. It's great for me it limits my attacks of acid reflux and helps me manage my depression (sometimes). A lot of people do this and there are plenty of people who are just as enthusiastic as I am and it's very tempting to talk to these people about it. DONT! Nobody wants to hear how many minutes you do on a treadmill ev… Continue

Dear Buz, I think I've just written a large portion of your next play. I've just been watching Superman II and after the inital guilty one liners about Chritopher Reeve or Margot Kidder that regrettably pop into your consciousness (Or the further guilty musings that 'that's not the last time a fine snow of rubble fell over the streets of New York City' or 'That's not the last time a flying object ripped through several floors of the World Trade Centre'. America please forgive my poisonous mind… Continue

I wrote this late one saturday night and.......... I dunno it's just how I was feeling. It's shit and it's whiny I'm attached to existence. It could be said it's something I can't live without but right now I'm feeling more than a little indifferent. I may have another thirty or forty years of existence or I may have another thirty or forty days or even thirty or forty hours if how I feel right now is any indication. For those with a morbid curiosity in existential anxiety (which I suffer vio… Continue

I have started to believe that despite our current culture of self improvement and lifelong learning, we are becoming less intelligent and certainly less cultured. James, our singer, in a text message, intimated to me that he wishes to discuss Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. The prospect of a challenging heated 'hero-off' (James has recently been reading a Hughes biog and I have been a self proclaimed fan of the former for some time) really doesn't appeal to me as my identification/admiration of S… Continue