May 2012
11 posts
Quitting's for quitters so I quit quitting.
Yesterday - being in a very bad place mentally - I decided to announce my twitter and tumblr retirement. Essentially guys, I’m in the middle of a bit of breakdown at the moment. It is coming up to a year since I tried to kill myself and - I guess I’ve been thinking a lot on this anniversary and just how much has changed and how much I’ve achieved. The answer is I’ve...
Closing Time
This blog is soon to be closed. It was fun while it lasted but it has got to the stage where it feels like I’m shouting in a soundproof booth and…While I want to continue writing it is going to be a huge distraction in what I need to do at the moment which is continually writer letters, fill in forms, and jump through hoops to get the opportunity many richer, healthier people take for...
Some Thoughts
<Insert provocative image of stick thin model with face cut off but tits showing> <Insert fashion shot of vanity ridden superficial idiot> <Insert tedious animated gif of a banal TV show or movie quote> <Insert quirky image from someone else> Sorry - just trying to drive up popularity of this blog and it seems this is the vain, shallow shit that the masses indulge in...
Lucifer
Think back to the simple days of smiles and cigarette smoke wisping. Whispering, telling jokes to friends. Drinks flowing, days that never end spreading enlightened laughter. But Lucifer’s fall left him forsaken. What crime was there in believing in the truth of love over a faith in fear? Banish the great one who dares challenge the totalitarian regime. The unnatural order continues -...
Intentionally Left Blank
I’m living the dream, opportunity lays itself before my feet in the guise of stacks of dead pulped trees, all needing my blood. Stick a piece of my past on them, cross the Ts with a fountain pen of bygone miseries. Not one shred of decency, everyone wants a piece of me. Staves of five lined paragraphs sing sorry, bland, bureaucratic music. Ticks and crosses come like percussive beats. ...
Incarnation
Solemnly the spirit whisped through bitter air of secrets kept and tears wept. Strength - he thought. Strength. I must do this alone. Head hung and huffing, the spirit ploughed forward. “May I help?” cried a voice. No! - replied the spirit. Strength. I must do this alone. Strength - The spirit continued, wandering the wilderness. Obstacles littered his path - A ghostly dance. Until,...
When...
When you used to care, winds would sing to me like old warbling folk singers. Soul kissing strings plucked delicately and percussive. A warm embrace following a trudge through cold. Yet here I stand now, Frozen and alone. Without your enveloping tune. When you used to care, a merry country dance took my heart. Primitive yet civilised, rhythmic and rowdy. My breathing rapid, my heart racing. Yet...
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Coming Soon... Through the Cooking Gas!
It’s been a while since I have made any sort of formal announcement about any new piece of work - mainly because they all seem to falter somewhere around the first few thousand words and I change ideas. But this one seems to have stuck. I am enjoying the direction and the messages therein, and I am working hard on it. So, here are the details. Punny titled ‘Through the Cooking Gas...
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April 2012
7 posts
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A Sincere Message
Currently, my twitter seems to exist for the purpose of pushing my books. However, it is this way for a reason. So, if I can forgo the humour and the dryness for a short while - I shall expose my life with some sincerity. Before I did all this writing and blogging and everything - I was stable, it might even be said I was happy. I was living with a partner, she and I were quite happy. I had a...
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Easy As A Bee, See?
Available now on Kindle and in paperback, experience the novel that literally no one is talking about! Easy As A Bee, See? sees protagonist Gordon, a customer service phone operative for an insurance company, wrapped up in a twisted plot orchestrated by owls and carried out by bees after a rather unfortunate and infuriating telephone call from a customer. Not knowing what to do or where to go,...
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How To Win At Life by Being A Smug,...
My book, How To Win At Life By Being A Smug, Self-Righteous, Smarmy, Grinning, Self-Help Twat, (let’s just refer to it as ‘How To Win At Life…’ from here!), is now available in paperback and Kindle format via Amazon. A strange mixture of personal philosophy, positive poetry and anti-platitudes. Having struggled with mental health issues, I have in the past been tempted to...
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Alcoholic Ambling and Suicide Scribblings
My first poetry compilation, Alcoholic Ambling and Suicide Scribblings, is available now in Kindle and paperback formats. Alcoholic Ambling and Suicide Scribblings is a collection of poems detailing my battles with alcohol, depression and anxiety over the last few years. It features a mixture of styles and tones, but has an overriding theme of misery - but with an undercurrent of hope. These...
Still Alive!
As GLaDOS might say. Those of you who get this reference, you’re awesome. Those who don’t must play Portal! If there is anyone out there who actually cares what I have to say, you may have noticed I haven’t had a lot to say recently. Well the fact is I have had a lot to say I just haven’t said it, at least not here on tumblr and not on my twitter either. I have been...
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Jubilee
Ceremoniously perched, the crow, her craggy beak spoke lies. When all she did was caw the knells of those born without right blood. And go around as a magpie snatching valuables from the neighbourhood. The inbred raven preached superiority from a stolen Sanguine throne. There’s a belief in the bitter bile that passes for blood, running through those inhuman veins; masking true equality...
Nostalgia
Crying in thoughts, each memory a tear. A seer’s crystal ball with a direct link to the past. What sordid miseries suffered, painful sorrows lived, and winding pathways walked. To what end? Wipe away each tear, yet they shall return. A tissue is no suture. There is no filling the cracks. The tears ever flow. A constant reminder to remember What your brain reminds itself to forget.
March 2012
14 posts
Cave Painting
You and I, pursed lips - parched and thirsty on bare rock. A dreamscape - Aboriginal painting on time-carved walls. Ground stone pigment Eden. A flower bursts from spit and powder, man creates. He builds the sky and birds. Trees tower as a dusty smear leaves his thumb. Oh what a pleasant world. A vibrant vision of love. A pale golden sun’s outline, warm and fuzzy. The creatures too -...
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More Arrests for Tweeting!?
I think most of us (at least those with sense) would agree that racism is a terrible thing. The deliberate prejudice against another human being based on aspects such as country of origin, skin colour, religion etc. is utterly pointless, base, and serves no purpose in our modern world other than to create discord and separation in communities. So why, then, can the world’s media - for...
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Wishing Well
In case you did not know, I am a follower of football - or Soccer as some of you may call it. Recently, during an FA Cup game between Bolton and Tottenham Hotspur, Bolton player Fabrice Muamba collapsed on pitch and had a cardiac arrest. If not for the hurried intervention of the medical teams - and a cardiac specialist who happened to be in the crowd - Fabrice may have died on pitch, and I...
Negativity (The +s always blame the -s)
Negativity is a magnificent tool for perspective. Negativity gives us the scope to see that everything is NOT OKAY. So why then does it appear to be so frowned upon in this world? Why are there shelves and shelves of books offering easy advice on how people can be more positive and think more positive and act more positive. People see someone with a frown and they don’t offer a helping hand...
NHS-Factor
I was feeling ill, so I called the Doctor. Calls cost £1.20 a minute from a BT landline. Other providers may vary. Calls from mobiles will be significantly higher. All part of the new initiative to make more money. Vote for your favourite GP - least votes is out Sunday night. He sent me for tests. First, they tested my capacity to sacrifice. Gave me an appointment in the middle of a work day....
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The Extradition Act - A Hammy Act At Best
I have been meaning to get around to a scathing piece on the Extradition Act 2003 for some time, but me being me I do not like to run into these things without a bit of research and figured the best research one could do would be to read the act itself. …This was a mistake. In all my previous encounters with law (and I did study it for a while, albeit at a low academic level) I had always...
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Pentecost, St. Leonard's Church, Shoreditch.
How should I start this review? Every other one I have seen seems to start with mentioning how apt a place to stage Pentecost St. Leonard’s church is. A church with a rich theatrical history and an atmosphere suited to this play even if it does play havoc with the acoustics somewhat. When you watching a Swedish Man about to Sodomise a prostitute (all acting, of course!) in front of you and...
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Stop Stupid 2012
In the scope of tragic diseases, there is one which is often overlooked, but deserves no less attention. That disease is The Stupid. DO YOU HAVE THE STUPID!? If you do, you probably won’t donate to us! The Stupid has a long and horrific history. Plaguing mankind through the centuries in a way that we won’t go into in too much details because we’re the marketing department. A...
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Further notes on Intl. Women's Day and Gender...
Yesterday I wrote a post quite rightfully claiming that while International Women’s Day is not a bad idea per se, it does hold certain fundamental flaws in the whole gender equality issue. As a result of this occasion many facts were being bandied about, some of which only sought to emphasise my point. I believe I saw a twitter post that claimed something like 80% of refugees were...
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Why No International Men's Day?
Today is, apparently, international women’s day. Some arbitrarily named period of twenty-four hours probably created by men, to make women feel they are being heard. Is it a bad thing? No, there are many issues of fairness and equality facing women both domestically and abroad (indeed, abroad even more so, where often the levels of disparity and bad treatment can be shocking) but the...
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Crappy History-Bending Conspiracy Fiction
Alan Boresworth yawned as he glanced at his antique Grandfather clock. It was well past his bedtime, and well into the small hours. But something about the documents he had received that day had grabbed his attention like nothing ever before. Alan was a cryptographer/archaeological academic/professor of something or other. He was a tedious academic, basically and yet somehow when the action...
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Shitty Cockpleasing Phallic Warfiction
*Warning: Contains intense satire - If you are offended, you don’t get the joke. Which is not my fault, so don’t moan about it.* *Edit - Someone moaned about it! Surprise surprise!* Chip McHardbastard stood with his long, erect gun in his hand. Pumping it with a satisfying ‘ch-chunk’ sound he aimed it at someone who was presumably evil, because he looked vaguely Middle-Eastern or had...
Political Redundancy
Your part is merely just to put an X in a box. You try to do more, they’ll have the police arresting the lot. There’s no room for trouble-makers, that’s how you are labelled, When you fight for your rights; whether elderly, female, gay or disabled. The election’s the main attraction, a detraction from the attention of your lack of true political interaction. Just tick a...
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Wanky Teenage Vampire Fuckfiction
Catherine was your everyday kind of normal, teenage, emo girl. She had a floppy fringe that covered half of her face, and it was dyed a different colour to the rest of her hair. She wore far too much make up, because underneath it all, she looked very plain Jane. Her eye-liner was always thick because, you know, emo guys love pandas and she liked to wear many bangles and plastic bands around her...
February 2012
15 posts
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Still Just a Disabled.
To the untrained eye, I don’t look sick. You could see me walking around the streets and not realise that there was a damn thing wrong with me. This is actually what society wants. My condition is an inconvenience to the world, something to cover up and hide, something to ‘get on with’, something that burdens this ever-grinding system of economic cogs…This is why it is...
Only a Dream
Wake up, wake up! It’s only a dream. Things are not really as good as they seem. As limbs torn apart in resource-led wars, and Stepford Wives filing in groups for divorce. As drills and syringes or gargantuan size are plunged into Earth and, in quaking, she cries. Wake up, wake up! It’s only a dream. Things are not really as good as they seem. Your job is not great, you’re...
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Paradigm Shift
For those of you stupid enough to read my blogs, you shall know that recently I reviewed a videogame, Final Fantasy XIII-2. This game features a combat control system known as ‘paradigm shift’ in which you can pretty much change roles at will. …I recently got thinking…What if we could do that in real life!? What if a paradigm shift were as simple as pressing...
Chaos
To start off with a bang and void, a heavy, raining cloud of dust. A molecular sneeze across the endless plains of nothingness. The particles they group and gather, communities of physical purpose. Bound by fundamental rules A supernovae circus. Chaos as the driving force, elemental clouds of dust and gas form from nothing into awesome beasts of swirling rocky mass. Or stars that warmly hug the...
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Bad Song Lyrics
I’ve had this promised for quite some time but am only just getting around to it now (owing to having misplaced my television remote and having little else to do…) Songs can be wonderful things. Poetic lyrics melodiously accompanied by instruments that can touch our very hearts - stirring memories. Sounds inspiring thoughts of scents, tastes, feels, times, places…All sorts....
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Capitalism and The Exploitation Scale
People who support capitalism do so under a completely misguided belief that it benefits them. You see, capitalism is loaded with rewards. From meaningless numbers in the ‘balance’ box on an ATM machine to shiny, shiny new products and things. It makes us believe we are part of something fantastic, that we are rewarded justly for our part in it and that these shiny things are what we...
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Irritating Hackneyed Clichés
I wrote a poem not so long ago about a person who seems to make clichés come true. However, even under such circumstances it does not make them any more acceptable! We are all guilty of using clichés, or hackneyed old phrases and platitudes. They come so naturally, indeed so prevalent are they in some circles that it has almost become a cliché itself - e.g. football punditry, during which it is a...
Final Fantasy XIII-2 - Review-2
WARNING: This review will contain spoilers! So, I already passed judgement over many elements of this game previously, but that was mainly a criticism of Square-Enix and their new-found DLC obsession. But now, I have finished the game and would like to pass complete judgement over it. We shall start with the narrative… …It’s okay. It’s not great, that’s the...
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Rhinovirus - Still Charging.
Sadly, Rhinovirus has nothing to do with odd-toed ungulates getting sick. It has everything to do with human beings getting sick. Human Rhinoviruses are some of the most common and widespread viruses on Earth and we have all experienced it as some point. They are also, I believe, among some of the smallest viruses in existence. Human rhinoviruses, of which there are 99 described types in a...
Wound Me
This logical hand slices fast, cutting the air as sword to catch Cupid’s arrow, coming near, arcing here toward. With a grasp I clutch, relieved, upon the loving dart before it rends a wicked path directly to my heart. For I don’t wish a flight of fancy to control affection, when it could be in the hands of this vision of perfection. So this piercing weapon of love to you, my...
All Quiet On The Mercer Front
Hello! This is just a little personal blog more than anything. You may have noticed I haven’t exactly been prolific in my poetry and blogging recently, and if you follow me on twitter you may also have noticed I have not been around much there either. There are a few reasons for this and I feel I should possibly explain them a little. For one thing, I am busy working on other writing...
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Exploitation of an Audience: The Games Industry.
This is going to hurt. I am quite the avid gamer when I want to be and no form of entertainment gives me greater pleasure. But sadly the industry is becoming something altogether unsavoury and I am quickly falling out of love with it. When I first got into gaming they were simple times. I did not come from a rich family, so we never had much and despite it being the early 90s when I was a wee...
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A Review - Final Fantasy XIII-2
Normally, I would not do a review of something until I had finished it, but I am making an exception with this to talk about something in particular. Square Enix is now one of the disgusting, money-lusting gaming companies and Final Fantasy shall never be the same again. This is not an opinion influenced by FFXIII-2 itself, but by the additions to it. The game has barely been out a few days and...
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A Review - At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul
I like to think about things after I have read, watched, or played them - So reviews of things could be a regular feature on here! Get used to it! *********************CONTAINS SPOILERS************************ Anyway, being a fan of the ‘so bad it is good’ genre, particularly when it comes to movies, and in particular, horror movies, one name kept popping up in research and...
Scam Emails - A follow up...
Why can I see this becoming a regular feature? Seriously, today I have received a scam message that is SO delightfully creative that I have to share it!
Good morning, My name is Nanthana Chansithipongse, I want to donate what I have to the needy.You could be surprised why I picked you. But someone has to do it. I have been diagonalized with Breast and Blood disease which has defiled all forms...
January 2012
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My Thoughts - Strangers and Pilgrims by Vivienne...
It may come as a shock to some of you, certainly those less aware of ‘me’, that I am not a man for naive sentiment and emotion. I know some of my poetry can seem as such, and I often talk of ‘peace and love’ as if I know what I am talking about, but frankly, this dark soul does not have a clue. When I write there is a marriage that occurs between my thoughts and my emotions...
Clichés
A wonderful, but curious trait about you, is you make clichés come to be. My digestive system wrought with chrysalis, as butterflies emerge inside of me! And now I suffocate, so breathless, for you steal my air when you are near. I don’t see you creeping up you see, distracted by birds that suddenly appear! My legs have turned gelatinous but my knees stay firm to knock. and in your...
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Scam Emails
My word how these things amuse me! What is more, as a writer they are a fantastic source of names. I got the name of the protagonist from ‘Easy as a Bee, See?’ by just checking through my junkmail and spotting a name that was appropriate for my character. But they really can be a joy. Their poor wording, and overtly ridiculous tone make them magnificently stupid and how people fall for...
