December 2011
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This Piece is About Marriage and Why It May Not Be...
*Firstly, apologies for the title! It’s difficult to think of something short, snappy and to the point that would not get reacted to with hate from certain circles!* So, apparently celeb gossip on the grapevine has it that Katy Perry and Russell Brand are breaking up! Of course, I do not particularly follow celebrity news so, it must be asked quite how I knew about it. Well I knew about it...
Easy as a Bee, See? - A Novel by Mercer
I’ve been working away at it for a couple of months now and it is finally done. ‘Easy as a Bee, See?’ is now available on Kindle in the US and the UK (other markets to come although apparently you European types have an aversion to my work…I shall have to get some trusty translators…Or just stick the whole thing through Google translate! That’d be a laughable...
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Peace and Goodwill
So, it’s Christmas! 25th December, a day upon which Jesus Christ was almost definitely NOT born; and yet we celebrate his birthday today anyway. Well, I prepared early, I have already done my angry non-conformist rant about how the spirit of Christmas has been bullshitised, commercialised and idealistically sodomised until all that is left is an expensive, gluttonous shell. So why am I...
Who runs the world? It's easy as a bee,...
Ever wondered who is really behind the evil machinations of this world? Psst…Here’s a hint, they’re small, yellow and black, bumbly and have a vigorously elitist monarchical society…No, it’s not the British the Royal Family painted up like tigers, it’s BEES! Well, they like to pretend they’re in charge but, actually the owls tell them what to do…...
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The State of the Human Condition
We’re so self-congratulatory. We fucking love ourselves, we really do. Humanity is so damn great and so damn special, is it not? Well, no it isn’t. We’re a despicable, exploitative, disgusting cancer of a species. Self interested and deluded we go about our business believing ourselves and others to be important…How foolish. We’re masters of deceit. I mean, other...
Isolationism: Or Why I Love Cats
Other people…Not just the irritating ones, but the tolerable ones, even they can be quite intolerable, don’t you think. I often praise how human beings are social creatures and urge people to encourage that. But I neglect the fact that I would fucking hate it. I really should never get involved with human beings. I inevitably end up feeling ashamed and awkward for having instigated...
Boatman
Loosen the moorings, and set sail away, a lonely boatman on a crowded sea. Oars awash with dripping souls, none to appease his misery.
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Soup names
Well, my posts have all been rather serious recently, and indeed, yesterdays was just a clusterfuck of depressive nonsense from a mind with far too much on it. So today, despite the fact that world is still a terrible place, people are dying left right and centre for all sorts of terrible reasons, there are people starving to death, or dying of thirst, there is injustice, inequality and general...
Note to Family Members Reading my Blog!
I am a master of misery, and a craftsman of hyperbole and exaggeration. Don’t take anything I say here too seriously, I still love you all!
Why do I live?
I don’t think I make any secret of my misery. I wallow in it, I tried to cover it up for a long time, feeling like I was in some way ‘wrong’ but, honestly, what more savage, disgusting and ignoble practice is there than living? We all like to pretend that life is so fucking fantastic. Of course we do, we have a vested interest in it, being, as we are, living! We want to feel...
Guiltiness
Crooked, creaking arms arch in the wind. Hands; swinging sinister strangulation. Decrepit, rotting tree trunks the only shelter from the rain driven like bullets into your skin. Each fallen oceanic drop leaves a wound, punctured. Sedative suffering. Reality but mud, thick and dirty. Slippery, temporary under foot, giving. Eyes drip, drip like a leaking tap rapping on the basin metronomic. The...
Notes on Supranationalism - The EU/UK debate
This is not going to be a formal blog or anything so forgive me if the structure is a little off, but I just wanted to discuss the whole Dave Cameron, EU situation a bit. For those not aware, amendments to the Lisbon Treaty were proposed in order to encourage stricter financial controls on European member states so as to help prevent the kinds of crises that have occurred within the EU recently....
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Musings on the Supranational
Supranationalism is a hot topic! One that creates discord, particularly in my mind, anyway, and I know in the minds of many others. It is the creation of international laws and treaties that go beyond the sovereignty of individual states, think of the EU, for example. Why is it such a hotly contested subject…Well, think of the EU for example! It is easily fucked up, for one thing, and...
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The Price of Freedom
It is possibly one of the most ridiculous propaganda campaigns; this idea that freedom has a cost. Many still believe it does, they believe it must be fought for, it must be campaigned for, that it is something that they do not already possess and must go out and make an effort to get. But this is entirely erroneous. When we assess what freedom is, we always do so within the confines of a social...
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"Spare a Thought for Our Armed Forces"
I was originally going to include this in my previous Christmas blog, but have, instead, chosen to do an entirely separate posting. This is something that gets said at this time of year. Indeed, from Remembrance Day onwards we are supposed to “Spare a thought for our armed forces.” This is mere glorification of murder. Nothing more, nothing less. We’re supposed to feel like...
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'Tis The Season!
Right, it’s that time of year again…The time when most Christians come together to celebrate the Birth of their Lord Jesus Christ, on a day that as almost certainly not his Birthday (But we’ll get to that) and in ways that Christ himself, according to his teachings, would loathe. Let me start by saying I respect Jesus, I’m no Christian, but his teachings were often...
Donate pt. 2 - Found the begging sob story!
As mentioned in my previous post shamelessly begging you for cash, I had written a long post about quite how people giving me their hard earned money could help. Well I found it again, so, here it is in all it’s tin-cup-wielding-bum-on-the-streets-beggar-glory! What’s more, the whole body of text shall be a hyperlink to the donation, so…If I manage to manipulate your emotions at...
Donate to me...(sorry!)
Well, I’ve swallowed my pride! I now have a donate link. I had previously typed out a whole big message about quite why and what I would be using funds for but tumblr has lost it in the ether and I’ll be fucked if I’m going through that painful exercise again. You want to know, I’ll tell you. Otherwise, if you feel like supporting a mental health patient rebuild his life...
The Cradle of Civilisation
How ignorant, like crying babes, we lay in violent swaddling. Suckling at our planet’s teat, in need of love and coddling. An infant cancer, all consumptive; needy, greedy with no control. A mind rend broken by chosen ignorance, a body left broken by lack of soul. Plug in your babysitter, there, and change the channel to plastic grin talking to you in goo-goo ga-ga, and comforting your...
There is No... (a false idol)
There are no clouds on which to float, no paddles on shit creek, nor no boat. There is no wind to drive the mills. There is no cure for all those ills. A weather-beaten stoic stone statue stood, pelted by the elements, his face a concrete frown. Eroded fingertips felt no more, and his eyes ground down by foul tempests. There is no sunlight, night is all. There is no cushion from the fall. There...
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You Are The Thought Police
Apparently I’m not allowed to offend you. It’s wrong to cause offence don’t you know? Allegedly, at least according to some, it is your human right to say what you like about anything, to hold any opinion you so wish…So long as you do not express it lest it offend others. Likewise, it is a human rights violation for you to offend me! You can think what you like about me,...
LOOK! It's my new book!
Yup, further to my last outing, Alcoholic Ambling and Suicide Scribblings, (available here http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006C49WRK :D) containing some of my more depressing works, I have now release my second collection. This time, the poems are those with a much more positive outlook and, far from the collection being a wall of poetry it is, to some extent, a satire of the hilarious world of...
