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Express yourself
My wife sent me two messages today, both in a state of great excitement. The first was that our daughter now has a passport, courtesy of those nice people in the Canadian government. It only lasts for two years, but in the month since the photo was taken, her appearance has already changed from ‘cheerful […]
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Hungover
Yesterday I felt dreadful after my compact but effective drinking binge. In fact, I didn’t really feel healthy again until 6pm, which, unfortunately, was when I started drinking again, and so in turn I felt rotten today. We didn’t have much to do, except for a child’s birthday party to attend, but even that was […]
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Drunker again
I woke today, confused and baffled and hung over, lying on the sofa in the living room with all the lights on, huge holes punched in my memory, vaguely certain that I’d been drinking strong cocktails from a coconut the night before. I struggled all morning, failing to engage with the universe, then went to […]
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Drunk again
I came home drunk from an evening of heavy drinking, baffled and confused by the world. One of my colleagues had suggested drinking shots, but no matter how hard the week, four shots of strong booze plus three or four cocktails don’t make for a calm night. In the cold light of Monday morning, I […]
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Parker, and seeking definition
This evening, reading The Hunter by Donald Westlake (masquerading as Richard Stark) I got all confused about the eye colour of Parker, the protagonist of the story.
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“Like a tree.”
From the first chapter of Richard Stark’s The Hunter: The office women looked at him and shivered. They knew he was a bastard, they knew his big hands were born to slap with, they knew his face would never break into a smile when he looked at a woman. They knew what he was, they […]
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A little bit of this, a little bit of that
Today we played Arkham Horror for the first time since we became parents. Possibly dealing with the squamous messes in a baby’s nappies makes you less keen on encountering eldritch (and slimy) horrors in fiction. Our child, perhaps feeling left out (particularly after my wife wouldn’t let me name her Ftagn) was silent until I […]
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Automatic Comedian 2.0
It’s been a long time since I built the Automatic Comedian, and all he seems to talk about is toilets. Today I was reminded of the lack of innovation that I’ve brought recently to the world of auto-generated comedy, so I think it’s high time to address that and release Automatic Comedian 2.0 into the […]
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Rush job
This morning I had arranged to meet a friend for a run, so I didn’t drink any beer last night. I used to carb-load on lager, but my wife/coach told me not to, and so I thought when I got up this morning, I’d be hearty and hale. Somehow, I was still hungover even though […]