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I HATE THE EARTH: The Great Escape
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Saturday, March 15, 2014. It's been seven weeks since Dad died and I'm fine. In fact I'm a little worried at how quickly I've defaulted back to 'normal', although there are a hellish amount of unresolved issues both with Dad, and my sodding head. As a result I still haven't started my annual New Year's Final Diet Ever. As I fling back metric fucktons of shitty beige food and sedate my issues with alcohol. As if he left behind a large mansion house with fine tapestries and objets d'art. The trouble is tho...
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I HATE THE EARTH: 'It's Egg & Cress, Do You Want It?' available to buy on Kindle now
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Sunday, April 05, 2015. It's Egg and Cress, Do You Want It? Available to buy on Kindle now. Hardcopy to be released in the next few days stroke weeks. I'm just waiting for the back cover to be designed, plus I'll probably need to order myself a copy to check it for errors first. But for all you 21st century digital people, you can buy it on Kindle right now, via the following link:. Needless to say, this is very, very surreal. Good job I'm drunk. Exile on Pain Street. So how do I get my paper copy? I am ...
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I HATE THE EARTH: My Dad Has Five Days Left To Live
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Friday, January 24, 2014. My Dad Has Five Days Left To Live. Dad will never go home again. He has a lung disease that'll finish him. For the last couple of weeks I've found myself sobbing uncontrollably in the middle of the night, then going to work and pretending nothing's wrong. I've also seen more of my sister and nieces than I ever have, and I've seen Dad virtually every night too so that's been lovely, apart from his daily decline. The next day my sister and I visited him after work. Dad had me ...
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I HATE THE EARTH: The Third Draft is Done. Long Live Draft Four.
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Saturday, June 21, 2014. The Third Draft is Done. Long Live Draft Four. I've almost finished my book, which is great timing now that I've stopped blogging and alienated all seven of my readers. This morning I typed my final paragraph, and will now return to the beginning and do it all over again - hopefully once and for all. And to avoid the awful, ponderous temptation to keep editing forever, I'll be reading it in real time and highlighting passages to work on later. Looking forward to it! Its the prosp...
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I HATE THE EARTH: My Book (ha!) is Nearing Publication
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Thursday, March 26, 2015. It's only taken several years and seven drafts, but this weird fucking project of mine appears to be at an end. It's Only Egg and Cress, Do You Want It? Is in the final proofing stages. THIS MAN. Is desperately churning it out with a fair amount of angst and pressure, and has lots to say about it having last read it three drafts ago. Today's excitement (aided by a single can of Kronembourg I've had instead of eating dinner) is down to the front cover that was emailed to me today:.
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I HATE THE EARTH: Just weeks away
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Friday, October 31, 2014. Anyway, I'm now 40 pages shy of the end of Draft 4, and drunk, and it's probably it's most readable yet*. This still doesn't make it Wuthering Heights. But you get the point. Suffice to say, this is definitely going to be published. I was planning on a Draft 6 as well as Draft 5, but I can't take it and may slit my wrists before then. I mean, I'm happy. With it, but I also can't live like this any more. I've spent years working on it and I want my life back. The sight of success:.
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I HATE THE EARTH: The Book Is Dead; Long Live Benidorm
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Saturday, July 25, 2015. The Book Is Dead; Long Live Benidorm. I've spent so many years torturing myself to create a story and bitching about it here, that I never imagined what it would be like if I did. Actually, that's not strictly. True; I thought it would be magical. I believed all my dreams would come to pass, that I would be furiously, overwhelmingly happy and everything would simply fall into place. I'd find myself. And my beautiful wife, and we'd live in wedded bliss thereafter with kids n' shit.
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I HATE THE EARTH: Cats, Twats and Cults
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012. Cats, Twats and Cults. Occasionally, I'll be approached so that I might for a brief moment stroke her thrice, upon which she’ll walk away and collapse onto the rug always. An aggravating stretch out of reach of my desperately needy hand. She's also for some reason like a small diode giving us electric shocks, which I'm pretty sure is hindering the whole bonding with me. 8217;, and struggled for the floor while I screamed: ‘ LOVE ME. In fact, true to female form. It'll never ha...
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I HATE THE EARTH: I've Just Had Sex With A Prostitute
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Thursday, October 21, 2010. I've Just Had Sex With A Prostitute. Not sure how to begin this, but basically I had sex with a Thai prostitute. I know there will never be enough excuses, but let me explain as best I can:. No thank you,' I smiled. Ten minutes later, we were inside, stunning Bikini Girl sat next to me. This country is nuts! I shook my head. 'No,' I replied. 'I just don't agree with this.'. Said the ladyboy. The girl nodded in agreement. I'm sorry,' I said to the side of her head, 'I just can'...
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Notes from a small city: 2006-09-03
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Notes from a small city. This is pretty much what it says. So much commentary is from a metropolitan perspective that it is easy to forget a lot of people don't live in swanky apartments (on the one hand) or crack ridden tower blocks (on the other). Most people, in fact. Tuesday, September 05, 2006. Living over the shop. I got an email from the Live Work Network. Obviously need to be rolled out pronto). Links to this post. Sunday, September 03, 2006. Not such a fair view. This article is one I wrote a co...
