“What do you mean you forgot the pesto sauce?”

Amazing space, a raindrop for every tear, an epic queen’s lament (we dare not speak her name): ‘Fear the bandanaed man,’ she cries.
Dragona Hartley’s Rose of Sharon, like a swallow hovering over the city, sweetly but darkly and out of context.
My friend thinks she may be a bat.
She hesitates not, however, to pencil in, like the [...]

‘You don’t know what they do to you when they know you can’t walk.’

I’ve been damned by some as an unbeliever, an anti-christ. It pleases me, therefore, and reinforces my self esteem, to know that to others I’m the cool atheist across the street.
My youngest daughter calls me daddy and my mother insists that I was brought up a good catholic kid and on the right track.
So I [...]

God told me…

…that I’ve been neglecting my blog of late, so, to keep him happy, here’s a little snatch of a rather one-sided conversation about music I had with Jon Hilltown the other day:
‘I love it. Late at night I think about it. I slip a disc in it and I turn it on: it’s a darkness like [...]

Secrets of a Satanic Suppressive

It’s late at night and I’m far from home.
I’m used to that.
Indeed, being far from home is not new to me.
As a kid I am a compulsive runaway.
I mean, who wants to be home all the time?
No, my concern is not due to any spatio-temporal confusion or separation.
What’s worrying me is the company I’m keeping.
She’s [...]

JJ and Billy the Pill

The future? It begins with the meaning of profanity. In the beginning was the word and the word was profane. Take the term substance abuse, for example. Some Christians no doubt believe that substance abuse is profane: you know, the body is a temple of God?
JJ and Billy the Pill have been awake for days searching for [...]

After the Brits

So, it’s been another slow year.
You know that feeling, when you’re the only one (I mean one, get it?) in a crowd to see a single magpie? Man, that’s a f**ker.
One for sorrow…
But why me. I mean, I’m in a crowd, you know? And it’s just me that gets the sorrow-vision?
It’s because I’m an atheist, [...]

The Line

As far back as I can remember I had one desire that transcended every other: I always wanted to be a human being.
Things worked out fairly well, to a point.
But there was this constant, nagging knowledge that I wasn’t quite making it.
After a while I stopped fighting, gave up the ghost. It became obvious that [...]