January 2011
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Clouded Shady Company
At the weekend, instead of attending a friend’s 30th birthday party I was sat on the Norwich train from Waterloo on a trip to see my parents. Purely coincidentally I began reading Happy Now, a novel by Charlie Higson wherein Tom, the protagonist who has issues with social events, takes a trip from London to visit family in Norwich.
I share less in common with the other major character in the...
Artwork in a pub of a dog that looks like Batman
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meet the new year, same as the old year
Back to the routine of waking up late and stumbling bleary eyed into work, I came into the office to find my co-worker screaming, “You think you know better than me? You don’t. You’re a cunt.”
I quickly ascertained that the remarks weren’t addressed to me, but to his computer. Within just a couple of hours Mark was back to his unedifying habit of scrawling terrifying faces in...