I was originally going to train as a journalist passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one hundred places on a National Union of Journalists course.
I live on my phone: I have a bunch of news and informational apps on there.
You must remember that the common criminal will always join the armed forces for if nothing else regular meals and expert training in the use of guns.
Los Angeles had no culture of its own just a large collection of misreadings of the artistic histories of other proper cities.
Scotch whisky is made from barley and the morning dew on angel's nipples.
Be authentic to your dreams. Be authentic to your own idea about yourself. Grind away at your own minds and bodies until you become your own invention. Be Mad Scientists.
Wolves ate even mighty hunters for there was no honor or code among predators and everyone's guts steam the same way when torn open on a cold night.
Elijah Snow: 'Who have you pissed off this time John?' John Stone: 'Sumatran robot death sluts -- Dammit ONE of these buttons fires the atomic death biter --
I admit that I have sometimes claimed to be Batman in the past. But only when really really drunk.
Here's the thing about Apple technology: once you own a piece you want to use it.
At the departure gate a drunken airport security woman was handing out box cutters to the passengers.
I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.
I try to read a Kindle Single a week but I'm getting bad at that. I usually have a few books on the go.
Journalism is just a gun. It's only got one bullet in it but if you aim right that's all you need. Aim it right and you can blow a kneecap off the world.
good morning sinners. vampiric red bull intake in pub smoking compound commenced. day of heavy brain-fingering ahead.
The single simplest reason why human space flight is necessary is this stated as plainly as possible: keeping all your breeding pairs in one place is a retarded way to run a species.
What? I bring joy to the world. I am filled with mirth and sunlight. Also I am Batman.
Don't live with writers. Writers are bastards.
Writing is basically a job for people who like punching themselves in the face I'm pretty sure.
Mister Sun wondered if he really believed it was true that the heart is just a pump.
I want a tattoo over my heart that reads TRY HARDER YOU LAZY PARAMEDIC SHITBAG OR I WILL HAUNT YOUR BEDROOM FOREVER
What if I left my memory in the future and I have to catch up to it?
Listen to the Chair Leg of Truth! It does not lie!
Cheap! But not as cheap as your girlfriend.
Magic is the cheat codes for the world.
By four o'clock I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.
I want vasopressin washed caffeine Jumpstart ginkgo biloba guarana and any intelligence enhancer introduced in the last five years.
Read comics. All comics. And then cut them open to steal their power.
Tradition:' one of those words conservative people use as a shortcut to thinking.
I'd like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future.
If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary is it
The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
If you write any kind of fiction about America you immediately have to start doing some research about guns so in some ways 'Gun Machine' is just the culmination of 20 years of reading about guns.
Drinking is fun! It makes me feel horrible and sexy!
My neck and shoulders are killing me. Hard to focus on writing about murder doom shagging our hopeless future & other comedy etc etc.
I grew up in the 80s in England: we'd wake up each morning and look out the window to see if the government had finally put Daleks on the streets.
You're miserable edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
Stephen King says that if you forget an idea then it can't have been any good. He means he not you. You are not Stephen King. Do not attempt to emulate Stephen King at home.
That means that the universe is two-dimensional. Matter energy time you me and the floor are holograms.
I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.
If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
Its a strange world. Lets keep it that way.
It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way.
You never get tired of looking at the stars
I was having a mildly paranoid day mostly due to the fact that the mad priest lady from over the river had taken to nailing weasels to my front door again.
I think one of the bigger lessons the Internet has taught us is that 'niche' or 'subculture' are a lot bigger than anyone ever thought.