: About Me

Young men living in Rural Britain often have a lot of free time on their hands. When you're 18 years old and the nearest bus stop, train station, bar or person under the age of 42 is miles away, you get to do a lot of thinking. Thinking and walking. Oh, and reading the papers.

A side affect of that is the sort of opinionated nature that some people -nay, most people- find damn irritating. At some point you decide to stop talking blindly at your friends in coffee shops and start venting spleen on the internet. Who cares if you annoy internet people, they don't count, you can't see their eyes...

I have another blog (http://withnailsyndrome.blogspot.com/)you can read it if you like, but i mostly just post the same stuff i have on here, except with narrative, Gonzo-style. Its a first person journey through the inconsequential events of my life, but embellished to seem more interesting, you'd love it.

Read my words, absorb them for delicious wordy sustenance, oh yeah...

I know too much about ...

things that do not concern me....

My childhood ambition ...

was to be a novelist

My favorite memory ...

standing atop a baobab tree, watching the sunset over victoria falls...

Why I write ...

to keep my mind sharp and my fingers tappin'

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

The works of Hunter S Thompson, Charlie Brookers screenwipe on BBC4 and as always, Sigur Ros

My first job ...

Working in the kitchen of a Thai restaurant

Politics, News & Issues > US Elections Predicting the winner of the 2008 U.S. presidential election

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With the US elections still about 18 months away, its interesting to see so much speculation on its outcome at such an early stage. I can't complain though, almost immediately after the 2004 election I was absolutely certain that Hilary Clinton would be the next president. Up until now, i remained convinced that this would in fact be the case for several reasons, whats more there was a general consensus going around last year that Clinton had both the nomination and the white house tied up. To explain my initial convictions, Firstly, George Bush's popularity was clearly going to decline le...

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