ABOUT & CONTACT

I write about unconditional love, death, the origins of civilisation, the horrors of work, small gods, paradise, philosophy, the truth of politics, gender, mental ‘illness’ and miss genius. I also make infographics, comic strips, subvertisements and little guides to everything, much of which you can find here.

I love (and endeavour to write) outsider literature — Steppenwolf, Catcher in the Rye, Valis type stuff. By ‘outside’ I mean outside of civilisation. I don’t reject everything within the history of civilisation, which would be silly, but I do believe that, ten thousand years ago, man (and I do mean man) made a catastrophic wrong turn into self.

Life-wise, I have worked—in Russian cement factories, Spanish anarchist squats, Japanese high schools, Qatari military bases, British refugee camps, Sudanese oil companies and Saudi shit-holes—and I have groomed horses, plucked turkeys, impersonated priests and sold shrunken heads—but it’s in avoiding work, for twenty five years, that I have really succeeded.

I am now the author of The Apocalypedia, which I spent a large part of that twenty five years writing, in order to make unfathomable sense of everything, usefully offend everyone offendable, demolish the preposterous notion, once and for all, that quantum mechanics and the female orgasm are unrelated and say something actually new.

I also wrote and designed Belly Up!—a surreal and satirical adult comic—with William Barker and Ai. Belly Up! has been clinically proven to make men and women, the young and the old, and all colours and creeds, ecstatically repudiate the forces of gravity, moonwalk anarchically across the buttocks of the world and purge themselves, fully, in their sleep.

I recently finished 33 Myths of the System, a free guide to the Unhappy Supermind, Belly Up TV, a six part cross between Monty Python, the Day Today and Bahubali, a novel, called Drowning is Fine, about crap sex, desperate penury and ecstatic erotic revolution and another teevee show called Fired, a black comedy about working yourself to death.

These last three aren’t likely to appear soon, but you never know. I’m not working on this site at the moment either. My first plan was for this to be a park for my books, then at the beginning of this year (2017) I decided I’d do a twelve-month of blog, but I had to stop at the end of June. I’m going to finish off the year in 2019, starting July. You can read the first six months here.

And you can write to me at the email address on the picture. Please tell me a bit about yourself, because it’s nice to feel that you are talking to a flesh-and-blood person and not a disembodied virtual brain—but don’t worry if you would prefer just to write a few lines of anonymous abuse, because that too I will warmly welcome into my innermost.

Note also there’s a mailing list pop up at the top of these pages (which you can dismiss). If you put your address there you’ll get very occasional news updates of my doings and froings. New books will be announced there too. I won’t put your name on the mailing list if you write to me though.

By the way, Google, Amazon and my book flap all describe me as an ‘activist’. I’m not. I’ve never done it. I could imagine a kind of activism that I would love to do, but the opportunity has never arisen.

Finally, if, for some reason, you want to know more about me, I’ve written this rather self-indulgent post.

Friends & Recommendations

MediaLens (Superb media-analysis; rare combination of political and personal gut-truth)

Ribbonfarm (Published one of my essays. Sarah Perry writes some good stuff)

Green Books (Publisher of The Apocalypedia)

John O’Brien (One of the greatest living illustrators artists and a real gentleman. Contributed to Belly Up! for peanuts)

William Barker (Close friend and collaborator, wrote Belly Up! with me and contributed some entries to The Apocalypedia)

Otto von Beach (Contributed to Belly Up! Used to do hyper-intricate victorian-style illustrations, now does faster, looser stuff)

Honest Publishing (publisher of Belly Up!)

Recommendmeabook.com (features The Apocalypedia)

R Crumb (The filthmeister himself: contributed a piece for Belly Up! Not sure he liked it though)

Pope ‘Papa’ Shenouda III of Alexandria (Patriarch of All Africa on the Holy Apostolic See of Saint Mark the Evangelist of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria)

Technical Stuff

The site was built on WordPress.org, using the Kalium theme.

The typefaces used are Plantin MT Pro and Gill Sans MT Pro.

The site doesn’t look as good on a smartphone because I don’t have one and don’t know how to change images and layout for mobile devices.

This site now uses statcounter tracking code, which means it notes that you landed, where you landed and where you came from. It also temporarily logs your IP address. I installed this because I keep getting hacked and need to occasionally identify and block strange behaviour, like zillions of visits. I am not watching you. Honest! However, if you don’t like this kind of thing — and I don’t — then I recommend you install ‘Ghostery’ or something similar on your browser. Then won’t turn up in my ‘stats’. (I also recommend using a good VPN like Mullvad, duckduckgo, protonmail and possibly Tor).