Smash your head into that wall again – one day, it’ll break. (Which did you think I meant – the head or the wall? Ok – now you know where you are in the process, friend.) But it might not be a bad idea to take a little rest and marshal your strength. Me, I’m going ...
When did you find out you were a meme?I didn't find out til the next morning. My friends and family were hitting me on Facebook, they were posting stuff like, "Man, we see you on TV!" I didn't think nothing of it, we had got out of there late. I went to sleep and didn'...
The author isn’t afraid to ask questions.This writer is clearly a curious and intellectual person. The questions they ask in the first part of the essay (“Why didn’t the wings function like a bird’s wings? Why did hitting something soft break my frame? Why hadn’t the parachutes de...
Like Duncan McLean, when Williamson had first read Welsh he’d recognised the sound of a writer hitting the nail on the head: linguistically, artistically and politically. With the pair of them acting as editors, encouragers and publishers, Irvine produced the succession of brilliant short stories...
It just takes being out in some club or bar, hanging out, hitting on every possible woman until one finally succumbs. That's it. It doesn't prove anything, it doesn't mean anything to a decent human being, it doesn't even matter to anyone reading this. It just means you value...