The life of the depressive is of course ragged and savage; the life of the artist at best is pitiable, at worst, maddening, but nothing is so truly horrific as the life of the depressed artist. He cannot take inspiration from without, for all his colleagues are competitors who have long finished the race and every piece of art nothing but a mocking ( Read more... )

Here's the thing. So I've spent the last twenty years avoiding all self-introspection to avoid finding out who I really am because I was depressed.  Any way you slice it though, that's twenty years of being something though. And being something really strongly, because all the results from the tests I've been doing put me way into the critical ( Read more... )

Mr Cameron, you gave a speech this week in Munich

Yes, thank you, I know.

Go down well?

Very pleased with it. Yes. The Germans seemed to love it.

And the home crowd?

I should think so, yes.

I was wondering, could you talk us through it?

Well, I thought I was very clear.

Please.

Oh very well. Well, basically, what I said was, there are two ( Read more... )

 Hmm. Not that I mind the world at large reading d-flates, but d-flates was deliberately designed to relieve d-fuses readers of the endless psychoanalysis biography.  Anyone know how to stop that?

"I know what it's like to be afraid of your own mind ( Read more... )

So a few weeks ago we did a mad random from-the-hip session of Smallville chargen to show someone how it goes. We put genres in the hat again and pulled out "Ancient Rome" and "The Love Boat". Brainstorming and chargen later, we ended up with Trireme Dreams, a show about relationships on a cruiseship in Ancient Rome. The campaign bible came out ( Read more... )

I'm currently engaged in an effort to clean up and compartmentalise my internet presence. It seems like a good idea in this increasingly intar-tubed world.  So we have all my gaming and writing stuff being blogged (and eventually linked) here:

http://www.dconstructions.wordpress.com ( Read more... )

That was the thought that popped into my mind after I saw Tripod last week. Because it was a fun show indeed, with good jokes and great music and suprisingly few D&D jokes, surprisingly good fantasy storytelling and awesome shadowpuppetry. But the last song was about how Scott was bullied and outcast as a kid for being weird and talking to himself ( Read more... )

Let me tell you something, I hate holidays. All of them. That's why I always work on them, so I don't have to think about them ( Read more... )

I have a proper blog-cum-website now for all these exciting insights and newsbreaks about the earth-shattering world of Steve. I'm hoping that there's some wonderful magic button that will allow all you wonderful people to get updates from said website without leaving your happy homes of Livejournal ( Read more... )