I hit an exact number in my target today.
Go figure.
Bad Neighbours is finally evolving into something I can respect.
Another couple of rounds, and maybe, if I’m lucky, it’ll be suitable for consumption.
Target: 1300 words
Written: 1300 words
Read: Memories Of The Future, Vol. 1, Wil Wheaton (not your best work, Wil)
Comics: Youngblood Strikefile 2-3, Youngblood Yearbook 1, Bloodstrike 3
Music: Where I Came From, MudmenI don’t know why it’s stuck in my head, but it is.
We hope.
That you choke.
That you chooooOOOOoooke.
Something like that, right?
Target: 1300 words
Written: 1051 words, novel: Bad Neighbours
Read: Memories Of The Future, Vol. 1, Wil Wheaton
Comics: Brigade 4, Brigade v2 1-2, Youngblood 5
Music: Where Have All The Merrymakers Gone?, Harvey Danger (one of my youthful favourites)I finally found her.
I finally found the person that can’t hit my veins.
This, from the guy who once made a joke to a nurse, “I would have made one hell of a junkie.”
Goals, people.
Goals.
Target: 1300 words
Written: 1661 words, novel: Bad Neighbours
Read: The Last American Vampire, Seth Grahame-Smith
Comics: Bloodstrike 1-2, Youngblood Battlezone 1, Youngblood Strikefile 1
Music: When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, Billie Eilish (this is a great album, don't care what you say)No more nausea, and the Imodium I took ended the diarrhea, but as it so often does, bound me right the fuck up, which will be worse in a day or two.
Drugs.
Can’t live with ’em, can’t just enjoy being high.
Target: 1300 words
Written: 1080 words, novel: Bad Neighbours
Read: The Last American Vampire, Seth Grahame-Smith
Comics: Brigade 2-3, Youngblood 0, 4
Music: When Under Ether, PJ HarveySo many distractions. So little time.
If only life weren’t so filled with insanity.
Why must we be so insane?
Who lives simply?
Can I move there?
Would they let me?
Or would I merely be a refugee, a symptom of the disease of modern living that consumed us all?
I suspect turnabout is fair play.
Target: 1300 words
Written: 1507 words, novel: Bad Neighbours
Read: The Last American Vampire, Seth Grahame-Smith
Comics: Youngblood 1-3, Brigade 1 (jesus, Liefeld is a garbage writer)
Music: When The Pawn Hits The Conflicts He Thinks Like A King..., Fiona Apple (all time favourite female artist? Very well could be, though I'm also big on Bjork, PJ Harvey, L7 and Veruca Salt)We’re all here by accident, and any second we get is pure luck.
Make of that what you will.
Target: 1300 words
Written: 1050 words, novel: Bad Neighbours
Read: The Last American Vampire, Seth-Grahame Smith
Comics: Tomb Raider: Inferno 3-4
Music: When In Rome, When In Rome (how did this get in my playlist?)I’m now at my fourth (?) doctor telling me it’s just gas.
But really, when the pain is so severe, it doubles me over, or the distended belly comes out so far, I start getting lightheaded and threatening to pass out, is it really?
Why I can’t convince any one of these motherfuckers to get me some kind of test – ultrasound, scope, X-Ray, CAT, PET, MRI, I don’t even know which is best, but damn it.
Something.
Assholes.
Healthcare is fucked, and I’ll be honest, walking around like this?
There are points in the day where it’s so persistent and so severe that I’d rather not be walking around at all.
A little fucking help, guys.
Target: 1300 words
Written: 1632 words, novel: Bad Neighbours
Read: The Last American Vampire, Seth Grahame-Smith
Comics: Tomb Raider: Survivor's Crusade 3-4, Tomb Raider: Inferno 1-2
Music: When I Was Born For The 7th Time, Cornershop (featuring one of the catchiest tunes in 90s alternative history, but also, one of the songs that carries it on WAY too fucking long)Actually, there’s a third option.
Fight or flight or freeze.
(Or technically, die, but that’s really more of a consequence than an action.)
Science, bitches.
Target: 1300 words
Written: 1140 words, novel: Bad Neighbours
Read: The Last American Vampire, Seth Grahame-Smith (wait, I thought Abe lived until the Sixties?)
Comics: Tomb Raider v3 11-12, Tomb Raider: Survivor's Crusade 1-2
Music: When I Come Around, Green DayIs ‘greetings, fellow overloads’. I look forward to serving you on this planet.
Good lord, wouldn’t it be nice if some aliens showed up and went, dummies.
This is how you transcend your planet.
Target: 1300 words
Written: 930 words, novel: Bad Neighbours
Read: Sylvie And Bruno Concluded, Lewis Carroll
Comics: Tomb Raider v3 7-10
Music: Wheels, Foo FightersHonestly, yes, we have to push back against fascists, but what I really meant was we need to find a way to see that all this dichotomy bullshit is just a way for the rich to keep us focused on bullshit, on hating each other, instead of going after the only enemy that matters.
I’ll give you a hint – the words used to describe them usually ends in -illionaires.
Keep focus, no matter where you are on the spectrum.
The enemy is the 0.01%.
Target: 1300 words
Written: 621 words, novel: Bad Neighbours
Read: Sylvie And Bruno Concluded, Lewis Carroll
Comics: Tomb Raider v3 3-6
Music: Wheatus, Wheatus