I’m Still Alive

Vicious circles are something I’m really good at. I’ve been feeling anti-social1, and I have a distorted view of my position in society which tells me if I’m not actively engaging, people tend to forget I exist2. This, of course, makes me feel even more anti-social.

On the up side, I do think my new combo med with dextromethorphan does seem to be helping with my generalized anxiety, and I continue to sleep reasonably well.

I suppose what this comes down to is another request to continue to bear with me, which I already know everyone will. Even if I don’t respond to texts, or comments, or phone calls, I read and appreciate the content. Not responding doesn’t mean I don’t care or I’m not paying attention, I’m just being Oscar the Grouch.


  1. Obligatory quote from St. Swithin’s Day by Grant Morrison – I’m not anti-social, society is anti-me. ↩︎
  2. This is not fishing for compliments. I’m aware people seem to think I have many redeeming qualities, the difficulty is I haven’t entirely persuaded my brain to believe it yet. This is a work in progress. ↩︎

Life’s Little Victories

Just so that this isn’t all doom and gloom, and also because I really do think it will be good for my mental health, I intend to sprinkle in a few of what gentleman cartoonist Keith Knight refers to as Life’s Little Victories.

My first entry in this category is something that genuinely made me do the full-on Keith Knight “YES!”.

Mashup artists The Kleptones have a new four part album called OV ER LO AD. It’s 135 tracks, clocks in at just over 8 hours and since I just found out about this a few minutes ago I haven’t had a chance to listen to it. However, The Kleptones double album Uptime/Downtime remains in the top three on my list of best mashup albums of all time (the other two being Girl Talk’s Feed the Animals and The Dirtchamber Sessions by The Prodigy) so I’m expecting great things.

Best part; you can download all four parts FO’ FREE!

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Edited to add – I still haven’t listened to the whole thing but the first few tracks on OV are good. Like really good.