Twitter and Me - A Tweet Too Far?
I was bored one May evening in 2009, so I thought I’d investigate this “Twitter” phenomenon I’d been hearing about. I knew it was a mini-blog site for anyone who possessed fingers and what passed for a brain. I’d also heard that famous people like Stephen Fry, Demi Moore and Britney Sucks Cocks were on it, so I was curious. So I duly set up a twitter account and I was ready to tweet! Let’s be honest, I didn’t know why or what I was going to tweet, but the idea of conveying the shit in my head to a possibly large audience excited me. However, after having blocked all the suggested followers, I didn’t have an audience.
Myst Online: Uru Live
This is the online multiplayer addition to the popular Myst franchise. The game has been in existence in one form or another since late 2003, but due to various business and marketing mishaps over the years, it has never seen commercial success. But with stunning graphics, challenging puzzles, vast mythology and a wonderful community, MO:UL is probably the best game you've never heard of!
It's been a long time
Hello! it's nice to be back after nearly 7 months of inactivity here at Mankind Sucks. 2009 was a strange year, one in which I completely lost all control of my life. And one of the things to suffer from that was this site and all its various content.
2009 was the year the recession really hit me personally and pretty much slammed the door on all personal projects, while I lived a life of near poverty. Good fun! And while the writing was on the wall for the year to come back in December of 2008, I still resolutely launched a new show, "So Sue Me", and tried to make it a regular thing. As the hideous year progressed, this became more and more difficult, as I had to scrounge harder and harder for shitty jobs that payed a fraction of what they had a year before. Such is the life of an independent contractor.
A Bag of Tricks (Part 2)
A very pleasant good day or good evening to you, whatever the case may be. What follows is the second part of a story that began in the last installment of this show. If you missed the first part, I would highly suggest checking that out before continuing here, as otherwise, you won’t have a rat’s chance in a snakepit of knowing what’s going on. You’ve been warned.
Transform Reports on Drug Prohibition
As Todd mentioned in So Sue Me! number 9, the global drug prohibition problem is a big deal. This is also a very personal cause for me. There are significant financial, medical and civil liberties ramifications to the prohibition of drugs which should be known by everybody, because they effect YOUR pocket, YOUR police and medical services and YOUR freedom. The issues have nothing whatsoever to do with whether you personally use illegal drugs or not. This is everybody's problem and it's a global one.
A Bag of Tricks (Part 1)
Hiya people. I’m back. Once again I went away for awhile and once again I have returned. And while I keep telling myself that this type of behaviour must certainly stop if I intend to build any kind of audience for anything that I do, I fear that that circumstances may again deter me from my noble ambitions sometime in the future. It seems to be a repeating theme. But let me say this: I do fully intend to make this show a regular weekly thing as soon as my life will allow it. What’s more, I also still intend on launching a second show, a video podcast, as soon as I can find an appropriate person to host it, or in fact, decide on just which one of my many fine podcast ideas to actually pursue. Perhaps if I wanted to be very “social web-ish” I would post all my ideas and let my massive fanbase decide for me. But no, that would give sleazy and sneaky web entrepreneurs the opportunity to steal my ideas and become the next big internet celebrity instead of me. And that aint gonna happen. No, I think I’ll decide myself, and soon, I promise.
A Night At The Opera
There’s this pub in my town called the Opera House. The establishment is so named because, yes, you’ve guessed correctly, it used to be an actual opera house many years ago. As local legend has it, the use of the building as a theatrical establishment was limited to a mere few performances back in the early years of the 20th century, after which it was unceremoniously turned into various incarnations of community hall, scout hut, bingo hall, and for sometimes lengthy periods, vacant space.
Shite Happens
Hiya stranger. Nice to be talking to you again after a ridiculously long break of nearly eight weeks. And I’d like to assure you that a gap of this length between shows on a podcast that appeared to be weekly, is in no way the norm. Rest assured that during every one of those eight weeks I was thinking about the show, but just not doing anything about it. The reason for this is as boring as it is true: too much work – the paying kind – and too little time. I know, it sucks to lose sight of what really matters while trying to make a buck, but hey, it’s the same shit we all have to deal with. Or is it?
Who The Hell I Am
Now that you have been pounded with five podcasts full of my uncompromising opinions, you are probably wondering something along the lines of “Who the fuck are you?” And this is a perfectly reasonable question to ask, given that you are taking a bit of your precious time to listen to this show. But let us remember that we live in a world where every nobody on the planet empties the contents of a brain handbag on the internet every day. So who the fuck do I have to be? Let’s just say that I’m claiming my share.
I Want You To Want Me
This week I’d like to talk about the difference between need and want, specifically as it applies to how human beings relate to each other. As it’s a distinction that most people never make, it’s certainly worth looking at for that reason alone, but I’d also like to talk about it because understanding this difference it is key to how I live my life. Now, in case you hadn’t noticed, clueing you in to how I think is what this podcast is all about, and the reason I do this is, of course, completely selfish. You see, I’m hoping that by selling you my unconventional personality, I can later sell you something else that you might otherwise not want to buy. The whole thing is a huge plot to swindle you, that I gleefully undertake because, (a) I NEED to feel superior to other people in order to feel good about myself, and (b) I WANT the large piles of cash that this podcast and its conceptual offspring will undoubtedly net.
