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Friday, 30 July 2010 |
Honesty compels me to admit that over the last few weeks my alcoholic intake has increased quite dramatically. I'm sure this is partly due to the good weather, and partly because, well, just because I can, so there.
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Friday, 16 July 2010 |
A few days ago I found myself at a bit of a loose end one evening. I was having one of those nights where you just can't seem to settle on anything, so I ended up wandering from room to room. I’d start doing something, then put it down and wander off to another part of my flat but two minutes later.
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Thursday, 29 April 2010 |
Meet Gustave.
My article on Psychopaths last month inevitably led me to look into a few serial killers as well, and it was when I was comparing their respective body counts that I stumbled across someone who outstripped them all, and was certainly too good not to write about on this page.
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Friday, 26 March 2010 |
This month I have mainly been delving into the shadowy, labyrinthine mind of a killer, writes The Kingmeister.
Well, actually, that's not strictly true, but it's a pretty good first line, hey? What I’ve been doing is researching psychopaths and finding out just how brilliant these people are.
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Tuesday, 02 March 2010 |
This month I have mainly been looking into some of the things that make us who we are.
I'm not talking about each of us as individuals; more about how we developed as a species, evolving from a charming Captain Caveman chap to the nasty, rapacious little chimps we are today. The more you look into this subject, the more surprising seem the origins of some of our physical and characteristic traits of today.
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Thursday, 04 February 2010 |
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This month I have mainly been thinking about getting older. A lot of people I know have a big problem with getting older, obsessing about wrinkles and grey hairs and the like, and many people seem to do everything in their power to stave off the inevitable, much to the delight of the snake oil salesmen in the beauty clinics. Whereas I'm the complete opposite. The older I get, the more I like it, possibly due to being cursed with a chubby little baby-face.
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Friday, 18 December 2009 |
This month I have mainly been learning about the history of crime in our great capital city by taking a visit to ‘The Black Museum’.
For those of you who don't know, ‘The Black Museum’ is a more colourful name for the Metropolitan Police Crime Museum, based at New Scotland Yard. It's been open since 1875, after the Prisoner's Property Act in 1869 gave the police the authority to keep certain items of property that directly related to various crimes.
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Wednesday, 25 November 2009 |
This month I have mainly been slowly retreating from modern life and the globalinformationsuperhighwayvillageinterweb thingy, and loving every minute of it, writes The Kingmeister. Last month, I wrote about stress and the myriad ways in which our modern lives in general contribute to us all being a bit stressed out all of the time.
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Wednesday, 25 November 2009 |
This month I have mainly been slowly retreating from modern life and the globalinformationsuperhighwayvillageinterweb thingy, and loving every minute of it, writes The Kingmeister. Last month, I wrote about stress and the myriad ways in which our modern lives in general contribute to us all being a bit stressed out all of the time.
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009 |
This month I have mainly been learning all about the stresses and strains of modern life and coming up with the sort of ‘lifestyle plan’ that, if anyone else had suggested it to me, I would probably have given them a well deserved expletive-filled-mouthful, writes The Kingmeister.
Stress can be a really sneaky little bastard, particularly nowadays when we're all pretty much under its spell. I bet many of you were just like me in figuring that you got stressed every now and then, but a good few pints followed by a decent nights kip pretty much sorted it?
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Wednesday, 07 October 2009 |
This month I have mainly been....learning all about the dangerous follies of utopian endeavours. I recently returned from a brilliant two week break in Egypt, where I utilised my ‘pool time’ to learn about how deluded a large part of the human race is, and that our constant attempts to make the world ‘better’ are actually making it much, much worse.
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