My Favourite Hellscape

Not Safe For Humans Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a furious deathworld of extremely deathy death! So, I’ve explained that this sketch is associated with extreme hellishness, so what do you think it is? It’s the planet Venus. I realized Venus was out last night, and also it’s … Continue reading My Favourite Hellscape →

I Can’t Let Anything Go, Repeating My Failed Cycle In the Hope of Succeeding This Time

So if you’ve read my previous cycling blogpost: https://autismneurodiversity.wordpress.com/2023/01/22/my-only-unsuccessful-cycling-trip/ You’ll know that I could not let the fact that there was one cycle I didn’t complete go. It was like my white whale, except, you know considerably safer than chasing a white whale. I was going to repeat the cycle, taking a lot more rests … Continue reading I Can’t Let Anything Go, Repeating My Failed Cycle In the Hope of Succeeding This Time →

Why Do Our Differences Require An Explanation?

There is a certain rapper who the young kids may not remember called 50 Cent. He had such songs as, eh, I don’t know, because I don’t remember his music either. In 2016, he started ridiculing an airport worker who was just doing his job, and at the revelation that the worker was autistic, 50 … Continue reading Why Do Our Differences Require An Explanation? →

Charles Lightoller, The Unsung Villian Of The Titanic

The Titanic sank 111 years ago, but while the ship was considered unsinkable, what unfortunately don’t seem to be unsinkable are the various myths and over-simplifications surrounding it. There’s the idea that so many died because there weren’t enough lifeboats (an oversimplification). The idea that First Officer Murdoch shot and killed a passenger and and … Continue reading Charles Lightoller, The Unsung Villian Of The Titanic →

Flying Microtonal Banana, The Album That Started Me On the Road To Microtonal Music

Flying Microtonal Banana gets off to a strange and exhilarating start. The first track, “Rattlesnake”, opens with this very intense wind noise, and then the guitar intro comes in. There is nothing unusual about the tone of the guitar, an electric through overdrive, not too unusual, but the actual notes the guitar is playing are … Continue reading Flying Microtonal Banana, The Album That Started Me On the Road To Microtonal Music →

Poor Planning, Hubris, And A Forest I Hope Never To Return To

So it was 2015, I’d been cycling for over a year, and I wanted a new adventure. I found something that peaked my interest on Google maps. About twenty miles north of where I lived, on the left hand side of the road was Glenagear wood, and on the right hand side was Corran mountain, … Continue reading Poor Planning, Hubris, And A Forest I Hope Never To Return To →

The Boatiest Cycle I Ever Did

You’ve read about the hardest cycle I’ve ever did (assuming you’re read my other blogposts, it was presumptous of me to assume that but I did it anyway.) Then, in what may have been the most anticlimatic way of putting out blogposts ever, you read about the second hardest cycle I ever did, then the … Continue reading The Boatiest Cycle I Ever Did →