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TM 178: No mummy issues here.
It was my fault, of course. One in a long list of fuck ups. Sometimes it seems like when I make a mistake, anybody else making the same mistake would have a bad day or a bad fight or at worst a sudden state of unemployment, but when Pete Wisdom makes one wrong decision the universe conspires to turn that into doomI've been told not to blame ( Read more... ) -
TM 174: Would you ever kill a human being? (Or whatever.)
Killing's wrong. Any kid will tell you that. Mind you, that same kid will then go out and pretend to shoot his best friend dead. The things kids do for fun.
I like to think most people never get beyond that basic killing is wrong. So we don't do it state of mind. It's a good state of mind to be in. But then again that's probably just my damn ( Read more... ) -
TM 172: If you could pick anyone in the world, alive or dead, to be your parents
I think everyone in this world hates their parents, on some level. I think I've got reason for it, but then so does everyone else. It's that whole screaming teenage rebellion phase, the kid trying to go out and establish their own identity by pointing to their dad and saying "I'm not going to be like that!" and generally winding up exactly like ( Read more... ) -
TM 169: Fragile
Do you remember the first time you got into a fight? A real, out for blood fistfight, and you'd come home with a black eye and bloody knuckles for your mom to fuss over, for those boys whose mother still lived at home, and you'd be the center of the school rumor mill for the next few days and you'd be sore for about as long. That fight. ( Read more... ) -
TM 166: Do you believe in ghosts?
My sister likes to channel old dead guys from Atlantis. There's a reason for that: my sister takes after our father, by which I mean she's batshit crazy ( Read more... ) -
TM 163: Hindsight is always 20/20.
Never go to the pub with your coworkers. For a bit of relaxing after a day of hell, all right, yeah, but not to get properly shitfaced. Someone is bound to get chatty, and someone is bound to get maudlin, and if you're very lucky they're one and the same and then you get spend your whole evening listening to incoherent sob stories from World War ( Read more... ) -
TM 161: The Morning After
The morning after is a terrible phrase. Never means anything good. Which version do you want to hear? The morning hangovers? (Ow.) The morning debriefings? (Also ow.) The 2 AM near enough to morning and oh god she wants to cuddle? (I've got an early meeting. Really.) The morning she doesn't want to cuddle, wants nothing to do with you? ( Read more... ) -
TM 160: soundtrack for life
When Pete's alarm clock goes off, it's to the sound of "Woke Up This Morning" by the Alabama 3. He's never been to Alabama, and doesn't plan to. Never could stand the southern half of the US of A, just miles of swamp and fields and desert with a few little hellholes trying to call themselves cities; it's almost as bad as their northern half, and ( Read more... ) -
TM 156: If you could change one aspect of your society, what would it be?
Everybody wants to change the world. Half the time, it's my job to make sure they don't ( Read more... ) -
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Go to the Google search engine and type in your name and the word 'needs' after it, e.g. "John needs". Write down the description of the first 9 sentences that appear.
"Pete Needs Our Prayers." Not so much, really. You can keep 'em.
"Pete needs a lift to tuggeranong for cl 5s." A lift to wha huh?
"Pete Needs A Good Slap." So I've been told.
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