Diary of an up and coming sociopath

Latest Pinky and the Brain quote to be amusing me: “Your words are like pipe bombs in my throbbing cerebellum.” Though it’s a new one every day.

Following yet another dodgy tube journey (I’m starting to wonder if I’ll ever get to work on time this week) I took the Central Line home and against the odds managed to end up on the same bus home as Seb. It’s surprising how small the tube network can make London seem. Especially when it’s buggered and everyone has to cram together to get maximum space out of it. Ugh. This evening, Seb and his housemate (and fellow NTS writer) Cappsy came over to generally socialise and sample some of that Internet that they’re currently unable to get from home, and we watched a Pinky and the Brain episode that I like so much I’ve seen it twice and I’ve still not even got past the first disc in the set yet.

I’m mid-way through writing a review of the DVD set for NTS but sometimes I wonder if it some of what I write wouldn’t be better blogged here instead. It’s a thin line between letting the work stand independantly and creating a cult of personailty around yourself, as Warren Ellis will no doubt be aware. One thing that most people probably won’t be aware of is that in my formative teenage years, my biggest influences were MTV’s Daria, the Gen-X weirdo too apathetic to care about anything, and Brain, the megalomaniacal genius with a Napoleon complex, and I suspect that answers quite a few questions for some of you. Whether that sort of observation belongs in a review though, I suspect not. Which is why it’s turning up here.

Speaking of megalomania, my own plans to conquer the world kind of got screwed up recently when sealand burnt down. I had intended to use it as a staging ground for my crack team of international psychopaths composed mainly of people I can trust to die for the cause, but the chances of that are looking pretty slim because they’ve even gone so far as to put a “Paypal Donate!” button on their website, which even Lebanon has managed to avoid so far. Just.