The Ramblings of Guise Dugal

What makes people think I’ve been spending too much time playing Earthbound Zero?

“Money for hitting hippies and stray dogs with a baseball bat, thanks dad!”

As many of you are aware, Silent Hill is a thematic masterpiece, from visual effects to storyline and mythology. In the fog-covered town, characters are forced to face their own personal hells, dark avatars of their physche and embodiments of their emotions, whether that be guilt, anger, loneliness, fear or even unchannelled or under-exercised sexual [...]

Possibly due to being a slight disprited over the last few days, or indeed possibly from reading John Hegley’s poetry anthology “My Dog Is A Carrot” which was lent to me by Q. yestereday, today had me thinking up poetry again.
The first was stalker poetry, where the rhyme escapes me at present, but which was [...]

I’ve not posted much, in part because June is always a month of drama and aching for me, and this year hasn’t been that much different. Although it has had a few upsides, most notably involving people I feel close to.
June has for over a decade been a bad month for me and it adds [...]

I haven’t mentioned much about job hunting recently, mainly because a lot of time has been spent on applications and waiting, however the period of waiting is over. Now is the time.
Well, technically, tomorrow.
Tomorrow morning I start my induction training day at the Hospital to become a Prep Officer in the Medical Records section.
This’ll [...]

I slept so well last night that by all rights I probably shouldn’t have been as easy to stir by the alarm this morning, but even at the earlier time I was able to arise and face the day. It only took about two minutes to remember exactly why I was getting up early and [...]