There’s a lot of ways to travel these days. I just can’t keep up with all the different types of tourism and all the neologisms people have invented to describe things that are amply covered by existing words. (Take the arrival of “gocation”, the opposite of “staycation”. That one hurt). However, I keep my ear [...]
Posts under ‘The Idiocy For The Sheer Hell Of It’
Competition: Eyeballs for HobNobs
I’m making lots of changes in here at the moment.
Roleplay Is Good For Morale
(Fevered Mutterings v2 - August, 2006). Today, to spice up my workplace and impress my colleagues, I dressed up as Aragorn. With Anduril strapped to my side, all greasy hair, grubby leggings and faded elvish cloak, I pushed open both the doors of my department at 9am. Everyone stared. Since then, I’ve been sat at my [...]
Asgaard’s Final Quest
Fevered Mutterings v1: November 2004. An early sign that I wasn’t cut out for Real Life. ………. Asgaard clambered over the final ichor-streaked boulder. The last vicious Blood-Wyyrm lay behind him, innards strewn akimbo across the cold rock-cut passage floor. He had taken a fearful bite upon the thigh, but he shrugged it off with [...]
How Not To Pitch A Travel Book
*door opens* Hi. You’re the editor? You deal with signing up bold new writers? Yeah, my name’s Mike, I’ve come to discuss some of my ideas with you.
Canadians: A Brief Yet Reliable Guide
The really great thing about embarking on a career (travel-writing) that you are supremely underqualified for (untravelled, misanthropic, irreverent view on the world, fear of flying, fear of knowledge etc.) is that every Foreign Person is truly an adventure to know. Not only are they a new person to learn all about, which is always [...]
Shredded
(Disclaimer: this is 100% fiction). From: Human Resources To: Mike S. Subject: Cutbacks Hi Mike, Hope you’re feeling great today on this fine March 13th 2010 day. Mike, you know we treasure your contribution to the business. To us, you’re so far beyond price that you’ve actually become valueless, which is something of a problem. [...]
The Big List Of Fevered Mutterings (2009-2010)
It’s been nearly a year since I accidentally deleted my blog and had to start all over again. Here’s everything that’s happened at Fevered Mutterings (v4.0) since that glorious day of rampant stupidity for which I am rightly proud. A year’s worth: most of it original, some stolen from my archives; some of it carefully [...]
It’s All In The Delivery
“Oh, we can’t guarantee when he’ll be delivering the new dishwasher”, they told my Mum. “Sometime on Thursday, definitely. But the drivers make up their own schedules to inflict maximum inconvenience on their customers. We can hear them giggling over the radio as they work them out. It’s an ugly sound, yet strangely compelling, like [...]
