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Stanley McHale is a single man rapidly approaching thirty who loves and dreams of the same things he did when he was seventeen. But the band was never formed, the novel never finished, and the ill-chosen career in stand-up comedy is giving him more headaches than headlines. With the self-imposed deadline of his thirtieth birthday to either make an international success of himself or go and work in Woolworths, why not pull yourself up ringside seats for the tragically inevitable descent into mania and psychosis by reading his increasingly inane, pedantic, desperate, harrowing and wretched daily diary. It'll make you feel a whole lot better about yourself.

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A Few Days Added

Posted by on August 19, 2006 4:18 AM | 

Further to the below, I've added a few more entries for the 12th to 17th.

We should have this pointless task up to date in a couple of days.


Hi to all of you,

Sorry that I've not updated in a while, I went to Edinburgh and got my bag, therefore computer, house keys, car keys, etc stolen from a bar at some unGodly hour. This is clearly entirely my fault. I'd written Pathetic Lot entries up until the day the bag was swiped but was unable to upload them. So, I'm now in London and with the help of my friend's computer am now rewriting them. You might think it is autistic and wrong to rewrite entries already written and now in the hands of a Scottish thief, and you'd be correct, but rewrite them I will and they'll be on-line shortly in all their unimpressive glory.

I know that some of you are nerdily attached to this Blog and find delays in updating upsetting, even perhaps disabling, but it should all be updated and correct in a couple of days. The infuriating thing is having to rewrite days that seemed good at he time but now seem trite, but clearly that will be in keeping with the vast majority of my output.

See you soon,

A much poorer and annoyed Stanley

xxx

Comments (3)

Ms Mac wrote...

Mr Mchale,
I seriously doubt you are the sort of of chap who can help me given your dreary diatribe,(I mean no offence but good grief do build a bridge and get over yourself dear boy!) however, I need help and I am pursuing every avalailable avenue.

I have recently moved back to Liverpool after nine years in New York and my, how the city has changed! Due to circumstances I shan't bore you with I need a bloody good personal trainer/fantastic gym! Can any of your fabulous followers be of any assistance? They will truly recieve their rewards in Nirvana and my eternal gratitude.

Yours in anticipation

Ms Mac

Posted by: Ms Mac  | August 20, 2006 12:36 AM

derek in ottawa, canada wrote...

This is a great relief. Reading the blog has become a part of my pathetic daily routine and I was seriously distressed for a while there. I am, of course, very sorry about your recent misfortune, but I have my own needs to think about.
I hope you find the thief and thump him good. Perhaps he's the same guy who broke my car window last week and stole 60 of the 80 cents I had in the cupholder. He made off much better against you, it seems.

Posted by: derek in ottawa, canada  | August 20, 2006 1:10 AM

Frederick Loughlin wrote...

I took a time out to catch up with a number of issues and when I tuned in again you've gone off line. Sorry to hear about your loss. Its so bloody frustrating when you've spent hours working on something to find that it hasn't been saved at all or in your case that its been stolen. Either that or you've responded to the prompt "Are you sure you want to replace this file?" with a "Yes" and then realised you've overwritten the wrong file, probably the report you've been working on for the last ten days and have sworn to submit at tomorrow's management meeting or tender your resignation instead. It doesn't help when some smart arse from IT chimes in with "Well that just demonstrates the value of backing things up"

I am one of the guilty parties who took delivery of your draft of "the power of 10" and never got round to the feedback part. If your American friend is destined to become your "Wade de camp" when your theory of time finally becomes accepted practice then maybe I will be first against the wall. Frankly, it didn't sustain my interest beyond the first 100 pages, the maths of it is neither overly complex nor laugh out loud amusing either, Dave Gorman has little to fear just yet. The basic idea would probably occupy a 10 minute TV slot at present, I can't see a fully blown book or a Gormanesque series emerging form it. I did smile at the number of Morrissey references you managed to introduce into the text however. Independent of your own emerging developments, however, I had come to the conclusion that the most enjoyable parts of the blog to date have been the travel sequences - the American trip, the Morrissey weekend in Rome etc and maybe you should try to develop that part of your writing instead.

Given our common attachment to Morrissey, I may be able to offer you some cheer in the form of a DVD of the great man's recent performance at the Benicassim Festival as featured on Spanish TV, let me have a forwarding address (offline of course)and its yours. No I'm not a stalker, I don't bear you any malice and I have no need of your money or any other favour.

I know how difficult it is to find the motivation or inspiration to write 1000 words a day, so to maintain the effort for a year alongside all your other projects (not to mention the impact on your drinking time) is something of an achievement. You might like to consider the above offer as an anniversary present. Hope you're soon up and running again.

Posted by: Frederick Loughlin  | August 20, 2006 9:25 PM

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