I don’t like writing about myself and my life too much. It’s a narcissistic indulgence that would only be interesting if I was an astronaut or brain surgeon or something. However, sometimes it’s nice to use an online journal as an actual journal, you know? I promise that I’ll only blog about myself when I want to document something that has happened in my life worth noting. I use the term “real life” to denote that a blog post is not specifically about pop culture or things I like, it’s about something happening outside of the cotton-wool surrealistic world of the internet.
Dear diary, today there’s a global pandemic on.
(Spoilers: it’s a drunken self-indulgent post about me. I mean, it is my blog?)
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April 5, 2020 at 12:30 am | Real Life, This Stuff Probably Isn't Relevant Now | No comment
Tags: That bloody virus
I have one of those email addresses that’s generic enough to be accidentally entered as I signed up for it with a particular service back when they first launched their email service. Without typing it out for all the world to see, it’s basically my name. It’s such a generic…
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December 28, 2018 at 10:30 pm | Real Life, Technology | No comment
Tags: Please just check what bloody email address you have typed before clicking send, Please stop signing up to shit with my email address
I’ve reached a milestone in my life recently: both of my grandfathers passed away within months of each other. There’s been no massive amounts of sadness on my part, but there has been a lot of guilt niggling at the back of my head because it seems that my values…
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February 8, 2017 at 11:00 pm | Real Life | No comment
Tags: Grandads we love you, RIP
Hi there! You’ve possibly been sent an email from a chap called Sean which contains a link to this web page. Let me explain. I received your email. Your email has been successfully delivered to Sean Patrick Payne. If that’s who you were aiming to send it to, then congratulations!…
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January 7, 2017 at 11:39 am | Real Life, Technology | No comment
Tags: Please just check what bloody email address you have typed before clicking send, spam
Tl;dr version: Going on hiatus, BRB. Long version: I am pretty active when it comes to putting stuff online. Just a casual glance at my Twitter feed for the year reveals that, on average, I put up comics, blog posts, podcasts and other assorted oddities for public consumption at least…
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February 15, 2016 at 12:00 pm | Real Life | No comment
Tags: That weird post where Sean tells his own website that he needs a break from it
It’s so easy to lose your own sense of “self”. That might sound pretentious but all it takes is one niggling little thing to throw off your entire grasp of who you are. Anyone who has spoken to me for more than fifteen minutes will have been subjected to a…
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February 14, 2016 at 2:11 pm | Real Life | No comment
Tags: Valentine's Day
Full disclosure: most of this was written on half a bottle of Jack Daniels. I wanted to document this important moment in my life, but blog writing can be tiresome1 sometimes so I resorted to something Philip Marlowe called “incentive to keep me interested”2. Why post this so late? Summer…
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November 22, 2015 at 11:03 pm | Real Life | No comment
Tags: Cornwall, Devon, engagement, Harlyn Bay, holiday, Ilfracombe, Padstow, Treyarnon Bay, Wadebridge
If you thought my physical space was cluttered, you should take a look at my computer desktop. I tend to save everything to the desktop and then, once every few months, go through everything and either archive it to a hard drive or consign it to the digital recycle bin….
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March 5, 2015 at 11:50 pm | Batman, Real Life | No comment
Tags: Bane, Batman, Catwoman, Doctor Who, Firefox, funny images, geekgasm, Groot, Hitman, Jaws is the best henchman ever, Kevin Smith, memes, oh goody let's talk about real life for a change, Playmobil, the Joker, translator
The one thing about moving house that surprised me is the sheer amount of stuff one accumulates over the years. However, most of this stuff normally has the common decency to secrete itself away in nook and crannies, unseen and unknown until it is required1. Philip K. Dick coined the…
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February 27, 2015 at 5:24 pm | Action Figures, Manchild at Play (Toys), Real Life | No comment
Tags: oh goody let's talk about real life for a change, packaging, they're just toys!
“The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long – and you have burned so very, very brightly, Roy.” That’s one of the better quotes from Blade Runner. It’s what Eldon Tyrell tells Roy Batty when he delivers the bad news that, no matter how much they have…
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February 18, 2015 at 9:35 pm | Real Life | No comment
Tags: birds, Blade Runner, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, I'm overly emotional and quite a sensitive person, oh goody let's talk about real life for a change, RIP, Willow
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