Speaking From the Diaphragm

TEMPLE DRAKE The young, talented novelist Tristan Egolf committed suicide the other day. I had a brief tryst with him ages ago. He was ver...

CHAV-ALANCHE Received a cute email from Pete Dougherty with this beautiful poem that i shall share with you: I knew a simple soldier boy who...

LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WO-MAN Actually its a letter from my pretty little Dom Johnson who is living it up in New York City for a few months....

CHAVESTITE My last day in man!chesta uber alles with the performance of "The Maladjusted Rule" goes off hitch free. The kids real...

BARONESS BRENDA HALE emailed me that she is going to come to my workshop performance "The Maladjustment Rules" at the Contact Thea...

MR ZADIE SMITH . . .and prize winning poet Nick Laird was at Bricktops last week, with pop ingenue Jonathan Rice. I love getting emugs from...

MERSEY BULWARK Had a nice greasy spoon breakfast at my favorite city center nook. Ran into Dr. Monica and had a chittle chat with her, also...

FARRINGDON Got a note sent to me from Los Ang that cute, sexy and adorable Nick Atkinson of the band Rooster was at Bricktops on Friday, and...

AFFLECK'S PALACE I forgot to mention i ventured to this old school Melrose Avenue in a manor emporium in the Northern Quarter. Call it...

ANEGADA On my third day of workshops with the students. A great bunch all of them. Lou and Es are Phd students, Es is in a band. Phil is ...

CORNING GAME HEN Friday i went to the Museum of Science and Industry. Didn't know man!chesty was a science and technology mecca. The i...

CHAV/CHAVETTE I really seem to attract a certain type of boy here in man!chesty. Went to the Great Northern Railway Company where there is ...

GREEN DOLPHIN STREET First formal meeting with my Maladjusted Rule artistic tag team consisting of Contact Theatre's pretty project mana...

MANCUN PRECTORIATE I'm glad i'm staying in the city centre i can easily walk any and everywhere. Went with my Italian born intern A...

LOVE SAVES THE DAY is the name of the great little restaurant Andrea and i went to. Professor Monika Pearl took us to breaky at a little gr...

SKALLY LAD Got laid by a Mike Skinner of the Streets look-a-like. A working class bloke, occupation: Builder. And great building is what ...

ALL THE WAY WITH MICHAEL OWEN My performances at the Contact Theatre were very well received. i did a 7pm and 9pm show. i felt i wasn'...

MAN!CHESTER DELIGHTED -On the Pitch- Flight to England Rocky and rough, i screamed out loud 5 times terrorizing everyone on a plane filled w...

GOSTA BERLING'S SAGA The wonderful Mark Simon took me to see the Greta Garbo salute at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences T...

PLANTATION LULLABY Parlour Club bar dom, Ms. Kimberly Kim treated Andrew of Gould and I to a farewell luncheon. I adore Kim, she's so b...