Prozacville

These things have their own patterns, these things are fathomlessly out of our hands

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:53:00 +0000

The deal eventually struck was that I'd be allowed to pontificate about Prozacville to Frontier Psychiatrist as long as I made sure to get Prozac back on the couch in the next week or so.

This is way beyond my remote concern of being condescending

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:16:00 +0000

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On Monday I went to the One in Four conference on mental health and the media. This was my take-home message: a rose is a rose is a rose is a service user.

Everything's heavy underground

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:46:00 +0000

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I've got this pain in my heart. That's all.

Got a kick for a dog begging for love (I gotta have my suffering, so that I can have my cross)

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:03:00 +0000

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Projecting your own psychopathologies onto a pet? Fear not, for Reconcile is here.

Who put the Nembutals in Mr. Murphy's overalls?

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:37:00 +0000

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Quote of the week: "I can't tell you what a psychotic zebrafish looks like but I can tell you what a zebrafish treated with an antipsychotic looks like."

Top slop (sabotagem)

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:03:00 +0000

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Todo quadro negro, é todo negro é todo negro, e eu escrevo seu nome só pra demonstrar o meu apego

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:31:00 +0000

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Oh one, oh one, one oh

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:52:00 +0000

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Everything's gonna be cool this Christmas?

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:02:00 +0000

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A piece commissioned for the 'Christmas Day Edition' of Forward.

But God can be funny (at a cocktail party while listening to a good God-themed joke)

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:45:00 +0000

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I poured my heart out. I poured my heart out. It evaporated. See.

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:01:00 +0000

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This one's on pretty much constant rotation too at the moment, and equally apt for the above piece.

And even if it rains here, it's much worse in the north

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:42:00 +0000

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What you give, or give out, is the only thing that really counts

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:34:00 +0000

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It'll probably come as no surprise to you that I'm quite a fan of Joel Waldfogel.

You're a slave to yourself and you don't even know

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:05:00 +0000

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An interesting article about being jew-ish and some more info about the S.H.I.T list which Prozac seems so keen to get on.

Hey, you need an A for effort, but I give you a D for delivery, my friend

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:30:00 +0000

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Now I don't mean to hate December...

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:03:00 +0000

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My cartoon for this month's One in Four magazine.

And you said it was like Christmas, but you were wrong

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:14:00 +0000

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Oh I wish I had a river, I could skate away on

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:01:00 +0000

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This one's also part of my Eleven Kinds of Loneliness series.

Sleigh bells ring, are you listening?

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:00:00 +0000

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When you sleep, I will creep, into your thoughts like a bad debt that you can't pay. Take the easy way and give in.

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:32:00 +0000

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Am really chuffed to have been given the opportunity to contribute a cartoon and also do the front cover for next month's One in Four magazine which is out on December 7th.

You can pick up a copy in libraries, GP surgeries, primary care trust facilities, universities, and Mind charity shops.

Or even better, SUBSCRIBE, and with a bit of luck The Big B might invite me back again.

It's cool to love your family

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:41:00 +0000

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My favourite uncle has been visiting recently. I'm sure he represents a recognisable strand in the taxonomy of Unc-dom, but for me he is truly one of a kind.

I'm feeling the pull, dragging me off again

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:01:00 +0000

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A cartoon and review done for an event at the Freud museum.

Can't you see I'm a fool in so many ways?

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:53:00 +0000

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I have yet to actually watch an episode of X Factor from start to finish. That said, even I can spot two off-key twonks a mile off. And this time, even Hitler agrees with me.

[Birthday card for Juliet. Happy birthday Jules.]

I think it's going to rain today

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:44:00 +0000

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And I have got nothing to offer you, no-no-no-no-no. Just this heart deep and true (which you say you don't need)

noreply@blogger.com (Steve) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:38:00 +0000

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Last Sunday I was at the overwhelmingly good and varied Comiket, part of the Comica Festival at the ICA.

Gareth Can-I-Borrow-Your-Toilet Brookes organised a cartoon wall as part of the event: a multi-paneled wall à la Raphael on which Comiketicipants were asked to riff off a randomly assigned line from Watchmen, in charcoal. (Although some people cheated by smuggling in their own art materials and colours, the cads!)