Hi there friends and fans. So … more than six months between updates again. Just between you and me, it’s just not working anymore, is it ? I started this blog almost five years ago, trying to tap into the same creative vein I started squirting vino prodigiously from close to a decade ago when I was part of the whole self-indulgent, pseudo-literate, trying-desperately-to-be-reactionary Melbourne ‘zine scene’. It’s been a great ride – I’ve (virtually) met many great people, heard some great stories, pissed off more than my fair share of punters, and shared very publicly my own evolution from vacuous shallow (single) party-fuck into vacuous shallow (married) boring fuck.

I called this blog “The Rest of Your Life” – I don’t think anyone bothered to ask, but it was actually a completely obscure underground UK comics / graphic novel reference (don’t even ask me what the publication in question was called – I have no idea anymore) to a single image from a story set in a prison, in which the protagonist’s cell block features a poster that says something like “The Rest of Your Life Begins Here”. There’s some kind of tres-fucking-ironic subtext right there, innit, although I didn’t know it at the time :-)

So yes, it’s been a great ride steering the good ship TROYL over the last 5 years or so. I’m in no way bitter about where it’s taken me, nor indeed should you guys take this as ending on a bitter note. It’s not that I don’t have anything left to say either. I just don’t think I’m in the whole “my life is a sterile English cell-block, full of doom and gloom, self-loathing, hard drugs (when you can get ’em past the wardens), and the occasional bout of angry prison-style sex” mind-set anymore.

As such, and given the appalling lack of anything even resembling attention I’ve given this blog over the last sod knows how long, I think the decent thing for me to do is to finally, officially, and with a sigh of relief no doubt for all concerned – CALL IT A DAY FOR THIS BLOG !

I’m going to be trying some new things in the next little while as I keep promising (fuck knows I need to, or I really AM going to have that much-touted breakdown and lose my biscuit completely … all work and no play makes Johnny a homical effing maniac with an axe to grind and a serious hankering for stronger head-vacation than alcohol provides – but I’ve been down THAT road before and know it doesn’t lead to anywhere good) and WILL post links to those as I get my shit together. The first of these is a new blog I’m planning called “Zero to Hero” which you’ll find at http://im8dit.com/0

But as far as any more ‘official’ content here is concerned, I’m sorry to say this is it gang :(

Thanks for listening to my psycho-babble, and in the immortal words of Jerry Springer – “Take care of yourselves, and eachother”.