It was 20 years ago Patrick got his first job, started earning pizza coin and splashing it on CD singles.
Patrick secures his second Grand Salami!
Despite battling crippling back pain and jaunting through a packed calendar of gigs and dinner parties, Patrick claimed his second Grand Salami in February 2018. He completed the final instalment while listening to the Hottest 100 of 2010.
Patrick’s Hottest 100 of 2017 prediction
Come inside to find out Patrick's Top 20 prediction for the Hottest 100 of 2017...
Single-Tweet Reviews of Films in 2018
Patrick sees a lot of films. Patrick sends a lot of tweets. He generally sends one tweet per film.
Patrick’s Top 100 Songs of 2017
Patrick's annual tradition lives on! It's the #P100, his countdown of the Top 100 Songs of 2017!
Patrick’s Best Films of 2017
Patrick saw 105 films at the pictures in 2017. This is what he thought of them...
Patrick’s Top 17 TV Shows of 2017
Step inside and check out Patrick's Top 17 TV Shows of 2017, including a careless Stranger Things spoiler.
#InfiniteSeptember: celebrating my tedious and cliched love of David Foster Wallace with mostly unread links to stuff he wrote passim
30 pieces of David Foster Wallace contributions to the literary canon — most are links to essays or short stories; one is a picture of me in costumer as an Infinite Jest character — to mark nine years since The Great Man's felo de se.
Despair
Some time ago I stayed up all night and wrote 8000 words of fiction and I have read back on it or proofread it but here it is. From memory, it is about pub trivia...
The Overtakings — A Short (+ True) Story
Patrick wrote a short (+true) story on Twitter! Come in to enjoy this Lorde- and Edgar Allen Poe-inspired masterpiece!