WordPress invited me to do it properly and so I signed up for a course on how to make your blogs more interesting. Lesson 1 is to write a blog with the above title, to bring you closer. Not close enough so we both know what the other’s eaten, but close enough to have a gander with our glasses off. Close enough for a spraff, as Maxi says in A Kick in the Gurus. 

Welcome. Do we need another author? Do we need another bird whistling in the world? Possibly not. Does the bird give a shit? It’s going to keep on whistling ‘cos that’s what it does. It’s a bird.

I write and I’ll keep writing for you. Who is that you I’m writing for? A glaringly snide rhetorical second person persuasive technique to make you think I’m talking to you directly? Am I forcing you too close? Can you smell what I had for dinner?

No. The you is the person who falls in love with the story I’ve written, or hates it to the point they obsess about it and tell everyone about it, or whose head and heart hurts as they read it. A Kick in the Gurus is a bit like medicine – it doesn’t always taste good, but it’s good for you.

Some thoughts are not comfortable to think, but still, it’s better to think than not think, and the thoughts that come at the end of uncomfortable thoughts? Sometimes, they’re the best thoughts of all.

A Kick in the Gurus is also like medicine in that in the wrong hands, it easily becomes just a street drug that will fuck you up. You can be harmed or healed by the same words. Hmm, I’ve not answered the who I am and why I’m here promise of the title, yet, but it’s on its way. Make this a preface, then, a not-quite-my-face, a forming face.

You look good with your glasses off, by the way, you can stay this close if you’d like.