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Darwin Awards

If I am found dead of solvent inhalation one of these days, would someone please tell the police it was through stupidity, not suicide?

I was painting last night and all was going well until I looked at my watch and realised that three hours had just gone past in thirty minutes. Also I felt mysteriously drunk given the amount of alcohol I had consumed (none). I looked behind me and realised the windows were shut. Hazily recalling knowledge from my Girl Guide days, I grabbed the turps bottle. The words "Well-ventilated space" and "inhalation may be harmful or fatal" seemed to stand out like white letters on a black background, which indeed they were.

I got a really good night's sleep. And the painting is really... abstract. The kind of painting people will look back on in years to come and think "man, what was he on?!" And my spirit will look back at them through the eye-holes in the canvas and laugh and laugh ... hold on. Let me go open a window...

Anyhoo, I just realised that the link in the entry below should be credited (couldn't remember where I'd seen it for a while). It's from an email-newsletter thing called This Is True and the website for it is www.thisistrue.com (link will open in a new window).