Category Archives: Art

International Masturbation Month

May 19, 2014Art, Blog News, Mental Health, Sciencericky

Hello, Dear Reader. And belatedly, Happy Stroke Month. To mark the occasion, the Apoplexy Store has re-opened.

Want to show non-profit solidarity with #stroke survivors and their carers? The all-new, not-shit Apoplexy Store: http://t.co/YhsTAtrDhF

— Ricky Monahan Brown (@ricky_ballboy) May 16, 2014

A massively smaller selection of stuff, but much pithier, I think. The bad news is, given what’s been cut, you’ll have to hack my phone if you’re looking for a t-shirt of Stroke Bloke looking lithe in a dress.

Sorry. That's from the International Masturbation Month store. — RRRAAAAWWWWKKKKKK!!!

Oh, and sign up for alerts, and more personal and more whimsical content at: https://tinyletter.com/apoplectic_me. Continue reading International Masturbation Month →

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Ghostdancing

April 7, 2014Art, Books, Mindfulnessricky

Tonight (Monday, 7 April, 2014), Professor Charles Raab is giving a lecture on Surveillance, Social Values and Human Rights to the Edinburgh Group of the Humanist Society of Scotland. The HSS website relates that the

“…talk will focus upon contemporary surveillance and the challenges it poses to range of social values and rights.”

Stroke Bloke admits that RTD's Doctor Who *was* about something, after all. — The PM says: “There’s nothing to worry about!”

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Bigger Than The Beatles

March 24, 2014Art, Classical Music, Poetry, Pop Music, Relationshipsricky

Next week, we present a very special apoplectic.me. This would be a great time to sign up for alerts on the right-hand side of the page — or even better, more whimsical and personal extra content in the Tiny Letter distribution.

...Joey has VD? Wot?! — Next week, on a very special episode of Apoplectic Me…

1. Caroline Alice Elgar

If you like poetry, or this post picqued your interest in poesy, the website of the Scottish Poetry Library is a great resource for readers and writers. Each week, their @ByLeavesWeLive twitter feed points me to their blog sharing poetry-related items coming up on TV and Radio. Continue reading Bigger Than The Beatles →

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Inside Strokey Blokey

March 17, 2014Art, Movies, Strokericky

Does anyone remember that old post about memories making us what we are?

Yeah. Neither do I.

How can you not remember his name? He's a beautiful man! — Stroke Diet’s going well, Stroke Bloke.

Thursday was an awful day for that. Mrs Stroke Bloke and I sat in the movie theatre, chatting before the show started. In discussing the events of that day and the previous day, there were large chunks I couldn’t remember. Continue reading Inside Strokey Blokey →

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Iambic Pentameter

March 12, 2014Art, Books, Edinburgh, Mindfulness, Relationships, Strokericky

And now, at last, the blog is here for you:
It’s feet are light, and look! It’s rhyming, too.

A master's manglings are not by chance. — “Enough doggerel! And ‘take arms against a sea of troubles’ is a mixed metaphor.”
(Pic: Doctor Who Magazine)

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Reflektor

February 10, 2014Art, Brooklyn, Death, Edinburgh, Movies, Pop Musicricky

One of the many rubbish things about having a massive haemorrhagic stroke is that the ever-present factor of fatigue, and the whole brain lesions thing, militate against a quick return to the traditional, full-time workforce.

Sez me — Voted Funniest Thing On apoplectic.me 2013

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Stroke Bloke’s Divertissement Apoplectique

October 14, 2013Art, Books, Brooklyn, Edinburgh, Movies, Strokericky

After last week’s hard stroke entry, a diversionary divertissement apoplectique….

Bloody trams. — You’ve spelled it wrong!
(h/t to Noisy Decent Graphics)

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The Art Of Stroke

October 7, 2013Art, Healthcare, Pop Music, Rehab, Strokericky

Maybe it’s the monotony, or the blank walls, but there’s something about a long hospital stay that intensifies the reaction to any art that’s available.

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