Here goes…something?
Greetings, dear readers, and welcome to this exciting new outlet of mine. I’m by no means new to posting bizarre nonsense on the internet, but this specific Medium page is, if you’ll pardon my French, fresh af.
What exactly am I going to do here? That is a good question. Please let me know if you come across the answer.
I am a 30-year-old toddler. A tall child, as Mitski would say. I also have an MA in Creative Writing to my name, although that was obtained in a past life. In the time between my graduation and today, I’ve suffered a traumatic brain injury. If you want to get specific about it then:
- Why? Why can’t we just leave it there? Do you not believe me or something?
- In October 2023, I drunkenly fell down an escalator and was afflicted with a frontal bilateral subcutaneous haematoma. That’s an injury as fun as it sounds, assuming that you, like me, do not think it sounds remotely fun.
This was all years ago. It’s (current year) now, and I have long since been discharged from hospital and granted the freedom to post unnerving, cringey material on the internet. And boy oh boy have I been doing that! Until (current day) it has mostly been on my longstanding yet adorably unsuccessful YouTube channel Dilhouse: https://www.youtube.com/@johnKdilhouse
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YouTube videos are art. I will stand by that. On business, in fact. In most cases they are the lowest art form concievable, but that’s fine. Low art is still art, making me a low artist.
I enjoy making YouTube videos, and I enjoy creative writing, and I have been assured that it’s sometimes important to focus on the PROCESS rather than the PRODUCT. I hereby present you with a window through which you can observe whatever exactly this process is.
“It’s gonzo journalism about brain injury recovery,” one might say. But not me. I’m not confining myself to that label. I’ll write about whatever I want. It’s early days.
I am also writing a similarly themed #book, which predates the creation of this page. I say #book because I can hardly say that I’m writing a non-hashtagged book when it’s just a word document containing similar ramblings to this post. And I like putting hashtags on stuff. It’s fun. I’m just quirky like that. I obviously don’t have a book deal of any sort, but we’ve already been through the product vs process thing, so we know how irrelevant a book deal is.
That’s enough for now. I’ve only written this in hopes of whetting your appetite for my specific flavour of low-quality gonzo rubbish. It’s very important to remember that I think I’m really funny, and I’ll often attempt to subtly brainwash you into agreeing. If you disagree, this is likely not the right Medium page for you. Please just join me in crossing your fingers in the hopes that it WILL be the right Medium page for somebody.
