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Tom McKay

Give me cheese, walnuts and branston pickle!

About Me

I like things and stuff

My Interests

Armadillos, alternative energy, art, big wigs, beer, being over-caffinated, big coats, blah blah blah blah, Bob Dylan, boots, buying books, cats, collecting things from the street, canteen food, catching squirrels, coloured lights, crisps, daytime telly, digging, eating cereal, film, foolishness, folly, gardening, gene therapy, going to the newsagent, guitar strings, hitting the town, knavery, literature, leave me in the bath, looking in the pond, making bread, making curry, musical twanging, newts, narcissism, naps, nature programs, orange juice, photographing abandoned supermarket trolleys, photographing other things as well, pizza, polite conversation, pecan pie, radio four, red wine, sealife, setting fire to things, smuggling, sunglasses, sushi knives, sweets, talking on the phone, teachings of the buddha, throwing paper planes, tidying up, trainers, video games, vinyl, whiskey, writing postcards, xylophones, zebras

I'd like to meet:

Actors and writers and people interested in The Liars' League. Why not join our myspace and come down to our next night of soho booze-fuelled storytelling? See below...

Music:

The Smiths, Syd Barrett, Bob Dylan, PJ Harvey, Radiohead, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen

Movies:

Baraka

Television:

Douglas Chew cooks Asia! Mighty Boosh!

Books:

Anything by - Murakami, Kerouac, Nabokov, David Foster Wallace, Beckett, Auster, Burroughs, Will Boyd, Borges, Kafka, Chekov, Maupassant, Bradbury, Vonnegut, Yukio Mishima, Angela Carter, Rushdie, Baudelaire, Balzac, Camus, Salinger, Dave Eggers, Federico Garcia Lorca, Hunter Thompson, Tom Wolfe, Orwell, Joan Didion, Raymond Carver, Allen Ginsberg, Gunter Grass, Walt Whitman, Will Self, Faulker, Henry Miller, Henry Thoreau, Theroux, Lao Tzu, Goethe, Updike, Stoppard, Wilde, Dostoyevsky, Sartre, Dylan Thomas, Alan Bennett, Amis, Basho, Bataille, Joyce, Kierkegaard, Richard Hugo, Umberto Eco, Julian Barnes, Philip K Dick, Patricia Duncker, David Mitchell, Greg Corso, R M Pirsig, Oliver Sachs, Rob Winston, Trungpa, Herman Hesse, Rilke, Rimbaud, Richard Feynman, Charles Bukowski, PG Wodehouse, AA Milne, Dr Seuss

Heroes:

Dangermouse

My Blog

SHARE YOUR RECIPES

As the title suggests I'm collecting recipes - mainly ultimate snack-based recipes but I am open to suggestion. I'll start you off with this little gem I invented nay but last week!  ULTIMA...
Posted by Tom McKay on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:48:00 PST

THE SHORTEST NOVEL OF THEM ALL

At first she thought she could kill him in three daysShe did nearly. His heart proved nearly unequal to her compliments.Then she thought it would take three weeks. But he survived.So she revised her t...
Posted by Tom McKay on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 04:01:00 PST

REJECTED EAST END GANGSTER ALIASES

Skinny Latte Neddy the Wonderhorse Firestar Marcel Duchamp Senior Wences Aristophanes Graham the Logical Positivist Pow R Toc H Grierson Ramsey Conkadore Berger Achilles Fang...
Posted by Tom McKay on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 03:25:00 PST

THE KING OF BISCUITS

What is the king of biscuits? Verily - I believe the hierachy to be thus: 1. King of Biscuits - McVities Gold Bar2. Prince of Biscuits - Orange Club3. Duke of Biscuits - Plain Chocolate Digesti...
Posted by Tom McKay on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 06:14:00 PST

THE FLOOD (for Jono Tosch)

The flood was born somewhere on the Norfolk broads Though his family came from mangrove swamps The flood ended up going to America to study economics and business He hated that I tell you   One t...
Posted by Tom McKay on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 05:39:00 PST

FAT CHINESE GUY HAIKU

The fat Chinese guy Working at the gas station Eats the doughnuts free  ...
Posted by Tom McKay on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:36:00 PST

ZEN

Bankei was sitting at the bedside of Tonkan three days before his teacher's passing. Tonkan had already chosen Bankei as his successor. A temple had recently burned down and Bankei was rebui...
Posted by Tom McKay on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:25:00 PST