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Daniel Atkinson. Spendid.

About Me

I'm very, very keen on cheese indeed. That, I feel, more than anything, defines me. You can't beat a good strong cheddar, or feta that's been under the grill for four minutes. Here is my website: Dan's Desk.I blindly tinkered this page like a luddite using Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Roget. Or Samuel Johnson.

My Blog

Miami Last Comic Standing Trip

On Friday 1st February 2008, around fifty comics from the UK, Australasia, Ireland and further afield boarded a plane for Miami to attend the international heat of 'Last Comic Standing', the popular N...
Posted by on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 07:54:00 GMT

The ten worst ’No Fear’ slogans explained

A CHAMPION IS SOMEONE WHO GETS UP EVEN THOUGH THEY CAN'TLook. If you can't get up, it doesn't mean you're not a champion. Paralympic gold medallists without legs could quite reasonably call themselves...
Posted by on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:40:00 GMT

New year same mistakes

I haven't written on this piece of screen for a while because I'm at the mercy of fashionable whims and have therefore been on facebook finding out useless facts about people I barely knew twenty year...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:15:00 GMT

Pies and petrol

It's curious. Since changing my middle name (temporarily) to monoplegic (a term for one who suffers writers block), I have found it harder to write things. I think I'll change it to 'prolific' in the ...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 06:47:00 GMT

Christian Comedy?

This bit of writing is mid-length, and in the middle you'll start thinking it's a bit boring, but it gets better towards the end, so persevere and hopefully you'll be rewarded. I think the exposition ...
Posted by on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 03:37:00 GMT

New Apple Adverts

For the most part, the things I've written on here have been facetious; they display less wit, and more of the kind of attitude that used to exasperate people trying to teach me things.This one's diff...
Posted by on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:15:00 GMT

A Legacy. My word. A Legacy...

I want to make a start on my legacy, but I'm not sure how to go about it. Writing these piffling little pieces of pure putrefaction won't cut the mustard, even if I use the occasional fancy literary d...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:18:00 GMT

On a shelf, income tax, a man, a rubber hose, and being lumpy.

For the two-hundrend and fourth day running, today I failed to put up a shelf. A turning point. My epiphany was this: how much better will my existence be if I just have my belongings at head height? ...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 15:48:00 GMT

Enforced Identity Crisis

I didn't choose my own name. Nobody does. It's a scary day when a mother looks down at her newborn child and immediately it says 'Good morning. Call me Arthur.'Over time, however, I've got used to my ...
Posted by on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 06:35:00 GMT

Music is cack

Increasingly, one is demanded to define oneself through the music to which they listen, which is a source of constant angst for people who want to look cool.It's about belonging, really; everyone want...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 05:13:00 GMT