Gender	Male
Industry	Communications or Media
Occupation	Sub-editor, cultural journalist
Location	Sliema, Malta
Introduction	All the writing I do is never enough. Hence, this. And Schlock Magazine. The Shrine of the Preposterous posts are my attempts at part exorcising, part reveling in my training as a BA-MA English student. They're meant to be taken as mock-essays, and I hope you enjoy playing along with them.
Interests	reading, writing, drawing, comics, watching films, hanging out with friends, drinking with friends, doing/discussing all of the above with friends, drag, roleplay, house parties
Favorite movies	Chasing Amy, Garden State, 8 1/2, Blow Up, Satyricon, The Big Lebowski, Snatch, Pulp Fiction, Withnail and I, The Incredibles, Juno
Favorite music	Ladytron, The Cure, Marilyn Manson, Messer Chups, Porcupine Tree, Tori Amos, The Gathering, Tool, Opeth, Queens of the Stone Age, Audioslave, Dark Sanctuary, Rob Zombie, The Shins, Paradise Lost, Air
Favorite books	William Gibson - Neuromancer, Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness, JK Huysmans - A Rebours, Nick Hornby - High Fidelity, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman - Good Omens, Ovid - Metamorphoses, Jeanette Winterson - Art and Lies, Haruki Murakami - Wind Up Bird Chronicle, Oscar Wilde - Essays and short stories, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Kubla Khan; Rime of the Ancient Mariner, David Lodge - Author, Author; Therapy; Changing Places; Nice Work, Julian Barnes - Flaubert's Parrot, Raymond Carver - Elephant, Michael Ondaatje - The Cinnamon Peeler, Philip Larkin - High Windows

What's the best time you've ever had licking stamps?

When I still sent letters...so ages ago. Hence licking stamps has a tang of childhood in my memory.