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Good daze,

"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap."

Holden Caulfield neatly allowing me to skip a trite bit of background. There are probably a few things you should know, though;

- My name is Fred Joseph Addison Mikardo-Greaves. On one side of my family I have a great 18th (19th? Woah, 17th) century wit, and on the other is a socialist Labour MP (for Bethnal Green and Bow, if you were interested/want to hurl abuse at me for my ancestor fucking up your area) from the mid-20th century.

- I go to sixth-form in an outer London suburb, the same town I live in. It's a grammar school, and it's filled with oiks and louts and just general idiocy that I really don't have time for.

- All I immerse myself in is the arts and literature. Music is my speciality, although I haven't got anything off the ground yet despite having a notebook full of songs.

- I work at the weekend in a children's bookshop in Richmond, The Lion and Unicorn, which is a really lovely job even if it doesn't pay very well.

I'm bored now, you are too. Anyway, this most likely will come across as the angst of a misanthropic adolescent you really don't care about, egotistical, preening, vain and irritating (i.e. essentially the character traits blogging was created to massage).

xxX

P.S. My middle name isn't "Joseph Addison" purely because of one man. He's the "Addison". The "Joseph" is because I was born Jewish, although I've never practiced.