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Small But Exciting Update

Whattup my little jam sandwiches. 

Hope you're all doing spectacularly, and by spectacularly I mean going out on jet skis regularly, doing backflips, resurrecting the dead for Halloween, etc. 

You may notice I've changed the Patreon charging setting to 'per creation'. This is mainly because I might only be able to put out a single video this coming month, given that I need the last push of time for the new book. All being well, the book will be out sometime during Nove...

Exurb1a Goes to the Dentist (and thanks)

 Hello chickens.   

 You aight? You looking aight.   

 Another month, another expedition into the fruitless abyss of adulthood. Nah I'm just joking, it's been a lovely month. Some of you seemed to resonate with the introvert video, others were put off by it and I totally sympathise with the second camp. It was a bit “ooooh what special snowflakes quiet people are” etc. I made it as a little nod to introversion, that was all. It ju...

Happiness and Cats

Hello my little ragamuffins. 

I do hope you're having a blast. Figuratively, not literally. That would be awful.

My last video - Now You Happy Always Maybe - seemed to have a bit of discussion going on in the comments and I guess I wanted to reply properly. For once. I usually don't do this. It's pretentious and irritating, and if you have to explain your fucking points after the video you probably didn't make a very good video. But this one does bear a bit of clarification...

Thoughts on Making Stuff and Staying Happy Sort of

Hello my little turtlets. It's that time again. How are you? Wow, have you lost weight? Is that a Rolex? Your ears are looking tip-top, I must say.   

 Writing this on a rickety bus somewhere in the middle of Bulgaria, heading to the coast to finish editing the new book properly. It has just become apparent that the fifth coffee was not a wise decision. My body has taken a lot of rubbish over the years. I can feel it beginning to rebel now though, a bit like The Empire Stri...

Giger Was Weird

This is the part where I fawningly say, "Thank you for still supporting me and I hope you don't think my stuff is crap and your hair is looking lovely today." So thank you for still supporting me. I hope you don't think my stuff is crap. And you know, your hair is looking lovely today.

The sun is out. The grass is long. The cat keeps shitting in my plants. 

Hey, how's it going, chickens. I hope you're all well.

I have a new roommate. Her name is Freya. She doesn't talk a great...

Swears and Futurey Shit

 Whattup homedogs. 

What's new with you? 

It's always lovely to go back to England, but just for a few weeks; my mother never prepares my breakfast opium correctly. 

I do hope you enjoyed the last video. I don't think I put as much effort into my degree as I did into those 9 minutes. It's a strange one, making this stuff, putting it out there, like sending messages in bottles. You're not sure who's going to pick them up, or what they'll make of them. But if you ...

An Update from the Desk of Exurb1a - Which isn't Really a Desk but a Bed and isn't Really an Update but Throw Me a Fucking Bone, Huh?

Hello carbon units. How’s it all going?

Firstly some recommendations.

Around a week ago I was having a conversation with a friend about how I never get sick, which is largely true. 

Not even flu? he said.

Not even flu, I said. 

The next day I came down with a vicious flu. It did, however, give me the time to watch and listen to some great stuff. Particularly: 

A fucking amazing 2017-04-18 07:13:07 +0000 UTC View Post

An audiobook, a recommendation, and a thank you

Whatup homedogs. 

Firstly, a bit of housekeeping. I've kept the Patreon setting to "X amount per video," but that seems absurd, and it's not what most of you signed up for. I'm currently a bit concerned, however, that if I change it back, it'll charge you twice. So I'm not going to do that until I can confirm it with Patreon themselves. However. What I'll do in the meantime is just choose one video per month, and do the charging procedure that way. 

After Jesus knows how long i...

21st Century Humans + New Book

Well hello, you scallywags. 

I’ve been waiting for this day a long time indeed. I am extremely excited to announce that after years of cursing at a keyboard, and months of proofreading, that the book is out. And attached below in mobi, epub, and PDF format for your entertainment. 

As mentioned in today’s video, this would not have been possible with your support, and I’ve dedicated the book to all of you concerned. (If I’ve carelessly missed you out, please d...

Last Chance

Hola, chaperoos. 

Below is the final list for the acknowledgements section of the book. If you're missing, please send me a message via exurb1achannel@gmail.com and I'll put you in. It goes without saying that I'll be sending the book out to all of you as soon as it's released.

All the best,

Ex. 

Adam Horne, Adrian Dalen, Al Rose, Al Rose Sébastien, Alex Chung, Alex van der Weerden, Amadeus Phoenix, Angelo Iasevoli, Antho...

Calling All Patreons

What's new, homedogs. 

If you missed it, I asked some time ago for names I can use publicly of those who are donating. I'll be putting the names into the acknowledgements section of the new novel. The novel itself is being sent off for formatting today, so I thought I'd add in the acknowledgements properly. The list of those of you who reached out is below, but it's worryingly small compared to how many of you there are. If you're donating, and you're not included, and you'd like to be pu...

Hello from the Balkan Arctic

What's cooking, homeslices. 

Someone quite rightly pointed out recently that I haven't written to you lot since November. So I thought I'd give you the word on the latest happy-haps. 

What's new? Well, Sofia looks not unlike the arctic at the moment. Now, I should say that we don't get too much snow in the south of England, where I grew up. Almost none actually, and when we do it's the kind of snow they'd give away free with a shit magazine. So when snow came to Sofia, my first...

Oh hi. 

Since a number of you still appear to be inexplicably keeping me eating/sustaining my opium habit with your donations, I thought I'd make a timely update and a thank you.

Exciting times ahead, first and foremost. The new novel is almost finished. Just need to take out a few main characters, iron out some plot points, and rewrite the entire thing. Should be done in no time. In other words, by the end of December, I hope. I intend to send it out for free to kind folk on Pa...

Recent Happenings

Hellozzles. 

There seem to be quite a few of you since the last update so I thought I'd go ahead and say firstly, whaddup ma brethren, and secondly give the story on what's coming next.

Just kidding. It'll spoil the surprise.

I will say that in the coming months I'm going to try some slightly more technical and
difficult stuff. It's going to mean longer waits between videos, I expect.  

I'm telling you this because:

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Recent Shenanigans

Oh hi.

For whatever bizarre reason  some of you are still Patreon donors - so I thought I'd give you all a bit of a heads up on what's going on with projects, and life in general.

The Exurb1a channel now has a new mascot. She's called Cassiopeia and she's about 8 weeks old. A photo should be attached to this post. Every now and then she eats the post or poops in inappropriate places and I'm tempted to eject her from the window, but then she gives you the eyes, and everyt...

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Upcoming Stuff and a Thank You

Hello chaperoos. 

A further update for those of you interested, then. Waking up to find my feet fused to the bed frame, it became clear that summer has now arrived in Eastern Europe. 

To answer a question that seems to get asked in the comments a lot, I do indeed live in Sofia, Bulgaria. I was lucky enough to travel a fair bit in my early twenties, and this - above all the other countries - was the one I fell in love with. The food is delicious, the people are kind,...

Update

Whattup, my homeboys and homegirls. 

Given that you're still, for some bizarre reason, donating, I thought it fair to throw you a little update on what's going on at the moment. 

Life is great in Europe. The people are pleasant. The food is delicious. The sun is cripplingly hot. 

I used last month's Patreon donations to, well, pay rent. This resulted in being able to work full time on some exciting upcoming projects which I'll give you a cheeky taste ...

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Patrony Stuff

Hello chaps. 

Firstly, an absolutely enormous, fireworks-and-strobe-lights thank you to all of you. I don't know why the hell you're donating, but you are.

Here's the deal. I put my PhD on hold for a while about a year ago to come back to the UK and work at an adult job.  It turns out full-time work is absolutely abysmal. As of this coming Friday - the 8th - I'm moving back to wonderful Eastern Europe to carry on the PhD. I quit my job yesterday and it felt a bit like g...

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