In 1985, neurologist Oliver Sacks wrote a book that finally gave the lie to the idea that mental illness is no laughing matter. One of the most hilarious stories in the book, and the one that undergrad psychology students inevitably tell first at dinner parties, is the tale of a man who suffered from a [...]

What an utterly fantastic weekend I had.
I ate Polish food.
I went to a total stranger’s birthday party and rescued her flip flops.
I got lost in Soho.
I pretended I worked in a zoo. Something to do with penguins.
I went to a club full of 18 year olds listening to music I grew up with, but they’re [...]

As anyone who knows me will testify, there are many – many – occasions on which I should have been arrested. Occasions on which my being bundled into the back of a Black Maria would be entirely justifiable, if not on grounds of public safety, certainly those of my own.
The recent occasion, for example, when [...]