This sounds like a Colony of Losers anthem. Thought I’d share it with you. If I wrote jazzy rock songs they would probably sound like this. With more tone deaf intonation and some swearing thrown into add some colour.
A Conversation With Myself When I’m 75 Years Old
Several weeks ago, while checking to see if any bloggers had mentioned Colony of Losers I stumbled upon a mystery that shook me to the core. There was another Michael G Kimber from the UK and he wrote novels and poetry online. Which you can check out here. I couldn’t stop reading. He wasn’t simply Michael [...]
Letter to A Man Who Spams To Save My Sanity
When I got fucked up I went looking for some sort of one step cure to end my anxiety. Much of it is humiliating to recount. I practiced mindfulness meditation on my floor while my roommates’ cat pawed at my face and wondered why this human was acting so strangely. I watched YouTube videos that [...]
Pajama Pants In My Backpack (Meeting with a Literary Agent.)
As per usual, it begins to rain less than quarter of my way to my friend’s place. Despite the intense downpour, I’m wearing a shit-eating grin when I enter his cozy basement apartment. “Titch bit wet out there, eh?” he says. “Damn right, bah,” I say exaggerating the Nova Scotian accent I don’t generally possess. [...]
Common Sense
Flying: The story of why Mike Kimber left Halifax
Halifax Magazine contributor Michael Kimber (the blogger behind Colony of Losers) attracted a lot of attention in our October issue with “The day that no one could save me,” a raw and honest account of how he’s worked to overcome a nervous breakdown and find meaning in his life. Recently, his quest led him to Toronto—we asked [...]
Spirit Day: Children are dead and all we have left are fashion statements
I don’t own any Purple. If I did I would be wearing it today in honor of Spirit Day. I lack the clothes so instead I’m going to speak my mind on behalf of my LGBT friends. And the deep well of pain I feel when I think of what each of them has to [...]
Cure#19: Making the Devil Dance
“It’s good to be making music again,” I say. “I don’t think we’ve done this since we free styled that song about sacrificing a virgin at that party. You know the night that guy smashed a glass on your face.” Surprisingly we’ve done two songs about sacrificing a virgin but there seems little reason to [...]
Origins of Colony of Losers: The Day That No One Could Save Me
Reprinted with permission from Halifax Magazine’s October 3rd issue. THE DAY THAT NO ONE COULD SAVE ME An up-and-coming Halifax writer explains how a nervous breakdown jumpstarted his career By Michael Kimber Editor’s Note: Michael Kimber is a 26-year-old journalism graduate who created Colony-of-Losers.com, a record of his quarter-life crisis and struggle to grow up [...]
Michael Kimber’s insane book proposal
Do you know what its like having to try to breath I can remember when I couldn’t remember sleep For days and weeks When I was scared to death of it, because my mind which hated me wouldn’t leave Michael Kimber was barely there, adapting to speak, during rare moments of release, when exercise gave [...]
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