2026 hopes/dreams/plans
looking ahead (and that’s fine to do one week in)
Category: Creative Prose
2025 in the Rear View
accidentally had a successful year (by my own metrics, which are probably not yours)
TriumphOfTheNow.com – a Manifesto (a Personifesto)
what is Triumph of the Now? It’s scott manley hadley
BALD PERSONALITY DISORDER WIP PERFORMANCE ON MONDAY!
Hi all! My Lambeth Fringe WIP performance of my developing show, BALD PERSONALITY DISORDER is coming up in FOUR days.Continue Reading
update on BALD PERSONALITY DISORDER
some notes on the process of developing my first one-person show!
Live Show Announcement: Bald Personality Disorder at the Lambeth Fringe
I’m very very very excited to announce that I’ll be performing some kind of spoken word/alternative comedy/performance art work-in-progress showContinue Reading
notes for an interview with FRANK ABRAMS, author of THE COCKFIGHT
find out more about THE COCKFIGHT by FRANK ABRAMS through my pre-interview notes
video – scott manley hadley ten minute alternative comedy set
a longer set than I’ve previously posted…
video – scott manley hadley aka SOLID BALD tries musical comedy
an attempt at musical comedy from scott manley hadley aka SOLID BALD
video – poetry, stripper trousers, hairloss, napoleon complex: smh live stand-up
it’s scott manley hadley aka SOLID BALD
video – the pret a manger coffee subscription was the best thing that ever happened to me – anti-comedy stand-up
pret a manger is like Greggs for people with student debt … like Birley Sandwiches for people who iron their own clothes
2025 Resolutions? That’s too many resolutions, I have 10
some resolutions for the future and further reflection on the past
2024? A fine year!
it was a fine year, yes it was [in my personal life]
XXXMAS SPECTACULAR 2024: IF SANTA WAS A BABY
gags, props, racy costuming and another seasonal what if…
video – raw & unreceptive: scott manley hadley stand up live at crack comedy kingston (London) 27.10.24
a stranger filmed a recent stand up set i did then emailed it to me
‘a timeline’ and ‘borderline personality disorder’ from the pleasure of regret – scott manley hadley: live at paradise (new web series episode)
more from my 2022-shot web series, this time on diagnoses and the passage of time
‘under the lectern’ from the pleasure of regret – scott manley hadley: live at paradise (new web series episode)
on academia, class, education and enjoying the work of Malcolm Lowry
scat to be poo: an anthology about poo – scott manley hadley: live at paradise (new web series episode)
scott, cubby and some other friends (Chaucer, Joyce) discuss life at the bottom of the bowel
because earth is flat: a flat earth poetry collection – scott manley hadley: live at paradise (new web series episode)
the earth is flat; if it wasn’t, why would there be a whole book of poetry presuming it was???
my father, from a distance – scott manley hadley: live at paradise (new web series episode)
Filmed at the tail end of the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto’s historic Paradise Theatre on Bloor St W, the poet,Continue Reading
BTS: COMEDIAN – scott manley hadley: live at paradise (new web series episode)
have you heard that people are reheating bread???
video announcement: new web series incoming!
omg omg – a new web series is coming soon from scott manley hadley!!!
Truth & Dare by So Mayer
stories of nb life & literature bring me down down down down down & i don’t think they’re meant to…
My 2024 Resolution? Revolution!
chasing enough optimism to change the things i can surely change
My 2023? Some good books and trips but mostly a waste of time!
the best part was when i spent a full day as an unpaid boom mic operator
Another Birthday Rolls Around in the Dirt
i am older than christ and i understand why he consented to be crucified
TRUTHER PRESS RETURNS (KIND OF)
truther press is back with a zine!
Triumph of the Now is 10! lol whoops
ten years ago i started a blog instead of killing myself
Do Every Thing Wrong!: XXXTentacion Against The World by 😇 Jarett Kobek 😇
an extensive discussion re the weighty themes raised by this book
2022 REVIEW: FOR ME, IT WAS MIXED
that wasn’t very good for me
POETRY MONTH: text redacted from 2017 SAFE MODE by Sam Riviere blog post
redacted text from septy ’17
POETRY MONTH: scott manley hadley readings round up
some old vids of *your* favourite mentally ill poet-blogger
POETRY MONTH: reviews of scott manley hadley
you been doing all this dope [blogging] / You ain’t had a chance to show ’em what time it is
POETRY MONTH: poetry film premiere
exclusive look at a new poetry film by scott manley hadley!
excerpts from The Imagination on Trial: BS Johnson interviewed by Alan Burns
excerpts from a BS Johnson interview
found text – ‘sutcliffe rumours’ – Oct 1, 2013
found text from 2013 about serial killer rumours
found text: note from 17-04-2010
a somewhat prescient note i found from 2010 (picture from then, obvs)
some old fiction of mine, recently published
Originally posted on Horror Sleaze Trash:
Rasputin in the Disco Rasputin feels the madeira flow through his veins and the sweetness and…
Toilets at the Venice Biennale
water, water, everywhere and not a spot to piss
Four New Songs
solid bald sings four times again
Noted Poet Andrew McMillan enjoys the pleasure of regret
“it’s great”, he tweeted
In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
i read a great Toronto novel and recall summer 2019 when I worked at lux events
Eulogy for Josephine Bunyan
the eulogy I read at my grandmother’s funeral in 2014
Scott Manley Hadley’s More Triumphant 2018
well i had a good year
Found Diary Entry from April 17th, 2010
bizarre note to self from 2010
Triumph Of The Now 