About Products of a Gaseous Brain

Hello and welcome to "Products of a Gaseous Brain" - an exhilaratingly unpredictable mixture of quality weekly content, with a focus on cult and cutting edge creativity from the worlds of music, writing, technology and film/tv.  

Interesting stuff not everyone writes about, hopefully. Some thoughtful and in-depth writing and hopefully some stuff that makes you laugh.

It's also about trying to work out a path when you're creative and stuck in a job or situation that doesn't use your talents to the full. And getting over some of the barriers that you have in your own mind, barriers to success, happiness, or merely just a way to start feeling a little bit better about yourself.

Okay, so it's about me. But hopefully, if you can relate to all of the above gubbins, it's also about you. Because there's a few of us out there who didn't know right away what we wanted out of life and are finding our way as we go along. Plus who doesn't like obscure Scottish indie music, right?

About Milo

In case you hadn't noticed, my name is Milo McLaughlin, and though I hate to categorise myself I suppose the simplest thing to say is that I'm a 32 year old male writer/blogger based in Edinburgh, Scotland, with a receding hairline, a bit of a beer gut (which I'm working on) and an obsession with the New York antifolk scene, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Fence Records,  and anyone else who's a bit handy with a pen and/or a guitar, synthesiser, apple macbook pro etc. 

As a freelance writer I have been published in quite a few places -  The List Magazine, The Skinny Magazine, Scotsman.com, the Edinburgh Evening News, Just Another iPhone Blog, & Nude Magazine. I've also appeared as a guest on BBC Radio Scotland, presented my own radio show on Fresh Air FM, and recorded a fairly popular monthly podcast called I Hear a New World.

I've been blogging since 2005 and before that I tried a few other things, like making music - which led to a scathing review in the NME and the odd fist fight. I still make the odd track and play the odd open mic now and again, but now avoid fist fights whereever possible. 

 Oh didn't I mention - I also have a full time job as an media monitor and general dogsbody for the Scottish civil service, but like the beer gut, I'm working on that.

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