Colony of Losers
- Location
- Halifax, Canada
- Birthday
- December 31
- Title
- Colony of Losers
- Company
- Check out my blog on http://colony-of-losers.com/wordpress/
- Bio
- Michael Gray Kimber is a 26 year old writer from Halifax, Nova Scotia born slightly after the ides of March. Since the age of six when he realized his career in professional modeling was going nowhere he has wanted to be a writer. At the age of 10 years old he wrote his first book “A Game’s Master Games”. It was a derivative of Mortal Kombat and if published would have resulted in a rather lengthy lawsuit which would most likely have ruined his middle class family. Much has changed since then. His brother became a rapper known as Josh Martinez. His father Stephen Kimber began known for punching idiots in the face with his oh so powerful words.
Graduated from King’s College with a degree in English as well as a degree in Journalism he finds himself on the hunt for actual employment. Launching his blog Colony of Losers he hopes to get attention for his finished novel For Four, encourage magazines to give him freelance work and find an employer who will make all his dreams come true.
During this struggle to become an adult he came to grips with an anxiety disorder that would see him lose the ability to sleep and go to war with himself.
He went looking for a cure, trying every solution suggested by the internet, from self help groups to medication, to hot yoga where beautiful women farted in his face to meditation sessions with madmen. Nothing was too ridiculous in the hopes that he could make it all stop. The Cure is his story, as friends and family made him realize that their wasn't a cure, there was simply learning how to live with it. 1 in 5 deal with mental illness. The system is not equipped to deal with them. The stigma of mental illness is keeping us from recognizing the crisis that is facing his generation. The ridiculous and offensive honesty of this story is meant to give a human face to what we would all prefer to look away from. Read his series in its entirety at http://colony-of-losers.com/wordpress/?page_id=273
While this begins with his story it will soon move onto his talented friends, inspiring strangers and absolute nutjobs he meets along the way. To get in contact with Michael please email him at Michael.g.Kimber@gmail.com.
PS my avatar is made by the amazingly talented Peter Diamonds who is the chief illustrator in the series.
MY RECENT POSTS
- This is not an Emergency
December 23, 2012 08:14PM - The Storm
September 25, 2012 09:56PM - The Storm
September 25, 2012 09:56PM - Too From Heaven For Too Long
February 29, 2012 04:58PM - Mental Illness: The Struggle
To Make It Better
February 28, 2012 11:18PM
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Colony of Losers's Links
This is not an Emergency
This Is Not An Emergency
Posted on | December 4, 2012 | 2 Comments
“Sorry. Your crisis isn’t enough for us to keep you,” said the doctor. “This isn’t an emergency.”
Through my time trying to help others… Read full post »
The Storm
We are in Halifax at the most awkward Christmas dinner I thought I’d ever experience.
We were all around the table, my brother and sis in law, my dad and my mother and my grandmother who has just finished vomiting at the table from eating more than her stomach… Read full post »
The Storm
We are in Halifax at the most awkward Christmas dinner I thought I’d ever experience.
We were all around the table, my brother and sis in law, my dad and my mother and my grandmother who has just finished vomiting at the table from eating more than her stomach… Read full post »
Too From Heaven For Too Long
Sometimes I think tequila is a good idea.
I once got so drunk on tequila in University, that I came up to my residence room, determined to get back to the party when the world stopped spinning, that I turned up Wu Tang Clan’s Ain’t Nothing To Fuck… Read full post »
On June 28th, 2010 I came out about my experiences with anxiety and depression.
Any employer can do a Google search and find out about the battles I have fought and how close I came to losing them.
I write to remind myself that the best of what I am came… Read full post »
My Success At Failure
This is a speech I gave for the Canadian Mental Commission:
I fear a lot of things.
Some of them are obscure and weird. For example, I ate Lobster last night. I fear that one of you might want to shake my hand. Only trace remnants of… Read full post »
The Book of Job: Getting Fired and Starting Again
It was the summer of Arab Spring where a few thousand Western Jerk offs claimed responsibility for changing the world with their twitter accounts. Where Arabs fought and died for a dream of a democracy we’d long since abandoned. Where a famine struck Africa and a few people… Read full post »
You ever wonder where you are going to be in five years?
If you are like me you don’t have the slightest clue.
That idea used to scare me.
My friend told me that my nervous breakdown baffled him because it was not about who I was but who I… Read full post »
Waking up for Love And Pregnant Pornography
©2011 Peter Diamond
It's been a long time since we last spoke. There are two reasons for this communication. One the infamous Pete Diamond has been in communication. Somewhere deep in the nuclear wastes of Austria he has been thinking of the Colony. Inspired by dolphins… Read full post »
Hipster Wars :The Cupcakes of Wrath
You are probably wondering why the hell you should care that I’m eating a cupcake?
Have I gone the way of millions of bloggers before me and begun to document every moment in my life in twitpics for the purpose of getting some sponsorship money?… Read full post »
Hipster Wars :The Cupcakes of Wrath
You are probably wondering why the hell you should care that I’m eating a cupcake?
Have I gone the way of millions of bloggers before me and begun to document every moment in my life in twitpics for the purpose of getting some sponsorship money?… Read full post »
There are a lot of women out there who could talk about this a lot better than I can. In fact the video put together by Meghan Philpott above is my friend Jessica Inkpen doing exactly that.
The topic today is eating disorders.
My reason for doing… Read full post »
Pro Party Anti Drug Campaign: A Royal Serving of Lunacy
“Dad, Derek is not like that. Hello!”
In my opinion if someone says hello it shouldn’t be a statement or a sarcastic comment. As this sort of behavior only brings to mind the Clueless and doesn’t belong in my favorite coffee shop in Toronto. The twenty-year-old girl yell… Read full post »
OS: My Anniversary
Today is the one year anniversary of Colony of Losers creation. Thank you to all the fans, friends and absolute strangers. 300,000 views in a year ain’t bad. Hopefully next year we will hit a million. Thanks to everyone who has helped, especially Patrick Campbell, Herman O Dagwood, John Packman… Read full post »
The Glass is Half Full/I didn't beat up a senior citizen
“I have a cure for depression,” says the old French-Canadian man, carefully dissecting ginger root with a rather large knife on my kitchen counter. He is about five feet away from the cooking element I caused to explode in flames almost immediately upon moving into my new apartment… Read full post »
OS:Drug Addiction, Suicide and Education on Mental Illness
So I haven't been around for a while but I have been doing a ton of blogging. Over the next week I will return to the bosom of Open Salon. Look forward to coming back! Hurray!
SPEECH I GAVE AT MY UNIVERSITY(Continue reading, not boring)
So I went to King’s College… Read full post »
Music Video That Fights Mental Illness Stigma
60 million Americans suffer from poor mental health and 66% of them fear the stigma associated with this disease and the potential alienation from friends, family, loved ones and the people… Read full post »
Christina Green was born on September 11, 2001 and died January 9th, 2011 when Jared Lee Loughner opened fire on Congresswoman Danielle Gifford in a mall in Tucson, Arizona. Five others were killed and 14 injured. You probably know that. If you’ve paid a lot of attention you also kno/… Read full post »
Happy Holidays: Duckface and Fucking Kazoos
“These knives are so sharp that they can cut through the back of a hammer,” I say, noting the up and down head movements of my audience agreeing with each word I say. “These knives are state of the state and will not break. And if they are damaged
… Read full post »Come Out: The Face of Mental Illness#2
My name is Michael Gray Kimber and I suffer from intense anxiety.
I’ve decided to talk about it and recently I’ve been trying to get others to do the same.
I’ve been incredibly honored by the dozens of emails and Facebook private messages I’ve received from so… Read full post »
I can't save your life
Dear Michael,
I happened upon your amazing post tonight. I wanted to contact you to say “thank you” and to tell you that you were also telling my story. I have bipolar disorder; I’m very open about it and how it affects my life. My family knows, most of my fr… Read full post »
For those of you late to the game, my name is Michael Gray Kimber and I suffer from intense anxiety.
My claim to this glorious tradition is genetic, fuelled by years where I smoked… Read full post »
Surrounded#4: Inside the G20 Detention Centers
After a half hour of keeping his hands on his head, Jonah Hundert is talking to an extremely polite police officer.
“You realize that you are being arrested under charges of breaching the peace, Jonah,” says the officer, affectionately known by the name “Sergeant” despite the… Read full post »
Surrounded#3: Dance Master of the Detention Center
Through Twitter, Jonah and his friends find out who has been arrested and who is still in hiding. Every few moments another arrest is posted. No one knows who will be next and every stranger who looks at them on the street and every car that stops too long at a… Read full post »
SURROUNDED#2: G20ARRESTS AND STRIPPING ON COP CARS
At four in the morning on Saturday, June 26th, two dozen cops burst into Alex Hundert’s home, with guns in hand.
A short while later, his brother Jonah Hundert, received a phone call explaining this.
It’s little before six in the morning and the beginning of the longest day in Jonah&rsquo… Read full post »
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