For 577 days, I have felt that the only way I could escape my own life by living under someone else’s imaginary skin. I was born Eli James Everard Campbell, but for nearly 2 years I have lived creatively as Kid Useless. Before that I was Shirtless Banjo Sunshine, and Jimbozango, and Snork, and a whole host of other characters that all ended up being me the whole time. The moniker of Kid Useless was, for a time, a useful tool with which to explore the cosmos. Turning myself into a shadow caused me to re-learn the process of experiencing reality. I subdivided myself out of my own equations, and realized where I fit into everything. When you observe your own absence, it becomes clear where your presence is required. But as with all the other characters I have acted as on this stage called Earth, Kid Useless was a costume I could only don for so long. He was birthed as a challenge, and has now become a limitation. I feel that I cannot explain myself properly through his ethereal whispers and computer terminal poems alone, rather, I would prefer to inhabit my own flesh and blood. And on day 578, I will wake up as myself, and I do not believe I will miss anything. I am Kid Useless no longer. Perhaps he will still appear in the narrative of my life, but as a pawn, not as the board. I will leave www.kiduseless.com as it is, but my posting there will probably lack the consistency it once had. I will be de-activating my official facebook page, but re-activating a personal facebook account. However, I will be using it primarily as the active home of my creative work. I’m currently working on recording some music, writing a television show and a new collage work. I’ve also started writing a bit more in the past few weeks, and I’ll be posting some of that after editing. My attempt at keeping a dream journal has not gone as well as I would have hoped, but the submission for New Chaos Magazine is due nonetheless in exactly 3 weeks time, on July 1st. https://www.facebook.com/eli.campbell.845