Second Class Male/Time To Go
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A series of 12 newspaper columns by Chris Morris (under the pseudonym Richard Geefe) that appeared in The Observer in 1999. The first 6 were under the title "Second Class Male" and the final six were called "Time To Go", reflecting a change in the theme. The "Second Class Male" articles were feature columns written by a nebbishy sort who has a lack of luck in life. The writer of the column then decides that on a certain date, he will commit suicide, and the rest of his columns will be written about the state of mind of someone knowing they're going to die on a particular date.
The articles were presented as actual fact and not as a Chris Morris production, even though the premise was very similar to a monologue from his Blue Jam radio program, titled "Suicide Journalist" on the Blue Jam compilation CD.
All 12 articles can be read at Cook'd and Bomb'd (http://chilled.cream.org/forums/kb.php?mode=cat&cat=5).