1992. Hitchhiking. A taxi. A man with a towel tied with string.
Inside the towel: a toothbrush and a credit card.
I had a 65-litre rucksack, full to the brim.
I've spent 30 years becoming the towel guy.
Christian P Taylor. Bristol, UK. AuDHD — autistic and ADHD, late-diagnosed, long since stopped apologising for it.
Magic Circle member. UK Children's Entertainer of the Year 2018. Stage hypnotist for 30 years (performing as Doc Strange). Author. Community builder. Junglist. Shaman — not metaphorically.
Veteran of the Bristol rave scene, 1999–2003. Built GlowGadgets, a glow product business that turned over £120,000 a year selling joy to ravers. PLUR was the business model before I had a word for it.
I spent 25 years appearing to fail. Different ventures. Different angles. Same restless mind finding the same walls.
What I was actually doing was training. Learning every trap. Building scar tissue. Developing an instinct for what works when the algorithm doesn't care about you, when the platform shuts you out, when the system wasn't built for someone like you.
In early 2026 I built 17 community villages and 18 personal pages in two weeks. With AI as my co-builder. On free tools. Zero venture capital. Zero extraction.
The 25 years wasn't wasted. It was apprenticeship.
I build escape infrastructure — tools, communities, and spaces for people who don't fit the systems they were born into. Neurodivergent people. Collectors. Cannabis patients. Ravers who grew up. Anyone who was told "you're too much" or "you're not enough."
I tend the fire at basecamp while others climb the mountain. That's the shaman's job. Not the summit. The warmth on the way back down.
I travel with a small bag now. Passport. Phone. A book I'll give away when I'm done. The credit card and the toothbrush are metaphors — but they're accurate ones.
You connected to a network called FeelFamous. Someone was carrying it. That's me, or someone I gave a copy to.
This isn't a marketing funnel. There's nothing to buy right now. I just wanted you to be able to find the fire if you needed it.
The Dude Abides.