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A Little Luck And A Lottery Result.
The main reason that I believe life is absurd, accept it as such, and just embrace it, is that there are so many examples of things that are inexplicable any other way, things that can’t easily be...
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Dubious Claims To Fame – 5
I’ve told Alice Cooper that I love him. And I meant it. Not in any kind of gay way, you understand, more in the manner that you love a parent or a close friend. Or your absolute hero. Here is the man...
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Dubious Claims To Fame – 7
Paul Daniels cut my head off once. Kind of. Owing to a number of factors, I was most definitely not cool as a teenager. That was one of the reasons that my main hobby at the time was magic. I was...
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Dubious Claims To Fame – 9
This claim to fame is particularly dubious, and I’ve spent ages trying to decide whether to include it or how best to present it. Up close, the sequence of events is pretty rational – I came to know a...
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Dubious Claims To Fame – 11
I am glad that I had the foresight to prefix all of these claims to fame with the word “dubious”, because some of them are really very tenuous indeed. I could have alternatively titled them Brief...
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Dubious Claims To Fame – 18
Eighteen, eighteen, eighteen, I’m eighteen and I like it. That was Alice Cooper’s first hit, before School’s Out, and it was the song that Johnny Rotten sang along to on the jukebox when he auditioned...
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It’s All Fun And Games Until You Realise You’re Being A Dick About Music.
When I was eighteen, I knew everything. I knew that I was smart, I knew that I was funny, and I knew that the music I listened to was the only music worth listening to. I especially subscribed to the...
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Customer Dissatisfaction Is Virgin Territory
Having sent this email and received a reply so brief as to be almost non-existent, which also continued in its failure to address anything I had said, I wrote back without particularly holding back:...
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Glasgow Comedy Festival Show – (J)ordinary World
After several years dotting about the local comedy scene, which saw my 100 stand-up gigs documented in the blog that preceded this one, I have decided to do my first solo show this year. Poster,...
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Tickets, Touts, and the BBC 6 Music Festival
I first attended a live music gig in October 1998 and, writing in April 2017, I have been to about three-hundred-and-fifty others since then. I did not intend to become someone who travels around the...
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