Tuesday, December 12, 2006


Episode 8: Half Bricks, Hancock and Vincent Price.
I've noticed that my blogs come up when I do random searches on the book title. Consequently I've been wondering about what phrases I might include in the text of the blog to draw in completely random web searchers. So if you see the odd completely unrelated
'hot pics of Britney Spears'
statement in this week's blog, don't be alarmed.
This week's episode features a trip to a recreation ground and some speculation about half bricks (see? Sentences like that like that last one don't bring anyone in. Who wants to read about 'half-bricks'?)
'Naked half-bricks - hot photos'.
For a while back in the mid-late nineties, I worked a string of jobs for agencies that specialised in supplying gardeners, refuse collectors and street-sweepers. I worked contracts in Slough, Brighton and Haywards Heath.
The half-brick thing was totally true in the Slough area: half-bricks everywhere all over recreation grounds and council estates. 'Why?' Good question. I could never figure that one out.
'Free anti-virus protection'
I remember I used to work with a gardening crew maintaining various cemeteries around Burgess Hill and Haywards Heath. I'm one of the gardeners that Dusty sees when he gets up in the morning as they start their machines and start mowing and stuff. I enjoyed that job: I got to listen to about a million audio books while I was working.

'Increase the size of your penis by inches overnight'.

Lots of old BBC tapes too: Hancock's Half Hour especially. I bought a load of Hancock's HH cassettes. The Poetry Society has to be my favourite, that and The Sleepless Night. Another BBC cassette I practically wore out was an audio drama with Vincent Price called The Price of Fear. Fantastic.
'Mike Bennett - hot naked pics xxxxxx'

Couple of technical gaffes this week with sound levels. Everything sounds fine till you upload it and then listen to it on an iPod, then you can hear the great surges and dips of volume every ten seconds. I had to re-edit it after uploading and then re-post again. If you got one of the first thirty or so downloads from libsyn, congratulations - you've got a collector's edition with genuine sound surges. Be happy, not sad, someday it might be worth something. Er...

'Naked cows - hot pics - Manchester United'.


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