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Been offline for a leetle while. Quick round-up:

• Have bought car, a ‘96 Honda Civic LS 1.6i, it had some major overheating problems, it’s now fixed, no thanks to the guy in South Woodford who charged me £115 to replace a part that wasn’t broke, MASSIVE thanks to the guy in Leytonstone who actually knew something about the car and bled the system and charged me £30 for the trouble, saving me from the ~£600 the first guy was talking about for changing the head gasket.
• Am in new band, is a covers band, will be doing the rock thing in and around the Hastings area starting in roughly 6 weeks, is called JackBarrel, features occasional lead vocals from Moi.
• Am becoming mildly worried by the extent of my addiction to the works of Stephen Fry.
• Am spending spare time (yeah, right) watching the entire archive of The Show, by Ze Frank. My favourite episode so far was 5th May 2006. Well I don’t know if it was my favourite, but it made me laugh far too loud in the office and make people stare at me. Ze is my new hero.

On that subject, would you watch something similar if made by me? Soon I’ll have a laptop with a webcam built in and a processor that can handle video editing, so it’s a possibility. I’m thinking I’ll probably more-or-less rip off Ze’s format. However:

1. Ze is funny, intelligent, witty and sexy, whereas I am… English. I don’t have the mental or social equipment to produce satire of the quality that Ze does, but I can probably manage a few knob jokes and a couple of “laugh at the stupid news story” moments.
2. There’s no way I could do a show 5 days a week - even once a week. It would probably be more like once a month or so, which was what I intended for the rock podcast Bucket of Rocks, and even that just got too time-consuming in the end.

So yeah. If I build it… will you come? (No, not like that… ew.)

–c.