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Dollop 48 – Earthquakes, Fires, And Trumpet Solos
Download the audio version of today’s Dollop here http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/dollop48.mp3 Last night I received a message from God. “I’m glad you’ve learnt your lesson,” he/she/it wrote. Well God probably didn’t actually write it himself, he probably just barks instructions to an angel or something. Maybe that’s why the bible is full of odd contradictions and weirdness,…
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Dollop 47 – David Eagle vs God, Revisited
Download the audio version of Today’s Dollop http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/dollop47.mp3 Last Sunday I had planned to do some stand-up. One of the reasons for doing David’s Daily Digital Dollop is to help create ideas that I could then use for stand-up comedy. I decided to perform my Richard Dawkins’ death material from Dollop 7 as a piece…
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Dollop 46 – Hey Blogger! Leave Those Cows Alone
Download the audio version of today’s Dollop here http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/dollop46.mp3 After my Dollop from last Thursday in which I talked about the challenges of writing daily while on the road, Jools commented saying, “would it help if the Dollops were smaller?” This, incidentally, is the very same Jools who upset my poltergeist friend, who had kindly…
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Dollop 45 – Valentine’s Day Songs Special
This Dollop consists of a couple of songs, especially for Valentine’s day. Download here http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/dollop45.mp3 Happy Valentine’s day. Back tomorrow.
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Dollop 44 – In Which I Get A Local Commercial Radio Presenter Fired
Download the audio version of today’s Dollop here http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/dollop44.mp3 I was tempted, knowing that we’d be asked the same questions by the seven BBC local radio stations we were on yesterday, to give a different answer to the one same question. I could then take recordings of all the interviews and play our different answers…
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Dollop 43 – Nurses and Nebulous Science
Download the audio version of today’s Dollop here http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/dollop43.mp3 It’s just gone 8am and I’m on the bus, heading to Middlesbrough for four hours of radio interviews. I used to regularly write blog posts on the bus when I did a daily commute to and from work, which involved a two hour journey each way.…
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Dollop 42 – I’m Coming Out Of The Closet; But Not Until 130pm Tomorrow
Download the audio version of today’s Dollop here http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/dollop42.mp3 Tomorrow will probably pose the greatest challenge so far to this consecutive daily blogging project. I will be spending the first half of the day in a cupboard. I am not attempting some kind of highly watered down, poor man’s David Blaine stunt, whereby I spend…
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Dollop 41 – BBC Radio 2 Folk Award Nomination News, And An Anecdote About A Train Journey
Download the audio version of today’s Dollop here http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/dollop41.mp3 Well, this has the potential to be a rather embarrassing Dollop. Last Friday The Young’uns got a message from someone saying that we’d been once again nominated for the Best Group category in the BBC Radio 2 Folk awards, which we won last year. I am…
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Dollop 40 – Sleep Walk Of Shame
Download the audio version here http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/dollop40.mp3 Yesterday I mentioned that I’d been watching the BBC four documentary, The Brain, presented by Neuroscientist David Eagleman. One of the topics explored was sleep walking. I can only recall a few occasions when I have sleep walked. The first was while at University. I woke up, finding myself…
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Dollop 39 – Stephen Hawking vs The Undateables
Download the audio verion here http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/dollop39.mp3 Sometimes ignorance is bliss, and sometimes I take pride in being ignorant about certain things. I am happy about the fact that I don’t know the names of any of the contestants of the most recent series of X Factor, let alone who won it. I’d be hard pushed…