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Dollop 28 – Disjointed Musings From a Vomit-Inducing Car Journey
http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/dollop29.mp3 Download audio Dollop here I received a call from my bank today who were wondering if there was something wrong with my account, by which they meant that I hadn’t put any money in it for the last month. I assured them that all was well, and that it was simply because I don’t…
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Dollop 27 – Free Sandwiches And Paper Boxes
Download this Dollop in audio form here http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/dollop27.mp3 {I am writing today’s Dollop from the police station. I arrived at the focus group and was immediately arrested. Apparently, the Hungarian plumber that I was meant to be impersonating was in fact an illegal immigrant. I tried explaining to the police that I was simply pretending…
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Dollop 26 – Dyslexic Gay Hungarian Plumber
Download this Dollop in audio form here http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/dollop26.mp3 I’ve been roped into something by my housemate Elsa. The company she works for are doing a focus group, and someone has just dropped out at the last minute. Apparently the names need to be registered today, and so, out of desperation, she has asked me to…
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Dollop 25 – David Eagle Blind
Download today’s Dollop in audio form here http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/dollop25.mp3 When you type David Eagle into Google (something which obviously I’ve never been so egocentric to do – I’m getting this from other people, you understand) you get a list of related search queries. These are based on what other people have previously searched for, in addition…
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Dollop 24 How To Improve The Beatles, Queen and Elvis With A Single Mouse Click
So yesterday we discovered that there is an online tool for bloggers designed to let you plagiarise from the Internet. All you need to do is paste some text from someone else’s blog and click generate, and the words will magically change and reorder to create a differently worded article, but essentially comprising the same…
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Dollop 23 – Exceptionally chilly grease and placated little cats
Download the Dollop in audio form here http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/dollop23.mp3 Still no explanation as to whether me being listed as one of Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman’s favourite artists was deliberate, or – as I suspect – accidental, and they really meant to mention my folk group The Young’uns. A tweet has a limit of 140 characters,…
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Dollop 22 – My Genius Has Been Recognised
Download this Dollop in audio form here http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/dollop22.mp3 I was given a nice surprise today when I got a notification from Twitter saying that I had been mentioned by the excellent folk duo Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman. They had been asked to name some of their favourite groups/artists, and I was cited as one…
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Dollop 21 – The Real David Eagle
Download today’s Dollop in audio form here http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/dollop21.mp3 Well, twenty Dollops under my belt. To be honest, they’re really starting to rub against my lower stomach. I’m not sure how wise it was to carry on with this literal implementation of a turn of phrase. I thought it might be quite nice to mark my…
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Dollop 20 – Beware Of The Dog Owner!
Download the audio version of today’s Dollop here http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/dollop20.mp3 Last year was a manic year for The Young’uns. We did about 200 gigs and performed all over Britain, Canada, America and Europe. When we weren’t gigging we were doing songwriting projects in primary schools. Obviously these are massively rewarding days. We don’t get paid very…
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Dollop 19 – Man vs Machine
Download the Dollop in audio form here http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/dollop19.mp3 I’m listening to Pachelbel’s Canon. The effects of this piece are amazingly powerful. I am calm, I am soothed, I am contented. I think it’s almost impossible to feel anything but these emotions when listening to Pachelbel’s Canon. And incredibly, just thirty seconds ago I was stressed,…