Archive for January, 2010
C is for Crisps
Download Episode 13: “C is for Crisps”
In which we eat crisps; sing some of the hymns from our revolting Protestant upbringings; list the contents of Rob’s fridge; and discuss Dan’s complex litter-related ethics.
N is for Neige
Download Episode 12 – “N is for Neige”
In which we podcast from Rob’s parents’ kitchen; drink tea like the tea-swilling pigs we are; lament Dan’s marital breakup; reminisce about the Millennium Bug; recall the 1997 “shoehorn crisis”; and complain about the sodding, bastarding snow.
Arsevoiced and scatterfashion
People sometimes ask me why I have such a stupid voice. “Why do you have such a stupid voice?” they ask. “Why, why, why, why, why?”
It is not an unreasonable question. My voice sounds like two Mancunian butchers trying to hold a conversation while crossing a corrugated bridge on a tandem. “Yah, yah, yah,” I [...]
Electric doors all over the universe
The guy with whom I share some office space often leaves his “silver bullet” pen behind. Apparently capable of writing both underwater and in outerspace, the bullet is a very silly and ostentatious piece of stationery, resembling a Cyberman suppository.
Never having a pen myself, I inevitably make use of the silver bullet in Steve’s absence. [...]
The froth of his Ruddles
From the very periphery of my vision, I saw someone sit down at the table next to mine.
Reading a book, I was only dimly aware of his presence at first, but it soon occurred to me that the man was staring into the side of my head, like an off-duty phrenologist who doesn’t believe in [...]
S is for Science
Download Episode 11: “S is for Science”
In which we crack the Neanderthal genome, chat about Neutralinos as if we know what they are, Dan tells of his snowboarding adventures and how he came to be “in great agony”, our listeners travel in time and Rob explains his religious epiphany.
