This would be in my new newsblog when the 2007 website spring clean is complete
I'm happy to say that the promotional juggernaut is now roaring down the highway. (No wonder my book is 1,213 in the Amazon charts!) I was in My Media in Media Guardian today, and very well transcribed by Paul Mardles it was too. It feels oddly subversive to announce in the Guardian that I stopped buying the Guardian on February 21. Apologies to Sean Phillips for their misspelling of your name, and to the other bloggers whom I mentioned in the phone interview but didn't make the final edit.
Also, in case you missed it, I was in the 5-Minute Interview in the Independent on Thursday. Thanks to Elisa Bray for sorting that out, and for getting it in so quickly. They used my old 6 Music picture, which was taken at the end of 2002 (soon to be replaced in the Radio Times, I'm relieved to say), and they called me a 6 Music DJ, which I'm not, but apart from that - and the rather po-faced way my light-hearted stuff about blood groups came out on the page, I'm happy with it.
(Don't tell anyone, but this is the third time I have been featured in the Guardian's My Media section. Is this a record? Here are the other two, from 2003 and 2005.)
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Good interviews Andrew, and I'm with you on the litter issue. I've been very close to going up to total strangers on the street and telling them not to carelessly throw away their litter. I just haven't quite plucked up the courage yet.
And though I wouldn't want to sound like one of those groupies on the Richard Herrings site (even though I am one sometimes), I don't think the blood group stuff was po-faced, I thought it came across quite well, in a light-hearted way.
Wow, thanks very much for mentioning my blog in your interview Andrew, I'm very flattered! Coincidentally I was reading your new book today on the way back from the UK Comic Festival in Bristol this weekend.
Well, I was wondering where my name was... ;-)
I'm still peeved that another publication you write for, word, didn't use my half man half biscuit pictures they requested, pah!
I'd also be writing the sleeve notes for the Levellers.
(Laughs) And how will you deliver your wise words to them? :-)
I have indeed been asked, by the Levellers, to pen sleeve notes for a reissue of Levelling The Land, the album of theirs that caused the "kerfuffle" in my book. I think this shows the band up in a very good light.
Sorry, Clair. I mentioned about half a dozen blogs, and they only managed to fit in mention of two. But I'm glad they mentioned Sean's.
Sorry to hear about the HMHB pictures strike-out, Sinister. I did an hour long interview for I Love The Muppets and they didn't use a single second of my talking head. Not that I'm bitter about that.
Three appearances in The Guardian's My Media section means you get to keep it.
Can't understand your enjoyment of the Harry Enfield/Paul Whitehouse show though.
Paul
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Andrew, I am intrigued about what made you angry about the health stories in the Guardian? Do tell.
Can I also request further explanation of what there is to like about Harry and Paul's show?
Paul Whitehouse.
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