Superman
This photo, taken to accompany Collings & Herrin Podcast number 28 (how long do we really have to keep this up before someone discovers us and offers us paid work?), is a very clever and accurate parody of the one that appears on Page 3 of today's Daily Mail about concerned mum Debbie Lamb, 33, and her Superman-costume-wearing seven year-old son Jacob. The story and the fabulous picture are here. (I don't think I'd better reproduce it, as it belongs to a photo agency, and although I love the picture, I'm not paying for it. My guess is that it will already be going all around the world, like the one of the man in front of a tank in Tianenmen Square, and the soldiers raising the flag at Iwo Jima.) In our own amoral version of The Moral Maze, we also talk in an informed and balanced way of gang violence and how to solve it, the similarity of Sarah Palin's name to Michael Palin's, and the likelihood of political prisoners being released just because Richard is prepared to pose in some Amnesty International underpants*. (Oh, and may I draw your attention to the fact that in the photo above, Richard is actually four inches above the arm of the sofa. He is David Blaine.)
* And go to the shops in his slippers, like an old lady.
posted by Andrew Collins @ 2:09 PM
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Why would anyone pay you to do a podcast when you're doing it for free? As long as you DO do it for free, there is no incentive for anyone to pay you is there? Instead, how about you threaten to post that hideous Herring pants photo daily until you get paid? That would probably work.
Anna
"Paid work" covers many things, Anna - I wasn't necessarily thinking of us getting paid to do the podcast.
And the pants modelling option? Do you think that could be a professional goer?
Anna
How much to not post the Amnesty picture again?
*right click*
*set as desktop background*
.......ahem
I guess this means that John Cooper Clarke was wrong ... you can see Herrings nipples in the Daily Express!
MY EYES!
My... eyes...
I think you should make the pants photo your signature.
I know you didn't talk about it this week but I thought you should see this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWE1tH93G9U
I think I'm going to buy your book about Billy Bragg. Do you know if you can get it in an actual shop or is it only available online?
the photo in mail of the kid is top, although his suit seems to be woking fairly well what's all the fuss about!
It's in some shops, Natassia, depends on how big their music section is. It seems to be £6.99 on Amazon, and I'd avoid buying it from one of the second-hand sources unless you're absolutely sure it's the most recently updated version (Feb 2007), as it's been updated twice since it first came out in 1998 and you'll want the newest. Incidentally, the cover Amazon are showing is out of date too - the 2007 edition has a different photo. [See: THE BOOKS section on this very website for latest pic.] I'm prouder of the Billy Bragg book than any of my other books.
Now, that white eyebrow hair could be the very thing to decide the superstition/idiocy debate. My mum (who may be an idiot) would say that plucking out a white hair will result in nine more white hairs growing in in its place. Time will tell. Perhaps you could become the anti-Darling.
The only empirical evidence I can offer is that having foolishly plucked a stray about a year ago I now have a "private region" that looks like Inspector Morse. (Actually, not true, a few drops of "just for men" and bingo - a veritable Frankie Howerd). (Actually, clearly none of this is true. Honest. OK, I have a "private region" that looks like Michael Winner)
The suggestion that I may have been invented solely for the purposes of a podcast competition, has opened up all sorts of existential questions in my head (if indeed it is MY head), to the point where I'm debating whether or not there's any point in me renewing my Young Persons Railcard...
If anyone can help unravel the mystery of my existence, contact Andrew... ME!!!... I meant "me"... contact "me"... I think I need to lie down for a bit...
nic, you do not exist. If you were eligible for a YP railcard, you would not be here.
I have a changing room/penis story.
I find that men spend a lot longer than you expect, preening themselves in the mirror, often naked.
In our gym the mirror has sinks in front of it. This week a man was standing naked, doing his hair in the mirror. However he was standing so close to the mirror that his cock was in the sink, resting against the porcelain. Two questions entered my mind.
1) Should I complain? And how to bring it up
2) Porcelain is cold to the touch - so did he have some kind of limited sensibility in his cock.
3) WTF?
Hmm.
'Bad Timing' was on on Sunday. Hadn't seen it before. *Someone's* podcast somewhat spoiled the ending.
That picture was even better than I imagined it. (The child superman, not Richard in his pants.)
Even better, we had an approving email from Debbie Lamb, the mother of the Superman boy! Somehow or other she'd seen our pic and loved it. What a woman!
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