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Hot off the press is this week's Cabin Fever podcast for you to enjoy by listening to it on a suitable device.
In this week's edition I speak about Lauren Harries, Keith Allen, home security obsessions, Alexa, my pal Molly and her Dad, and some other stuff surely. That was just off the top of my head. For the second week running I don't come through on doing a musical edit at the end, but I do play the autoharp right at the end despite one chord be...
2022-10-14 10:00:07 +0000 UTC
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So, for today's art post we have not one, not two, not three, but four - unfinished - pieces.
The subjects of these portraits will no doubt be strangers to the vast majority of you, but they are four members of the current Saints RL team, and these are thank you pieces.
I mentioned on Cabin Fever (I think it was), that four players from Saints had sent video messages for Kim after she'd had her emergency brain surgery. I got these through my pal Be...
2022-10-13 10:00:06 +0000 UTC
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The original plan with Loopholes Extra was to provide comparably light-lifting on weeks where things were difficult or a bit too much. Which would certainly describe this week.
However, and this is merely an observation rather than a complaint, it has already developed into something that requires as much (if not more) prep before recording, and - as you'll probably gather from the amount of media in it - same for the edit.
I rather like t...
2022-10-12 10:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Content Warning - contains barely legible blurry pictures of gentlemen's truncheons
So somebody has been transferring his old hard drive to a new hard drive because of the stupid MacBook fiddling about, and has further taken the pro-active steps of sorting out his files too.
That someone is me.
Whilst this has been an annoyingly expensive and time consuming pursuit (Have you seen the cost of a 10TB hard drive? There should be a sub...
2022-10-11 10:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to a brand new week, full of hope and possibility.
Neither can be found in this week's Reboot podcast though. It is a den of filth. Rob drops the c-bomb and Jon bangs on about cocks for ages.
If you'd like that, fill your boots, but if you would prefer something more dignified then just have a scroll back to a post I did without a couple of deviants on it.
Now if you'll excuse me, I shall go for a lay-down.
2022-10-10 10:00:07 +0000 UTC
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It is Cabin Fever podcast - comes around quick dunnit?
In today's packed episode I chatter about The Darkness, evicting the Hearse, Red Dwarf mementos, Doritos Nacho Cheese Dip, Prop sales, annoying exchange rates, and also do an autoharp performance of a song that you will simply never guess... Actually no chance you'd guess it ahead of time. In fact, I think most folk won't even know what song it is until I get to the chorus, so...
2022-10-07 10:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Please be upstanding as we say a final farewell to a friend.
A friend who did not let us down (except for the brakes and also if memory serves the driver side electric window packed in). A friend I acquired, modified, improved and ultimately stored, it feels only correct that I should be lumbered with getting rid of it as well.
So let's see if that panned out..
Hope you are having a wonderful and happy week over there
Sending a very much love
2022-10-06 10:00:05 +0000 UTC
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We reach the landmark Episode 10 of Loopholes today, which is certainly cause for celebration.
It's always rather an odd moment for me to reach Episode 10, as that was - for the most part - the culmination of a series in my history. I still certainly have a tendency towards self-contained, but that needs to be a consideration from the off. I think with Reboot and Loopholes, I started both with the intention of seeing what they fel...
2022-10-05 10:01:00 +0000 UTC
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A little arts and crafts video for you today, with one of the projects I've been working on this week.
This is an (out of proportion) addition to the Country Bear Jamboree sign I made a few weeks ago, namely a weathered old lantern to sit above it. I think this is maybe the first time I've weathered something in lighter colours rather than darker colours, and big part of the weathering was old rust. You'll see how I did that and how it came out.
2022-10-04 10:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Now, this here episode of the Reboot podcast, with myself, Rob and Jon, is the reason that I love this podcast.
It goes from utterly puerile to utterly sincere to savage in all the best ways, all against a whodunnit plot.
This week we discuss the case of Rob's stolen motorbike - which is a real and horrible thing that happened to him in London this week, where he is back performing in the excellent Upstart Crow - The Play.
2022-10-03 10:00:07 +0000 UTC
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It's Cabin Fever podcast Friday, your weekly off-the-cuff chat catch up with what's been going on.
Today I finally snap after a very long build up of chipping away and stick up for myself. Should have done it ages ago to be honest, but better late than never. If you like me assertive then this is for you, if you don't then it really isn't. Responding though, not attacking. I've already tried to do it nicely.
There's also a chat about di...
2022-09-30 10:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Today, as it feels as though it’s been an absolute age since I did a written post, I thought I would jot something down for you to read. You’ve been having to watch and listen an awful lot, and I worry that you aren’t getting your reading quota in. I also worry that I don’t get my writing quota in. So, let’s kill two birds with one stone…
In a sense, this is an Obsessions piece. You know, when I would write longform musings ...
2022-09-29 10:00:05 +0000 UTC
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It be Wednesday which be Loopholes Podcast day, your weekly discussion podcast on all things esoterotic...
Today you find us both in rather cranky moods for various reasons. If you'd have heard the things we didn't record about that, I genuinely think it would go down in folklore as one of the most incredible podcasts of all time. But you'll just have to enjoy the second most incredible one instead...
We again have a lengthy discussi...
2022-09-28 10:01:00 +0000 UTC
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It feels ages since I've weathered anything, and as I am currently on this weird compulsive arty home improvements kick, I made the plunge to attempt to improve a bluetooth speaker thing I have.
What I didn't mention in the video, perhaps on account of having to do commentary retrospectively and not being sure of my timings, was that this character is voiced by Paul Reubens (of Pee Wee Herman fame). I mean, it's pretty obviously him, but this is one of the main r...
2022-09-27 10:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Here is a new episode of Reboot for you, which may sound like it's going to be a Rebrand episode to begin with but all levels out.
We begin with Jon and Rob having a catch up which has a slight dip in audio quality to usual as I had to use the zoom recording (I was recording Loopholes at the time they did that...it's genuinely harder than you'd think to be doing two proper podcasts a week...) and then we switch seamlessly to myself and Jon. &...
2022-09-26 10:00:06 +0000 UTC
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I come here today with this week's Cabin Fever podcast, which I have put up there and you have access to it.
The last couple of Cabin Fever's had an - understandable I think - bit of gloom to them, so today I revert back to chatty little charmer. Mostly.
There is a Autoharp song - AT THE BEGINNING AND I'M NOT MESSING - which I have a long chat about, incorporating a look back at a moment from The Ray Peacock Podcast, and I also ha...
2022-09-23 10:00:05 +0000 UTC
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So, today I have opted for another of my "beauty shots" posts, where I take pics of a collection and then stress myself out that it comes off as showing off.
Never let it be said I don't put myself through emotional torment to bring you the treats on my Patreon page.
I also appreciate that the subject of these pictures may be something you have no knowledge or investment in. Well, you'll have heard me banging on about it, but I very much doubt it's tickled ...
2022-09-22 10:00:05 +0000 UTC
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It's Wednesday which can mean only one thing, a brand new full episode of Loopholes, your weekly discussion podcast on all things esoteric.
This week, myself and Doctor Kate spend a substantial amount of time responding and chatting about last weeks (technically the week before as we did Loopholes Extra last week) audience responses.
In fact, we afford it so much time that it nudges Celebrity Seance Corner into the ether, which predicta...
2022-09-21 10:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Now, we are all painfully and tediously aware that I have a weird obsession with the Haunted Mansion ride at Disney Parks, and have patiently sat through me banging on about it and making stuff like the tombstones.
However, we have never discussed my second favourite attraction at Disney Parks (or maybe the third after Soarin').
This would be the Country Bear Jamboree, which might seem very much off brand for me. It's basically a ...
2022-09-20 10:00:05 +0000 UTC
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As we are again without Rob, who is lording it in Theatre Land, I have decided to rebrand Reboot as Rebrand. Just for the sake of it.
It is a very exciting episode too, as Jon and I have a full on row, very heated, and some home truths are aired. It is a fascinating behind the scenes look at a tempestuous working relationship, that produces so much gold but at what cost?
It is also, for the record, an exceptionally well structured po...
2022-09-19 10:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Just popping by with a little Cabin Fever podcast for you, recorded late at night (as per) the other day so I could get a bit of breathing space for the rest of the week (as per).
Now, I don't know if this sort of thing should have a trigger warning on it. I think you can end up putting trigger warnings on everything if you overthink it, but a lot of this podcast is an update on Kim Wilson. It's actually a retrospective update, because I think I ju...
2022-09-16 10:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Couple of art bits for you today, as I've been getting a bit obsessive on that front.
I actually go into more detail about that in tomorrow's Cabin Fever podcast, but I wanted to show you some of the artwork I have been doing for Kim's book over the last couple of weeks. There's actually only two pieces, and you'll see why they've taken so long.
First though, as promised, here are the tattoos I was commissioned to draw for some folk who definitely ...
2022-09-15 10:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Here is the latest Loopholes Extra podcast - Episode 2 - keeping in line with my apparent commitment to Patreon exclusives this week. This is another that shan't be let out into the real world, instead being a little treat just for you.
Big old edit on this, where I've tried a different tac to regular Loopholes eps. Hopefully it's worked. Even though these Extra episodes are dealing with the programme Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious...
2022-09-14 10:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Once again, the image for this video isn't showing up presently. Hopefully it will be there by the time you get it, but if not, I assure you the video is there is you click it. For today's video post, I have filmed the progress of my first attempt at making a silicone mould and casting in resin.
Yeah, pretty sexy eh?
You'll maybe remember that the intro videos where Stuart Bray were a good while ago now, but life took it's stupid turns and delayed me. ...
2022-09-13 10:01:02 +0000 UTC
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Here I am with a very special Reboot podcast which shall now, and always be, a Patreon exclusive.
Yes, even if we ever get organised to make these publicly available, this one is going to be kept sacred on here for you. Not for any sordid reasons (although I do try to instigate a 'blue' chat) but just because you deserve exclusives that are in perpetuity from time to time. This here be one of them.
This really does run the gamut of infantile to grown ...
2022-09-12 10:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Good morning to you, and welcome to a (soft) encore post, where I bring something out of the Patreon vaults and re-impose it on you.
These have never been released all together though, so that is at least a bit of convenience that I've chucked into the mix.
I was quite surprised by how many there were, I'll be honest. This was a comic strip I started doing when I first got my iPad. I'd had iPads before, but this was the first time I'd gotten an iPad ...
2022-09-09 10:01:03 +0000 UTC
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Yes I know I said I was leaving it till next week to bring you these but the week has gotten away from me.
Actually, it's the Loopholes edit that did me in. I've just finished it and uploaded that (yesterday's post) in the early hours of Wednesday morning, and was sat here thinking that I'd just be spending the rest of Weds doing a post for Thursday so I've bought myself a day of grace with this post. Also the last one got so little response that I wanted t...
2022-09-08 10:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Here it is, white hot off the press, it's - count 'em - Loopholes episode 7.
Yep the seventh episode of the - still new I think - podcast series where myself and Kate Cherrell discuss many different aspects of the esoterotic, and shove our own assessments and personal slants on top of it.
This week is particularly personal for Kate I think, but I should also be complimented for managing to 'reign it in' for around 56% of the episode. I've literally just ...
2022-09-07 10:01:02 +0000 UTC
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This is a poor bit of planning from me I reckon. I could have totally spread these out over a longer period of time.
That said, we shall now wait a week until the concluding part (Part 4), which will probably increase the anticipation and excitement and then Emergency Broadcast will definitely sell out easy. And that, after all, is the goal.
If you've missed the others, these are little improvised Fringe Blogs that we did daily at the 2011 Ed...
2022-09-06 10:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Greetings to you from the past.
I am uploading this at the same time that I uploaded last week's Reboot because we recorded this two-parter back-to-back (plenty of hyphens for you there).
This is the second part of us looking back at our only Big And Daft tour, and so the culmination of our woes, where we go off to Scotland to really nail down the coffin lid. Again, a couple of repeated stories here (told differently of course), and ...
2022-09-05 10:00:07 +0000 UTC
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