As I was walking to the tube station on the way to the gig tonight a woman seemed to squawk at me. I assumed she was laughing at my stupid fucking moustache, but she pulled her earphones out and said, "I'm listening to your podcast!" I think this is the first time this has happened. It must have been weirder for her than it was for me to suddenly have the voice in her head appear in corporeal form. But it was cool to meet a listener.
Funnily enough as I walked up the stairs at Leicester Square station a man next to me was similarly excited and revealed he was also listening to the podcast. This one was a little less of a crazy coincidence as he was on his way to see my show, but it was still a little strange that something that has never happened before occurred twice in such a short time. The man was keen to prove his claim was true and pushed his earphone into my ear, which was perhaps a little bit too much intimacy with a fan, but hopefully he had no terrible disease that is commutable via ear wax.
Perhaps this day is the point where the Collings and Herrin podcast got over the hump and a significant proportion of the British public are now listening to it.
Or maybe I will have to wait another two years for this ever to happen again.
I had watched a clip of Gordon Brown being interviewed by Piers Morgan on Channel 4 news before I left home. It is quite pitiful how low Brown is going in an attempt to make the public like him, but nothing he tries is working. As always he just looked uncomfortable and strange and his unromantic report of how he proposed to his wife made him seem even more alien. Whoever is advising him is making some massive mistakes and they should concentrate on trying to make him look like a serious politician rather than a man of the people. Mainly because he is not a man of the people. I can't help thinking that when Morgan had pressed him to reveal details of his personal life he had told he to fuck off then his approval ratings might have gone up. And if he had at any point just punched Morgan in the face, I think he might well have won the election there and then. I would have voted for him.
It feels to me if he was allowed to just be himself and not put in these awkward positions that he might have more of a chance. If he just said, "Look, I am not one of these air-brushed made-over, vacuous politicians making all my policies based on opinion polls and PR advisors. I am a proper old-fashioned politician who will just try to do my job and making decisions based on what I think is right rather than what any other cunt tells me to say. And sorry, I am not going to talk about my wife or my dead child to a twat like you. It's my business and nothing to do with my job," then I think he might have gone up in people's estimation.
Unless he is hoping to win based on pity votes. I almost feel sorry enough for this man, confused and bewildered in a world he doesn't understand to vote for him. And I don't want that slimy Tory prick to be Prime Minister. So who knows.
But I'd like to see a few politicians trying the punching Piers Morgan approach to electability.
I have a feeling that if we agreed to have Piers Morgan punched in the face on a weekly basis that Al Qaeda might even lay down their weapons.
