Adrian John on Big-L, listener Haley, break in transmission, maintain your tranny. Execrable quality of writing in this web log.
08h20-BST Thursday 24 April 2008-CE
I only caught little bits of Adrian John on Big-L this morning, from 05h50. He was reading a communication from Haley who never heard Radio London Big-L before and she said some things like:
“I only just discovered Big-L.”
“I did not know it was there.”
“It is like finding a little treasure.”
“There is something a little different about it.”
“It is like listening to the pirates that my Dad used to tell me about.”
After I heard CBC News on CFN and a feature on npr, I dropped back at 06h20 into where Big-L audio should be, but all was silent for a minute. Then the ID popped up and Adrian John pretended to pretend that the break in XM was out fault: we ought to fix our radio receivers. An amusing little device Mister John! His remark later about enjoying his cappuccino made me think he must have been off the desk and at the kettle.
I fantasise about editing this web log, so as to make it actually readable, before I clock out. But, of course, that would pasteurise it and make it useless to scholars in the future. How can I be studied by future school students if my stuff has had all its banal, boring, rawness and thingie removed from it? And it would be hard work to delete soppy stuff and streamline for readability. Who needs work? Who do I think I am?
I always hated any product that mixes unnecessary nastiness in with the story or documentation. One is either a guru dishing out really good griff to the multitude, or one is an ego-tripping exhibitionist putting people off. But I do not practice what I preach. I keep shoving in tacky stuff relating to my psycho-sexual condition. Nobody is going to place value on it. Anyone could write that kind of stuff. But is Lazy more honest than Trying Harder?
FIN 08h58
