Ho ho ho! Merry Christmas to one n’ all! With ten days until the big day, it’s not too late to treat a family member, a friend or yourself (go on, you know you want to!) with a copy of Marooned in Aggieland: A Bumbling Brit Discovers College Football, Guns N’ Waffles. Currently AMAZON is running […]
October
01
Celebrating Marooned in Aggieland’s First Birthday
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Thanks to a federal judge dropping the copyright claim on the song ‘Happy Birthday’ last week, I can now officially swig pale lager from a vase, high-five the nearest bemused stranger and belt out ‘Happy Birthday to Marooned in Aggieland’ without fear of a whopping legal bill. So, that’s what I’ll probably do. For it […]
September
30
Bringing Home The Bacon Plasma
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Over the last quarter of a century, I am confident in my declaration that I have met at least a dozen mothers and fathers. Maybe more. Only the other day, I spent a fair portion of my morning at work trying to decipher why a colleague’s pre-teenage lad was sitting on a bean-bag ten feet away from […]
August
28
Hotdogs, Dinosaurs and Cinematic History
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There’s nothing more humbling and pathetic than witnessing a fully grown man sat on a booster seat in the middle of a cinema. The most damaging thought is: that could have been me. I’d been out of the movie theatre business for too long. The prospect of sitting next to a gentlemen with a smelly […]
July
21
Returning To The Late Train Scene
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If you are found anywhere near the inside of an English passenger train after 10pm on a Friday night, you better turn up ready and prepared. Thankfully, I hadn’t joined the ‘late train’ gang for quite some time. The vivid memories of watching law-breaking teenagers terrorising painfully shy people and fearless pensioners vomiting their false […]
June
18
I Came. I Saw. I Conquered.
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A well-spoken, rotund and jolly philosopher once exclaimed, “Life is too short – Let’s get trollied!” Off the back of such a groundbreaking and illustrious statement, an invention was made. Forget the wheel, telephone or Family Feast/Boneless Banquet KFC combo, I’m talking about the real good stuff – the holy grail of society, a heaven […]
May
27
An Alien World Tried To Recruit Me
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Since being chased out of a fabled drinking establishment in Greenspoint, Texas, few things have rattled the inner fibres of my binary existence. However, an email received by an imposing Spanish gentleman called Jorge came very close. There I was, slowly sauntering in the general direction of a unpopular fast-food outlet, Mr Chicken – if […]
May
05
Denny’s Comes Up Trumps – Again
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Just like with the interview I posted yesterday, here’s a blog that I penned when I was across the pond in November. It was written for Good Bull Hunting. Enjoy! Roughly 446 days have passed since I naively stumbled into the depths of an American diner that displayed a defiant, but garish red and yellow […]
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