Good morning.
My apologies for the lateness of in the present day’s weblog. It’s not my fault although, blame Mark. If he hadn’t launched his very personal bourbon a while in the past, and labelled it ‘Maker’s Mark’ I might have been up a lot sooner than I used to be.
I’ve recognized just a few Marks in my time, I’ve to say. There was my pal Mark who I used to be at school with and who was an excellent artist. He’s not an artist now although, he’s a pilot. I don’t know if there’s a through-line between inventive competence and airplane flying abilities, however he can do each. I bear in mind him taking flying classes, then he left Eire go to the US, and I believe he was based mostly out of Atlanta for some time.
They’ve a really massive and really busy airport there and I bear in mind him telling me about his early piloting days the place he’d be in some small plane flying some non-public shopper or cargo, scheduled to land at Atlanta, and air-traffic management would give him the go forward. He’d need to get in behind a 747, with a 767 up his arse (it was all Boeing again then), with a 90 second window to get his tiny airplane on the bottom.
He now works for one of many massive airways over there, he’s a literal captain, and lives in Nashville, Tennessee. I don’t ever bear in mind anybody in my life saying ‘Someday I’m going to depart Dublin and dwell in Tennessee’ – which isn’t any slight on that individual state by the way in which, it simply by no means got here up in dialog. London? Certain. America? Completely. Australia. Definitely. I even bear in mind one lad speaking about how he needed to go and make a life for himself in Finland. Sadly, that didn’t occur. Not as a result of Finland isn’t actual, however as a result of he went on holidays and acquired eaten by a bear, as if he was some sort of frontiersman. They by no means caught the bear that did it, however I don’t blame the animal, this lad had a really salmony manner about him and I’d have completed the identical earlier than I hibernated.
Then there was Mark who labored in manufacturing in one of many radio stations I labored for. He was a really good fella, and an essential individual as a result of when you had been in his good books, he’d say ‘I’ve a few advertisements right here so that you can do the voice-over on’, and that was nice since you’d get just a few additional quid on the finish of the week. These quids may be the distinction between having a tin of baked beans along with your frozen fish or not – since you had been spending the remainder of the cash on going out on the weekend. To be clear, not a lot the going out itself, however the issues that will enable you keep out till very late/early the following day.
The issue, nonetheless, was that he had a physique odour subject. In that he smelled like his physique had been buried for weeks in a shallow grave someplace after he’d been whacked by a neighborhood crime gang. Coming into the manufacturing studio was an train in literal mouth respiration. That extra cash was good, however my goodness, you needed to earn it – not just by saying the phrases on a bit of paper in the proper order and with the proper emphasis. In time, I might select the least smelly choice however I appreciated the work he gave me, even when most of the scripts had been sub-par.
For these getting into the radio promoting world, if anybody involves you with an concept that entails two folks speaking about what an excellent deal they’ve on fridge-freezers at Kelly Electricals on Major Road, Small City, County Someplace, inform them cease being so lazy and to provide you with one thing higher.
That’s as many Marks as I can consider. It’s a bit mad, given how widespread the the title is, that Arsenal haven’t actually had a giant participant known as Mark. With all due respect to Mark Randall, it didn’t occur for him. Oh, positive, I can hear you shout ‘What about Marc Overmars?! however Marc is NOT Mark, in the identical manner that Karl is NOT Carl. Let’s not get into that complete factor this early on a Saturday morning. I don’t need a load of offended Marks/Marcs and Karls/Carls on my case.
It’s early, isn’t it? Or possibly it’s late now. I don’t know. Simply don’t get the Brian/Bryans began, that’s all I’m saying.
Until tomorrow.
