This ain't something else.

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Here’s a great cover version of a good song by a guy I know from back in musical networking days a couple of years ago. I’m still writing songs, and I do enjoy it, even though I’m not not recording or sharing the results.

Here’s a guy who does what you should do with a cover, and that’s give it a twist and make it something else.

Time’s short for reasons I can’t discuss right now, but I will in course if not length.

Listen: Heroes

We pick up the scene after diplomacy has broken down. The subject, whose name we never learn, has kept saying he has something for her, but at this stage the narrator has walked away from the table and boots are being deployed.

It’s a classic narrative effect. We almost expect the lights to go out, to hear a kick, a dull thud and a scream and the scene illumated with a corpse and some missing pearls.

I think These Boots Are Made For Walking is made all the more sinister because Nancy Sinatra isn’t specific about when they’re going to walk all over you. So the man is left wondering how long he’s got.

And then, before the horn, break she says: “Are you ready boots? Start walking.”

Not only so you’ve got this threat, and also a false sense of security and she sends the boots in straight away.

And she denies all responsibility, like it’s not her plan. Even though she’s there with a brand new box of matches, chooses to deploy the boots.

It’s a deke. It’s a fakeout. It’s a flanking pincer movement a la botte, and before you can say “galoshes” that day is here, my friend.

That day is here.

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Podcast 55 is live with myself, Angry and Ben chewing the fat over topics as diverse as I teaching my kids how to correctly use swear words, why Angry shouldn’t cut my own hair, and how Sir Jimmy Saville clearly hates Ben.

Each of us also shares an online conversation we’ve had with a website help operator, and we still can’t decide if they’re actually human or not.

All this plus regular segment On This Day in History with births, deaths and the quite lengthy origins of Groundhog Day.

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• Stupidly tired. Would Labour legislate on going to bed on time? I think they would. Cameron would just leave it up to me. Can you imagine? #
• And that kind of sums my political dilemma better than I thought it would. Heads (up their arse) or tails (between their legs)? #
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• Wondering if a "Deployment Manager" is someone who just shouts "GO!!!" a lot. #
• That probably came across all wrong. Feeling quite fallable. #
• I really, really love Alan Alda's voice. There. Ok? #
• Playing the Blair drinking game. Two fingers every time he says: "Let's be absolutely clear." #
• Hiccup wants to climb up http://twitpic.com/10i4l8 #

• Make a thank you movie! – Very good use of online interaction for Swedish public broadcasting.
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What sings country music and is also the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea?

Billy Ray Cyprus.

What?

Have a great weekend everyone.