New Year, New Decade, New Jacko?
Posted by Jacko | Filed under ManChat
Hey guys. Haven’t been on here for a while as I’ve been away visiting family over Christmas, and since then I’ve been putting the final touches to the second volume of The Great Right Hope series, A Fistful of Rubbers, which is now with Zetta Brown, the editor for LL-Publications. Finally, it’s done with, and now I have time for some more blogging and let me start by saying Happy New Year.
Yes, folks, a new year and a new year decade. In April, I will say goodbye to my twenties, too, and say hello to my…erm…thirties, yes, that’s the one.
Shit.
I don’t want to really talk about that. Nope, I don’t want to talk about the future, it only brings old age, boredom, kids playing on your lawn and a life-changing increases in the price of ham, and possibly global warming and shit.
So, let’s look backwards, and let’s take a look at the decade we said goodbye to, the noughties. What happened in the noughties? We (England) lost at a lot of sporting events; terrorism reached sickening heights; Usain Bolt ran really, really fast; and the first ever film about bumming cowboys was released. I ain’t really much cop at history, and I can’t be bothered with researching owt, either, as that isn’t my style. To be honest, I can’t be arsed to talk about the past, as that’s in the past, and the future is the only thing that matters, right?
What I will say, is that on a particular supernatural day in the noughties I experienced, for the first and only time, what can only be classed as divination. Unfortunately, my foretelling wasn’t the kind that would ever bag me a lot of money, or any, for that matter. It would not put me in a position where I could make a difference to the world. My vision came to me when two girls danced and sang (technically questionable) their way on to my television screen. Those Transylvanian girls were cheeky little things, indeed, and they were indeed, The Cheeky Girls.
The cheeky girls hit our screens in 2002 when they auditioned for Popstars The Rivals, and from that came the song, The Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum), and even though in 2004, it was voted the worst pop record of all time in a Channel 4, it still got to number two in the UK charts. Number, f***ing two, can you believe that? This country. This f**ing country. To summarise, they’re mum writes their songs; in 2006 they filed for bankruptcy; and in 2007 they had tit jobs.
I was convinced my 2002 prediction would come true, and everything was building up to its ultimate fulfilment. Even up to the end of December 2009, I was convinced that I couldn’t be wrong. I told the world, my friends and loved ones, as a 22 year-old kid, that it was a guaranteed dead cert that one of the cheeky girls would become a porn star by the end of the decade.
And they didn’t!
So the title of this post was “A New Year, A New Decade, A New Jacko?” So is there going to be a new Jacko? Well, probably not; not unless I win the lottery, or someone gives me a multi-million quid book deal, but one thing I will say, is that I predict, that by the end of this decade, by midnight, December 31st 2019, one of the Cheeky Girls will be in porno, somewhere on the internet.
Mark my words.
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Win a Sony E-Book Reader!
Posted by Jacko | Filed under Competition Time
Winning stuff is bloody fantastic.
I’ll tell you something else which is bloody fantastic, and that’s The Great Right Hope. Yeah, OK, so I wrote it, and I’m biased, but there really is no other book like it. It’s about a drunk Northerner who punches vampires in the face. How good is that?
If you haven’t read it then
a) You should have but b) I forgive you.
Actually, it’s for the best that you didn’t as now you can win a £180 quid ebook reader, and all you have to do to enter is buy the paperback or ebook between the 12th December and the 12th January.
LL-Publications are running the competition and you can buy any one of their titles to enter, and you can enter as many times as you like.
Competition details are here: http://www.ll-publications.com/win_a_sony_reader.html
You can buy The Great Right Hope from Amazon. Links to both .com and .co.uk are at the bottom of my webpage dedicated to TGRH: http://www.mark-jackman.com/GRH/GRH_main.php
or buy direct from LL- Publications: http://www.ll-publications.com/greatrighthope.html
Even if you don’t win, you still get to read one of the funniest books in fiction. It’s certainly one of the funniest books I’ve written.
Everyone likes winning stuff.
Picture depicts what Usain Bolt might look like if he won a Sony ebook reader after buying The Great Right Hope.
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