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Gotta Do a Biggy

Happy and high from playing music with my band, it dawned on me that blogging is a bit like poo.
How so, you ask? Well, I'm going to tell you anyway.

Sometimes, you just gotta do one, and you rush to the blogger and squeeze one out.

Blogs are internet poo.

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  1. Ian8:50 am

    When I said "Go home and Blog!", this wasn't quite what I had in mind :-)

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  2. Gordon8:06 pm

    Yeah. It was late. And perhaps their was a bit of BUI going on...

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