Sinful

The great thing about listening to Resonance FM is you never know what you are going to wake up to. It might be Boris Karloff reading Aesop's Fables. It might be a song called 'Tube Station Lies' in which (for example) Chalk Farm is berated by a whining Cockney vocal for not being a farm. Or this:

Diarrhoea, diarrhoea
Fire from within!
Bowel movement, bowel movement
Constipation is a sin.

Yes! A song about diarrhoea. You don't get that with Terry Wogan. The band were live in the studio, but I never discovered who they were. Some things it is better not to know.

I went out with ex-workmates. We had the usual pub conversation about how we should do something creative which will become inexplicably successful and make it so that we never need to work again. Paul revealed that, at the age of seven, he wrote a story called 'The Jesus Worm', which was basically retells the story of Jesus with all the characters replaced by worms. Jesus had to be 'crucified' on a stick. Even at the age of seven, Paul had an eye for detail.

Well, that's it right there. 'The Jesus Worm' has the makings of a fine Dan Brown-style thriller - maybe not so much the content but the title, definitely. The Jesus Worm sounds like just the kind of thing a paedophile priest (or paedophile Knight Templar) would say ('Would you like to touch my Jesus worm? Look, he's risen again!') so we can add a 'misery memoir' element to the stew as well.

It's a sure-fire hit.