Mark Jackman's Blog, page 3

Hot Cross Ale? Bllaahhhhhhh!

I've just reached a milestone, as I turned thirty in April. Yeah, thanks for the birthday card, by the way; thanks loads. I'm not going to write about the whole growing older thing, or how you forgot my birthday, because it just ends up annoying people. I'll write about turning thirty and everyone over thirty [...:]

The Hardest Substance Known To Man

Right, you lot. If you've read my blog from day one, then you'll know that I've covered a lot of the subjects of the many titles I gave myself. One thing I haven't really talked about is science, and that's what I do the most of, as it's my day job. Therefore this post is [...:]

Pure Inspiration

If you look up, you'll see that my blog is titled "The Blog of Mark Jackman, Author, Hunk, Sportsman, Musician, Scientist and Virgin." To make sure I deserve the title of "Hunk" I have to go down the gym a lot…especially because I like a beer…a lot (look out for my future title "Getting Ripped: The Drinking Man's [...:]

Am I The Only One Who Likes SPAM?

We're talking electronic SPAM here and not the meat product created all the way back in 1937 in Austin, Minnesota. Once known as Hormel Spiced Ham, the ham/pork thing, somehow (and I can't imagine for a moment why) began to lose market share. The brains at Hormel, the producers of this curious product, launched a [...:]

Crossroads

And, no, not this shite.

My old dear used to watch this. Utter shite.
It's a strange time in the life of the Jackhammer. Those who read this blog regularly will think I'm pretty strange, pretty much all of the time, and you'd be right, but things, at the moment, are especially odd. I ain't talking Britney Spears weird, [...:]

Marius Pudzianovski has Polish Power, but Vic Parker has Pensioner Power

And not pensioner power as in a large voting contingent.
The Great Right Hope has become synonymous with sporting greatness. Sponsorship of the local darts team, the Albion Arras, ensured they powered through to win the league in their debut season, even though most of the players didn't like the darts flights I gave them, they didn't [...:]

COMPETITION TIME! Does Anything Get Better With Age?

This blog has nothing to do with me turning thirty in April. It has nothing to do with me feeling older, physically, as I'm in the shape of my life, due to a chubby childhood. Nor has it anything to do with a recent issue I had with Virgin Media, which resulted in me writing [...:]

New Year, New Decade, New Jacko?

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 [...:]

Lookalikee! Peter Andre and Antony Worrall Thompson…eh?

Another lookalikee sent in! This one is from an artist buddy of mine, Jeremy Lewis Cope, and was one that when he told me, I seriously couldn't see. It was only when he morphed a picture, like he did for Supernanny and Ron Jeremy, that I saw how similar the two are. I don't think that these [...:]

Review: "Pit Stop" by Ben Larken

I was hoping to have reviewed more books by now, but, alas, no. I've been caught up writing A Fistful of Rubbers. Now that is done, or at least, a draft has been handed into my publisher, I am free once more to roam, to play, and to frolic.
To begin my season of frolicking, I [...:]