Channel NewsEarlier & the Blue Screen of Death

Morn­ings are never my prime time

‘Wah, damn early, can?’ was my first response when mrbrown informed me that the SWF organ­is­ers had sched­uled us for CNA’s Prime Time Morn­ing slot to talk about the blog­ging seg­ment of the fes­ti­val. It was also my sec­ond and third responses.

Now, we’re never good morn­ing peo­ple (haha, good morn­ing peo­ple, haha), and not hav­ing enough sleep the night before, plus the infer­nal jam on Lornie Road (must be the new ERP charges on the other roads) put paid to any chance of either of us being pleas­ant interviewees.

First up, nobardy told mrbrown he couldn’t wear his favourite blue shirt, so he wore his favourite blue shirt. One of the pro­duc­ers scram­bled to find a non-blue top from the Chan­nel 8 wardrobes, and came up with a cream coloured sweater that matched every pixel of mrbrown’s cream coloured skin tone. I can hear him scream­ing at this blog post now: “It was ivory-coloured, you moron!”

Turtle­neck jokes aside, the other thing that didn’t go well was the fact I didn’t know we were already on air when I kept look­ing at Suzanne Jung’s notes on the cof­fee table, hop­ing to pre-empt her ques­tions. mrbrown was already up and away pep­per­ing answers to the inter­view ques­tions when I finally gave up try­ing to see the ques­tions. The teleprompter thing also proved to be a dis­trac­tion, as were typos on the teleprompter thing.

Next thing we knew, the inter­view seg­ment was over, with Suzanne telling us her blog was not under her real name. So we told her we’d search the web under the terms ‘I am a hot CNA pre­sen­ter chick’. Sure find one.

Then, eh, we didn’t talk about the Sin­ga­pore Writ­ers’ Fes­ti­val at all. Fark us dead, we’re not earn­ing our per diems for the fes­ti­val. But then we’re not get­ting paid for today’s inter­view, so nair mind ler.

Surf stop: mrbrown’s flickr set of today’s CNA segment.

iTunes is play­ing an ille­gal copy of Where’s My Every­thing from the album “Labour Of Love — The Music of Nick Lowe” by Greg Brown of which I have the orig­i­nal CD.

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