Author: Ed Jefferson
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How to avoid awkward silences (at video game themed comedy karaoke nights)
For the last few years I’ve been helping to run a sort of karaoke night called Maraoke, monthly-ish in London but also at video games events around the world. Maraoke works basically the same as karaoke – you pick a song you know from the list, we call you up to sing, you sing along…
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Why do London buses keep disappearing? (And how I’m trying to find them again).
Here’s an annoying thing that happens to me fairly regularly: I’m waiting at the bus stop for a bus. I pull out my phone to check when the bus is coming. It tells me the bus is coming in 9 minutes. I check again, it says it’s coming in 8 minutes. Then I check *again*,…
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#89: 211 (2018)
My name is Ed, and I, like all of you, watch a Nicolas Cage film every week, pick six numbers from within that film, then play the National Lottery with those numbers. This week: a film whose title is a number! Surely a good sign, even if it is too long a number to be…
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#88: Looking Glass (2018)
My name is Ed and I watch Nicolas Cage films and pick numbers out of them and use them to play the National Lottery because I’m normal. It’s obvious what I get out of a film like Looking Glass: the potential of winning millions of pounds! And presumably Nic Cage and everyone else involved get…
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#87: Mandy (2018)
My name is Ed and I’ve been playing the lottery by using numbers from Nicolas Cage films, because I believe some kind of magical force will travel out of the films into the real universe and cause me to win millions of pounds. Over the last 5 weeks I have matched precisely zero numbers (including…
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#86: Dark (2017)
My name is Ed and I watch films in which Nicolas Cage appears, write down numbers from them, and then play the UK National Lottery, which I will eventually win because of this. When you decide you’re going to watch everything Nicolas Cage has ever been in to try and win the lottery, you have…
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#85: The Humanity Bureau (2017)
My name is Ed and an oppressive government regime is threatening to deport me to a non-existent place unless I watch every Nicolas Cage film and win the lottery using numbers from within that film. I was trying to figure out why the title The Humanity Bureau is suggestive of one of the various mostly…
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#84: Mom and Dad (2017)
My name is Ed, and each week I play the lottery using numbers I’ve divined out of a different Nicolas Cage film. The first two weeks of starting to do this again have not inspired confidence that this is a worthwhile activity – not only did I get 0 matching numbers, but both films were…
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Podcast appearance: Caged In
As well as trying to win the lottery by watching Nicolas Cage films I also have a secret goal of trying to be on every single Nicolas Cage-related podcast, and a couple of weeks ago got to have an extensive chat about both Cage, the experience of trying to watch all his films, and in…
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#82: Vengeance – A Love Story (2017)
My name is Ed, and I used to watch Nicolas Cage films in what turned out to be a futile attempt to win the lottery. Cage claims to have used a method he calls the nouveau shamanic to channel mystical energy into his screen performances, and my theory was that by picking numbers based on…