Richard Herring: nyum, nyum, nyum
Just before Richard Herring had his iPhone stolen, I was sat for an hour with him in the lounge of Shepherd’s Bush’s ridiculously poncey hotel, K-West. This is an establishment which refuses to admit on its website that it’s in Shepherd’s Bush, despite the fact it is directly behind the second best shopping centre in Shepherd’s Bush, and refuses to include the location in its address. And a freshly squeezed orange juice will set you back £4.95.
The absurdly long interview is here. I forgot to ask him why Nostradamus’ horse was called David Collins, but here are an extra couple of questions that were omitted for space:
Do you consider yourself a geek?
Not really. I think we’re just people and people are quite nerdy generally. I’m not massively into technology; I don’t understand all that stuff. I think other people would think I probably was a geek. I like comedy and I like computer games a bit, and I spend a lot of time on the internet so… yeah, I suppose I am, thinking about it.
You seem to write far less on your blog about Scrabble and poker lately. Do you just not have time for those any more?
I think the poker one I was playing a lot of it at the time, but people didn’t really enjoy reading about it. I’m not playing as much poker but I still play Scrabble just not as much as I did. I think I just spend more time on the internet now but I’ll just use that time on Twitter or Facebook or just trawling the internet over and over again. I’m always doing other stuff when I’m watching TV now; I just don’t have the attention span. So I’m not doing those things as much but they’re being replaced by even more tedious things to waste my life with.