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I can’t seem to get away from these fucking eels!

Last week I posted my old remembrance of the grisly and botched slaughtering of an eel in my kitchen to make a pie. The recipe was named Eel Pie Island Pie. Today my oldest dearest friend, Bryan, sent me the link to this bit of video about the source of the eel pie recipe: Eel Pie Island.

Turns out the place has quite a bit of history behind it, including being where Dicken’s wrote Little Dorrit and where the Rolling Stones had their first gig. Go figure.

Bryan has also suggested I record the story and put it online as a podcast. He seems to think I’m a good oral storyteller. I’ve got some writer chums on Twitter who are very involved in doing the same sort of thing so I might just give it a go. What the hell – I could always use a good distraction to keep me from pursuing – something – like writing new stuff.

Cheers.