Monday, 5 October 2009

RELEASE: Nothing Lasts For Ever

An East London marketing manager who created a blog entirely made of faux press releases has responded to criticism that his 'well of inspiration has dried up' by claiming the project was never intended to run forever.

Started on his 25th birthday back on August 6th the blog has active posts through until the 24th September [update: now the 5th October] but has not been added to since [update: except this article]. The blog stormed to 1,000 hits within its first month but has seen hits fall by roughly a 1/3 in recent weeks of little activity.

Responding to cries for more from his legion of fans, Jerry Daykin responded, "Nothing lasts for ever, when I created the blog I knew it would eventually have to end. I suppose I could claim that I ran it as a one month project and surpassed all expectations by almost going on for two months, but I wont."

Yet Jerry admits he isn't finished with the project yet, "I'm certainly not saying 'This Is It' because nothing says final words quite like that. I'm also not going to ask for anything extra interesting to happen in my life because the last time I tried that I ended up repainting half the roads in Whitechapel with white gloss paint."

In the meantime fans will have to wait with baited breath to see what his next move will be, internet rumors already suggest that content from his older '8 Simple Rules' blog might simply be repackaged with directors commentary and given an anniversary release date but this has been denied thus far.

One source close to the blogger, who for legal reasons wished to remain anonymous, commented "It's not so much that nothing's happening in his life as that he's too busy living it - there are grapes to harvest every morning and Monopoly streets to buy every evening, not to mention a hotly anticipated wedding video, filmed on the Harry Potter set in Worcester, to edit!"

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