It's his voice that gets me. Whether Jon Ronson is talking about the Loch Ness Monster, as he did on his new weekly Radio 4 show on Tuesday, or describing the US military's penchant for staring at goats, I am transfixed.
So when I read the first two posts on Ronson's new blog, I imagined Jon reading them out loud in his dulcet, but ever so slightly creepy, tones. The only other blog that has a similar effect is Bill Bailey's, which sadly hasn't been updated since September.
As Ronson notes on his site's forum, he's "a bit horrifically ubiquitous at the moment", what with his TV series, weekly radio series , book and Guardian Weekend magazine column. His first post suggests that the blog may act as a source of inspiration for his next project:
... I am trying to think of a new book to write.
I thought that perhaps writing a blog, and not worrying about crafting the words into something that would be publishable in any other form, might free my mind up to write the new book.
So far it is not working, although I have only been at it about one minute.
He might be onto something there. Blogging certainly cleared comedian Richard Herring's writer's block.
