From Ed Byrne's wikipedia page:

He is currently writing a sitcom with Irish comic Andrew Maxwell about two gay men who begin living together after meeting on a comedy panel show about owls.

Is this a) true, b) total crap, c) a joke erroneously reported as true, d) a potential candidate for best ever wikivandalism, e) autobiographical, or f) a surreal moment in comedy fandom when the subjects of RPS write comedy fandom RPS about their colleagues? And if f) is correct, who do Ed and Andrew ship?

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I would attempt to fail at something. If I wouldn't fail to fail then I would fail and thus wouldn't fail in my attempt to fail. Except that I would. Yes. Exactly.

Or maybe I'd just try to pick the winning lottery numbers. Which makes me sound rather shallow, but I'd prefer to use my non-fail powers for financial security than for something I could achieve through perseverance, practise or study.

OH FOR THE LOVE OF FUCK.

THERE. THEIR. THEY'RE.

THESE THREE WORDS SOUND THE SAME BUT DO NOT MEAN THE SAME THING. THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE. USE THEM CORRECTLY. NOT FUCKING DIFFICULT TO LEARN. ALSO: LOOK INTO APOSTROPHES. FUCKERS.

It's a good thing I'm not a teacher. Or in advertising (BUY IT OR SUFFER, CUNTY McBUMJIZZ).

LJ posting to-do list.

• Edinburgh
  
• Comedy masterlist
  
• July books
  
• August books
  
• Icons

I rather like the symbol for the astrological sign leo because it resembles Ebola.

So it's nearly time for MeCon 11. It's odd, but this year I find myself missing the completely insane mad hectic rush of trying to bring 72,134,987,983,745 different things together into one cohesive (possibly even coherent) unit, which I got the past two years through being Con Chair. Oh well, means I can get to sleep tonight! :)

Doors open at 6pm tomorrow evening. Hope to see at least some of you there! :)

So! Not too long ago I went to Carradale for a weekend to stay with mumsy, who was house-and-dogsitting for a friend. There's not really much to say about this trip as we just lazed about, watching animal documentaries and Thunderbirds on TV and taking the doggies to various beaches for stick-chasing frolics.

I did take some photos, though. ( Doggies! )

A nice wee relaxing break before heading off to Edinburgh...

So, there was a meeting today in work, most of which can be summarised in two brief phrases.

1) It was true, it was all true!
2) We told them so.

I may post more details later, if I can stop laughing/gibbering (delete as applicable),

First: I've finally caught up with BPAL testing and my sales page is up-to-date. BUY SOME PERFUME FROM ME! Lots of LE bottles and LE/unimpable/GC imps, plus stuff from Nocturne Alchemy and Heaven & Earth Essentials. Addicts get your fix and n00bs come discover the best perfume ever.

Second: OVERWHELMED BY CRAVING FOR MALTESERS.

Third: Are there any Celtic punk/rock bands that are actually from Ireland or Scotland or are they all American and Canadian?

Four: Fanmix time, wooooo! A soundtrack for Maxwell's Fullmooners.



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It's a bit odd, really. With the incredible power and versatility Photoshop CS3 offers in terms of creating digital art, why is one of my favourite 'shoppy activities making things that look like they were made with paper, scissors, glue and felt-tipped pens? Crumpled paper rescued from the bin, inaccurate cutting out, coffee rings, thumbprint-shaped ink smears, foxing, fading, folds and creases. Love it.

...where no others have courageously and confidently progressed hitherto.

It would appear that Silent Bob has a thing or two to say about a certain movie that will be coming out next year. Among which was: "...Anybody who was worried doesn’t need to be worried–about this film I cannot talk about..."

Score. :D

So, has everyone else's Scrabulous disappeared from Facebook?

Also, I hope to the gods of Smeg that this isn't a hoax! :D

Surely two of the saddest words in the English Language: Leftover Cake.

A question for you all.

Poll #1247672
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

Was that you?

Okay, so we've had Rocky Horror for the last 35 years. We have "Once More, With Feeling". We have Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. And shortly, we'll have Repo! The Genetic Opera (which looks absolutely kick-ass, btw).

How the hell long before someone out there gives the full movie treatment to Operation Mindcrime?

Baddiel, Skinner and the Lightning Seeds must now re-record "Three Lions" for 2012, albeit with the lyrics slightly changed:
"It's coming home, it's coming,
Ping-Pong's coming home"
:D

OK, so there's a bus, and a mad scramble for the door when it opens ... all accurate so far ... a 10 year old girl walking over people ... again, accurate (Out of my way, pleb, I'm a youth!). And now the bus roof is folding down ... and inside it ...

a privet hedge.

A Privet Hedge.

Is that really an appropriate stage setting for Jimmy Page? And isn't it in danger of outwitting Beckham?

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EDIT: Aah, now I get it, it's meant to be a visual representation of what the Mayor's hair will look like in 4 years time. Suddenly, it all makes sense...

Graffito spotted in women's toilet in Borders today: Anne Rice > Stephenie Meyer. Bwahahah! I'd say it might be true in Rice's pre-batshit days, back when she allowed her turgid outpourings to be made readable by the forthright sculpting of an editor. Now, they're equally drivellous.

Which reminds me, I still haven't finished Twilight. I found it difficult to concentrate on reading over the distracting sounds of my groaning with pain and snorting with laughter (at times unintended by the author). I'll soldier on. For the LOLs, the sparklysparkly LOLs.

Curse you, slovobooks!!! :D

Just... wow. 3 for 3. :)