HeadSpill

Utter Joy. If you were to list my favourite things in order they would pretty much be comedy, Doctor Who, cider,  comics and animation. So when I’m asked if I’d like to mc a Doctor Who Convention all about comics in a pub, I had to check I hadn’t fallen through a whole in my own mind and mistaken reality for a wish list.

Meeting the organiser Gareth I hoped I did’nt come over as a gob*****, as everything he spoke of I knew something about,  but it’s just true.  Doing my small press comic back in the 90’s I’d been to comic conventions and met some of the artists who are coming. Doing flash animation for the ‘Get Happy’ show a year back, I’d bumped into Firestep, the guys who did the WHO infinite quest animation, and been to their studio. And of course Doctor Who itself, I’d only just rewatched some vintage McCoy the previous night. It’s like it was meant to be, weird.

It’s great news too as ‘forgot’ to put my show in for the Manchester comedy festival, but I am in the Literature Fest Brochure twice, so I can’t complain.

With Edinburgh well and truly over, there a lull in the air. Only now getting on top of the utterly boring things that waited my return such as bills and washing. Also there’s a lull in gigs. It’s friday night and I feel I should be working so I dont quite know where to put myself, but Danny Pensive’s been busy and earning so I’ve taken my agents fee.

The Eczema Charity Ball has been postponed too unfortunately which is a bummer as I was looking forward to that, but out of the blue today I got a phone call asking me to compere a ‘pubcon’ next month, and suddenly I’m very excited again.

In light of no working weekend I took my lass to the pictures today to see ‘Tropic Thunder’. I must have looked at the cinema showtimes several times, but still managed to get all the way into the cinema in town and up to the desk before being told it doesn’t start until next week. Idiot.