‘I Don’t Like Mondays’ by the Boomtown Rats is one of all my all-time favourite songs. That swirling piano intro, the yell-along chorus and the brilliant lyrics that I memorised back in 1979 thanks to Smash Hits magazine. Of course this was back in the day when gun wielding students had the decency not to shoot themselves after going on a killing spree and at least Brenda Ann Spencer had some excuse for it. I accept that not liking Mondays isn’t really the best defence, but who hasn’t occasionally harboured a few murderous thoughts on a Monday morning? (more…)

It’s my birthday. I celebrated first thing by calling my mother and wishing myself a happy birthday from her. Since early November she’s been regularly apologising for forgetting my birthday but the irony is of course that there was no mention of it from her today. Who says Alzheimer’s isn’t funny. (more…)

I’m a hypocrite. The things I mock and show the greatest disdain for, are usually the things I most want to do myself. This was true 8 years when I finished a marathon, a goal I had previously described as pointless and idiotic. There’s also falling in love at first sight (naive and irresponsible), writing a solo show (self-indulgent) and clipping out coupons (might as well be on food stamps). Given that I have now succumbed to all of the above, I fear it’s only a matter of time before I start playing golf, download a Willie Nelson song and buy an appliqued holiday cardigan. (more…)

The latest reality show. From this week’s Entertainment Weekly:

The show, ‘Live Like You’re Dying will feature a person who has been given a terminal diagnosis with a finite amount of time to live and take them on the last adventure of their life. (more…)

For the past few months I’ve been doing a daily writing assignment through Austin Script Works. They email a prompt each day and you use that to write whatever comes into your head – a play, a monologue, poem, etc. Today’s prompt is:

The Single Thing That Scares Me The Most (more…)

I blame Batman. If you haven’t seen The Dark Knight yet, it’s definitely worth it, but it is very dark and could well lead you to vengeful outbursts and a general sense of hatred towards the rest of the world. Or maybe it’s just me in another grumpy mood. (more…)

I think Sharon Stone may have been treated a little unfairly over the whole chinese earthquake ‘bad karma’ story. If you missed it, this was her quote:

“I’m not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans because I don’t think anyone should be unkind to anyone else,” she said. “… and then this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and then I thought, is that karma? When you’re not nice that the bad things happen to you?”

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We just got our Wii Fit. My Wii Fit age is 48. This is calculated on the basis of my height, weight, proper age and ability to stay centered on the Wii balance board. As much as I’d like to grumble about this assessment I really can’t because I’m currently playing Mr Blue Sky by ELO on my iPod. (more…)

Still reliving the only thing of any merit that I’ve done recently. It was these or a shot of the fish stew I made yesterday and who isn’t sick of seeing photos of scallops in a tomato broth.

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Every few months I have to have a bit of a gripe about being a woman, or more specifically, what we do to make things worse for ourselves. Women’s only races, comedy events like the Ladies Are Funny Festival or Vagina-ha-ha’s, (which I own the copyright to) and the general overuse of the colour pink to promote sistahood.

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