This week’s Austin Chronicle has the FronteraFest Long Fringe previews. This is mine, based off the rambly phone interview I gave a few weeks back. I can’t really complain. I don’t sound like a complete loony. And I got to sign off on the quotes.

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It’s the perfect omen for my show. I went to the FronteraFest website this morning discovered that the title for my show is wrong. Instead of ‘Our Angle in Heaven’ it’s ‘Our Angel…’ All the press material the FronteraFest people have been sending out has the same mistake. I’m now waiting to hear back from someone and to get an explanation, although I suspect it’ll be of the ‘oops, well it looked like it was a typo so we corrected it’ variety. And yes, it does look like a typo, but it’s supposed to. (more…)

 Here’s the publicity photo for my show, minus all the poster blurb about dates and venues. I’m quite proud of it. Actually I’m proud of my husband who took the photo and did all the graphics and cleaning up work. (more…)

‘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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