Monday 17 November 2008

Beat the credit crunch - sack a servant

I'm sorry, but I can remain silent no longer as middle class journalists scamper to get on the credit crunch bandwagon by coming up with ever more far-fetched angles on the current economic downturn.

Some weeks ago there was an article in The Guardian's Saturday 'travel section' about how to have a skiing holiday on a budget.

And now today there is an article in Wales' national (ha ha!) newspaper the Western Mail about poor tax-dodgers, I mean students, who are unable to take gap years due to the recession.

I hate to burst people's bubbles, but mummy and daddy not being able to afford to pay for you to bum your way though Thailand smoking joints and getting laid, or having to cut back your annual skiing holiday to Austria from three weeks to just two is hardly living on the bread line.

C'mon people. Being made redundant from your minimum wage shop job because things are slow on the high street and having to decide if you spend your dole money on the heating bill or presents for your kids this year - that's toughing out this whole godamn mess the fat cat bankers have dropped us in.

Gap years? Skiing holidays? Next you'll be telling me Mr and Mrs Snob have had to sack one of their servants to keep up with the payments on their second home in France.

Can we have a reality check please?

Friday 14 November 2008

Religion and riots

My comedy gig last night went well. I was on the same billing as poet and playwright Patrick Jones (see link below) who has been in the media limelight recently in Wales because Christians don't like his work.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7725790.stm


Honestly, freedom of speech and all that. And I thought religion preached tolerance and respect and love of your fellow man!


I was also approached by a 'fan' after the show - which was great and very exciting.
My festive Christmas poem based on Twas the Night Before Christmas' raised the most laughs of the evening. I'll try and get it published here in the next few days.


I'm still keeping up with Annie's Antics in America:


http://annierhiannon.blogspot.com/

Friday 7 November 2008

Annie in America

Ha ha, and so I'm back.

Well I've never really been away, it's just that I've been reading Annie Rhiannon's blog about her trip to America to meet Barack Obama.

Sounds like she's having an amazing time, I don't know how to do links on this blog thingy, so I'll just paste her website:

http://annierhiannon.blogspot.com/

I've also been busy preparing for some more gigs I've got coming up, one of which is at a literary festival. (Comedy as literature? Surely not? It's just, well, comedy. It's silly, and unstructured and chaotic and simplistic - at least my comedy is anyway.)

They want me to talk about how I got into doing what I do (I didn't like to ask what it was the organisers think I 'do' exactly, although I'm curious to know myself) to encourage other people to pick up the quill, as it were, and try and be creative.

D'ya hear that? The organisers of a literary festival think I'M creative.

Well whaddya know. I just hope when I'm there this week they think it's comedy too.