Monthly Archives: April 2004

Another comedy eBay item

Ok… so I’m listening to Little Shop of Horrors again… the film soundtrack at the moment – Steve Martin is making me grin inanely at the moment. I really need to take a break.

Ticket sales for The Musical! are looking very encouraging. If we don’t sell out, then it’s going to be close… In fact, if the Arts Centre have sold all of their tickets (which they can’t have… surely?) then we’re already … Continue reading →

Much fun and frolics had last night in Glasgow. I even managed to get back to my house at the perfectly respectable time of 12:30. Okay, so that’s a late night in some people’s books, but on a gig night, … Continue reading →

Today’s Musical Of The Day Little Shop of Horrors – and why not!? Written by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, this musical is based on the original movie with Jack Nicholson. They were part way through the writing process when … Continue reading →

When you’re a writer… I remember giggling with glee at a particular gag, which makes one of my characters look a bit of a monkey (well, a complete zoo’s worth). I remember the moment of laughing uncontrollably as I thought … Continue reading →

I’m frequently given to looking back. Two years seems to be a period long enough to find noticeable difference in my life, yet short enough to find the transformation to be disturbing. This is, I suppose, the frequently commented upon … Continue reading →

I believe that scientific papers used to be written exclusively in Latin – some sort of special way of keeping them out of the understanding of the lesser educated, perhaps. Having spent much of this week wading through badly written … Continue reading →

I feel like I have to post something now… I have readers. It’s official. Sometimes that scares me, sometimes I ignore it. Mainly the latter. What’s the use of wondrin’?… uh oh… I just quoted (quoth) Rodgers and Hammerstein – … Continue reading →

I think, all things considered, I’d like to have another go at today. I don’t want to go into Groundhog Day mode and relive today repetitively until I get it right, but it has been a disturbing combination of circumstances … Continue reading →