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I am not a fan of Threads. It's a place for ninnies, which seems to be full of banality and clickbait and people asking ridiculous questions like "Would you agree to be locked in your house for a month for $750,000?" Is there anyone in the world who wouldn't take that offer?
I think they are designed for engagement farming, but it's hard not to engage and try and do glib jokes.
And as I have time on my hand and not much to do I have been engaging and doing glib jokes.
It's important to me that the jokes are as much a waste of time as the original post. If someone is farming my engagement, then I am chucking a couple of rocks into their combined harvester.
Here are some of the pointless things I have said recently.
Today though I saw a post saying "Funny how Colin Firth and Hugh Grant are both mentioned in the book of Bridget Jones's Diary and then both appear as the two male leads in the movie."
One of my greatest claims to fame is that my name also appears in Bridget Jones' Diary though sadly I didn't get free passage into the film. I did audition for a part in one of them though, in the olds days when you actually had to go somewhere to audition. I think it was for the part of an academic or an interviewer (or both) but I failed to fully learn the script and did a bad performance and heard nothing more of it. When I watched the film the character I'd tried out for wasn't even in it, but some of the lines were delivered by another character.
So it's quite weird that three people named in the book had some connection to the film. Though interestingly another of the leads in the films, Sally Phillips appeared in both my show and Arthur Smith's Hamlet in the year that Bridget Jones (apparently) came to the Fringe. She would have made a cracking Bridget Jones too and then the book would have seemed to have some kind of magic power to reward those who deserved success and punish the rubbish imposters.
I am still in the book though. You can't take that away from me. They never edit books.
Tim Worthington talks about Collings and Herrin
in his podcast.Nice to hear that it's still remembered fondly and with some acknowledgment of its importance in podcast history. What an incredibly fecund and free period it was in my creative life (not that I have exactly slowed down since). I think this, alongside As It Occurs To Me, might have been my purest work. Though replacing former double act partners with a puppet does seem to have captured some of the magic.
It's easy for me to forget quite how much stuff I have produced in my life. I always think it's quantity over quality, but maybe I am unfair on myself. Though it would be hard to argue that it was all quality. I am never, I feel, going to have broad appeal, but it is pleasing to be remembered and rated by the elite few. Or bunch of idiot nerds. Whichever one it is.
I'll keep shovelling my shit into the unfillable hole, to little or no effect. And be very glad of that privilege.
