Recently somebody asked me how I got into morris dancing. Well, I recognise a decent opportunity for a blog post when I see one…

(Obviously, altered to look more like an MP receipt to make it appear topical…)

I believe the vernacular phrase for this sort of thing is: WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

It just occurred to me that just over a week ago it was my 5 year anniversary of having moved over to London.
As I was packing my suitcase it never occurred to me that I’d be organising 170 men to Morris dance in central London.
Ain’t life grand.

Anyone looking at maximising their relaxation time and restorative sleep benefits would be well advised not to volunteer to arrange a day of morris dancing for 170 blokes from around the country for the centre of London.  It certainly cuts into one’s blogging time.
And that seems like a nice segue into mentioning that this Saturday brings the 2009 Westminster Morris Mens’ annual Day of Dance.

We’ll have teams from all around the place (Exeter, Chester, Monkseaton, Ripley, Huddersfield… to name but a few) scattered around Trafalgar Square & environs between 10:15 …

Woooo! Hello from Leicester Square for the charity screening of “Raiders of the Lost Ark:The Adaptation” – a fan made tribute to one of the best films ever, shot over 5 years and on a budget of about 5 grand. Co-pilots Neonwombat & HC join me at this exciting event.
The fun part is that even on the miniscule budget, it’ll be better than Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Here we go!

Silly fundraisers are yet another one of the things in my ever-growing list of things to be cynical about, however that’s not to say I don’t support my friends when they get involved in them.
Recently my learned colleague, expert photogtapher Matt Carty (disclaimer: I have seen photographs he’s taken of experts in the past) got involved in The World’s Greatest Shave for the Leukimia Foundation, and as he’d promised to not only shave his bonce back to bare skin but volunteered to tackle that mono-brow of his, I couldn’t help …

Whilst skimming over my site stats recently and seeing what the hottest keywords that mistakenly send people here at the moment are, I couldn’t help but notice that in the middle of the pack for this month have been a few visits for folks seeking out webpages featuring the phrase “gaping anus”.  Finding this hilarious, as one no doubt should, it found its way onto Twitter, and shortly thereafter one of my learned colleagues (a Mr Hector Cock-Bouffant) did some further keyword research and pointed out that in fact as …

And now, the reason the internet was invented: Piecost.Net
I feel like I get a bizarre amount of email, and this is a good thing.  Quite a lot of it is stuff that’s been forwarded around in the name of being amusing, and much of this I would duly forward on to the correct people.  The trouble is that in the heat of the moment to forward something on to the correct people I invariably forget to add a name to the distribution list, and once you’ve hit the send button …

As hinted previously in this blog, in February there are awards ceremonies to be found other than those centred around the US Film Industry.  In this particular case, I’m talking about the Chortle Awards – awarded by UK Comedy portal Chortle.co.uk & sponsored by Fremantle Media – and as hoped by the staff here at Humpy Towers, Australian piano-playing late-blooming-wunderkind (?) Tim Minchin scooped 2 awards; one for Best Sketch, Character or Variety Act, and another for Best Full Show.
Other awards dished out to People Wot I Reckon Are Cool …

The highly excellent UK comedy website Chortle are running their annual awards competition, and everyone’s favourite shock-haired piano playing genius Tim Minchin has made it to the shortlist in a couple of categories.  Now, I’m not typically one to try to influence democracy (although there was that incident where I won Beard Of The Month on www.travelbeard.com twice in succession, but I’m sure that was based on merit alone), it is important to make people aware of opportunities to support one’s comedy heroes…
The online poll is here, and voting closes …