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Happy Mondays: Snow and sociability
Nov. 29th, 2010 07:44 pmHello!
( fun-and-frolics )
Enjoy the end of November as we slide on the ice through to the end of the year!
Lxxxx
( fun-and-frolics )
Enjoy the end of November as we slide on the ice through to the end of the year!
Lxxxx
Happy Mondays: Drinking and driving
Sep. 27th, 2010 04:11 pmHello!
( sickness-studying-boilers-money-vouchers-driving-emily-alcohol )
Love and joy to all around. October approaches.
Lizzie xxxx
( sickness-studying-boilers-money-vouchers-driving-emily-alcohol )
Love and joy to all around. October approaches.
Lizzie xxxx
The Dullest Day has arrived
Jan. 18th, 2010 09:01 amOk, so today is the day divined by 'guru' Cliff Arnall to be the most depressing day of the year, otherwise known as Blues Monday.
This has been largely acknowledged to be a self-fulfilling prophesy, and now even Arnall himself is calling on the whole nation to abandon the whole notion and 'just be happy'.
So just be happy - and pleeeease book now for The Dullest Show at the Stand this Wednesday. There's even got a free prize draw to win goodies from The Skinny and the Magners Glasgow International Comedy Festival.
Show starts at 8:30, doors open 7:30.
Thanks,
Lizzie x
This has been largely acknowledged to be a self-fulfilling prophesy, and now even Arnall himself is calling on the whole nation to abandon the whole notion and 'just be happy'.
So just be happy - and pleeeease book now for The Dullest Show at the Stand this Wednesday. There's even got a free prize draw to win goodies from The Skinny and the Magners Glasgow International Comedy Festival.
Show starts at 8:30, doors open 7:30.
Thanks,
Lizzie x
Dear Facebook
Jan. 14th, 2010 07:20 pmStop having groups called things such as 'I bet I can find a million people who DON'T want David Cameron as our PM.'
If you don't want David Cameron as your PM, in a few months you'll get a piece of paper through the post. You go down to a nominated building likely to be within a few minutes walk of your house, you take an old fashioned pencil and put a cross in a box next to, say, the Liberal Democrats, or the Green Party. Even the BNP, whatever your personal conscience tells you. Just not David Cameron, if you are one of the 'million' people who don't want him as PM
Now, this process is slightly more complicated than clicking on a FB button. And there will even need to be more than a million people who don't vote for him. The inspired and key difference here, however, is that is makes a difference. If, say, as many as 15 million people wanted David Cameron to be PM, but everyone else who was sent one of those magic wee bit of paper didn't* then he wouldn't be!
Unfortunately, if one million people with the Magic Paper say they want David Cameron, and the remaining 44 million make their righteous anger known through Facebook, David Cameron will still be Prime Minister.
The Magic Paper system really is quite wonderful. Try it sometime!
Lxxx
*Based on an electoral roll number of 45 million and an average need for 35% of the vote to get in
If you don't want David Cameron as your PM, in a few months you'll get a piece of paper through the post. You go down to a nominated building likely to be within a few minutes walk of your house, you take an old fashioned pencil and put a cross in a box next to, say, the Liberal Democrats, or the Green Party. Even the BNP, whatever your personal conscience tells you. Just not David Cameron, if you are one of the 'million' people who don't want him as PM
Now, this process is slightly more complicated than clicking on a FB button. And there will even need to be more than a million people who don't vote for him. The inspired and key difference here, however, is that is makes a difference. If, say, as many as 15 million people wanted David Cameron to be PM, but everyone else who was sent one of those magic wee bit of paper didn't* then he wouldn't be!
Unfortunately, if one million people with the Magic Paper say they want David Cameron, and the remaining 44 million make their righteous anger known through Facebook, David Cameron will still be Prime Minister.
The Magic Paper system really is quite wonderful. Try it sometime!
Lxxx
*Based on an electoral roll number of 45 million and an average need for 35% of the vote to get in
Don't worry, I won't wear them together.
Also a goldish silk scarf thing they don't have a pic of on the website.
Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you !!!!!!!!!
Lxxx
Scottish Comedian of The Year
Sep. 1st, 2007 10:31 amDied. On. My. Hole.
Or, to put it another way:
My first review
Completely fair.
Edit: in case you are tempted, please do not quote this back to me. The review is fair but I have read it, once, and do not intend to do so again in case bits get stuck in my head and haunt me.
(you may however say nice things and give me cake)
Or, to put it another way:
My first review
Completely fair.
Edit: in case you are tempted, please do not quote this back to me. The review is fair but I have read it, once, and do not intend to do so again in case bits get stuck in my head and haunt me.
(you may however say nice things and give me cake)
The world of Lizzie
Apr. 28th, 2007 04:20 pmHello folks,
I don't post actual content very often (ie just calls to arms and memes). So for those who a) don't know and b) care, here's whats goign on eith me
Exciting new job
Firstly very exciting news! I have got a job running Amnesty International's Fringe shows, Stand up for Freedom, this year. It's very excting and I'll get to meet lots of famous comedians but more importantly be doing Stuff again. I miss being in that kind of role so much, so it'll be dead fun and hopefully lead to nmore stuff by impressing up my CV.
Plus, helping save the world, which I feel bad about not really doing. I actually used the phrase 'I want to change the world...god that sounds really stupid' in the interview and still got the job! (He reminded that this was Amnesty International and wanting to change the world is pretty much their thing.)
End of crappy old job
Of course, the Amnesty thing is just voluntary - a few hours a week and then more during the Fringe itself. It coincides, though, with my having quit my job at Leith Social Work cos of a)having no money and b)having no job satisfaction. I have registered with a shiny new agency who say they should be able to get me at least an extra pound an hour and are fine with the time off for Amnesty.
I think that since I made the decision to quit and look for something more fulfilling the universe moved and gave me the Amnesty thing as a sign I made the right decision. Which is wanky, but true - kind of like the changing the world comment!
Selling up
We're putting the house on the market at the end of the month - just waiting on getting the double glazing put in (next couple of weeks) and the kitchen retiled, the rooms repainted and the doors put back on in the bedroom. If anyone has any special skills in any of these areas, let us know and we will give you money in return.
We're probably looking to buy fairly centrally, or maybe round Leith Links. With any luck we'll be moved by Ari's birthday.
It 's nice to write all these thing down sometimes.
Byee!!
Lxxx
I don't post actual content very often (ie just calls to arms and memes). So for those who a) don't know and b) care, here's whats goign on eith me
Exciting new job
Firstly very exciting news! I have got a job running Amnesty International's Fringe shows, Stand up for Freedom, this year. It's very excting and I'll get to meet lots of famous comedians but more importantly be doing Stuff again. I miss being in that kind of role so much, so it'll be dead fun and hopefully lead to nmore stuff by impressing up my CV.
Plus, helping save the world, which I feel bad about not really doing. I actually used the phrase 'I want to change the world...god that sounds really stupid' in the interview and still got the job! (He reminded that this was Amnesty International and wanting to change the world is pretty much their thing.)
End of crappy old job
Of course, the Amnesty thing is just voluntary - a few hours a week and then more during the Fringe itself. It coincides, though, with my having quit my job at Leith Social Work cos of a)having no money and b)having no job satisfaction. I have registered with a shiny new agency who say they should be able to get me at least an extra pound an hour and are fine with the time off for Amnesty.
I think that since I made the decision to quit and look for something more fulfilling the universe moved and gave me the Amnesty thing as a sign I made the right decision. Which is wanky, but true - kind of like the changing the world comment!
Selling up
We're putting the house on the market at the end of the month - just waiting on getting the double glazing put in (next couple of weeks) and the kitchen retiled, the rooms repainted and the doors put back on in the bedroom. If anyone has any special skills in any of these areas, let us know and we will give you money in return.
We're probably looking to buy fairly centrally, or maybe round Leith Links. With any luck we'll be moved by Ari's birthday.
It 's nice to write all these thing down sometimes.
Byee!!
Lxxx
Career stuff!
Oct. 28th, 2006 11:27 amHello!
For those who don't know - yesterday was my last day in my shitty-boring-stupid-sit-about-not-doing-anything-and-no-one-talks-to-me-job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yey!
For today, at 3 of the clock, I start a new and shiny job at J*ng1eurs Comedy Club, ten minutes from my house.
'But is that not the root of all evil? I hear you cry?' and 'But I see you have not properly written the name of the company in a paranoid attack of what-if-they-find-out-you-said-that!'
Well, I don't want to lose my job, like that Waterstones bloke, before I even start.
I have painted myself into a vey niche market, career wise, comedy admin. Which makes it hard to find work. But it also means that when I drop my CV into a comedy club, due to extreme desperation and hatred of my current job, they call me up for a chat,a chat which subsequently consists of 'when can you start' The answer being today at 3.
What's that - 'How much are you getting pai?' 'What is your job title' 'What hours are you working?'
Details, details.
Well, I'll be working 3-11 every Friday and Saturday, and 9-5 2 or 3 days during the week. These hours will explode over Christmas, menaing that even if it is less money than what I was on (and it can't be much less) I'll earn more over time. And if I'm goign to work a slightly crappy job, it might as well be in the area I want to be in and I can learn loads of new stuff, making me perfectly qualified for when the Stand are advertising, or I go into business by myself (or with others, but you know, not working for someone else)
And there's a career ladder and stuff and so if I need to stay in one place and do proper wolid work, I can.
Yey!!!!!!!!!!!
Lxxxxxxx
For those who don't know - yesterday was my last day in my shitty-boring-stupid-sit-about-not-doing-anything-and-no-one-talks-to-me-job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yey!
For today, at 3 of the clock, I start a new and shiny job at J*ng1eurs Comedy Club, ten minutes from my house.
'But is that not the root of all evil? I hear you cry?' and 'But I see you have not properly written the name of the company in a paranoid attack of what-if-they-find-out-you-said-that!'
Well, I don't want to lose my job, like that Waterstones bloke, before I even start.
I have painted myself into a vey niche market, career wise, comedy admin. Which makes it hard to find work. But it also means that when I drop my CV into a comedy club, due to extreme desperation and hatred of my current job, they call me up for a chat,a chat which subsequently consists of 'when can you start' The answer being today at 3.
What's that - 'How much are you getting pai?' 'What is your job title' 'What hours are you working?'
Details, details.
Well, I'll be working 3-11 every Friday and Saturday, and 9-5 2 or 3 days during the week. These hours will explode over Christmas, menaing that even if it is less money than what I was on (and it can't be much less) I'll earn more over time. And if I'm goign to work a slightly crappy job, it might as well be in the area I want to be in and I can learn loads of new stuff, making me perfectly qualified for when the Stand are advertising, or I go into business by myself (or with others, but you know, not working for someone else)
And there's a career ladder and stuff and so if I need to stay in one place and do proper wolid work, I can.
Yey!!!!!!!!!!!
Lxxxxxxx
Well, I facking did it.
Jun. 20th, 2006 10:30 pmHey guys.
I did it. I was going to not do it because Ari was at the dentist and didn't come back til late and I had work responsibilities and felt like crap, because Ari had been at work al day, hence I;d been stressed about working and hence hadn't eaten.
So I couldn't get in touch to cancel. So I just wasn't gonna go, then I gt everything sorted, and then I went. I lost my comedy virginity. No-one can ever again say:
'Ah, well, I've never actually seen this first chick myself, but she's great. She's toured the world and...ah, fuck, this is her first gig. This is her first gig so youse had better be nice.'
I didn't suck. I didn't kick donkey booty, but I didn't suck. I missed out half y set, talked at approx. 1000000 wpm, but I did it. There were nine people TOTAL in the audience and there were 2 laughs during my set. But that's 2 more than the MC got, so... I could see only one woman and she at least was smiling. One of the promoter guys came up after and said cool, was that really your first gig, you did well. Then a crazy old poofter came up to me at the bar and said 'hey, I've got a funny story for you' and I felt like a real comedian.
Now I might be ready to book myself in for some gigs at Dockside. God, don't you just love being the act booker at a major comedy venue!
Love yous all immensely (oh, I may have got a little drunk for the gig.
Hic.
Lizziexxxxxxxx
I did it. I was going to not do it because Ari was at the dentist and didn't come back til late and I had work responsibilities and felt like crap, because Ari had been at work al day, hence I;d been stressed about working and hence hadn't eaten.
So I couldn't get in touch to cancel. So I just wasn't gonna go, then I gt everything sorted, and then I went. I lost my comedy virginity. No-one can ever again say:
'Ah, well, I've never actually seen this first chick myself, but she's great. She's toured the world and...ah, fuck, this is her first gig. This is her first gig so youse had better be nice.'
I didn't suck. I didn't kick donkey booty, but I didn't suck. I missed out half y set, talked at approx. 1000000 wpm, but I did it. There were nine people TOTAL in the audience and there were 2 laughs during my set. But that's 2 more than the MC got, so... I could see only one woman and she at least was smiling. One of the promoter guys came up after and said cool, was that really your first gig, you did well. Then a crazy old poofter came up to me at the bar and said 'hey, I've got a funny story for you' and I felt like a real comedian.
Now I might be ready to book myself in for some gigs at Dockside. God, don't you just love being the act booker at a major comedy venue!
Love yous all immensely (oh, I may have got a little drunk for the gig.
Hic.
Lizziexxxxxxxx
Baby Koalas!
May. 24th, 2006 08:48 pmLast winter, it was cold and wet and snowing and I trudged up Niddry Street again and again to greet yet another ungrateful tour group who did not understand that by 'I'm cold and hungry and would like to go to the pub' I did not mean 'I'm full of beans and incredibly funny'. But I had to buy a ticket to the other side of the world and so I had to focus on the money. So, on the back of my Auld Reekie name badge (which said 'Amanda') I wrote: Baby Koalas.
I love koalas. I have a stuffed toy named Koaly, which I have had since I was 3. Yet had never seen one in the flesh. When in Rockhampton, we visited the botanics and I saw three, and was content. However, the aim, the Mecca, the Reason I Hat Baby Koalas Written On My Name Badge, was the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, just outside Brisbane. Over 130 koalas of all types and sizes, and the only place in the world where it is legal to hold one (due to their stringent policies and number of koalas - each one gets held for about half an hour every 2 weeks) and be photographed.
Week after week we've planned to go. There's a boat which cruises you down the river to the sanctuary. Week after week we have been unable. Working. Busy. Skint. Family. Etc. BUt this week was the week. We went. And it was good.
It was amazing! There were joey koalas so small that they were in their own special bit with just theit mum and if you looked really really hard you could see this one joey climbing out of his mother's pouch and onto her back before deciding the world was a bit too scary just yet. Anf of course, I had my photo taken with a lovely young girl koala called Sprite:
( me and Sprite )
(incidentally that top is green yet looks blue on that photo - or does on this PC)
There was also a bird who said hello to us as we approached and goodbye as we left again. That was cool and very, very, surreal.
Hmmm. I will die happy.
Lizziex
I love koalas. I have a stuffed toy named Koaly, which I have had since I was 3. Yet had never seen one in the flesh. When in Rockhampton, we visited the botanics and I saw three, and was content. However, the aim, the Mecca, the Reason I Hat Baby Koalas Written On My Name Badge, was the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, just outside Brisbane. Over 130 koalas of all types and sizes, and the only place in the world where it is legal to hold one (due to their stringent policies and number of koalas - each one gets held for about half an hour every 2 weeks) and be photographed.
Week after week we've planned to go. There's a boat which cruises you down the river to the sanctuary. Week after week we have been unable. Working. Busy. Skint. Family. Etc. BUt this week was the week. We went. And it was good.
It was amazing! There were joey koalas so small that they were in their own special bit with just theit mum and if you looked really really hard you could see this one joey climbing out of his mother's pouch and onto her back before deciding the world was a bit too scary just yet. Anf of course, I had my photo taken with a lovely young girl koala called Sprite:
( me and Sprite )
(incidentally that top is green yet looks blue on that photo - or does on this PC)
There was also a bird who said hello to us as we approached and goodbye as we left again. That was cool and very, very, surreal.
Hmmm. I will die happy.
Lizziex
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May. 20th, 2006 09:42 pmMy Mum still has a very hard time dealing with me and Ari. It's a huge event for me in the past year when she tells me she loves me. She used to tell me all the time. It's not that she doesn't. I suppose she's just more detached or something.
Anyway, i browse in bookshops and on the internet sometimes in the hope of a magic solution.
I just came across this, which just made my blood boil. Thought I'd share the anger.
http://www.totalcatholic.com/discuss/viewtopic.php?t=1610&highlight=gay
Oh the rage.
If anyone is sitting out there with magic solutions please let me know...
Lizziexxx
Anyway, i browse in bookshops and on the internet sometimes in the hope of a magic solution.
I just came across this, which just made my blood boil. Thought I'd share the anger.
http://www.totalcatholic.com/discuss/viewtopic.php?t=1610&highlight=gay
Oh the rage.
If anyone is sitting out there with magic solutions please let me know...
Lizziexxx
(no subject)
May. 16th, 2006 08:43 pmLast night Lizzie said that she loved me in many different ways. She said that there are lots of sides of her that she doesn't show anyone else. There are lots and lots of different Lizzies, but I love them all. And she said that there are many different types of Aris, but that each different one loved each of the different Lizzies. Imagine all those Lizzies and Aris in love at the same time! What a statistical improbibility.
That's basically what she said. (Not the last bit about statistics. That was me.) We were playing cards and smoking, so it was punctuated by the occasional wheeze of 'Mr. Fuzz, man...' but there it is. My girl is a poet. And has possible multiple personality disorder...
Ari.xxx
That's basically what she said. (Not the last bit about statistics. That was me.) We were playing cards and smoking, so it was punctuated by the occasional wheeze of 'Mr. Fuzz, man...' but there it is. My girl is a poet. And has possible multiple personality disorder...
Ari.xxx
Hi,
Before we leave Australia, I would like to try my hand at stand up, before we get back to Edinburgh and I can't walk into a room without knowing everyone.
Any advice on how to get started on writing a set? Have a few ideas but only small or irrelevant.
I guess I'm thinking manily of Sian here, but anyone else too.
Lizziexxxxxx
Before we leave Australia, I would like to try my hand at stand up, before we get back to Edinburgh and I can't walk into a room without knowing everyone.
Any advice on how to get started on writing a set? Have a few ideas but only small or irrelevant.
I guess I'm thinking manily of Sian here, but anyone else too.
Lizziexxxxxx
