It was a low key start for the first Charlie Chaplin Day for Democracy, but got a few fun images through nonetheless. My favourite shows Pope Benedict joining in on the fun. Though whether he is wearing the moustache for Chaplin or Hitler is open to debate.
My toothbrush was a bit shabby as I haven't shaved for nearly a week and from a distance you might assume I just had a beard and normal moustache. But up close I was still wearing a toothbrushin order to remind an uninterested public that they should use their right to vote. Let's do it again next year and let's make it bigger (the day, not the moustache- that would be counter-productive). Remember to keep your tache photos coming in if you want to feature on the DVD. do email them. It's nice to see them on facebook and twitter but I don't have time to download them all from there.
Otherwise had a nice relaxing day, going out with my goddaughter and her mum for lunch (another example of a baby girl crying at my arrival but warming to me as the afternoon progressed) and then going home to watch "The Poseidon Adventure" and most of "The Shining", two films I haven't seen for a while and have forgotten a lot about.
After discussing the ranking of my book on Amazon on the podcast and giving a couple of prompts on Twitter I was delighted to see HNTGU, as all the cool kids are calling it, jump to a high of 129 in books and 2 in comedy books. It doesn't mean too much in the long run, but it was fun to observe over the course of the evening.
I also spent some time trying to get my house into some kind of order, emptying things out of cupboards and drawers and making more of a mess than had been there before. But chucking some stuff out in the process.
I am astonished and embarrassed by the number of leads and cables I have for various electrical products that I do not use and have no idea which (probably long dead) phone or computer or console or gadget they belong to. It seems wasteful and indeed dangerous to throw them away - because the next day I would discover they are some vital component for my camera or TV- but then it is ridiculous to keep a box of cables that you have no clue to the function they might have, plus a lot of computer equipment seems to provide you with a plug or cable that you would only need if you were using the computer in Botswana or Wales and is it worth hanging on to those?
Yet to throw them away seems too awful.
Is there a place where one can send all these things so they can get used by someone who needs them? Someone would probably love a charger for that unbelievably shit looking Nokia N95 ( is that its name) that I also found in a cupboard. Or would know what the computer cable that has connectors at both ends that completely baffle me are for. And doubtless someone could make some use of the elephants' graveyard of dead equipment I have in my attic.
I don't think anyone should be making any money from this, but shouldn't there be a place where you could take all this junk and where other people could come and take it away?
Maybe there is.
Let me know.
