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Pooman continues to be a hit. This evening my son started playing on his own. Turning over cards and then running away from no one, screaming with giddy fear every time a Pooman card was revealed. Imagine trying to play a game for more than one person on your own. What an idiot.
I think Marek might be able to sell it as an exercise game for adults. The short bursts of chasing kids for 10 seconds, or running away, are the best work out that I've had for a fortnight.
I prepared for tonight's RHLSTP with Alexei Sayle in the time I had between childcare (and, when the kids were on iPads, during childcare) and found out some stuff I didn't know about him. It's nearly seven years since I last interviewed him and since then he's taken up martial arts and recently started a podcast and a youtube channel where he rides round London on a bike. They're all good stuff, though his podcast makes me despair a bit for the left because, whilst he makes lots of interesting points, it just demonstrates that the various factions save up most hatred for each other, whilst the right can just get on with being in charge. Is a lifetime of being correct worth it if you can't change anything?
In the end I think the environmental crisis that we're all ignoring will get bad enough that capitalism will fall apart (but too late to save us). It's going to come with upheaval and violence because we're all too fucking stupid to do it peacefully and in good time. Happy Christmas.
The left is right, but the right trumped them (pun intended) by claiming the word first. Right is right, what’s left is left. I think word play appeals to people more than policy.
Alexei's a clever and lovely man and much more of a teddy bear than he appeared on stage and TV in the eighties. I don't always agree with him, of course, but it's great to hear stuff discussed intelligently and passionately. And he's an incredible stand up still, as well as actor and writer and still delivering the goods and being inventive as he approaches seventy.
So a real, if slightly low key, Christmas delight to get to talk to him tonight. I'd love to get him in front of an audience again, but it was fun to see him more introspective and not playing things for laughs so much. Out in a couple of weeks.
Possibly the funniest RHLSTP of 2020 out today with Rhod Gilbert
