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This is all very well, but is nobody going to think of all the poor millionaires who’ve already spent their tax benefit and are now going to have to pay it? We should set up a justgiving page.
For the first time in ages Ernie didn’t come into our bed in the middle of the night and wake me up. Annoying I woke up at 4am anyway and couldn’t get back to sleep and so my day was a little tricky to navigate. It wouldn’t have been so bad if I didn’t have to drive to London and back and do two RHLSTPs, but somehow I was home just before midnight and still alive.
Aside from occasionally feeling like I was dying the podcast records were fun. Sara Pascoe is always thoughtful and funny and it was great to finally have Chris Maccausland on and try to convince him that having aphantasia (mind-blind) is akin to being eye blind. Chris has been a stand up for nearly twenty years but things have suddenly really hit for him in the last couple and it’s a reminder that experience is a valuable commodity. He also explained about how hard he works before a panel show appearance - he taught himself to play Countdown in his head (something that I couldn’t do, of course, though he reminded me that I could instead use my eyes) in order to thrash everyone on Cats Play Countdown and practised the game for weeks. He had some very funny stories about the royal variety performance and being on one of the buses at the Jubilee too, but although his stuff is about a lot more than his blindness, his act does make you think about how things are for the blind. It was a revelation to me that there is actually audio descriptions for porn on Pornhub, but it did mean I could go on the site and claim I was doing research. So Catie, that’s what you walked in on. I needed to check thoroughly whether the audio description worked. And be blind, so that explains the mask. And be unable to talk, which explains the ball gag. And have my scrotum nailed to some wood.. for a good reason.
The dressing room was rather dominated by a painting of Stewart Lee that has appeared above the mirror. Stewart is on in the theatre on the other days of the week. I am assuming that this is a piece of fan art, but it’s possible that he has brought it in from home. Or that he is instituting a policy that all dressing rooms (and then all rooms) must have an official portrait of him displayed like he’s Stalin or Hitler or Trump or more accurately an unHoly combination of all three. He could be just trying to put me off for my shows, in which case mission accomplished.
Big Brother is Watching You.
Very excited to find out that my new book is coming out in America and Canada early next year.
If you’re in one of those countries you can preorder it NOW
You can of course preorder it in the UK (and we're only two weeks from publishing). Wherever you order your books (and very soon on gofasterstripe.com too)
