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For a long time I have wanted to see a Jurassic Park film or a zombie movie where nothing goes wrong. Either someone opens a dinosaur park, having learned their lessons from previous disasters, and has a safe and fun tourist attraction, or the world is overcome by zombies, but they more or less die out and the surviving humans manage to rebuild a society without any conflict with flesh-eating monsters or other humans. I think it would be much more relaxing than the current trend for things going wrong and people being eaten. I watched the third episode of The Last of Us this evening and they’ve basically taken my idea, but made it a bit gayer (which I don’t mind at all - in fact I wish I’d thought of that). (Spoilers coming) Ron Swanson from Parks and Rec sets up a town where the zombies and bad people can’t get in and then traps a man in a pit and lets him suck him off. And they live til they’re old without too much trouble. Perfect.
Other zombie films take note. Maybe the next Jurassic Park can just be about people having fun and the finale is the manager revealing that the attraction has made record profits. Plus maybe a couple of the dinosaurs can bum each other. That should always have been part of it. Sorry that my previous idea was not so inclusive of different lifestyles.
I suddenly remembered that I hadn’t recorded a bonus podcast in January, so did that this afternoon. Given I was pretty knackered and there was a cement lorry outside, it went pretty well, with lots of funny stuff. Chris Evans (not that one) texted me later to say that none of the sound had recorded. So mine and Ally’s comedic genius has been lost to the ages. Though a lip reader may still enjoy the video. Though presumably only my bits as Ally might be a bit hard to interpret.
I also recorded some voice over for an Oxford Revue 70th anniversary show. It’s 35 years since I was in the Oxford Revue so this is equivalent to us having had one of the founder members of the institution in our 1988 show. So no, it didn’t make me feel ancient at all.
My “boycott” of the Fringe made
front page of the Scotsman today (even though I have never said I am boycotting it and am not going as much for my mental health as for my concerns about elitism), but it’s still good that the conversation is happening. I don’t think I ever got on the front page of the Scotsman in any of my many appearances at the Fringe, so maybe I should boycott the Fringe more often. It’s really excellent PR for my Fringe shows. But only if they aren’t happening.
