Kittens in a Bag

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In order for you to understand the blog title reference you must go watch Boothby Graffoe.

Sad news if you are a kitten called Douglas. Tomorrow we are taking him in to have his you-know-whats snipped off and put into the waste disposal unit in the sky. This operation apparently makes male kitty’s more friendly and prone to put on weight (I think this might have more to do with mother issues brought on by sudden abandonment for five hours at the vets). Other positives include him being less likely to spray and to stray. More importantly it means he wont go out and have kittens of his own with a feral cat and get invited onto Jeremy Kyle.

I still feel guilty though… I don’t think he’s really ‘into’ other cats anyway. Much of his time in recent weeks has been spent loving various woollen garments. On one hand it seems unfair to stifle his natural, if not oddly specific, sexuality. On the other hand I need to wash that scarf… it also creeps me out that when he does what male kitties do best he insists on eye contact. Dude, get a room!

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Okay, so places I’ve been this week. Guildford, London, Exeter, Tunbridge Wells, Hereford and Chipping Camden. I’m glad I’ve got this week to have a cold in before heading up north to Lincoln and Sheffield. Hack hack, wheeze wheeze. I managed to sleep for 11.5 hours last night. I rock.

Now awake, I’m busy trying to get my show/publicity/venue together for the Edinburgh Fringe. That’s right – Wotnot is going to Edinburgh and I have to go too. I’m already bracing myself for it. I’ve been up many times before, the first time ten years ago when I really should have been doing school work.

It is a psychological tightrope for the jittering ego of your average comedian… and no one wants to be average. I’m still unsure of my strategy. Not for selling the show (although I’m lost as to how I’m doing that) but for mentally getting through a month of industry judgment, or worse, apathy. I certainly wont be reading any reviews til I get home… but I will go and see some more shows than I did in 2009. That year my show was free and I had large audiences. This year you’ll have to part with some cash to see me. This means my crowds will not be crowds so much as dinner parties. It will mean I have to work harder, for smaller laughs.

Like always though it is about getting better as a comedian. Blocking out the hype and noise and concentrating on what it is all really about. Me. It is all about me.

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