De-blog

Eddie running through Burscough for Comic Relief [View Photos] I had the privilege of shaking hands with the awesome Eddie Izzard today - a truly humbling experience, considering that not only is this one of the funniest comedians in the world, but also, more importantly, she was about 22 miles into her fifteenth marathon for Comic Relief / Sport Relief. Because it's important, the link for donating is here: Comic Relief You can also follow her amazing and crazy antics on Twitter . And so, on to the other reasons to love (and support) Eddie Izzard. It's fairly safe to assume everyone knows Eddie has always been 'gender non-conforming'. She wears fantastic make-up; some of her outfits are beyond stunning and one can only marvel at the fact that she doesn't fall over herself, charging about the stage in three-plus-inch high heels. She simultaneously manages to shove her gender queerness in your face and just 'be it'. Whilst others in the limelight wo...

Two weeks of summer holidays, many hours of website building, a few less planning for September and another day of too much caffeine. The urge to write swelled as a scream of frustration in my throat, causing me to quit all running applications and come here. These words are an author's asylum, at the break of the tide that refuses to turn and let me write, godamnit. It's this thing I have, somewhere between Obsessive Compulsive and Autistic Spectrum Disorder, that keeps me from leisure, ergo from writing, because that is what I perceive my engagement in writing to be, a belief essentially sustained by the responses of those around me. There is always so much more to be done that I can attain and to misappropriate tasks to others for the pursuance of artistic endeavour is just plain absurd. It is this thing that I have. Thus, in order to engage in recreation of any sort, it is first necessary to clear the decks of all clutter, however laborious or arduous that might be. I'...