Liars’ League HK‘s latest evening, on September 24, featured another of my stories, “Tricks of the Trade.” The great Angus Gallagher officiated once again, as he had on my first comedy piece with them, “Speed Dating,” two years ago. The recording is below, but as the first few words have…
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The December edition of Liars’ League HK had not 2, but 3 concepts for its theme: Sex & Drugs & Rock ‘n’ Roll. I came up with the dark story of a boy, ready to sell his soul to become Hong Kong’s next music idol. Watch Daniel Levia give him life: …
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[This is a story I had written for Liars’ League HK’s “Inner Space & Outer Space” evening, back in December 2016. It wasn’t selected, but it still makes me smile when I read it. And feel ashamed, too. I thought I’d share, so you can tell me what you think.]…
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Liars’ League HK posted another video of a piece I wrote for them. The theme this time was “Presence & Absence” (or “Presents & Absence,” in an early post), which I found rather difficult. In the end, I used some of my memories to tell something about loss and longing —…
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It was during our last dive in Coron, in the Philippines. For three days, we had been descending on Japanese shipwrecks from WW2 — the Sangat gunboat, the Morazan Maru, the Akitsushima and its crane for lifting seaplanes out of the water, the 170m-long Okikawa Maru oil tanker — all sunk on the…
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Liars’ League HK just posted the recording of a short comedy sketch I wrote this summer. The theme was “Hello & Goodbye,” which inspired me to look for a situation where characters say these words repeatedly. Speed dating events imposed themselves – -and their intrinsic absurdity dictated the genre. The piece…
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