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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At the Beginning of the Internet, people made personal homepages. But it was a lot of work, learning HTML to make the pages look good — so blogs were invented. Yet with blogs, people still had to write long articles, and it took time. So Facebook was invented. Alas, with…
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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…
Leave a CommentWrestle a 70kg coconut crab with bare hands, and eat it afterwards, cracking its shell between your teeth. Try fugu in Japan and fried tarentula in Cambodia. Learn martial arts in a forbidden monastery up the Himalaya with Liam Neeson. Hook up, dead drunk, with a sailor on HK’s Lockhart Road,…
Leave a CommentSaw Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris (2011) last week. Nice, funny movie, although possibly a tad too long toward the end. One scene that struck me during the movie: Gil: I would like you to read my novel and get your opinion. Ernest Hemingway: I hate it. Gil: You haven’t…
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