Great post on Catholic Church hypocrisy at F-AF.

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Actually to all of you that read my daily whinge.

I’ve had a couple of comments and e-mails lately that are very nice indeed. I often wonder if it is worth while doing this little selfish project and you have given me a bit of a spark back.

Cheers!

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Stuart has given me the feedback that I have not been clear that I have returned to the Island of Shakespeare, The Beatles and inspiring Kate Moss fashions. (To be fair, it actually wasn’t clear, as Lille has pointed out.)

Stuart says hi, by the way. Yo to the Chief!

So yeah. I’m home.

In other news, we are having a little impromptu Eurovision song contest party tomorrow. (Anyone who reads this and knows me, you’re invited. Shoot me an e-mail or call me and I will give you directions.) We were going to go to Richard’s but he has flaked. *So much for German’s being prompt and dependable.

*Okay, that’s a joke. I’m sure that there are lots of Germans that sleep in and skive off from work and Eurovision song contest parties. I just feel the need to explain because, you know, German’s don’t have a sense of humour.**

(Richard, you know I love you.)

**Okay. True story and then I will stop. No! I haven’t been drinking. . .

I didn’t witness this, but I knew people that were in the class. . .So a film teacher at UNLV was showing the classic Billy Wilder Film Noir flick, Double Indemnity. It came out in the late 40’s I think. There is a scene where Fred MacMurry goes to a drive thru- the kind where there are waitresses on roller skates and they bring the food out to you. He orders a beer. Everyone laughed at the anachronism because now you can be arrested if you have an open container in your car. (That was fun trying to explain that to Stuart in the states. No honey. You can’t drink that beer. No honey, even if I am the one driving.)

Anyhoooo.

The class laughs.

The teacher (who to be fair, was Austrian, not German) said, “THAT VHAS NOT FUNNY! You can only laugh vhen it is FUNNY! I VHILL tell vhou vhen it is FUNNY!”

Which may be one of the funniest lines I have heard, in my life, ever. (Every woman adores a Fascist. . .)

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The collection of tales from UK bloggers that I mentioned a few days ago has been completed and you can buy it from lulu.com at www.shaggyblogstories.co.uk.
Some great news- Lulu has agreed to donate their share of the profits to Comic Relief also. Go get your copy today. It’s for a good cause and you will have something amusing to read!

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“The making of a great compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You gotta kick off with a killer, to grab attention. Then you got to take it up a notch, but you don’t wanna blow your wad, so then you got to cool it off a notch. There are a lot of rules.” -High Fidelity
Neil has a nifty idea.

He writes, “The first rule of mix club is don’t talk about mix club …

The second rule of mix club is let me know if you are interested in swapping mix cds with random people on an occasional basis.”

If you’re keen go to Dogwood Tales!

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A few years ago, back in Los Angeles, long before I had any idea that I would be living in London, I would bug my British Boss about UK culture because there were so many little things I didn’t get in the films and TV shows that I loved.

For example, I didn’t understand why there would be scenes that took place around Christmas where everyone wore paper crowns, so Ben explained crackers to me. I fell in love with the idea and that Christmas I bought crackers for everyone on my team for the last work day prior to the holiday. We walked around wearing paper crowns and acted very silly all day.
 
Before I came here he warned, “Don’t say, ‘Nice pants’ to anyone.” I can’t imagine that I would ever say nice pants, but it is sound advice since here pants means underwear.

When I saw the Red Nose Day episode of The Office (which is one of my favourites) I needed him to once again be a cultural anthropologist for me.

For the American’s out there. . . Red Nose Day is a way for Comedy Relief to raise money for Africa and disadvantaged people in the UK and this year it is March 16th.

Troubled Diva has a fantastic idea to raise money for Comedy Relief. He is asking for UK bloggers to send a funny entry and he is going to put a book together and all money raised by sales will be donated.

So if you are living in the UK, send him one of your funny posts!

I’ll post info about how to buy the book when it’s ready!

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When I was nine I ran for a position on the Student Council. I’m not sure if they have Student Council here. . . (It’s a little faux government body that makes the kids feel involved in the school but they don’t do more than make organise bake sales.)

I’m not sure why I ran. I wasn’t a really popular kid. . . my family had just moved back to the area after a year away.

I waited a bit late to make my posters and my little buttons saying Vote For Nicole! And I found the entire thing really embarrassing so it was no huge surprise that I didn’t win.

I don’t remember who really won, but I imagine it was Lisa who kept telling me she was going to bring me one of these troll dolls—

Bitch never did.

I don’t know why I wanted one of these trolls so bad. It was 1979. . . what can I say.

At work I sometimes get feedback to not be so ready to talk about what I’ve done wrong and to blow my own horn.

It’s not that I don’t think I’m great. . . I just find it a bit embarrassing to say how great I am and as much as I enjoy other people telling me I’m great, that embarrasses me too.

Not that I like negativity. People telling me I suck sends me straight to plotting their painful death at the hands of Tom Cruise shrieking the principles of Scientology at them.

What can I say. I’m complicated.

So if you dig the ramblings, the whinging and the occasional railing at British grocery stores for not carrying graham crackers that you find in this corner of the WWW, it might me nifty of you to nominate me for a Brit Blog Award.

If not, that’s okay too. I’m just happy that you’re here.

(I’ll bake you cookies and make you margaritas if you vote for me)

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One of the contributors for In Fact, Ah will be interviewed on the Irish radio station Newstalk 106-108 FM at 2:45 GMT this afternoon. You can listen to it online here.

El Commandant P often writes reviews about biscuits (cookies) on In Fact, Ah but my favorite recent entry he composed was:

The Occasional Diary Entries of German Director Werner Herzog

If you know Herzog’s work, this is comedy genius. If you don’t know him, it is still pretty flippen hysterical.

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