Treat level has today been raised to “cake”, the second-highest level of treat there is. This doesn’t mean you will have cake tomorrow, nor that anyone has mentioned getting you a cake, nor that anyone you know will have cake. We’re not even 100% certain that cake actually exists at this point.
Look, stop thinking about cake would you? You’re cake daft, the lot of you.
Here’s a picture of cake I did once.
This is for you. If you didn’t see our show (and on average around 7 billion people on this planet weren’t watching our show on any given night) this will mean nothing to you.
Anyways, it’s just pop culture appropriation which is a thing in and of itself these days – context is no longer necessary.
Heavy Petting are off to Edinburgh for the third time. And have we got a show for you!? Hard to say, really, but we definitely have this flyer. I roused my lazy arse and wrote some new classifieds after coasting on the same ones for two years (including a very ill-advised advert for Lindsay Lohan’s vagina that I found funny but everyone else… not so much).
It’s just as well we changed it: Lindsay Lohan’s vagina is probably really unfashionable by now. I don’t know, it’s quite hard to keep up with these things.
A guide to Stornoway’s Sunday treats.
Nah, a ridiculous short film I wrote, is shooting in Saltburn this weekend. It’s got a talking deer in it, and these shoes. Aren’t these shoes great? The film is directed by Laura Degnan. It should be finished by Christmas (talking deer take time) and I’m really looking forward to seeing it.
Written by me (and what a lengthy script it was) and directed by Laura Degnan, this is one of a series of “Little Shockers” – bite-sized horror films with a tickle at the end. Like Tales of the Unexpected, if you’re not expecting a daft punchline at the end of the tale.
We’ve entered it into the Four4 Short Horror Film Competition, for 16 second horror films made up of four four-second shots. I’ll be shocked if we win, which’ll be in keeping with the theme of the thing.
Expect more Little Shockers soon. Or rather, don’t expect them, then it’ll be spookier when they turn up.
Ha hey! Me and mi Heavy Petting campadres made this for Hat Trick/Bad Teeth’s Short and Funnies prize, and we’ve been short-listed. This is in no way based on a true story, by the way, and don’t even ask what a reverse bent spoon entails.
A short film, based on a true story (I used to have cats).
Announcing new series for non commissioned writers: The Show What You Wrote will be on @bbcradio4 in June. details soon ..get thinkin
— jane berthoud (@JBerthoud) January 31, 2013
Joe Cornish, in conversation. Not with me, but I listened in anyway, while pretending to study my phone or something. He talks about writing Attack the Block, Tin Tin and Ant Man.
Ramshackle Charm 