Highlight Moment from my life #5: Highbury
Dan, Heidi, mini Truter, Heather, Reegs, Ang In the days before tbV and Settlers of Catan, we had to find other ways to amuse ourselves, and most of those happened at a place called Highbury. […]
Taboo Topics: Vegetarianism – Meet MJ Philip
Growing up I was never the world’s greatest lover of animals. I liked dogs because they were fun and horses because well... Zorro, but most of the rest of the animal kingdom tended to inspire fear more than awe. I remember as a kid going to the Cape Town museum and having nightmares of blue whales eating me. Later I developed a slightly irrational fear of birds and monkeys… So it was quite a surprise [...]
Tandem Post: Tupperware Party
Meet Marci. Marci has a problem. 10.15am From the moment she recovers from the second round of playing Snooze on her Nokia 6510i, Marci has one sole focus in mind. "Not to be confused with the Nokia 6510!", she always responds with a slight giggle when people ask her what model she has, and she mouths those soundless words again as she throws on last nights clothes and heads to the bathroom for a 76 [...]
Pearls before Killing
As you all know by now, Pearls Before Swine is my favourite comic strip and if you ever have some time to enrich, you can take a look at a whole bunch of the cartoons i have shared over here. And usually he is just random or clever or biting cynically silly fun, but every now and then he draws a strip which makes you stop and go, "Wo!" and maybe even think for a [...]
Top 10 things to do when you forgot to take your phone to the bathroom with you.
More people have cellphones than they do toilets. A startling fact according to a recent study made by the U.N. is that out of the world’s estimated 7 billion people, 6 billion have access to mobile phones, while only 4.5 billion have access to working toilets. This is a deeply disturbing fact, although that was back in 2013 and so hopefully we have moved on a lot from then. What is a far less serious misfortune is that very [...]
The Ice King, the Energiser Bunny and some fingers on a stick.
Imagine waking up one morning and going online and seeing a semi-naked-sprawled-out-on-the-bed-alongside-your-Improv-friend picture of yourself circling the internet... Cause for panic, right? You'd think so, unless the picture was this one: Which i woke up to a week or so ago and was like 'Holy Crapamole, what's my wife going to think?' Fortunately tbV was awake and laughing at it in the other room and so we just jumped on the banned wagon and helped spread [...]
10 Books [besides 50 Shades of Grey] that should be sold alongside mine.
So many of you will know by now that i wrote a book. My buddy Brad went online yesterday to buy a copy from the UK Amazon store. Did i mention that my book is called 'i, church' and, somewhat strangely enough, it is about the church? What was surprising to Brad, and later to me, was that alongside my book in a if-you-buy-this-you-should-probably-also-buy-this kind of way was 'Fifty Shades of Grey', the erotic romance [...]
Highlight Moment from my life #48: World’s Most Famous Dolphin – No_bob
Many of you will know of No_bob, the world’s most famous stuffed dolphin. But you may not know the story. In 2000 i flew to the UK to earn some money teaching [due to an unfortunate police clearance incident i only ended up doing five days of actual teaching which was a high-or-low-light of itself and mostly looked after old people or University professors, who were about equally competent] so that i could join Youth [...]
Tandem Post: The Art of Boredom
"THAT... IS COMPLETE AND UTTER... RUBBISH!" D muttered, before slamming the door on his way out. B hated his roommate! Oh sure, it had seemed like a good idea at the time. Move in with Death? Everyone had been completely jealous. What in the world could be more exciting than that? And to be honest, in the beginning it had been. The thrill of watching the sand slowly pouring through the hourglasses. Sneaking a quick peek [...]
Highlight Moment from my life #61: Richard Branson
If you composed a highlight reel from your life, i wonder for how many of you Richard Branson would make an appearance. Well he does for me, and actually as i was putting this together i remembered it was actually on two very different occasions… […]