Also Available in 2D

The Twenty-Fourth of May Two Thousand and Eleven. Tuesday.

Right. Going to start a blog. Never had one before - most probably kill it in the morning (ah, begin the whole enterprise with a Princess Bride misquote. Maybe this is what writers are going on about when they talk about someone finding their voice. Maybe this blogging lark is going to work out after all - a phrase that makes me think of Danny Baker After All, the late-Saturday zoo format show that wasn't quite as successful as Morning Edition (which was fab - it featured Janet Ellis reading out extracts from her teenage diary), his breakfast show on Radio 5 (no Live in those days). DBAA featured Mark Kermode's skiffle group (Google - what were they called? The Railtown Bottlers? Thank you. Good search engine) as the house band. Mark Kermode was mean about Avenue Q on Newsnight Review. I am going to see Avenue Q at The Lowry on Tuesday. I have already seen it in New York, of all places.

Haven't really settled on a tone for this lark yet, but the digression and the untidy use of dashes and parentheses in the paragraph above is a fairly accurate representation of my thought processes (like Dug, the dog in Up ('Squirrel!' (an excellent film that I think will count as the First Film Recommendation of this blog))). Incidentally, this is the second time I've written out all this nonsense as I navigated away from this page and this was all deleted the first time round. You haven't missed much. It was more or less the same.

And the '2D' bit in the title of today's entry was just a bit of 'found object' guff to fill in a bit of space but it occurs to me that this blog will be two-dimensional. Sometimes based in reality - as, for all its wiggles this first entry is - and sometimes telling tales, asking 'what if?' or just outright lying.

Okay, that'll do for now. I want to watch Archer on 5* before I go to bed (and lo, my First Telly Recommendation comes into being. Sweet.) 'cos I'm up at 6 in the morning and I didn't sleep too well last night because I had a nightmare about having a Geography exam where everybody was using pencils (2B, 2H and HB) to draw maps of America but I hadn't done any revision/homework and had to keep telling myself 'I've left school - I don't have to do this stuff any more' in order to try and get myself to wake up...

But that's another story.

More soonliest.