piccie by phil @ argonaut.compiccie by phil @ argonaut.com
GRAMS: "Humans From Earth", by T-Bone Burnett
(Soundtrack Album of 'Until The End Of The Earth')
Warner Bros/FRANCE WE 833
DANNY: A big hello from me to you via tonight's sponsors,
PIPEX and Cityscape.Hi!
FX: DESULTORY APPLAUSE
DANNY: Thank you, thank you. First question please.
AUDIENCE: [CRYS OF]Get on with it! Know any good ftp sites etc.
DANNY: [DROPPING OUT OF FAILED GENRE PARODY]
Well, I'm Danny O'Brien. I do stuff. Stuff I do includes working at TheGuardian, a British newspaper of great reknown, where I write funny humour ha-ha columns for its Guide section. I also write funny stuff that gets said by folk. For instance, I've written funniness for the BBC, am currently writing a hotcha piece of jokitude for the guys at Star Trek, and I used to work for a cruel and destabilising TV satire show called Spitting Image, where I'd write punchlines like this:
MAJOR: DohhH! [THATCHER HITS MAJOR WITH STICK]
[CHUCKLING] Yes, I'm that witty. I also write stuff that I say, myself, on stage. The most obscure example of this is Caught In The Net, an hysterical 60-minute epic devoted to the riotous craziness that you net.citizens get up to. CITN appeared to widespread consumer apathy on the Edinburgh Fringe last year, and is transferring for a doomed run in the West End in January of next year. And I do a bit of stand-up comedy too. Ain't I cool?
HECKLER: Hey geek! Tell them about your computer background!
[BECOMING OMINOUSLY HUSHED] Yes, well. I've also got a shady background in computer journalism.
AUDIENCE: Boo! Hsss!
I used to work on a magazine called .EXE (described by a Guardian cow-worker as 'Dr. Dobbs for people who find Dobbs too simplistic'). I've also worked for Personal Computer World, and I once had an article of mine ceremonially burnt in front of the UK Pascal Users Group. Alledgedly.
HECKLER: Shut up, and give us the links!
Sure you don't want to hear my nostalgia tales of programming 6502 code on an Ohio Superboard II in 1978?
AUDIENCE: Get off!
Alright, here are the links.
Well, there's Bill Thompson, natch, PIPEX computer guru and crypto-anarchist. Also here are piccies of my good showbiz friends Stewart Lee and Rich Herring, who do a UK 'humour' show called Fist Of Fun, which is very popular, no really. Also hanging off this paragraph is my downloadable bookmark guide to HotWired -- just save this file to your hard drive, and import it into NetScape from the bookmark dialog box. Hours of fun. Oh, and coolest of all is my girlfriend Moira Govan, who is a brilliant actress and mine, do you hear me, all mine.
More heckles? Then mail me on danny@tse.cityscape.co.uk, or at my email address on CIX, or at my current work address, which is ae42@cityscape.co.uk.
Oh, and don't ask me about Wired UK, because it's secret, and I don't know nothing.
