Valley of the Trolley Dollies

 ”I decided,” says Darren Hayes, early on in his new show, “To build a Time Machine. I figured, if I could just go back, I could change all the things that were wrong. Say sorry to the people I’d failed, fix the fuck-ups, make it all better. But then,” he explains later in the evening, “I forgot - until we watched Back To The Future on the bus last night - that that never works. You go back, and you change one thing - one tiny thing, and all of now is affected. And, the things I did wrong, the people who failed me, the past, has made me what I am today. And I like what I am - who I am - today.” (more…)

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now, I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment, and making the best of it.”

Gilda Radner, more proufound than a library of holy books

Well, d-1 and d day itself seem to have slid by on greased wheelies of emotion, furious repression of emotion, cold analysis of the lack of certain emotions, and alcohol (plus ca change; plus ca meme chose, as Asterix the Gaul never said).

Below is my Valedictory email. Adjusted to make the guilty, the innocent and the dubious as unrecognisable as possible. If you think you recognise yourself or your employers in what follows, you’re mistaken. Any similarity, etc…

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