My Mate Russell is DJ Bob Disaster

Brad once said my hiphop name would be MC NoShame. I think my shame glands have expanded since those days.
Svend has been recounting his tales of Edinburgh at Festival time. Yeah man. I ran into (Kiwi comedienne) Cal Wilson on the street recently, I was talking to my Cal on cell at the time so just kind of walked straight past. CalW was waiting for a taxi, and when MyCal finished talking to me I thought about turning around and going back to say hi. I decided not to. It seemed like a vaguely sad course of action that would embody all the saddest aspects of that “Kiwis are all one big family aren’t we when we’re overseas aren’t we aren’t we please validate me!” tendency you see now and then.
My main memories of Cal Wilson are going to see her standup show ‘Telebimbo’ in the late 90s, and her performance in a pilot for a shameless NZ-Friends-ripoff ‘Flatmates’ as the potential love interest of Kevin Smith (RIP). Now ‘Flatmates’ was dire and my primary recollection of ‘Telebimbo’ is that sitting around with Stuart, Michael, David, Svend, Pearce, etc was just as funny.
My other main memory is that she was hot as a sweating chili pepper.
And while I’m thinking back on NZ’s dubious comedy heritage, does anyone know who those guys were that VUW orientation year, who yelled out ‘look! Arnold Schwarzenneger is having an accident!’ to summon a crowd to the dungeon cafe? Because dammit if that joke hasn’t stuck with me all these many years. It wasn’t even funny then.
Cal and I have just planned out some of our trip through Ireland. We roughly know where we’re going – basically, starting in Dublin and going anticlockwise around the whole island. Sa-weet. Very excited.
Lordy. My brain is tired. I still haven’t written up the Paris escapade for morgueatlarge. Will try to do it tomorrow night before we embark on our expedition to spend the night at Derby’s Haunted Gaol.
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