Came across this blog page yesterday: http://aliveinlimerick.blogspot.com/2005/04/limerick-geek-made-good.html It's by some Limerick guy who heard about me when the Universal film deal was announced. The piece he wrote is definitely cheeky, some might even say downright rude, but I thought it was pretty funny!!!! I certainly don't think of myself as a geek, but I'm not bothered if that's how I'm perceived!!! By the way, he grossly miscalculates how much money I earn!!!

Did more work on my Edinburgh material today. It's all pretty much done and dusted now. I'll print it up tomorrow, make a few copies, go through them with a highlighter, then practise and maybe fine-tune the various pieces slightly over the next couple of weeks.

Saw "Mr Moto's Last Warning" today. I really enjoy those old Mr Moto and Charlie Chan films, though until today it had been years since I'd seen any of them. They're very creaky and stiff by today's standards, but you could see foreshadowings of James Bond in this film. While I was watching it, I got the impression that Mr Moto provided a key link between the old-style detectives like Sherlock Holmes and the modern-day action heroes. It used to be that heroes had to use their brains and unlock a load of mysteries before the end of a story, whereas nowadays they mostly just have to kick the crap out of the bad guys ... Mr Moto did a bit of both!