Some girls are bigger than others.

It's that time again, tomorrow is the Long Live Comedy live show at the Dog and Parrot, come down one and all. Now that we're competing with the sun and the football it may be a little difficult to drum up interest. At 9 o'clock yesterday the sun was still streaming in through the windows, and it's tempting just to do the show on outside on the grass. But as the nearest bit of grass is probably a 10 minute walk to leazes park, it's not really an option. The Summer is the quiet season for comedy, with the exception of the Edinburgh festival, but we'll struggle on and see what happens. Your guess is as good as mine. I'm not even sure who's on as Al (keeper of the bookings diary) is away at some 'pop' festival until tonight, and his Myspace site has shut down - possibly due to complaints at his relentless use of rude words.

On other matters...
I noticed that 'Evans', the store for the larger lady, has finally produced some larger lady manequins. Slightly scary. I've got nothing againt big girls, it's just that we're used to manequins based on the anorexic supermodel template. Even the youngsters shopping in topshop rarely look as svelte as the dummies, and the same skinny manequines in Marks and Sparks make the difference between the shopper and dummies even more obvious. I think M&S only make size 8's now to put on the manequins. The new Evans dummies aren't even that big, they actually look like most of the women who shop in M&S, the world is clearly not ready for shop dummies that acurately portrey what the customers might look like. Still - when all you've seen is dummies of perfect proportions these slightly chunky plastic women are a bit of a shock. Put it this way, next door to Evans is Virgin, and for the last month that's had a 6-foot plastic 'Kong' in the window, but it's no longer the oddest thing in Northumberland street.


NEXT GIG;

TUESDAY 13TH OF JUNE. SHOW STARTS 9.00 -
'LONG LIVE COMEDY'
THE DOG AND PARROT (UPSTAIRS)
-OPPOSITE THE CENTRE FOR LIFE, 2 MINS FROM CENTRAL STATION.
ONLY £2