Dragon Con Schedule 2014

Hey hey! This weekend is the annual geekfest known as Dragon Con. I'll be there to both perform and generally have fun. Here is the official list of what I'll be doing (don't believe any other list, even what you see on the Con app)

Title: Solve This: Live!
Time: Fri 02:30 pm Location: Centennial I - Hyatt (Length: 1)
Description: The improvisational panel game that has solved problems for millions worldwide will now solve problems for you live and on stage for the third time running!

Title: FRED Presents Attack of The Celebrity Improv
Time: Fri 08:30 pm Location: Grand Ballroom East - Hilton (Length: 1)
Description: A fast, furious game of improvised comedy. Like The Hunger Games with more laughs and fewer arrows.

Title: Why Do We Still Love LOST?
Time: Sat 01:00 pm Location: M106 - M107 - Marriott (Length: 1)
Description: A fan discussion on Lost: why fans love it and everything else about the show.

Title: Gonzo Quiz Show V: The Quizening
Time: Sat 08:30 pm Location: Atrium Ballroom - Marriott (Length: 2.5)
Description: Teams of celebrity guests are led through a series of panel show games that are truly gonzo.

Title: Gonzo Quiz Show VI: Quizopolis
Time: Sun 08:30 pm Location: Regency VI - VII - Hyatt (Length: 2.5)
Description: Teams of celebrity guests are led through a series of panel show games that are truly gonzo.

Title: Make the Bad Men Stop: The Prequel that's a Sequel
Time: Mon 02:30 pm Location: M106 - M107 - Marriott (Length: 1)
Description: NeedCoffee.com talks about Hollywood's plans and will make you cry all the way home from Con... soooo sad.

Come say hello if you can. There is a chance I might pop up on other things too but these are what you're guaranteed to see me do.

Craic on Tour Part 2 (Epilogue)

Hahahahaha, yeah. What was I thinking, right? I was a fool to say I could update this blog with reports from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. A fool.

As for a debriefing... I'm going to save that for a certain podcast soon. What I will say for the time being is that it was both fantastic and frustrating. The staff at Gryphon Venues were absolutely lovely. The cast and crew of the show did a great job. I enjoyed a number of shows including GhostCop, Birthday Girls, and Hedluv & Passman. And, uh I dunno, I didn't eat as much haggis as I would have liked.

Fantasy League of DOOM!

NOTE: This article was originally published by me on TheWebsiteofDOOM.com

Hey there sports fans! The staff here at DOOM Towers have long held the tradition of playing a fantasy football league with the English Premier League. But this year, I'm going to open it up to all our readers too! You can compete with the staff of DOOM to win a (plastic toy) trophy and some (random crap) prizes!

It's a head-to-head league which means each week you'll be pitted against another team in our league and the winner will have points added to their tally.
I'll be giving monthly reports on the league including commentary on how your teams are doing and players to watch out for!

The English Premier League starts on the 16th of August so to register your team in time you must have joined our league before midnight GMT on the 15th of August as that is when I will close our league to new entries.

A random example of the type of squad you can set up

To join simply go to http://fantasy.premierleague.com, create your team and then go to the "Leagues" button in your top menu bar. You'll see an option to join a league and just enter our code to join up!

The code is:

786900-283963

My team Phoenix Park Tuesday are waiting for you there. I look forward to beating you!

The Drive In of DOOM - Blade

Your favourite comic-book-movie-adaptation-commentary-podcast is back with the important surprise hit of the 90s... Blade.

I get tipsy on some wine and JJ gets buzzed on some coffee and we both ramble like the rambling idiots that we are.

To listen CLICK HERE or to download directly CLICK HERE.

Craic on Tour Part 1 (Prologue)

As has been mentioned a couple of times on here already, as of Monday the 11th of August I shall be performing for two weeks at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with the show I co-wrote called The Craic Was Mighty. That's me up there with most of the cast performing at our sold-out preview show in Powerscourt Theatre last week.

It's the reason why I have written almost nothing online for the past couple of months but it's been worth it and hopefully now we'll get some good reviews at The Fringe. I'll be posting lots of pictures of our adventure on my Instagram account and on the show's official Facebook page but I hope to post a couple times about the experience here too. Hence why I somewhat ambitiously titled this article "Part 1".

I've talked a bit about how exciting it is to go over but I haven't talked much about how important it is to me. At the end of this year my day job is finished and for the first time in my life I'm not applying for another one. This is it. It's comedy full time for me in 2015. The next month between The Fringe and then Dragon Con, I'm going to have a little taste of that. It's going to be tough, despite working on many projects over the last 7 years I'll be starting from the bottom and hopefully working my way up. This experience could go a long way to helping me make a success of it all. So yeah, it's a big deal for me personally.

But before we go here are a couple more pictures of the preview show taken by lightexplorers.net (everything looks classier in black and white).