{"id":2044,"date":"2011-08-16T23:01:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T22:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/?p=2044"},"modified":"2011-08-16T23:01:53","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T22:01:53","slug":"edinburgh-day-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/edinburgh-day-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh: Day 13"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BruisedI have been monitoring the progress of my thigh, bruised heavily in my Exciting Fall last Thursday. As you can see, it only needs a few more shades to function as a Dulux colour chart. The bruise covers pretty much the entire front width of my leg and is, unsurprisingly, still a bit tender. But I’m soldiering on. Like the two little boys in Two Little Boys<\/em>, there’s room on my horse for me.<\/p>\n

A virtually full room for Three Man Roast made for a nice gig. I went for a drink with Billy<\/a> afterwards and had a rare pint of beer (a Brew Dog IPA). Despite having a ticket to another show, profligately (and slightly weary of sitting in warm rooms for an hour) I decided to carry on chatting and have another pint of beer. And who can turn down a Trashy Blonde?<\/p>\n

I can’t quite remember where the evening went (always a good sign) but after a quick curry at the very convenient Mosque Kitchen, it was time for the day’s main event: The Wrestling.<\/p>\n

Crazy mofos Max and Iván<\/a> (and I don’t use the word lightly: they really were crazy) decided to organise an Edinburgh Fringe wrestling match featuring comedians and professional wrestlers. It was incredibly foolish. It was also awesome.<\/p>\n

\"The
\nThe likes of Colin Hoult, Humphrey Ker, Tom Rosenthal (on extremely creepy form) and former wrestler Max Olesker himself took on a host of well-built and very athletic scantily-clad pro-wrestlers. And if that wasn’t enough of a feast for the eyes, ringside announcer Nick Helm, roving reporter Matthew Crosby and commentators Brendon Burns and a gloriously-pitched Andrew Maxwell made the whole stupid spectacle hilarious.<\/p>\n

I benefited from having recently got into WWE a bit (much to the chagrin of my 15-year-old self), so I recognised elements of the genre being imitated more than I’d’ve done a year ago. I also knew what a clothesline was (get me), although when massive wrestling fan Dan McKee started talking about tombstone piledrivers or rhinestone cowboys or whatever, I did get lost.<\/p>\n

Dan was really getting into it, leaping to his feet and (as a very tall man) blocking the view of the people in more distant rows. I think this is what he does instead of drinking booze. His perspective<\/a> was:<\/p>\n

I was with Will Howells and when I was up from my chair practically foaming at the mouth he was sat rather demurely having a bit of a clap.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Which is what I get for showing some consideration for the ladies and gentlemen behind me. I mean, I’d’ve been most annoyed if the man in front of me had blocked my view of Mark Haskins<\/a>. To pick a random example.<\/p>\n

What I learnt today:<\/strong> Professional wrestling would be much more entertaining if the commentators were sarcastic, drunk comedians.<\/p>\n

Recommended show:<\/strong> Three Man Roast<\/a> (Yeah! As there’s no point recommending The Wrestling now…)<\/p>\n

Obligatory plug: I’m in Three Man Roast<\/a><\/strong>, 2.35pm weekdays and Saturday 20th at Finnegan’s Wake on Victoria Street – free entry. Also at the Amused Moose Comedy Awards Showcase<\/a> at the Pleasance Dome, 4pm on August 17th<\/strong> (book online<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been monitoring the progress of my thigh, bruised heavily in my Exciting Fall last Thursday. As you can see, it only needs a few more shades to function as a Dulux colour chart. The bruise covers pretty much the entire front width of my leg and is, unsurprisingly, still a bit tender. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1198,1200,1164,1199],"class_list":["post-2044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edinburgh-festival","tag-beer","tag-bruise","tag-edfringe","tag-wrestling"],"yoast_head":"\nEdinburgh: Day 13 - No geek is an island<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/edinburgh-day-13\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Edinburgh: Day 13 - No geek is an island\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I have been monitoring the progress of my thigh, bruised heavily in my Exciting Fall last Thursday. As you can see, it only needs a few more shades to function as a Dulux colour chart. The bruise covers pretty much the entire front width of my leg and is, unsurprisingly, still a bit tender. But […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/edinburgh-day-13\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"No geek is an island\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-08-16T22:01:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/bruise.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Will\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Will\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/edinburgh-day-13\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/edinburgh-day-13\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Will\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/143a6b60a322d001fdc07f2007384300\"},\"headline\":\"Edinburgh: Day 13\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-08-16T22:01:53+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/edinburgh-day-13\/\"},\"wordCount\":528,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/143a6b60a322d001fdc07f2007384300\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/edinburgh-day-13\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/bruise.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"beer\",\"bruise\",\"edfringe\",\"wrestling\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Edinburgh Festival\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/edinburgh-day-13\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/edinburgh-day-13\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/edinburgh-day-13\/\",\"name\":\"Edinburgh: Day 13 - No geek is an island\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/edinburgh-day-13\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/edinburgh-day-13\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/bruise.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-08-16T22:01:53+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/edinburgh-day-13\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/edinburgh-day-13\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/edinburgh-day-13\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/bruise.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/bruise.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/edinburgh-day-13\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Edinburgh: Day 13\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"No geek is an island\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/143a6b60a322d001fdc07f2007384300\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":[\"Person\",\"Organization\"],\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/143a6b60a322d001fdc07f2007384300\",\"name\":\"Will\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/edd7c0105cc6a39125db7653749feae1?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/edd7c0105cc6a39125db7653749feae1?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Will\"},\"logo\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Edinburgh: Day 13 - No geek is an island","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/edinburgh-day-13\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Edinburgh: Day 13 - No geek is an island","og_description":"I have been monitoring the progress of my thigh, bruised heavily in my Exciting Fall last Thursday. As you can see, it only needs a few more shades to function as a Dulux colour chart. The bruise covers pretty much the entire front width of my leg and is, unsurprisingly, still a bit tender. But […]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/edinburgh-day-13\/","og_site_name":"No geek is an island","article_published_time":"2011-08-16T22:01:53+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/bruise.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Will","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Will","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/edinburgh-day-13\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/edinburgh-day-13\/"},"author":{"name":"Will","@id":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/143a6b60a322d001fdc07f2007384300"},"headline":"Edinburgh: Day 13","datePublished":"2011-08-16T22:01:53+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/edinburgh-day-13\/"},"wordCount":528,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/143a6b60a322d001fdc07f2007384300"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/edinburgh-day-13\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/bruise.jpg","keywords":["beer","bruise","edfringe","wrestling"],"articleSection":["Edinburgh Festival"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/edinburgh-day-13\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/edinburgh-day-13\/","url":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/edinburgh-day-13\/","name":"Edinburgh: Day 13 - No geek is an island","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/edinburgh-day-13\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/edinburgh-day-13\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/bruise.jpg","datePublished":"2011-08-16T22:01:53+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/edinburgh-day-13\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/edinburgh-day-13\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/edinburgh-day-13\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/bruise.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/bruise.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/16\/edinburgh-day-13\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Edinburgh: Day 13"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/","name":"No geek is an island","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/143a6b60a322d001fdc07f2007384300"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/143a6b60a322d001fdc07f2007384300","name":"Will","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/edd7c0105cc6a39125db7653749feae1?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/edd7c0105cc6a39125db7653749feae1?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Will"},"logo":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2044"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2057,"href":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions\/2057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}