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Yes kids, the Fringe directory has arrived. 93 pages of comedy, Dylan Moran playing where he lives for two days, One Man Star Wars guy returning with One Man Lord Of The Rings, and the shock result listed above in the theatre bit.

The Book Festival directory has also arrived. I'm going to see Neil Gaiman if I have to cut my way into the tent. Possibly the talk with Ian Rankin about his John Constantine book being launched.

I may also go and throw things at Mark Millar's head.

8.45 at the Odeon, Lothian Road.

Oh Hell yeah.

When the world was young, Alan Moore wrote a funny cat strip under the alias Jill de Ray. Which sounds harmless enough but spell it "Gilles"...

Role Models starring Paul Rudd and Stiffler has appeared on the sides of buses, which means it'll be out here soon.

I mention it here because apparently it features gaming. Which naturally means boffer LARPing, since all other forms of gaming are impossible to capture on film. Try it - your TT group will become invisible!

I suspect it will be... interesting.

Win for the local boy! Gwan yersel', Big Man!

Ahem.

This year we managed to sneak in here and crosspromote the Art Festival by having family storytelling and late-night opening events (one is tempted to call them "happenings" but one forebears). I'm like, "storytelling?" so I'll have to ask who's doing that, in case it turns out to be me. I think I'm safe, but...

Bill Bailey at the Playhouse For One Night Only. £20. The DVD will be cheaper. Gasp!

(There again, Dylan Moran isn't playing the town where he lives at all.)

Compare Simon Callow doing a Dickens monologue for a week. Or Rob Deb doing ninety-zillion shows for nothin'.

Tempted to do the Stage Fighting workshop one of the dozen days it's running.

Titles of the year: Plague! The Musical and Now Stalking David Tennant.

And the winner: Bouncy Castle Dracula.

Oh yes.

... is even more bloody enormous than usual, at 28000 performers. Or performances. Or flyering people on the Royal Mile. I forget. But it's a whole mess of stuff.

Hamlets down on last year, only one "straight" version of Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest way out in front.

Of note:

Another lecture by my brother and his colleagues on Rosslyn Chapel and the, shall we say, inaccuracies of The Da Vinci Code.

Tracy Moffat at Stills.

Things I might seek tickets for:

Bill Bailey camping out in the EICC for about two weeks.

Dylan Moran for one night only. (Which considering he lives in Edinburgh is a little odd.)

The Dresden Dolls in the Spiegeltent for four consecutive evenings.

And a musical adaptation of Nosferatu. Or perhaps not.