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Tom Lenk for one night only.

Some other people doing comedy.

A new Cabaret section with Amanda Palmer hiding in a new double act.

A play about vampires with amnesia.

Yep, Fringe Programme Day. The cover mocks you with its monkey pants.

(None of the four Hamlets are normal - there's a musical, a hiphop musical and two with puppets. This is starting to look like a gap in the market.)

The high school production of Dr. Horrible is for one night only. And three afternoons.

No Amanda Palmer this year. Which considering I went to five things last year and she was involved in three of them and in the audience for a fourth is a bit of a downer.

No Bill Bailey either. :(

Why isn't Laura Solon much more famous?

Andrew Collins doing a free show. But I've heard of him...

Another bunch attempting an adaptation of The Call Of Cthulhu. Wonky Fringe Lovecraft adaps seem to be an annual tradition now.

Best blurb: Indiana Jones and the Pantomime Horse. "Darr da dah dah. Darr da daarrrrrr. Darr da dah dah. Darr daddaaaaaaaaar daaaaaaaaar daaaaaaaaar. Rolling ball! Arghhh! With crossdressing."

Neither game went as expected, or as the other had. Neither was a catastrophe. Both ended with half an hour to spare and still had the gratuitous death trap scenes. Steve won A&A. Sheffield won overall. Charity stuff on Friday and Saturday alone raised £5000 for FACE (Fight Against Cancer Edinburgh) including sixty quid for Gar's signed Paranoia book. Yay! And also hello Eternally Lost Zeppo!

More later. Tired now.

Meanwhile, an American high school production of Dr. Horrible will be at the Fringe this year.

Bemusing Festival-related event of the year so far: Amanda Palmer signing her book at FP tomorrow.

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.

Used only on the last-weekend Art Late blowout.

And the Ingleby Gallery is a big classic white space which used to The Venue, a big classic black space. It's just wrong.

Keira Knightley currently has dark brown hair with lighter brown end bits.

Sienna Miller was wearing a hat, which made recognising her over the crowd of photographers easier.

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.

So fireworks go boom and stuff.

One of the tunes this year was bloody awful.

Here endeth the 2007 Festival. (Not that anyone really noticed that the International Festival went on for six days after the Fringe.)

We didn't get lanyards in the Art Festival. Hmph.

Since the Festival (the plurality of it being like nine of the things) now goes on for five weeks, Seeing Celebs Wandering Around Town has started early this year. I hope to reach double figures. As ever, celebs you actually went to see on purpose do not count towards the total.

Starting today!

Kirsten O'Brien from Totally Doctor Who talking on the phone at the post office in town. She's doing a show every weekday lunch hour for a month talking about her kids' TV life, it turns out.