Money at the Market

Have you been to the Market Theatre lately?

There are a few shows on at the moment but the one that caught my eye is Money’s Too Tight To Mention. Have you seen it?

Directed by Heinrich Reisenhofer, UCT Drama School graduate, Jazzart Dance Theatre dancer and choreographer and co-writer and directer of the runaway success Suip!, Money's Too Tight To Mention stars the infectious stand up comedian and magician Stuart Taylor – we know him as the presenter of the SABC 3 travel show, 'Going Nowhere Slowly'

Stuart Taylor

The show explores the way the current financial crisis is affecting us as South Africans, and delves into the pressure we place onto ourselves to keep up with "the new Joneses" - the Khumalos - all while giving tips on how to get through the penny pinching , post holiday patches.

Taylor says, "If you've ever thought, 'I can't believe how broke I am,' this show is for you...If lately you've had to give up luxuries like naked sushi and replace it with a can of pilchards on your wife's tummy, this show is certainly for you!"

Tickets range from R66 - R120 (it is for us penniless folk, you know) and are available here.

p.s. it’s only on until the 1^st April so book soon... see you there!

A Very Full Cup

I've blogged about Hugh MacLeod before. He's the guy that draws and shares those awesome cartoons and talks a lot about social objects. His daily cartoons have a lot great advice too... if you can get past the cool images, like this one:

He sent out that picture yesterday, but I only saw the underneath this morning:

Energy, passion, enthusiasm… these are the things that often drive one's creativity.  
They are also the things we can share to help inspire and drive the creativity in others. 

When we share an idea we yearn for it to be met with one or all of the above.  We want our audience of one or many to respond to our work with energy… with passion… with enthusiasm.  When they don't, we take it as commentary, or worse, as criticism.  But sometimes their less than amazing reaction has nothing to do with us, or our stuff.  Sometimes your audience is just too tired, or just too distracted by their own stuff to give you what you want.  They're not being mean, or trying to cut you down with their silence.  Their cup is just too full at the moment to make room for you. 

What's in your cup?

Makes sense to me... how about you?

p.s. sign up for Hugh's daily cartoon here

Joburg Cupcakes

As much as my inner Durbanite is kicking me for saying this, I am really enjoying Joburg. It's a good place for me right now.

So what better way to celebrate this good place than with a cupcake? A Joburg-cupcake-wrapper cupcake.. even better!

Pic from here originally. Thanks Katarzyna for sharing!

Never Ever Ever Ever Ever EVER

Give up on your dreams

Pic from here

What Keeps You Doing

Yes, I know, I talk about it a lot. 

I am drastic sometimes and am overwhelmed by the need for it. 

No... not tea...

Change 

But apart from a a very different hair cut, I haven't really gone out of my way to implement any of the changes I envisioned. 

I'm still only joining the gym 'next month' and I still haven't started running / walking like I said I would. 

Well, I walk... sporadically. 

The truth is, I think I get bored easily. Mountain biking, hiking, those are the activities I can get excited about, but a run? Bleugh.

Which means I need other people to motivate the activities I know I need to do, for later on.

So for once, I am not going to tell you what I am going to do.

I wont even hint. 

But I will ask what keeps you motivated. 

What drives you to keep putting on your goggles or running shoes when you don't wanna?

and who knows... maybe I'll see you on the road sometime. :) 

Have You Met Cakes?

Cakes is my beautiful cousin who ran away to Cape Town to follow her culinary dreams of being a pastry chef (no, I didn't complain either).

So, naturally, I enforced the Blogging During A Year of Adventure rule. Ok, I may have been a little forceful- is setting up her blog and sending her a password forceful? Depends which end of the wine glass you're on I guess...

But she obliged and boy, can the woman throw a sentence together!

Every now and then I get these little snippets of foodie fabulosity but this morning's treat really takes the Cake... So to speak.

My clever cousin made... Petit Fours! Seriously? Yup!
They're only the second best tea snack ever created- next to a miniature red velvet cupcake with italian meringue icing, of course!

You can follow Cakes' adventures at www.rosiecake.blogspot.com

For Teapots Everywhere