winner #2!

Apologies for the delay in declaring the winner of the Hedgehog competition, but finally I am here to announce that Liadlaith is the winner of the two free tickets!

Liadlaith, please send your address to readwatchlisten (at) gmail (dot) com, and the tickets will zoom their way to you forthwith.

(Mama Duff, send me your address as well, as I might have something for you too...)

Hooray for free things!

free tickets, second edition

Well, aren’t you a bunch of lucky ducks? Thanks to the generous souls at Madman Entertainment and Readings, I have a double pass to give away to see the new French movie The Hedgehog. It’s an adaptation of the Muriel Barbery novel The Elegance of the Hedgehog, which sold an almost offensive amount of copies thanks to fantastic word of mouth reviews. I haven’t seen it yet, but I’d love to. I’ll mail ’em Australia-wide, if you’re wondering.

If you’d like to get your paws on those tickets, all you need to do is comment with a French word that you know. Here, I’ll start: baguette. See? Easy!

winner!

Well, I have consulted with shamans, looked to the stars for guidance, flipped a hundred coins under the exact same conditions and asked John Edwards who should win. Drum roll please, because the winner of our two Capital Punishment Comedy Festival Tickets is...


LeahJane! Congratulations, expect to be contacted with your ticketing details. Have fun! Laugh lots! Don’t forget to take a spare pair of underpants.

(And thanks to Sally for guiding me to random.org! Also congratulations to her too for her own personal win.)

free tickets!

Due to some unexpected good luck and your friendly neighbourhood comedians, read, watch, listen has been offered two free tickets to see Capital Punishment at the Melbourne Comedy Festival—and they’re up for grabs for you, dear reader. If you want to get your greasy paws on these tickets, for Thursday night’s gig in Melbourne Town Hall’s Backstage Room, all you need to do is leave a comment here—and you don’t need to be a blogspot member to post a comment. All I want from you is to leave your name and a joke, no matter how terrible, and I’ll randomly pick a winner on Wednesday morning and post the winner then. And I’ll even start!

Q: What’s brown and sticky?
A: A stick.

See, you know you can do better, don’t you? Well, go on then.