Monday, 6 October 2008

How long is a piece of string?

Last Tuesday, in his Guardian blog, Matt Wolf asked whether actors make better directors.

Do footballers make better managers? Do paid journalists make better bloggers? How long is a piece of string?

Taking the advice of Stewart Lee, I always keep a piece of string of a known length upon my person to deal with such questions. My piece of string is exactly fifteen centimetres long. *

Tonight I am going to see Creditors, directed by Alan Rickman. Tomorrow, I will let you know whether Alan Rickman makes a good director.

* Although Lee is making a slightly different point, it turns out that string comes in handy when dealing with all sorts of fatuous questions.

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