James Jenks
Artist.
Storyteller.
Awkward.
- I was fortunate enough to meet Sir Ian a few years ago. I live in Shakespeare's birthplace (not the house), and you can't chuck a rock in this town without hitting an actor. Anyway, Sir Ian was walking down Waterside, and I've always been a big fan, but the only signable thing I had on me was...
- Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- ...I think, a programme for "As You Like It". Well, I had nothing else he could sign, it was that or my tits, so I politely approached with my programme and pen, told him I has a huge fan, and asked if we would be so kind to sign my programme. He said he'd be delighted.
- He was halfway through signing when he stopped, looked at the cover of the programme and said, "Was I in this?" I said, "No." He replied, "What a pity." and then carried on signing it. I know they sometimes say, "Don't meet your heroes", but Ian McKellen is ridiculously wonderful and charming.
- Remarkable how many of these creeps in Epstein's orbit were seemingly fine with having their photos taken in compromising positions. If I were in a hotel room with my trousers off and my friend whipped out a camera, I would be like, "Could you fucking not?"
- This time of year always reminds me of the time my gran thought she'd found some wild onions and, despite the protests of family members, stubbornly ate a whole bunch of daffodil bulbs. She was fine. Eventually. But spent 3 days vomiting, crying, and talking to angels that only she could see.
- When I was a kid, we had a neighbourhood pond near where I lived. One year, we were playing there and we came across hundreds and hundreds of frogs. All shapes, all sizes. For some reason, one of the local boys, we'll call him Sam, decided he wanted to kill as many of these frogs as he could.
- Sam was a disturbed child. He could never control his emotions, and had a terrible temper, bordering on absolute rage. I once watched as his parents rolled him up in a rug and carried him away, screaming and biting, from my 9th birthday party. His parents once moved a poster on his bedroom wall...
- ...and found he'd been using a fork from the kitchen, to dig a hole through the wall and into the next door neighbour's bedroom. He got a diagnosis of "hyperactive" for that. I asked my parents what that meant, and they just said Sam had more energy than normal children. Anyway, on this day...
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View full threadWe were all like, "There's Sharon again. Go get the frog-catching gloves." Anyway, I recently found myself wondering whatever happened to Sam. We always assumed it'd be prison But no. He's now very successful, a code monkey, working for Google in their AI division. I thought...that tracks. 🐸
