Toren Atkinson’s Absolute Blog

In a sense: Everything is natural.

Everything that is man-made is natural. We are natural. We are part of nature. We make plastics - out of what? Not from some extra-dimensional anti-matter that we fish out of black holes–but of things we harvest from nature. This is a theory that I find tragically legitimate (though that doesn’t mean that I don’t find about 90% of what mankind does to be offensive).

Thousands of years ago we picked up a piece of bone and used it to cut something (probably whoever was hitting on our chosen mates). Is that natural? Is the wheel natural? Is the Michelin tire natural? So now…you decide. You tell me. Where does natural begin and end? Where do you draw the line?

Plagues & tornados are natural. Carnivores & cannibalism are natural. Homosexuality is natural. Pushing your baby sister out of the nest and killing her is natural. What’s good about nature? What’s bad about nature?

Speaking of natural, a completely naked man came to a garage sale that I was shopping at (at the corner of 12th and Alder). Completely naked, except for the hard hat he purchased. It made me smile. After all, it is a good day to be naked, so the Klingon proverb goes.

I am pleased to announce that our film, “Sebastian Snail in ‘The Souvenir’” placed in the top 10 (actually 11 since there was a tie) at the Reelfast 48 Hour Film Festival gala awards last night at the Commodore Ballroom. The films weren’t shown in any particular order, but Ang Hold used her psychic powers to predict that our film would be shown third. And it was. Then she predicted that we would eat pizza after we left. Also fulfilled. We didn’t win any awards: if anything I thought we might win Audience Pick, but in fact a film called “er” won that, and deservedly so. It was my favourite of the 11 films. Many of them I didn’t care for, but there were a few good ones.

My hair is now purple. Seriously.