Well as I sit here in a towel looking oh so glamorous in a dinky Toronto Apartment right downtown I am coming to realise I am opening a show this Friday. (Not at 8.45 as my website suggests BUT at 7.30 just in case you're coming along!)

I left Auckland on saturday amidst a hail of tears and snot having to leave all my beautiful friends behind for four months, and of course one beautiful friend in particular.

I HATE goodbyes and I thought I'd had enough at Heathrow Terminal Three in the 90's. Back then I had short hair and bad clothes and waved goodbye to a boyfriend and a gaggle of friends through mascara stained eyes, and I thought I wouldn't have to do that again.

But nationalities, Visa issues and an unexpected email back in January from a lovely Brit Fireman conspired against me and so I have leaked on and off since I left thinking of halcyon KareKare days.

BUT enough of the wallowing in self-pity, time to snap out of my oestrogen fuelled depression spiral and start selling my ass on the Toronto Sts. No not for research for my show on Prostitution but rather to get punters to come and see me.

Since I left NZ I have drunk beers on a boat in Marina Del Ray, slurped Frozen Yoghurt on the beach at Playa Del Ray, been to Chocolate Sunday at the Laugh Factory in Hollywood (where I understood 50 % of the African American Themed evening), toasted with Cocoa Brown finalist in America's Got Talent and finally ended up here in T'ronto eh.

And luckily here I'm being billetted with the fabulous Ruth whose apartment is cosy, fully equipped, has a lovely double bed for me in my own room AND a gorgeous rooftop garden!

So I guess it's not all bad, lol.

Today I head off to get a SIM card so I can text everyone at home, try to find a plastic Martini Glass and pick up my 2000 flyers to hand out to anyone I can find. I only hope my Adult Themed Prize packs have arrived from www.fromaphrodite.com and that the cordless microphone turns up at my venue tomorrow.

I also hope all my new Canadian Jokes go down a storm - ie "Have you heard of the great Canadian Porn - Brokeback Mounties (Thanks Dan) and of course the famous Canadian Porn Star - William Shat-in-her. TASTY!

OK people wish me luck, and here's to smiling a bit more frequently too.

HOT PINK BITS - Toronto Fringe
Venue #3 - Theatre Passe-Muraille Mainspace 16 Ryerson Avenue
Fri July 6 @ 7.30PM Sat July 7 @ 12.30pm Sun, July 8 @ 11PM Wed, July 11 @ 6 PM Thu, July 12 @ 8.45 PM Fri, July 13 @ 4.30PM Sat, Jul 14 @ 3.30 PM

















The Laugh Factory
















Cocoa Brown - Finalist in
America's Got Talent