My wife has developed a friendship with this butterfly, which comes to sit on her hand every night while we sit outside in the garden and have a cocktail.
THIS IS SOME DISNEY PRINCESS MULLARKEY
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Mat Ricardo
@matricardo@mas.to
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Went to one of my favourite second hand bookshops today, because sometimes you need some escapist fun.
Love that Johnny Alpha. He's my dude.
Hi from Guatemala, where the coffee ain't bad
Made a video about what it's like doing something silly and fun when the world is very serious and scary
I am reading about Ezra Pound, and may have to start using one of his insults:
CAT PISS AND PORCUPINES!
Just out here confusing hipsters
This is the only thing I make online that I charge money for, because it's a lot of work. Still feels weird though.
I've got the subscription set as low as it is possible to go.
Really hope people like it.
Of all the things I've made, I'm most proud of this book. I'd love you to get it for the young person in your life.
Available in all your usual book buying places, both online and in the real world
LEEDS! Saturday night!
KILLER line-up of burlesque, circus and comedy
Get there!
Tix & info: https://the-gilded-merkin.designmynight.com/691c97d15824095da20af8d4/the-gilded-merkin-21-march-2026
"No pressure, just be funnier than anything this town has ever seen.."
For this years #worldbookday I've dressed up as a first time author who still can't quite believe this happened!
Thanks @FaberBooks@bookish.community 😍
Fly halfway around the world to do my one man show to a lovely audience in an 800 seater? Don't mind if I do!
Chapter three of my selective memoir TEN GIGS is now up for subscribers. Busking saved my life. Here's how.
matricardo.substack.com
So, yes, the cat is out of the bag (rabbit out of the hat?)
I am thrilled to be writing a regular column for the Magic Circle magazine. Not often you get asked to write for a 120 year old publication!
I plan to cause a little good trouble every two months.
If you didn't see this before, here's me reading the introduction chapter of my book THE MAGIC IN YOU..
My safe space: leaning on my table delivering sarcasm in a burlesque club. The gilded merkin in Leeds last night was ridiculously joyful. This is why we do it. If you were there I can only wish it nourished your soul as much as it did mine.
Just in case you're wondering how things are going in professional showbusiness - yesterday I genuinely stunt doubled for a dog
WE ARE SO BACK!
Imagination & Junk - the transatlantic podcast about the hard work of #creativity is back for season 4!
Get it at your favourite #podcast boutique
Weekend shows!
Tomorrow - Colchester Arts Centre with @comedyclub4kids@bird.makeup - really fun line-up and I'll be signing books afterwards!
Sunday - Theatre Royal Windsor - big charity bash with Hal Cruttenden, Richard Digance, Paul Zerdin and more
Funs!
Sometimes, when I am down, I remember the guy that tried to bully me for years at Covent garden, and how, a decade later, he asked my agent if he could be my support act on tour and I told them to tell him to go fuck himself.
Ya boy got new cigar boxes
Made a thing about one of the ways I'm feeling
Made another thing
What a completely delightful way to spend a Sunday!
Colchester arts centre! I am, just like Cleopatra, comin' at ya
Just published chapter two of my selective memoir TEN GIGS on substack for paid subscribers
Absolutely the most personal thing I've ever written
content warning: discussion of sexual assault
Will someone check with Chalamet to see if i can still work in cabaret, or if it's useless like opera and ballet thanks let me know k?
New episode of IMAGINATION & JUNK - the transatlantic podcast about the hard work of creativity, later today
Make sure you're subscribed or..I got nothing..but please?
Off to do some behind the camera work today dressed like a young BBC foreign correspondent who still thinks he can make war reporting poetic
My wife just texted me this picture. "It's that thing you like on that thing I like!"
Just for the record: yes, I have a full set.
I'm writing a thing about stealing something in Paris, and just used the phrase "Petit larceny" I AM A PROPER WRITER
Thanks for all the kind words about this.
It was hard, but I think healthy, to write.
If you want to sign up, I've set the price literally as low as it can go. Thanks.
This was last night.
Somehow I have made a lifelong career out of finding ways to monetize silly rubbish like this.
Can recommend!
I'm coming to the Cardiff Children's Literary Festival!
I'll be bringing lots of tricks, bad jokes, and SHENANIGANS GALORE!
Get your tickets at https://www.ticketsource.com/kidslitfest/t-jxxvrgx
#cardiff #kidlit #childrensbooks #writer #tricks #magician #magic
This week on IMAGINATION & JUNK, the transatlantic conversation about the hard work of creativity, me & @billbarol@journa.host talk about the things we did when we were young and foolish, and how we feel about them...
Get it where you get podcasts, or at https://www.imaginationandjunk.com/posts/episode-27-look-back-in-what
Throwback to when I filmed on the NBC Universal backlot, and each of the golf carts we used was named after a cast member of The Office
Getting that spotlight tan, during the short time when I know what I'm doing. Lovely Sunday night mullarkey at the theatre Royal Windsor. Back to being a writer for a few days now.
Did I enjoy the 1982 movie NIGHT SHIFT as much as @billbarol@journa.host?
Find out in the latest *very special episode* of the IMAGINATION & JUNK podcast
Went to #transmission last night. Fantastic show, for a great reason.
But Rahim Redcar. Holy fucking shit. Astonishing, in every metric.
HIGNFYUS spending MINUTES making fun of Kash Patel's appearance rather than, oh, y'know, the hundreds of insanely stupid and evil things he does on a daily basis, is not peak satire
Imagination & Junk, the podcast about creativity I write and present with @billbarol@journa.host is back for season 4.
And we're talking about TALENT. Who has it? What is it? Is it even a real thing?
Get it where you get your podcasts, and subscribe/share etc if you like it!
NO. WAIT. NO. IT'S NOT A MINI EGG. MINI IS DESCRIPTIVE & MEANS SMALL. IT'S NOT SMALL. IT'S NOT THE WORLD'S LARGEST MINI EGG, IT'S JUST A LARGE EGG, AND NOT REALLY THAT LARGE. ALSO "THE SAME SIZE AS AN ADULT CHEETAH" IS VERY ALEX HORNE. IN CLOSING I HAVE HAD A COFFEE.
Bernie Sanders suggesting they filibuster by reading out the complete Epstein files is some next level agent of chaotic good shit
Well this put a smile on my face!
Thanks to the mighty and wonderful John Hodgman and Jesse Thorn for the shout out on this weeks #judgejohnhodgman
(and yes, the King Charles thing is totally true. That was an odd evening..)
NOW GO BUY MY BOOK PLEASE AND THANK YOU