Well, Spamalot is playing in Houston at the moment, so on Friday, 6 intrepid Yanks, Aussies and the token Brit (me) went down to the Hobby Center on the edge of Downtown to experience the silliness that is Monty Python. As the promo material says, Spamalot is "a new musical lovingly ripped off from the motion picture Monty Python and the Holy Grail".

It was fantastic! Started off with the Finland song, and then a lengthy discussion about how the coconut that King Arthur uses in lieu of a real horse came to Britain in the Middle Ages (African Swallow perhaps??) Sir Robin (the not quite so brave as Sir Lancelot) was introduced complete with minstrel troupe (Singing "Brave Sir Robin ran away, he shat his pants and ran away...")

The French Taunters were there too ("Your father smells of elderberries") and John Cleese was the voice of God ("Stop bloody apologising, I hate it when people bloody apologise all the time. And don't look up my skirt.") Tim the Enchanter showed up, along with the Holy Hand Grenade ("One shalt pulleth the sacred pin, and counteth to Three, Three shalt be the number to which thou shalt count. Four shalt not be counted to. Five is right out. The number of the counting shalt be three, and then thou shalt lobbeth thy Holy Hand Grenade towards thine enemy who shall be blown into tiny pieces... Now the congregation shall stand and sing 'Get Your Hand Off My Knee You Dirty Old Bastard'")

Brilliant - a great night out. I think it's on in New York and London too, so go and see it if you haven't already.

Also on the subject of Spam, my Google Email software tells me that I have had 2579 Spam messages in the last month. Amazing.