What do you get if you drop a piano down a mine-shaft?

A flat minor.

This keyboard is just a prototype, but it’s pretty special.

An invisible man marries an invisible woman.

The kids were nothing to look at either.

Two cannibals are eating a clown.

One says to the other: “Does this taste funny to you?”

Two antennas met on a roof, fell in love and got married.

The ceremony wasn’t much, but the reception was excellent.

I’m at the Popcorn comedy club in the Red Rose, Finsbury Park. Highlight of the evening was a ventriloquist called Nina with a toy monkey. She threatens to hypnotise the monkey with a lighter and he says she won’t be able to because it’s too cheap.

“But it can’t be a cheap lighter,” she says. “If it was you’d be able to blow it out.”

There was a major company briefing at the Guardian on Tuesday during which the Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger, Observer editor Roger Alton, GMG chief executive Carolyn McCall and Guardian MD Tim Brookes gave a detailed presentation on the future for the group.

That pesky Jeff Jarvis was there and has written about what was said in some detail. I think I’m far too “internet” to have been shocked by anything from this session, but I imagine some people were rather alarmed. Mostly, as Jeff points out, because Alan Rusbridger said the web is now “pre-emminent” for the Guardian. Bring it on, I say.

He also said the Guardian is the biggest mainstream media title in the world for comment and blogs.

The newsy version of this was written up by the delightful Chris Tryhorn. He didn’t mention that Roger Alton compared himself to sea bass ice cream, but I’ll leave that to you. After all, “there has never been a better time to think for a living”, as we were told.

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A tragedy for British arts: Dartington College of Arts, where I studied, is to move from Dartington to Falmouth.

Dartington is a unique and very special place with an amazing heritage. The very long dance studio was designed for Rudolf Laban, the barn theatre was designed by Walter Gropius and just about anyone who was anyone in the arts from the 1930s onwards, has worked or studied there.

Students have always been made to feel that the college is messy and inconvenient for the Dartington Trust, which owns the estate the college is based. But that is the nature of art and creativity.

A problem with funding for student accommodation has been used as an excuse to move the college to Falmouth. Beautiful though Falmouth is, there are few colleges whose location is so fundamental to its character and its history.

Totnes will lose much of its vibrancy and vitality – as well as £4.5 million from the local economy. A tragedy.

The sterling work of the Save Dartington campaign continues. It is still not too late to write a stern letter to the trust and the college principal.

What kind of bees make milk?

Boobies.

Life is often unfair, cruel, wrong. This is a real tragedy – one of the kindest, most sweet-natured people I have ever met.