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08:15 / 28.04.09

Just plugging away:
Klicky.
That would be the current blogamabob, including (but not limited to) audiovisual bullshit.

have fun!
el d.

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

16:52 / 01.05.09

If anyone is out and about during Free Comic Book Day tomorrow (is that just a North American thing?), a six-page story spinning off an upcoming book I'm writing for Ape Entertainment is in the Ape FCBD book:

The book's called RPM -- it's work-for-hire stuff, kind of a G.I. Joe/Transformers mash-up where rival futuristic racing organizations secretly duke it out in the giant robots their vehicles transform into. Loads of fun!

19:24 / 01.05.09

So I was looking for a place to plug something without it being out of place, and this looks like the spot. I just recently started an old style BBS (bulletin board system, think 1980s 300 baud dialup on the old commodore 64) in the boston area, and its got some discussion forums and such, along with a couple of door games. Right now its just internet accessible, rather than dialup, but I may throw in a phone line as well for anyone nostalgically inclined. In any case, its over at arkham.mine.nu with forums for occult, paranormal, comics, entertainment, and general "bad ideas" (think totse). Also hoping to have announcements for fun events, mostly local to the boston area, or at least general northeast, but anything epically big enough will probably get discussed there as well. Anyway, if anyone's so inclined, its over at telnet://arkham.mine.nu. See you there!

01:47 / 03.05.09

FEM Volume Two: Fairytales is now available for free download as a pdf and features visual and written art from a few 'lithers, whom I will allow to out themselves, as well as Daniela Gioseffi, Adrian Castro, Heather Riccio, Caroline Thompson and many more.

As always, the previous volume(s) are also available, free for download, and also 'lither-filled.

Whisky Priestess

14:00 / 04.05.09

Nice cover! HP Lovecraft via Hallowe'en candy (as you Americans call it ...)

16:19 / 11.05.09

My band is playing on Thursday...I know it's late notice, but I've been out of comission with the dreaded lurgie for a week and a half!

If you missed our performance at the Three Crowns a few weeks ago, Morning Bride headline a very special night of live music this coming Thursday, 14th May 2009 in the suitably spiritual surroundings of the 11th-century St. Mary's Old Church, on Stoke Newington Church Street, London N16. (If you're not familiar with this beautiful building, have a look here)

16:50 / 26.05.09

I had some fun taking photos at the zoo today, you´ll find them here.

23:39 / 27.05.09

I don't know if I'd consider some of those 'work-safe'.

If you and your lady wife were in a cage, Mist, trying for a child, would you like a camel to take a photo of the act?

06:18 / 28.05.09

Why not? Sounds kinky. And those two obviously didn´t mind and weren´t in a cage. That zoo is a park, btw, where many animals are out in the open.

gu

22:06 / 04.06.09

Today marked the launch of the New Pollution v2: World Domination.

http://newpollution.org/

15:40 / 19.06.09

For those interested in Comics Mike Carey and Mel Gibson are speaking at Leicester De Montfort Student Union next Tuesday, at various times through the day. Also apearing are writers for the young at heart Sam Enthoven, Ally Kennen, Keith Gray and others.

It's a free and open event.

And no it's Dr Mel Gibson, Doctor of comics, of course not any of the other ones.

All welcome

Whisky Priestess

14:48 / 22.06.09

If you're about in Camden tomorrow and looking for cool things to do, try this:

Due to the recent Tube strike we have rescheduled the Liars' League (this is a bunch of new short stories read by actors) Surf & Turf event to 7pm, this Tuesday 23rd June at Proud Galleries, Camden, and seeing as the event sponsor is Smirnoff, we've also thrown in a few more stories on the subject of vodka for good measure (do you see what we did there? Never mind ...)

Proud's address is at the bottom of this email and as you can see from this map, the venue's squarely between Camden and Chalk Farm tubes, each of which are about a five-minute walk. It's a fiver as ever when we're at this venue, but that covers the whole night, whihc includes various bands and DJs and a very cool late-night bar.

We’ve a mouthwatering line-up of talent on in the main gallery, and the night will feature ingredients as diverse as aquatic fantasies, lost sailors, seaside tragedies, stolen penguins, and the hitherto solemnly secret world of juvenile amphibians - not to mention desert islands, amnesiac alcoholics, and the best cocktail in the world. And here they are:

What water feels like to the tadpoles by Tom McKay
Rain Music by Margot Taylor
Carnival by Jane MacKenzie
A Pocket full of Penguin by Rosalind Stopps
Me and my Goldfish by Mi L Holliday
One Luxury by Richard Meredith
Minuit Noir at the Ali Babar by Maggie Womersley
Smirnoff Vodka - One Litre by Clare Sandling

See you there!

Liars' League
www.liarsleague.com
Writers write. Actors read. Audience listens. Everybody wins.

Next event: Tuesday June 23rd, theme Surf & Turf (& Vodka)

Venue: Main Gallery @ Proud Camden
www.proudcamden.com
The Horse Hospital
Stables Market
Chalk Farm Road
Camden Town
NW1 8AH

t: 0207 482 3867
f: 0207 424 9778
e: info@proud.co.uk

unheimlich manoeuvre

12:53 / 01.09.09

"We're The Great Old Ones Now : My paperback's out - and since the whole thing is a deranged ninja/lovestory/ontological crisis with asswhupping, apocalypses and monsters, it has a certain Barbelith feel to it.

Be interested to know what y'all think."

Finally got to this in the pile. Wow! It's great. Isn't the cliche that the first book is always autobiographical?

Hmmm... can definitely see the influences Pynchon, Palahniuk, Carroll. Real page turner at the end after a meandering middle. Never expected the reveal. Thought provoking, social commentary with ninjas_no_less...

I'm going to lend it on. Still not sure that sanud means in Persian what you think it does?

Really very good. When's the next one?

23:04 / 06.09.09

Um.

I'm on the fourth plinth, October 2nd, 4-5am.

Just sayin'.

jentacular dreams

08:18 / 07.09.09

Congrats. What are you going to do?

I made a big cardboard dalek and took it with me.

22:40 / 09.09.09

I'm going to try and write a poem in collaboration with the audience, constructing it out of their tweets, my observations, and their random shouting.

Probably a lot of random shouting. Essentially I'll be taking dictation for late night drunks.

is there somewhere I can see footage of you and the Dalek? I haven't yet explored the 1andother site in enough detail, so apologies if it's just there and I'm too lazy...

jentacular dreams

14:23 / 10.09.09

It is a bit hard to track down people unless you know when they were on. I warn you though, if you're doing something, time really goes past quickly.

Here I am. Or alternatively:

The Dalek's sign says "Intergalactic genocidal mutants like me vote BNP"

16:25 / 11.09.09

gamma wins at plinths.

Whisky Priestess

22:01 / 13.09.09

Sexy Dalek! I'd vote BN - ohhh ... wait ...

Srsly though, nice idea. I love the plinth thing.

13:34 / 14.12.09

Those great chaps over at Mindless Ones have run a comic that I entered for the Jonathan Cape/Observer comic competition. It's a four-pager based off of a movie idea I had a long time ago and still want to do something with, but it's just a relief at this point to see it down on the page in any fashion. Have a wee gander and see what you think.

ONLY NICE THINGS

08:15 / 16.12.09

Well done you! I can't see the images on my current phone-modem-no-3G connection, but I'm sure they're lovely.

12:57 / 16.12.09

Thank you! That's positively delightful of you to say!

22:30 / 05.01.10

I'd like to plug the snow in London. If you're still up, go outside. It is very beautiful.

I'd also like to plug 'The Snow In London', my play (no, f*** that, MOVIE .... no, FILM about Alex James, Damien Hirst and Keith 'Allen' Allen, which'll probably happen as and when I get the finances together.

GUY RITCHIE: Alex, everyone likes you

Less searchable M0rd4nt

14:22 / 23.01.10

I'm not baaaack but I really wanted to give a shout-out to this new magic book. (Full disclosure: I am in it.)

Women's Voices in Magic is a very fine anthology of writing by female magicians (or in my case a genderqueer-with-a-twat magician).

The topics range from the history of women in magic to alchemy to modern witchcraft. Loads of personal experience, which is always useful to read, and lots of insights into gender, sexism in magic, etc. It is very shiny.

17:22 / 23.01.10

Shiny!

23:04 / 26.01.10

Hello,

Our circus-theatre show, The Hot Dots, is touring the UK again this spring. Details below...

The Hot Dots
An acrobatic love story

Frank is a juggler, happy with his lot. But from the moment he meets the ambitious Evie, sparks fly and his world is turned on its head. They begin performing together, wowing crowds from miles around. However, as their reputation grows, so does Evie's thirst for fame and it isn't long before the cracks begin to show...

Set against a backdrop of 1930s Music Hall and combining film with stunning acrobatics, So & So create an unforgettable theatrical experience.

‘It's clever and funny and poignant - really entertaining!’ The Stage

‘Outstanding.’ The Observer

FEBRUARY 2010
11th- The Lights, Andover, Hampshire
13th- No 8 Community Arts, Pershore, Worcestershire
14th- Theatre By The Lake, Keswick, Cumbria
23rd- Stahl Theatre, Oundle, Peterborough
25th- Pontardawe Arts Centre, Swansea
26th- Wyeside Arts Centre, Builth Wells, Powys
27th- Theatre Harlech, Gwynned

MARCH
3rd- Village Hall, Keinton, Mandeville
4th- St George Hall, Hinton St, TA17 8SB
5th- Kilmersdon, Somerset, BA3 5TD
6th- The David Hall Arts Centre, South Petherton, TA13 5AA
9th- The Hawth Theatre, Crawley
10th- South Street, Reading
11th- Trestle Arts Base, St Albans
15th & 16th- The Lowry, Salford Quays, Manchester
18th- Lemontree, Aberdeen
20th- Paisley Arts Centre, Paisley
23rd- New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth

23:05 / 26.01.10

PS- see So & So Circus Theatre website for more details, video clips etc.

13:39 / 27.01.10

Ooo. Think I'm going to try and make the paisley one.

16:55 / 27.01.10

Hi all, just popping into plug a Live Music Video blog that I am doing to make myself do something on a regular basis.

So if you like music, that is live, and recorded on video, then click this link

Great Live Music Videos

17:54 / 30.01.10

I'm promoting a new documentary by Liz Mermin (Shot in Bombay, Office Tigers, The Beauty Academy of Kabul, Team Qatar).

It's Horses (a film):

What can we know of what it's like to be a horse? Not just any horse, but a top-end national-hunt racehorse in Ireland? This is the challenge HORSES takes up, following three charismatic horses over the course of a difficult racing year.

It avoids any anthropomorphic take, using music cues, odd perspectives and wide angles to interpret events and the mood of the equine stars.

It's actually set very close to where I spent the first ten years of my life, in Wexford Ireland, and in a similar environment too (my uncle trained and bred racehorses). The jockeys, trainers and stablehands are an odd collection, some charismatic, some brash, others backward, all very Irish and I think people might find some things in the documentary very funny.

It's showing later this year on BBC as part of the Storyville series and and is currently showing in the ICA London, so if you're around and want to see a great sports / art documentary, you should go.

There are lots more reviews and details on the facebook page check it out become a fan, etc!

And follow the below link to hear director Liz Mermin talk to the Guardian's James Solomon about the process of making 'Horses'.

Guardian Review Podcast

A fall of geckos

09:45 / 31.01.10

Hi all

Thought I'd plug the new website we've been working on. It's called Storyimp, and it's a place to post and read online fiction. We're trying to give writers some of the functionality of a social networking site (along with plugins to Twitter and Facebook). Writers who use the site can add their own Amazon adverts and googleads to their pages, allowing them to make some cash. We've also optimised the site for iPhones/mobile devices.

Here's our logo:

Storyimp - Publish, Read, Download

Storyimp - Publish, Read, Download

In terms of content we would be grateful for anyone posting short stories, longer episodic fiction, viginettes or poetry. We're allowing writers to post under a variety of licenses including All Rights Reserved and a variety of Creative Commons/Open Source licenses.

We're also looking for people to join in the community. There are a few stories and poems online already and we could definitely use the kind of creative and structured feedback that Barbelith has demonstrated. We want to encourage and support new writers, so we'll also be linking to writing resources, so if anyone else has sites they think would be useful, please let us know.

Thanks everyone...

Whisky Priestess

12:43 / 07.02.10

Hi all,

If anyone wants to come along to Liars' League this Tuesday (Feb 9) in London (near Oxford Circus) that would be dandy. And if you're single we can set you up with a date for the night at no extra charge ...

Liars' League

11:36 / 12.03.10

Unless someone wants to flesh this thread out - and I don't - I'm going to move for a deletion.

14:17 / 26.03.10

So I was attending a friend`s gig and then somehow:

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I didn`t have time to warm up or anything and it`s been years since last, so excuse eventual suckitude (esp. voice) =P

Anna de Logardiere

21:40 / 28.03.10

This is the last week you can register to vote for the general election in the UK

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