Pride is fun, and Pride is about community getting information about politics and activism and meeting new people. And waving flags and wearing a stupid outfit and prancing down the main street as though you are some kind of Summer King. And smiling at people on public transport ( Read more... )

I've got two spare tickets for a radio comedy pilot on Wednesday: Will Smith (floppy-haired posh Bergerac fan) in a sit-com set-up (rocky marital relationship ( Read more... )

I have mentioned the art skip, in which art is placed around this time of year. Nothing awesome so far (can we beat the glittering heraldic shields or the space rocket from last year ( Read more... )

I've got four tickets for BBC comedy pilot, Wood Green, tomorrow night ( Read more... )

Making the young people's music is accepted as often-collaborative (even though one member of a band sometimes carries the others). Creative writing is often assumed to be solitary (even though writing often takes editorial conversations, mutual inspirations, sounding boards etc ( Read more... )

Photography Workshop on urban wildlife. 10 quid unwaged, 30 quid waged, Saturday April 3rd. Breeding black redstarts in Deptford!

(Just because I don't comment on your pictures of flora and fauna doesn't mean I don't appreciate them. Bring on the unfurling ferns, guys, and don't skimp on the ducklings.)

I'm trying to eat a bit less dairy. I've started a spreadsheet listing some of my favourite foods and my reasons for liking them to see what change I can easily achieve:

I like PIZZA because it is CONVENIENT AND COMFORTING so I might try freezing more non-cheesy but cosy meals for ease
I like YOGHURT because it is CREAMY so I might try using ( Read more... )

Does anyone know somewhere, or someone through who, I could meet a ferret ( Read more... )

Had a seminar last night, teaching The Picture of Dorian Gray. The text, and the Wilde trials, prompted the question: what models of same-sex passion were available in the late Victorian era? What was happening, and who knew about it ( Read more... )

Without sufficient comment, and mainly for my own record, an edition of Antennae (the Journal of Nature in Visual Culture) on botched taxidermy. Humans attempting to capture and replicate and do tribute to nature but only producing what Baker calls 'a moment of perplexity and non-recognition', a squiffy squirrel. There's my bedtime reading sorted.