Month: April 2005

Moleskine / Notebook Elastic Hackery

As well as my PDA, I keep a notebook as well, so I can quickly scribble stuff down, draw little diagrams, reminders, anything. It’s quicker than the PDA, and can support more subtly shaded drawings (though I’m no artist). My girlfriend thinks this is all very pretentious, and so it is. But sod it eh?… Continue reading Moleskine / Notebook Elastic Hackery

French Letters

To quote Carrie Fisher, talking to George Lucas about the script for Star Wars, “You can write this shit, but you can’t say it.” Some of the cast, myself included, have had a bit of trouble with some of the words and names used by Our Beloved Writer/Director in the play. OK, the play is… Continue reading French Letters

React As You Would

Rehearsal proceeds apace. It has to, we’ve only got a month and a half left. But things are proceeding smoothly, all told. The first chunk is written, blocked, and partially rehearsed. The chorus are yelling nicely, and twitching and gurning on time, just as the Director desires. This week should see some more pages of… Continue reading React As You Would

Remnants Of A Past, Never To Be Repeated

While clearing out some files from my monolithic work laptop other day, I found this. Back in 2001, just after the shit hit the fan, I met up a few times with a couple of friends with a view to writing something to be performed somewhere. About a year later, we managed to do Grey,… Continue reading Remnants Of A Past, Never To Be Repeated

Sign The NO TO ID CARDS Petition Now!

Britain’s national ID card is back from the grave, and the government here is ploughing ahead at speed to make this an expensive, privacy-compromising reality. If you’ve lived in the UK for the past six months (or more), and you don’t want to be issued a Soviet-style “internal passport,” get to this site now and… Continue reading Sign The NO TO ID CARDS Petition Now!

Book Of Dreams

Bill Bailey calls the in-store Argos catalogue the ‘Laminated Book Of Dreams’. With my birthday coming up in June, why not take a look at these catalogues full of lovely things… Manufactum – fantastic items, traditional materials Screwfix – more tools than you’ll ever use, the next day! Muji – cool simple household gear Novatech… Continue reading Book Of Dreams

Here Comes The Pup

We’ve taken the plunge, and bought a dog. A puppy, to be precise. Pushpop Poinsetter, son of Diamond Dolphinium and Wizards Revenge (not sure about the names). His real name of course will be SHUGGIE. Here’s the photos so far: Shuggie Flickr Gallery. We went along to see him at his breeders (all above board… Continue reading Here Comes The Pup

Rehearsal Progressss

We’ve had a couple of rehearsals now, and things seem to be going well. The script is being written as we go along, that is, at each rehearsal we get a few more pages. Or, god forbid, changes to the existing pages. I’m doing the design for the poster, as I like to dabble with… Continue reading Rehearsal Progressss

Flattery Will Get You Linked

Praise indeed from Nosemonkey. “…judging from your profile pic you are a slightly more buff Steven Soderbergh, which I imagine can only only be a good thing…”