Firstly!

'BBC launches an initiative to find sitcoms that are not just white and middle-class'

The Stage reports on this as positive evidence of our openminded Auntie, whilst ignoring the facts that she perhaps wouldn't need to take such high profile action if the commissioners were doing their jobs properly, and secondly not really noticing the ( Read more... )

About to fly to England. Cannot wait.

1) I can not get used to the days of the week here.

( it's like this. )

The other day on the tube I did something I'm never normally brave enough to do, which is tell some little shite to turn his mp3 player off. Everybody was visibly irritated by it and I had dutch courage, being on my way back from a drink with geshmally , and I could hear it over my own headphones right at the other end of the carriage, so in the end I lost ( Read more... )

Cairo DID get back to me, they want a second interview, the jokers. It gets better though as they've asked me to prepare to discuss how I would see the role of Artistic Director (instead of Curator, which is what I applied for). I presume this means a far more interesting and strategic position is in the offing for whoever gets the job. It does ( Read more... )

The cure for homesickness, by the way, is going home.

I had been very scared for the Women and the Archive symposium and have lost far too much sleep preparing. The memory of that terrible presentation I gave at Casco is so painful, like a cheese grater to the ego, that I couldn't have borne it to do badly again. Anyway, it went well. I sop up ( Read more... )

Only one person will get that reference, and that one person is geshmally , who came this weekend, showed me Amsterdam, brought me a Kit Kat for consumer comparison services (Kit Kats in the Netherlands ARE different!), brought me Dawn Porter, corpsed over 1950!Hornblower with me, and left without her umbrella. All round top fun.

And now I come to London, ( Read more... )

In Daniel Name News: the newest idea is 'Daniel Breadbaker' or 'Redbaker' or 'Breadmaker'. After pointing out that the last option sounds like something you'd get from Morphy Richards, he dropped it, but I quite like 'Redbaker ( Read more... )

About a year or so ago A and I had a meeting about running residencies with a woman who was thinking of organising an artist's residency to take place during the 200th anniversary of abolition of slavery, alongside an exhibition at Westminster. Given that I have a meeting like this maybe three times a month ('this is how we do things, gosh your ( Read more... )