From the category archives:
At last, the waiting is over, he steps on stage, ACID DRENCHED AND SILVER SKINNED, a comic book hero, biker king, a self-styled messiah, stretching, preacher thin, hidden eyes surveying the “mosh pit” below with a threatening stare, a wolf amongst the sheep….
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With a pinch of creativity here and a dash of experimentation there Hitchin’s Lab produces a very entertaining open mic.
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I read an interview with Twiggy in which she talked about clothes swap parties. Apparently women meet up, bring along clothes that don’t fit any more or that they no longer like and then spend the evening stripping off and trying everything on. It immediately struck me that you could do the same with books. Only without the stripping. Which is a shame, thinking about it.
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I became quite ill and then one evening, sitting in front of the mirror, I put my hand to my breast and my hand just sank into the breast, splattering green gunk all over the mirror”. The abscess had burst and Samantha was taken to hospital, but it was here that her troubles really began.
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I did a reading at the Big Chill music festival in 2004. They had a big tent off to the side where they were doing “other media” events, a couple of which were literary readings. But the punters had sussed this out and decided to use it as a huge crash-out area where they could catch up on some sleep, undisturbed by the non-music going on up on stage. That was an interesting challenge.
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Ada formed an algorithm: a code to enable the actual processing of the machines – had they been constructed during their inventor’s lifetime. As such, she is now viewed as being the first computer programmer. And, there is some evidence that Ada suggested the use of punch cards for the Analytical machine, realising its scope might reach further; even to the composition of music.
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“I’m so thrilled. I really love coming to Windsor. It’s my home. It just seems like yesterday that my friend Kay and I used to walk down Peascod Street on a Saturday afternoon and get our pictures taken in Woolworth’s.”
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As I drove round the supermarket car park for the third time watching a number of oversize posteriors bent over a vehicle either loading bags of quick-meal stodge into the boot or trying to squash the sixth kid into the rear of a Citroen Xsara Picasso, I notice there are at least 7 spaces at the back of the compound. However, you can only park here if you want ‘Car wash mister?’
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Celery is what Satan feeds people in Hell and spiders – you mean you don’t know about them? They have enormous fangs and some of them carry guns and, basically, they’re trying to take over the world. I am very scared of them, even the small ones. In fact, often they’re the ones with the biggest teeth.
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When we first found out that my wife Helen was expecting twins, my initial reaction, after the swearing had stopped, was to ask her who the father of the other one was.
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I had a mushroom trip when I was in my early twenties and had a conversation with God while lying in a bath tub and He spoke to me through the curtains. I asked Him what I should do with my life and He, or rather the curtains, responded: Be a writer.
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On 2nd April 2008 explorer Ed Stafford began his 4000-mile quest to be the first person to walk the Amazon River from its source, near the Pacific coast in Peru, to its mouth at the Atlantic Ocean in Brazil.
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Taking International String Under The Wire
Tuning up for Windsor Festival
Cypress, a holiday on The Green Line
If You Ever Get To Heaven Film Poster
In Praise of Savagery, by Warwick Cairns, jacket cover
Joe and Amanda Atkins at the pre-release screening of "If You Ever Get To Heaven", at the Firestation Centre for Arts and Culture, Windsor, UK
Three Men In A Boat, To Say Nothing Of The Dog
White Waltham Primary School art workshop
Cynthia Barlow Marrs ASGFA
Ana Silvera
Warwick Cairns, author and Beat columnist
Julian H Cope - reviewed on Beat
A Moments Notice, by Dan Prescott
What, by illustrator Jenny Robins
Julian H Cope, by Richmond Harding
The New Goodbye, by Neil Ayres
Marie Phillips, by Alexandra Scannell
14/4 Literary Dinner
Robert Hudson
Shelter From The Storm, by Sid Griffin