a small barrel of impolite monkeys
I have been forced to admit I really exist.
I am on a panel about blogging at the St Kilda Writer’s Festival, and I can’t do this gig without invoking my corporeal existence..
Vlado, Holly C, Meredith Badger and me make up the entertainment. As the site says:
“Vlado is the administrator of community web site, Melbourne Blogs. He also publishes the popular local blog, Keks, which in fact states that all generalisations are false.
Holly C is an award-winning screenwriter, producer, occasional actor, go-go dancer, fashion designer, political irritant and celebrity blogger. She also has a radio show on Triple R FM where she encourages people to talk dirty. At 28 years of age she should probably lose the dress-ups room. She lives with her dog, Bob Ellis.
Meredith Badger is a new media designer, currently working for a television production company. She graduated from RMIT’s Animation and Interactive Media department (AIM) in 1999 where her major work included karaoke-singing pandas and a penguin who dreamed of being a game show host. In 2002 she returned to AIM to undertake an MA, looking at the emerging field of weblogs, focussing in particular on how this medium can be used to the advantage of web-writers and/or online researchers. She has been on the selection panel for the animation component of MIFF and has been an assessor at RMIT. Her research blog is Invisible Shoebox.
Given the state of my laundry basket, I will have to get another second hand shirt modified to accomodate my extra legs. I’ve still got my winter beanie which will take care of the antennae.
You are probably thinking that Keks is pretty good fun and runs those awards, while Ms Fits is ..(snorts, giggles, falls down laughing while holding all trouser entrances away from prying fingers) Ms Fits.. and Meredith’s website is really lovely when she is into it. I will at least pay attention in an attractively senile way, rather like a Newfoundland dog that got sucked into the undertow for a bit too long and has been slow on the uptake ever since.
So the entertainment is pretty good. There is one small problem.
It’s on Sunday Feb 6 from 10.30 to 11.30am at the St Kilda Town Hall.
I bet that dampened your enthusiasm. Hopefully only for a moment.
Pricing? You get the whole day, which starts even earlier, for twelve bucks concession.
February 2nd, 2005 at 8:28 pm
What time is youse guys’ session? Can I get my name+six on the door?
And do you want some Dorothy Dixers for the Q&A bit?
“You’ve been called the blogosphere’s most unlikely sex symbol Mr Tiley. So it is true then about those penis enlargement pills?”
And what’s with this “Holly C”? Couldn’t they get Diana Elgar?
Oh, and I’ve got a tie you can borrow.
Incidentally I’ve found a way around that pesky MT Blacklist thingy that was blocking me before. I just leave out my (fake) email address. Talk about IT irony.
February 2nd, 2005 at 8:51 pm
I’m disappointed they didn’t ask some of the other stars of the St. Kilda blogging fraternity… *cough*
February 2nd, 2005 at 11:09 pm
Ya gunna come?
you could wear your baklava.
February 2nd, 2005 at 11:51 pm
Sweet, mate.
I’ll try. But honestly 10.30am on a Sunday is the time a spirited screwup goes to bed, not wakes up. Especially as I’ve got a musical psychologist’s wake on Saturday night.
But if you hear a faint and wavering audience question that mentions “berocca” and “glass of water”, it means I made it there. Probably.
February 3rd, 2005 at 9:23 am
I wish I was going. I want to check out the man-boobs.
And Nabs, I’m sorry about your friend (I read your comments at Troppo).
February 3rd, 2005 at 11:10 am
It’s a shame this is in Melbourne.
February 3rd, 2005 at 11:53 am
Does Nabakov often wear Baklava? After he’s heckled someone in a Greek bakery I’ll wager, having seen Nabakov at his heckling best..
I was gunna be headlining, but unfortunately with the book and film launches I had to decline.
February 3rd, 2005 at 2:27 pm
I can reveal here that Nabs does indeed wear a series of super hero disguises 24/7. I can also reveal that one of his many roles is Ron Hitler Barassi of TISM. Sorry, but it had to emerge at some stage.
February 3rd, 2005 at 3:42 pm
Does he wear his underpants on the outside though?
February 3rd, 2005 at 5:25 pm
well according to research possibly first unearthed by Sedge, according to Googlism
“nabakov is spiderman you keep telling yourself that”
Sounds good. For those who may not be able to make it so …early…(without coffee anyway) I hope it is blogged quickly as befits the medium.
February 3rd, 2005 at 10:11 pm
Mock and jeer all you want.
But I’ll have the last laugh when I swop in to save yer bloggy little arses from the radioactive deathstalker octopuses (octupi?) of Doctor Fu Manchu and his Undead Legions of the…um…Undead.
(Hmm…how exactly does one change into a costume in a mobile phone?)
February 4th, 2005 at 12:00 pm
It’s a shocker, isn’t it?
I’m so glad I live locally.
Pls excuse if I turn up in my pjs.