- This a stupid time of day to be awake & already en route. #
- Also, Obama takes centre stage, taking mobile calls may cost you money, & confidence falls to an all time low. #
- At Apple EBC. Who wants to touch me? #
- London & the Tube are hot as hell today. Muggy, too. #
- iTunesU presentation thought provoking. Lots of thoughts/ideas, as always after these things. #
- Now the trick is not to let the workaday sap that energy. #
- Lou@FP London is still my awesome FP favourite, & you can take that to the fucking bank. Whatever THAT means. #
- I wonder how much news I’ve read off papers that other people are reading, over the years? #
- I’m a filthy voyeur-pirate, stealing news with my furtive, glancing eyes! Won’t somebody stop me! #
- I’d never realised before that reader’s views is an anagram of reader’s wives. How odd. #
- @steevbishop It was an intro to iTunesU. All very interesting stuff, but it requires a lot of work, not just from me, before we’re ready. #
- @steevbishop Heh… think we may be talking about different Lous? Maybe not… Though there is a surplus of FP Lous, past & present… #
- @steevbishop In my world, two counts as “a surplus”. FEAR ME! #
- @josiefraser Oh god, yes… Have you read her book/backstory? She basically IS Snoop, bar the serial killing… #
- @bremxjones Especially big when you haven’t been to the new FP (visiting old colleague) & there are works everywhere you’ve been directed… #
- On way to Walkabout for leaving do. Mmm, our very own bit of Oz, here in Southampton. #
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Found Objects
MOMBcast #137 is recording tonight! Get involved!
MOMBcast #137 is recording tonight!
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Peach for godsgirls
Illustration by Victo Ngai for the fiction “Sweet Dreams” by Peter Stamm
“She went to the bathroom, filled the tub, and got undressed. The mirror misted over with condensation, and the smell of pine needles filled the air. She turned off the water, and the apartment suddenly seemed very quiet. Then she heard footsteps, and Simon’s voice through the half-open door. He said, I’ll just go downstairs for the bottle of wine. I thought you’d gone already, said Lara, and she poked her head through the crack, and he kissed her on the lips and tried to barge the door open, but she held it shut. They kissed again. See you soon, said Lara. It was odd, she still felt a little ashamed in front of him.”
This scene is one of my earliest comic memories. It was the first point at which I saw a comic character making a mistake, which meant it was probably the first time I really processed them properly as characters and human.
Spider-man has webbed up a doorway to stop a criminal escaping, but then realises that the criminal is escaping out of the window instead, and in his hurry to catch them he forgets his own webbing.
It seems gloriously ridiculous out of context, but if memory serves it was part of a pretty intense and dramatic story featuring Alex Summers (Havok).
(This was me, by the way.)
Bella Heathcote
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