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Bricks

Yesterday to see ceremonial burying of bricks as part of Serena Korda’s Laid to Rest event.  Didn’t spot brick number 402 (see Poetic Dust post).  The bricks were buried in Coram Fields to the sound of the Brick Keepers’ Band.  Ladies … Continue reading

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Famous Bodies

Last friday evening to fascinating Famous Bodies talk at the British Museum, to coincide with the BM’s Treasures of Heaven exhibition.  Marina Warner, Madeleine Bunting and Grayson Perry discussed the fetishisation of celebrity.  Think MW’s pic of a packet of Elvis’s sweat … Continue reading

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Thinking Outside the Box – Society of Authors/Comica event

Took part in Society of Authors/Comica event last night, organised by the talented and energetic Sarah McIntyre and Paul Gravett.  Sarah’s excellent blog tells all.

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Comica Social Club

Comic strip enthusiasts’ meeting last night, and if it’s your first time (it was mine), just look for the man in the emerald fez, Peter Stanbury.  Does he wear it at home I wonder? Great talking to people from all sorts of … Continue reading

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Paul Gravett and Shaun Tan

Most excellent evening on tuesday – Paul Gravett interviewed Shaun Tan at Waterstones in Picadilly, and Eric was there too.  I love his peanut suitcase.

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Slutwalk – not

Bother.  Went down to Trafalgar Square to to join Slutwalk and discovered a crowd of Swiss footballer supporters and a Victims of Child Abuse rally.  I’d got the day wrong.

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Poetic dust

Whilst walking through Camden Town after visiting the Wellcome’s Dirt exhibition, I passed 8 Royal College Street, where young poets Rimbaud and Verlaine briefly lodged in the 1870s.  I scraped some doorstep dust into a small plastic bag, watched by … Continue reading

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Women Should Be In Charge

Last night to Women Should Be In Charge event at the ICA in London, organised by Bob and Roberta Smith, who is a man btw.  Hmm.  Not good.  Andy Warhol, Thomas Gainsborough, Claude Monet and Banksy were all there, ready … Continue reading

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