I’m sorry. But I like this picture – it looks like she’s watching a horse race – and the website I got it from, good old Silkworms Ink, has a pretty well-balanced bullet-pointed list of what the fuss is about. Ish.
I have to like their insouciance; remember when you thought you could just do stuff? They are, or at least one of them, Phil Brown, is going to live-tweet tomorrow’s meeting, and I’m glad; it’s either going to be dull and depressing, in which case it will need commentary to livn it up, or it will be a bun fight and need preserving and recording. I wrote about Silkworms Ink when it started up about a year ago that it had fun ideas and energy, and here we are. They had T shirts with signatures that could never have been, then; maybe now they’ll do us some EGM memorabilia…
Oh, we used to have fun in Baroque Mansions, too – remember all those Marie Antoinette jokes? – but now I’m a Hideous Henchwoman, the world is grim and perpetual and work is the thing that counts. You don’t get paid for it any more, either. You just do it. We’re all hardened in our cocoons, and I for one am building myself up to a Network moment… In the meantime, it’s nice to see some people are still breezy.
(In other news, I hear Rupert Murdoch was back at the VIP table at the River Café. So all’s right with the world.)
In case you’re still interested in this thing, which I can hardly believe (I yearn for nothing more, now, than the luxury of not having to think about it any more – except when that happens, it’ll be straight into the new campaign to keep Baroque Mansions in rent money), the guys have also provided us with a handy catch-up revision list.
Well, the meeting is in a lecture theatre…
Background Reading:
Only one thing: they haven’t given us any hashtags to follow. Come on, boys! Let’s see if I can follow surreptitiously from the second row; I want to have some fun too.
If I can get a signal – 3G not the greatest for that – I too shall live-tweet from @janeholland1.
Hashtag should be something like #PoSocEGM, surely? Or #Poetrygate. LOL.
I now know we’re meeting ‘somewhere’ in Lincoln’s Inn Fields at about noon – just look for the poets’ flash-mob?! – but when is the actual meeting taking place, and where?
Had so many emails about this, and I still don’t know the logistics of it.
Jx
I tell you, Katy — if it wasn’t for your truthful though happily subversive reporting on this, I would have jumped off some poetic bridge or other a long time ago. I don’t wish I was there, but I’m thankful you are, dear proxy.
Very useful summary. Good luck tomorrow – i shall attempt to think of y’all between visiting the Tall Ships in our home port . Yay the wrong-thinking people!
Sheenagh, when you get a minute, picture my envy. And we might usefully adopt Jane’s quip: the “left thinking”…
Dear Katy
I gave your ‘like’ buttons a click on Amazon. co.uk the other day. Good luck with your reading in Swansea next week and good luck with finding remunerated employment in the near future.
Best wishes from Simon
Hi Katy,
Thanks for spreading the word about the Twitter-feed… I hope that it will allow people who want to be at the meeting a chance to keep up with things…
I think #PoSocEGM is a great idea.
All the best,
Phil Brown
Phil, I think in practice Jane’s second idea might get used too.
Simon, thanks for those good wishes – was there some talk of you and Rusty coming along to the reading in Swansea?
Dear Katy
Indeed there was. Barring illness or accident, we should be somewhere amid the audience!
Best wishes from Simon