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Emily's organising coffee in Sydney tomorrow (Friday) as is Jason in Toronto and Ben in London. I'm going to be doing coffee this Saturday (the 4th) in Portland (Byway's at 8am) and next Saturday (the 11th) in New York at 11am. Venue will be sNice where Noah and Piers do likemind.
Anyone I've missed?
If you can stand it you can hear me blathering on on the BBC World Service website right now, here, on Culture Shock. I was asked to go back and make an appearance as sidekick, rather than interviewee. It was enormous fun, though rather strange because I was massively late for the recording and had to comment on all the features without actually being able to hear them first.
And you discover a strange thing when being interviewed in that environment, you just say stuff, almost entirely at random, just to fill the space. And I say 'kind of' and 'actually' a lot.
Listening back to it I'm not sure I agree with about 50% of what I said.
Ah well. Good fun though. And it's a great programme. Full of interesting stuff from around the world.
The Staufenbergers are on a mini-roll, (as opposed to a mini roll). They've just posted a scan of Stephen King's 'what is a brand?' which is well worth reading. (Though it's the worst bit of photocopying/scanning I've ever seen. Come on Patrick. Get it sorted.) And they've also found this fantastic (but tiny) archive of old films at the BFI (only available in the UK I suspect). I'm very much looking forward to Let's Go To Birmingham.
Jon's always helpful round-up of October reminds me that it's time for the Post Of The Month club. Same rules as last time. Get your nominations in by November 10th.
I've just forwarded Simon about 40 entries for Assignment 10. I think this means it's going to take us a while to get them all 'marked'. I also think that it might be a good idea for us to record a chat talking about what everyone's done. That might be more useful than 40 different documents you have to open. But we won't be able to do that until I'm back in London, which'll be the middle of November. Hope that's OK. I'll stick the next assignment up before then though. Probably next week. Many thanks to everyone for entering.
(Simon, check your email)