Some of you may have noticed that I haven’t blogged much recently. That’s because it has been a pretty crazy month, and I have just run out of time. So what has been happening? I thought it would be good to do a round up!
The big news is that this week I launched my crowdfunding campaign at ByLine.com for my book, Sexy Capitalism. The crowdfunder is designed to raise me enough funds so I can get properly started on a first draft — something I can send to a publisher.
The campaign is going well so far. At time of writing I have been going for just over two days and am 15% funded, which is really great. But there is still 85% to go! So it would be really great if you could all jump on board!
You can support the campaign here: https://www.byline.com/project/17
The Fringe
Oh my god it is The Fringe! I have been told by so many people that Edinburgh radically changes during The Fringe and people were right. The city has just changed in the last week — the streets are full, things are happening everywhere and it is just much more lively.
I’ve been to five shows so far, not a bad start! On the first night my partner and I went to some bad comedy, but still worth it. In particular we went to a show where comedians commentate C-grade movies. The movie in question was titled “Santa Conquers the Martians” and was much funnier than the comedians themselves, and luckily funny enough that the night was great.
Otherwise we’ve been to a show called Festival of the Spoken Nerd, which was some really great nerdy comedy fun and last night my dad (who is in town) and I went to a Looking Through A Glass Onion — a show about John Lennon. It was really excellent. But the most interesting has probably been Dicing with Dr Death by Dr Philip Nitschke. I wasn’t really sure what it was about, but the show could be best described as a workshop on how to kill yourself if you ever find yourself in that position (no wonder we had to agree to a waiver saying we wouldn’t follow the instructions literally). I have no intention of following any of Nitschke’s instructions, but it is interesting in that it is something I found useful. The show was also really entertaining — Nitschke basically spoke for the entire hour, but he was never boring. Really worth seeing.
Travel travel travel
Of course this all comes after some pretty awesome travel. My partner Martyn and I went on a holiday to Paris and London and had a great time. I have to say Paris did not grab me — it is a beautiful city, but that was the most I could say about it. And all the potential interesting parts — Montmartre in particular had the feeling of having become a tourist attraction about a place that used to be interesting.
But I love London. London has the same tourist issue, but at the same time I feel it is more organic and interesting and different. We stayed with some friends in Peckham which was a really fascinating part of town (anywhere else and being that far out you’d be in the suburbs, but not in London) and we went to some great exhibitions — the Wellcome Collection and the National Library were two big highlights. Also met up with some good friends and everything was great.
And to add to that my dad is now in town and from tomorrow we’re doing a long weekend in the Scottish Highlands. There will be whiskey and beautiful places, so can’t complain. Am looking forward to it!
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Phew! That’s it for the moment. No wonder I’m a little tired. Maybe time for a nap?