Or: one road to the horrorshow.
There’s plenty of stuff that’s been written about the recent wave of revelations about powerful men abusing their power to get sexual attention from women. M...
I met Al Murray remotely, doing a Bugle podcast. He was in London in the studio with Andy Zaltzman, I was in the foyer of the ABC studios in Melbourne.
We drank tea in Camden, and talked about...
2017-11-24 18:55:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Steele Saunders drinks turmeric and ginger tea to fit in with the Tea With Alice brand, talking the class issues of Iced Coffee, Overdoses, how to make meaning in life, Star Wars as a microcosm of soc...
2017-11-21 13:51:16 +0000 UTC View Post
I had a moment the other day of wishing for a more structured set of rules of engagement.
This is possibly the result of me reading too much historical fiction, but also having learned German a...
There's a certain argument that I have been hearing a lot of in the wake of the #metoo hashtag about the kinds of men that women are 'outing' as harassers.
Rather than describing the argument,...
2017-11-08 02:19:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Laurie Kilmartin sat with me in LA over black tea with creamer (no camomile!), talking about dating while being a comedian and single mother, what you can ask of partners, death sharing and American P...
2017-11-06 08:07:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Patreonites. Some of the higher tier subscribers have the option of requesting content (articles/podcast topic/etc) that they would like me to post or topics to discuss. This is one of those posts....
2017-11-01 23:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostWell, my sheltered childhood and uncool young- adulthood of not watching much TV is finally coming in handy.
Everyone’s all, “did you hear about X being a creep!?” And I’m like, “...
I had a lovely cuppa with Troy Conrad, over a triple bag (!) of lemon herbal tea. We talked about alkalising the body, and about relationships - whether it's possible to remake your character, and bei...
2017-10-30 06:19:46 +0000 UTC View PostI did an interview about why I’m not a lawyer anymore. https://goo.gl/dWEVRa
2017-10-27 01:03:10 +0000 UTC View Post
I’m not a big fan of beauty. I mean, I enjoy beautiful things and find many kinds of people beautiful, but messages about ‘access’ to beauty bother me. You know the ones I mean - the ev...
2017-10-26 05:18:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Over Rooibos tea, I spoke to Lisa Sharon Harper, consultant, church engagement officer and activist about the American Narrative Gap, the conflicts of identity, her experience at Charlottesville, and ...
2017-10-23 04:39:07 +0000 UTC View PostI'm hoping to refine what I'm doing here a little bit with your feedback - topic suggestions, people you know who you'd like me to talk to, more of x, less of y.
This is a bit of a grab bag of thing...
2017-10-18 05:55:07 +0000 UTC View Post
The Chamomile Vigilante
I'm sorry this ep is going up a little late - I lost a day in transit from LA to Sydney, but I hope you'll enjoy it.
I spoke over Chamomile tea with Graham Elwood...
2017-10-18 05:37:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Yesterday (12 October) was the anniversary of my mum’s death. I’ve written about this before - at length, here on this blog and in my sad poetry blog. I’ve spoken about it, both in my podcast, i...
2017-10-13 21:08:25 +0000 UTC View PostI was up on the Comedy Film Nerds Podcast with Graham Elwood and Chris Mancini talking about Bladerunner 2049.
It was the day after the Podcast Festival and Graham Elwood mentioned that he wou...
So I’ve just finished up my time at the LA Podcast Festival. It was a fascinating and excellent weekend, at the ridiculously pretty Millenium Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.
The secon...
This week's podcast is with Paul Gilmartin of the Mental Illness Happy Hour Podcast.
I spoke to him about shame, his experience with doi...
2017-10-09 08:45:38 +0000 UTC View Post
I am in L.A at the moment. After having returned briefly to Sydney to hang out with dad and sleep in the empty shell of my family home (dad is selling up, so the house was being painted and floored an...
2017-10-05 18:50:11 +0000 UTC View Post
This week on the podcast, I talk to my friend, Andrew X, engineer, polymath, autodidact and hospitality worker.
I sat with friend and friend of the podcast Justin Hamilton over a long black and an English Breakfast.
Hey Chaps
This is a true ramble at a wall by me. Enjoy almost completely incoherent solo chat about death threats, free will, and Artificial Intelligence.
Hallo lovely punks.
This morning I landed back in Sydney from London. This evening I did one of the Just For Laughs comedy galas at the Opera house.
That flying in in the morning, perfo...
This is a long chat. Tiff is incredibly easy to talk to for ages, and I definitely did that. We cover a lot of ground here, from representation in standup, to the feeling of having done Edinburgh, to ...
2017-09-12 11:21:56 +0000 UTC View Post
I love talking to Laura, and it's been lovely to hang out with her in Edinburgh and also London.
We had Choc-Mint Rooibos tea and talked about Moths, Travel, Existential Crises, the Essential t...
2017-09-04 22:43:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi pals. My excellent all-round hench-human Sarah has built new merch for you guys, based on the line in my show Savage "only the unfinished can contain the infinite.
and it's up at the shop he...
Perhaps it's the hair-resemblance, perhaps it's the shared tea obsession, perhaps it's the fact that I have such fun on the Bugle, but I love chatting with Andy Zaltzman. He is a very sweet and lovely...
2017-08-28 13:53:19 +0000 UTC View PostOh god - it's the final day of the Fringe. This one happened to me very fast, although this is the first year I'm not doing multiple full length shows.
Friday and Saturday night were lovely - S...
I can't believe we're in the last week. I feel like I've lost some days in this blog, but I can't figure out where.
Edinburgh is very absorbing - it feels like a sort of Jetlag, in that days a...
