New Teacast and Explaining the Delay to Teacast
New Teacast is up! With the excellent
over sencha. What you do when you can't make tea, w...
2016-09-27 05:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
AliceFraser posts
Appropriate
My favourite things at the moment are the cool secret ways we are building to draw attention to our hierarchies of cultural power so we can pretend we're rejecting them while secretly reinforcing them...
2016-09-13 20:07:57 +0000 UTC View PostDay 19 Edinblog: Final Week
Today I woke up and headed in to do savage at City Cafe. I felt a million times better about this show than the first one, which is a good thing. Then I met up with Suzi Ruffell for a cuppa, and then ...
2016-08-23 14:46:21 +0000 UTC View PostDay 17 and 18 Edinblog: Double Ups
Hallo punks!
Okay, I know, this is the second double-up day. It's been incredibly hectic, but I will try to keep it daily from now on!
Bad news from home remains steady, but not worse, a...
2016-08-22 00:39:27 +0000 UTC View PostDay 15 and 16 Edinblog: Home and Away
Wednesday I spent most of the morning in bed trying to kick a bit of overtiredness, then met my friend musician Hannah PC<...
2016-08-19 02:33:54 +0000 UTC View PostDay 14 Edinblog: Squintwards
My blog-days are getting a bit loose, in that I'm writing about yesterday now, rather than having come home and written it up in good time. So to clarify, I'm talking about Tuesday 16th August.
This...
2016-08-17 13:04:37 +0000 UTC View PostDay 13 Edinblog: Surprise Monday
Today I woke up feeling a bit the worse for wear - slightly sniffly from not enough sleep (that's a thing that happens to other people too, right?) and with my knee still bruised and sad.
But,...
2016-08-16 08:10:11 +0000 UTC View PostDay 12 Edinblog: Injury.
Today I woke up way too early, given that I didn't get to bed til 4. I woke up to say bye to my excellent friend Victoria, who had come to Edinburgh for the weekend, and was going out on the early (11...
2016-08-15 00:50:31 +0000 UTC View PostDay 11 Edinblog: Sold Out
I woke up this morning and dashed over to Newtown to do a midday spot at the Nightcap, before sitting down to edit some video footage for a project. Then I went and met Tiff Stevenson, to see if any...
2016-08-14 02:30:23 +0000 UTC View PostEdinblog Day 10 - Doldrums
Today I woke up and did admin for gigs back in Australia, and edited some video. Edinburgh was putting on an excellent show of rain/sun/rain/wind, which sent the non-natives into shelter. I bumped i...
2016-08-13 01:02:20 +0000 UTC View PostEdinblog Day 9: Strings
Hallo Punks! Today was a day of lots of different directions. I woke up and went to have breakfast with an Agent, talking about the landscape of comedy here. Then I went to the City Cafe, and had a cu...
2016-08-12 11:32:45 +0000 UTC View PostEdinblog Day 8: Black Wednesday
Today I woke up and went over to The Free Sisters to do
lineup show.
Then I went over the bridge to Ne...
2016-08-11 01:14:40 +0000 UTC View PostDay 7 Edinblog
Today was a long day again. I woke up to help a friend through some Edinburgh heartbreak, and then dragged my sleepy brain along to Sameena Zehra's poetry show, Poetry Can F*ck off. They have their ...
2016-08-10 10:39:24 +0000 UTC View PostDay 6 Edinblog: The Mountain
Today I woke up and had brunch with my friend Yasmin who I used to play Theatresports with back in first year university when I had no idea that I'd end up down this path in life. Her partner Jeff was...
2016-08-09 07:02:26 +0000 UTC View PostDay 5 Edinblog: Olympian
Today being the first Sunday of the Fringe I decided I should take a rest day, insofar as I decided I would only do the show that I'm meant to be here doing.
I woke up, had breakfast, went for...
2016-08-08 03:50:49 +0000 UTC View PostDay 4 Edinblog: Overdrive
Today. Was. BUSY.
I woke up and then spent some time looking for my SD card which has my most recent podcasts on it, and I seem to have put it somewhere very clever and important. ...
2016-08-07 01:10:18 +0000 UTC View PostDay 3 Edinblog: Consolidate
Today I woke up earlier than was entirely wise, and went to meet my friend Alana Zivanovic, who is a jazz singer I met when I did that 2016-08-06 01:44:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Day 2 Edinblog: 4 Aug: Redemption
Oh man! The show! It's back!!!
I woke up on the morning of day two... actually that's a lie. I didn't properly sleep after my opening night - being wracked with doubt and also having a few wo...
2016-08-05 06:45:56 +0000 UTC View PostDay 1 Edinburgh Fringe: 3 August
Today was the first day of the rest of the fringe.
I woke up and jittered around all day, torn between working on my show and flyering for my show, and wandering around saying hallo to people ...
2016-08-04 00:49:55 +0000 UTC View Post
We're All Going To Die
I have a motto (or do I mean mantra?), which I use sometimes (all mottos should only be for sometimes – that’s my motto). I use it when I’m anxious or panicky, because comedy is a fick...
2016-07-23 11:03:13 +0000 UTC View PostToxic Politics and a Cocktail of Discourse.
One of the things I’ve noticed recently, with the increasing
vitriol on both sides of politics and a surge in popularity of far right
ideologies across Europe, the UK, Australia, the US, is ...
2016-07-02 20:44:33 +0000 UTC View PostSurvival Instincts
I have a friend who's 6.1 and he lives in a very different world from the world I live in.
First, I'm never going to see the top shelf at the video shop.
What a wond...
2016-06-14 11:30:37 +0000 UTC View PostLandedededed
Hallo Punks! I'm landed in London! It's surreal. I'm missing the love and comfort of home, but I have the love and comfort of home, in my twin, whose house I'm crashing in, and in all of the London-f...
2016-06-01 20:45:58 +0000 UTC View PostFever Dreams
The last few days have been a strange floating bubble feeling. All of the joys and stresses of this job packed into 36 hours: a corporate gig entertaining a group of incredibly disparate people at th...
2016-05-27 04:14:15 +0000 UTC View PostCultural Cringe, Keeping Identities Small
Hi Punks!
I am back from New-Zealand and chasing projects in all directions like a rabbit-octopus hybrid. Flying out to the UK next week, and trying to lock some solid things down. Anyway,...
2016-05-21 02:06:45 +0000 UTC View PostNew Zealand Time Travel
I feel very strange. I'm in NZ at the moment, running Savage like a hot knife through the New Zealand Comedy Festival. It feels like travelling back in time.
I mean, New Zealand itself fee...
2016-05-09 08:56:42 +0000 UTC View PostOsher Günsberg Sydney Dreaming
Hey Punks
I am back in Sydney for a few days, doing my show at the Enmore Theatre. It feels like nothing special until I see the water and then every time I catch a glimpse of it, it feels like ...
2016-04-30 04:39:32 +0000 UTC View PostProcess
I've been thinking about how people write shows. Of course I have. But mainly about how I write shows. I thought of a good way to explain it the other day (midway through explaining it. This is a go...
2016-04-26 11:06:22 +0000 UTC View PostInterstitial time and a New Teacast ep
Time and space are funny and daunting abstractions. In some ways I ignore both on a regular basis. I don't need to check my emails til later. I don't feel the need to claim a part of the world as ...
2016-04-23 04:03:12 +0000 UTC View Post