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Dear readers,

If any of you are in or around London on Wednesday 25th August, I’ll be performing a live show based on this blog at the Homework literary cabaret night in Bethnal Green. I’ll be reading a few blog posts, dispensing advice on becoming a better bad writer and generally lowering the tone. It’s at The Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, London E2 6NB and it only costs £3 to get in. If you like the sound of that, please do come along.

All the best,
Joel

PS. I do not regard “living on a different continent” as a valid excuse.

21 comments:

  1. The Antipodean, pleased at this lack of geographical discrimination,Saturday, July 31, 2010

    How about not being a working man?

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  2. Dear Joel,

    Since I live on a different continent...

    Do you plan to record the show and put it up on Youtube or something?

    Also, do you have any advice on catching signs of the inevitable slide from writing badly well, to merely writing badly?

    Good luck,
    Rohan.

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  3. That's a good idea – I'll have to source a video camera & tripod for the occasion.

    I think the difference between writing badly well and merely writing badly is one of awareness. I'd refer you to Maslow's Four Stages of Competence – writing badly well is all about moving from stage 1 to stage 2 and then stubbornly refusing to progress to stage 3.

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  4. And as to the need to be a working man, I don't think that should be a problem. After all, they're letting me in.

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  5. Ha! That was going to be my excuse, since I couldn't use being extra-continental. (Come to think of it, are you even on a continent, technically?) Fortunately, Rohan has saved the day with an excellent suggestion.

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  6. If I were incontinent, I would certainly attend.


    (What? If words like 'opportunistic' and 'condone' can be hijacked, why not this one?)

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  7. I shall check my diary ^.^ Thankfully London isn't so far away for me!

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  8. Oh, and what time is this likely to kick off?

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  9. I'll come from North America; if you'll pay for my plane fare and hotel, I'll gladly pay the £3 to get in :-)

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  10. Rats, there goes my excuse!

    Seriously, I'd love to see (or hear) a recording, if it can be arranged.

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  11. I'll third (fourth, fifth, whatever - you don't really expect me to count, do you?) the request for a recording! While I'm *technically* on the same continent, it's a bit short notice to get time off work and an affordable ticket to London.

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  12. I think it should be kicking off at about seven thirty, with some rather good support acts before I'm on at probably nineish. Even if you can't make it this month, Homework is well worth going to whenever it's on (as featured in today's Guardian, no less).

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  13. In this rather London-centric article.

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  14. I was going to use the "living on a different continent" excuse, but it seems it is now invalid. xD Soo... I'll be sick that day? You definitely should record it though!

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  15. My apologies - I am living on a different continent.

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  16. Well you just shot my excuse in the foot. Different country though, not Continent. Good luck and as they say...Break a leg!

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  17. What is this talk of continents? London is on an island, not a continent!

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  18. I shall be there. Just stay alive: I will find you.

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  19. I am sorry. Much though I would have liked to attend the show, I cannot. It just takes far too long to travel the dark space between our planets.

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  20. I too would like to go! Can't make it with being 1) having to come from Chicago 2) Only have greenbacks to get in 3) Have never heard of Bethnal Green, even having been to London and I'm too lazy to look on Google earth for it.

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  21. I live on an island. Plus 3 quid translates to my yearly salary. And I'm not a man. But I wish I could be there.

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