posted by ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
mmoa_writes at 12:40pm on 14/12/2007
mmoa_writes at 12:40pm on 14/12/2007http://www.globalwomenstrike.net/
I know plenty of you guys will be interested in this activist site, and it'll save me having to email you petitions and such (my fingertips are now exceptionally tender so I'm trying to treat them with some respect).
And of course, it's not just for women only.
On my journey back from Bath and I have met something like a soulmate. His name is Dill and talking to him was literally like chatting with Athene, or Maud or Suzy. It was incredible, I mean we were atcually finishing off each other's sentences. There was a hillarious moment where he tried to guess where my parents were from, (he figured the Caribbean... I don't look conventionally Nigerian, but none of my father's side does either) and got it wrong whereas I... I figured northern Middle East, around Turkey. So right, (turned out to be from Kurdistan) but then, my ethnodar has had a couple of months fine tuning at the college I'm going to right now.
We were a bit of an odd couple, I'll admit. He lives around Edgware road and has a typical London accent and I'm rather, well, a bit... well spoken. He makes films and writes scripts, I make comics. And we're both religious sceptics in love with Physics.
What can I say, 2 hours flew by and I actually felt really bad about halting our conversation with a goodbye.
Watched The Pirates of Penzance on Sky Arts yesterday afternoon. Turns out to be my dad's favourite Gilbert and Sullivan piece. Why has he kept this hidden from me? It's really frustrating how on the one hand, we have a frequently difficult relationship, yet we have so much in common.
Anyway, it was performed by the same Australian company who performed the 'Hot Mikado'. I found it amusing how their a's sounded more like 'ays' but apart from that, it was fabulous. The production was very irreverent and yet I, as a bit of a purist, I'll admit, still loved it.
I think it helped that the audience was so keen as well and that in an attempt (well, partly) to ensure that foreign audiences didn't get too flummoxed by the Australian accents, vibrato was kept to an absolute minimum.
I know plenty of you guys will be interested in this activist site, and it'll save me having to email you petitions and such (my fingertips are now exceptionally tender so I'm trying to treat them with some respect).
And of course, it's not just for women only.
On my journey back from Bath and I have met something like a soulmate. His name is Dill and talking to him was literally like chatting with Athene, or Maud or Suzy. It was incredible, I mean we were atcually finishing off each other's sentences. There was a hillarious moment where he tried to guess where my parents were from, (he figured the Caribbean... I don't look conventionally Nigerian, but none of my father's side does either) and got it wrong whereas I... I figured northern Middle East, around Turkey. So right, (turned out to be from Kurdistan) but then, my ethnodar has had a couple of months fine tuning at the college I'm going to right now.
We were a bit of an odd couple, I'll admit. He lives around Edgware road and has a typical London accent and I'm rather, well, a bit... well spoken. He makes films and writes scripts, I make comics. And we're both religious sceptics in love with Physics.
What can I say, 2 hours flew by and I actually felt really bad about halting our conversation with a goodbye.
Watched The Pirates of Penzance on Sky Arts yesterday afternoon. Turns out to be my dad's favourite Gilbert and Sullivan piece. Why has he kept this hidden from me? It's really frustrating how on the one hand, we have a frequently difficult relationship, yet we have so much in common.
Anyway, it was performed by the same Australian company who performed the 'Hot Mikado'. I found it amusing how their a's sounded more like 'ays' but apart from that, it was fabulous. The production was very irreverent and yet I, as a bit of a purist, I'll admit, still loved it.
I think it helped that the audience was so keen as well and that in an attempt (well, partly) to ensure that foreign audiences didn't get too flummoxed by the Australian accents, vibrato was kept to an absolute minimum.
There are 5 comments on this entry.