Slightly cart before the horse I know, what with no date announcement.
Looking for speakers for Birmingham Fail Camp 2010.
What sort of things are we looking for?
Whatever you want to talk about. If it relates to failure and you don’t mind sharing it, we’ll be interested, attentive and supportive. You’ll get ten minutes to present and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘failure’
So wrong it’s right.
National Treasure Charlie Brooker has a new comedy panel show on National Treasure Radio 4. They celebrate “one of Britain’s favourite subject- failure”.
One for me then.
It’s a game of competitive ineptitude, the aim of which is to come up with the wrongest answer to each question. In this episode, the guests joining him to try [...]
Back in business.
Hello there, sorry for the silence.
I could make something pithy and intelligent sounding about the reason behind the silence. Taking time to reflect etc. Truth is it’’s my own mini-failure. I didn’t save the admin address anywhere and didn’t want to admit I’d got something wrong.
So we’re back. Planning is going ahead for the event [...]
Kate Bornstein talks failure
I’m experiencing my own personal fail by not knowing how to embed video on the blog.
Kate Bornstein speaking at reunion.
Kate Bornstein is a failure as man and as a woman.
She’s in her sixties and has been talking openly about her life as a trans person.
I studied some of her performance work and writings at university [...]
Travel Fail.
One of out newest followers @weltim complained on his twitter stream about how negative his experience of Heathrow was.
I then wondered aloud about how rich a seam #Travelfail could be.
So begins the bidding war. We’re looking for the worst travel experience you’ve had personally. We’re trusting people (so don’t start making stuff up just to [...]
The Empty Plinth
No, not the one in Trafalgar Square, but the one in Centenary Square, Birmingham.
There used to be a statue called Forward by Raymond Mason that dominated the space. It was affectionately known as the jelly mould or the Lurpack statue. It was destroyed by arsonists n April 2003 and it’s never really been replaced.
Now, there’s just [...]
Set us some failure homework.
Lots of questions bubbling in my mind:
Who haven’t we talked about yet?
What kind of fail haven’t we mentioned?
What inspirational nonsense haven’t we looked at?
What conversations do we need to have?
The best people to advise us, is are you. (Grammatical fail, there) You might be thinking that your suggestion isn’t clever enough or nonsensical enough but [...]
You’re a failure Charlie Brown!
I really identify with Charlie Brown.
Sure we both have very little hair & strangely shaped heads.
He was thwarted by an evil girl called Lucy. I have a sister called Lucy. You make your own pop-psychological links.
Growing up I always wanted people to think I was a bit like Schroeder, I played the piano, I wanted [...]
