Posts by Russell Brown
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There are companies overseas that lease furnished and serviced office space on a pay-per-use basis, for the occasional important meeting or if you happen to be travelling in a city other than where you're based. Is there something like that here?
What I've noted a lack of is per-hour meeting rooms -- somewhere quieter and more private than a cafe. It does surprise me that there wouldn't be the demand in Ponsonby for such a thing,
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* get dressed before lunch time
I feel better in summer. Cargo shorts seem more defensible than tracksuit pants ...
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You dool!
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ah, ok.
but surely the subject matter has nothing to do with "dramatic fiction"?Only in that's how it reads.
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Stuart: I used to work at home (for five years - office in the lounge and staff in the shed)and I would definitely say that I prefer working in an office. That said a home working environment has a bunch of beneficial financial effects. You can charge the company rent, pay part of the phone and power etc out of company expenses and commuting is a breeze. OTOH… its not too good for the waistline being so close to a well stocked fridge and not needing to walk any distance to get to the workstation.
Non-trivial point for people who bring their businesses home: you still need to get out.
In one sense, so you remain connected to people. In another, so you don't become inactive and obese. Moving home? Buy a bike ...
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Not really. But I suspect that is a bit of a function of the business we are in. Our clients did not as a rule come to visit our premises and mostly they do not do so even now.
It's not such an issue for our little business -- I'm in the position of people tending to need my attention more than I need theirs -- but just answering the phone well for each other does a power of good. Fiona used to do a great receptionist's manner ...
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eh?
could you explain in more detail what you mean by "oddly perfect" in this particular context?
The story arc is one of the essential structures of dramatic fiction. If you were writing a drama about a character's journey, this one has almost perfect symmetry -- she was born into the public consciousness, she fell from grace and she is redeemed in her death, all under the harsh lights of reality TV and the tabloids.
But, as the original Guardian quote noted, the tidyness of the arc masks the messy life beneath.
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Los Bros Hernandez early 'Mister X' had an incidental character turning off a program called 'Celebrity Autopsies' and that does seem where we're headed. Actually, X's drug prevented sleep, produced fits of rage, frequesnt changes of abode...
I think we should invoke Los Bros more often. Could they be PA's next Battlestar Galactica?
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Milk it, I say. The UK tabloid press plays SO dirty with their big chequebooks, so why not take advantage of it? It's not as though she's trying to hide her strategy - and if the papers are stupid enough to fork out the cash, why not?
I think so.
The extraordinary thing is the extent to which tabloids and reality TV have been her life. Check out her Wikipedia article.
Hadley Freeman wrote this in the Guardian three weeks ago:
The desperate saga of this 27-year-old mother of two young children, with its bizarrely tidy narrative arc so at odds with the messiness of the actual life inside it, seems increasingly to resemble a cruel modern-day satire, so obvious in its moralising intentions that a Daily Mail sketch writer would have rejected it as too heavy-handed and simplistic.
I loved that phrase "bizarrely tidy narrative arc" so much I half-consciously nicked it for the headline of this post. And yet, it would be a hard-hearted snob who wasn't moved by what is happening.
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Did Huge Ackman do OK?
He did. He sang, he danced, he was funny and charming. But bizarrely, some US TV critics came over all shocked and appalled because he said "human excrement".
The sound recordist guy from Slumdog gave a lovely, emotional speech in barely-up-to-the-job English, the guy from Man on a Wire did conjuring tricks on stage, Sean Penn totally rocked when he accepted the Oscar for Milk, and the stars dabbed their eyes when Heath Ledger was eulogised.
It was quite a different production, and I thought it really worked well.
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