Turns out last night wasn’t the official opening. It was the preview night. I designed and sewed S’s prosthetic pregnancy and delivered it to the stage door just before show time. And went to see the production. It’s sumptuous. Mark …
It’s Valentine’s Day. Well, night, actually. And I’m sitting in my study typing away, listening to CASSETTE. Awesome South African band. Gonna go far. S is doing a dress rehearsal of MACBETH at the Civic Theatre in Braamfontein. Opening night …
Valentine’s Day night, and I’ve just finished an intense scripting session for a client Read more »
Apart from the pain, misery and despair of dealing with Vodacom’s bureaucracy, the worst thing for me about the 3G nightmare is the contradictory position I find myself in. On the one hand, I LOVE the mobility of the card. …
Lest I sound damningly bleak, I do want to say thank you to Adina for sorting out this mess. It must have been incredibly hard work on her side. Vodacom is a nightmare of bureaucracy. (Or at least ,that’s how …
The Vodacom 3G upside is that Adina did her best for me, and sorted it out eventually Read more »
Hmmmm. Where to start on this little tale of woe? At the beginning, I suppose. 20 December. I phone Vodacom’s free service line on 155. I’m doing a routine call to see if I’ve reached my data cap of 1 …
Pain, misery and despair: a tale of Vodacom 3G’s miserable customer service Read more »
S and I went off to the Bassline in Newtown last weekend with her buddies Paul and Justin Dempsey. Justin’s here from London, and he’s a pretty hot muso and producer. He’d heard a track by CASSETTE on the radio, …
CASSETTE, a new band fronted by Jon Savage — awesome Read more »
I had a meeting yesterday at a coffee-shop in Northgate Shopping Centre with a poet buddy of mine. He has asked me to be his creativity mentor. He’s putting together a one-person show of his poems, and he’d like me …
When I was very very very young, I got myself a tattoo. How young? Eleven years old. It’s a complicated story. My mom did the good deed of having two sisters from the Epworth Village Children’s Home around on some …
My new tattoo design — ‘Left Arm — property of Roy Blumenthal’ Read more »
This morning I rushed off to Steve’s Spar in Cresta, grabbed a basket full of brown wrapping paper, some glue, and some wax crayons, and sped through Hillbrow to Berea to the New Life Centre. There I met Linda-Michael, one …
Teaching creativity to a group of ex-prostitutes in Berea, Johannesburg Read more »
Tuesday, January 24, 2006 Service: * * *Food: * * * 1/2Ambience: * *Babe Count: * * 1/2I’m sitting in Europa, Village Walk, sipping decaff cappuccino, munching on a wholewheat bagel with turkey breast on it. (Have I mentioned that …