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VoiceFictive: August 2009
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Thursday, 27 August 2009. I took a very quick jaunt around town today, avoiding the preparations for Manchester Pride. A poster on Manchester Piccadilly shouted at me this morning: ‘People are just born gay. GET OVER IT! This is Nick Cave, in the flesh, in a book shop, signing hardback copies of his new book. And a few science fiction authors. Who would I like to meet? Tom Waits is the one person I venerate, though Nick Cave isn’t far from inspiring that kind of awe. I love his passionate songs...It woul...
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VoiceFictive: Huston and Traven
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Wednesday, 5 August 2009. Tells an equally wonderful story of authorly deception, multiple identities, and unresolved puzzles. As much as I like the idea that he might be Ambrose Bierce, who disappeared while travelling with Mexican bandits, it’s more reassuring to think he was simply an unknown writer. Otherwise, it's the same old story. Why must any achievement be tied to a familiar face? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Richard Madeley Appreciation Society. Ideas That Didn't Last.
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VoiceFictive: July 2008
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008. Thursday, 17 July 2008. Wednesday, 16 July 2008. Two Lines: The Mirror of the Sea. Landfall and Departure mark the rhythmical swing of a seaman’s life and of a ship’s career. From land to land is the most concise definition of a ship’s earthly fate.". Joseph Conrad, The Mirror of the Sea (1906). The mirror of the sea. Tuesday, 15 July 2008. We want more, more, more, more of the same. Is it possible that too much creative oxygen makes us hyperventilate? Is it even good for us? The a...
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VoiceFictive: A Comment
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Friday, 17 July 2009. I started out writing a response to this. And at some point in a grindingly awful day here in Manchester, overlooking the 'Ladyboys of Bangkok' pavilion and plotting hotels on a map of Milton Keynes, it became too long to put as a comment. To the politicians, holding the purse strings, art remains a form of remedial social education. It’s the same way they treat literature in schools. They know nothing about art! The Cult of Shewan. 21 July 2009 at 08:46. Ideas That Didn't Last.
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VoiceFictive: February 2009
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Monday, 23 February 2009. Or lots of new cartoons. Or the nonsense I Twitter. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The Richard Madeley Appreciation Society. Ideas That Didn't Last. The British Thong Society. Quality Blogs I Wish Were Mine.
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VoiceFictive: January 2009
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Tuesday, 27 January 2009. I was going to write something about the cartoons. I've posted but I sit down at the PC to see that John Updike has died. Wish I had something extremely intelligent to say. I just feel that another good has been taken from the world. The darkness closes ever further in. Wednesday, 21 January 2009. Them: Hi Richard. I’m such a fan. Love and kisses. xxxxxxxxx. Them: No, I love you. You’re so funny. Give Judy my love. I’m you’re biggest fan. Me: But not necessarily MY biggest fan.
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VoiceFictive: The Further Doubts of a Dick
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Tuesday, 18 August 2009. The Further Doubts of a Dick. It’s funny. I wasn’t surprised by the reaction of most people to my post. One of the supremely talented writers of ‘The Thick of It’, and then unfollowed by Armando Iannucci, one of the comic titans of this generation.). I still struggle to answer the question: where does the satirist draw the line when they feel the deep burning anger? Angered by what I’ve done and perhaps for being misled for so long, a fan of Richard’s wrote to me:. Since I finish...
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VoiceFictive: The Hazel Blears Sketch
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Saturday, 4 July 2009. The Hazel Blears Sketch. I wrote this, along with about a dozen other sketches, for the BBC Radio 7 show, 'NewsJack'. Naturally, it was rejected, or more precisely, ignored. It's hard to tell when your only reply is an automated response. However, rather than let these things just sit on a hard drive, I'm going to post a few of them here. HAZEL BLEARS: (VERY BROAD ACCENT) Hello. I’m Hazel. PRIEST: Welcome Sister Hazel who bears the name of the mystic tree that bears the sacred nuts.
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VoiceFictive: Help Me!
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Monday, 17 August 2009. So, this is a plea for help. I sent a script to the BBC Writer’s Room about four months ago. It came back on Saturday, rejected in the first 'sift'. This means they rejected it after reading the first 10 pages. No reason why. They just thought it not good enough to read in full. I would guess they had a backload, maybe one of their interns was off ill or on holiday, so they decided to just reject everything for a week, to clear the decks. 17 August 2009 at 18:08. I think the most ...
