This week I did a couple of nights of talking, playing and singing to sum up The American Trip.  It was great fun – very different audience reactions each night, the first was chatty all the way through, the second lot sat quietly while I spoke and then wanted to talk all night afterwards… It…

In the middle, stripes and red wellies. I don’t look like that on the outside much anymore. But on the inside… yes.. pretty much all the time. Originally posted on Lloyd’s posterous

“I met him on the internet…” That was the innnuendo-laden way that I was introduced to many people in the US by my hosts – it usually got raised eyebrows and giggles… It’s the alternative title to my Please Look After This Englishman show at C4CC on 24th and 25th May. The evening will consist…

I want to clear something up from this post that I wrote a few weeks ago about how things are going. This is my blog, it’s my way of talking to the world.  It has been since 2004.  A lot of the value of it is that I’m myself here, I talk about what I…

Twitter is functionally dead to me at times like this – and “times like this” seem to be happening more and more frequently. Another day of dstraction and misdirection takes over the space that I’d mistakenly hoped was democratic.  On Friday two members of a privileged elite got married and broke twitter for me.  This…

the lichen and moss in king’s cross Originally posted on Lloyd’s posterous

What work is being done here? How much have I done? Is that enough? Is the work good enough? Does it have any value? Originally posted on Lloyd’s posterous

I’ve been working in a variety of ways at the Centre for Creative Collaboration for more than a year now.  My trip to America gave me an opportunity to reflect on what I’ve learned with others in the course of that year.  Whenever I told people about the Centre, they were very interested in what…

I asked on twitter “What is the purpose of knowing what the purpose is?” and then I went and got some lunch… Martyn Clark said: “Creating cool stuff. Oh. That’s mine. Hmm. The purpose of the purpose IS the purpose. By definition. Fractal.”   Nick Holder said: “In order to feel purposeful?”   Michael Lewkowitz…

I was asked, before, during and after, “why not just do this using couchsurfing.org?  It’s set up for what you’re doing and you’d meet new and interesting people.” Well, for one, I *did* meet new and interesting people anyway but this wasn’t so much what I was after.  i really wanted to experience travelling through…