I had this chat with George over zoom, but it was a great one nonetheless. We took two swings at this conversation, because George's ideas evolved in between the time we recorded and the time I put it out, and I hope you enjoy listening to the chat as much as I enjoyed having it with him.
Here you go: http://apple.co/2oyL7Vy
Non- itunes listeners can 2020-12-14 20:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Heyo Lovely Patreonites!
I’ll be doing a live The Last Post show on 20 December to celebrate having (almost) finished a whole year of absolutely bloody ridiculous alternate universe satire.
Guests will include Josh Gondelman, Alison Spittle, The Glitch in the Space Time continuum and as much wildly ambitious garbage as I can get Chris and Ped to let me do.
Tickets are here:
Hallo Patreonites!
This week is slightly irregular - I’ll be doing the tuesday 8pm tea with Alice salon at 8pm LA time. So it’ll be 8pm PST, Tuesday 15th December, 3pm Sydney time (Wednesday 16).
The invitation is below, and I’ll send the invite through to afternoon tea + level subscribers.
I’ve been loving talking to you all, and am looking forward to our chat this week!
Alice Rebekah Fraser is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
2020-12-13 01:53:34 +0000 UTC
View Post
Hallo Lovely Patreonites!
The next tea salon for Afternoon Tea Subscribers and up will be in Australian East coast 8pm on the 8th December.
Which I think is
Don’t worry if it doesn’t work for you, the week after will be 8pm BST and the one after that will be 8pm PST. I’ll keep the timezones moving so everyone can find a dec...
2020-12-04 00:33:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Hallo Lovely Patreonites
What a weekend! It’s been so many things, I almost don’t know where to start.
Let’s do; Tea Salon Update, Talk About Friday’s show and then Mum’s birthday.
Tea Salons Update
So, we’ve done 3 salons so far, and are figuring out what works. So far, I’ve spent a fair bit of time introducing you wonderful people to one another, because I’m so pleased with all of you, but I think in futu...
2020-11-29 20:43:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Hallo Patreonites!
I will be live streaming my work in progress show at The Comedy Store tonight for those of you who can't come.
It will be at 7pm AEST (6am BST, ungodly o'clock American time) and should stay up for 24 hours.
This will be available to Patreons of all levels, so if you want to share this around, please do.
Updated: With 30 mins to showtime, the link has been updated and is now here: https...
2020-11-27 00:10:47 +0000 UTC View Post
I used to have an English professor who said “all language is quotation”. Which I loved.
He was a great professor. He’d come in with his lecture all written on scraps of paper and napkins, and speak in incredibly elegant and well constructed periods. I’d take notes at a mile a minute, and try to remember his neat dense turns of phrase to enjoy privately later.
If you think about how you learned the meaning of any word, particularly early on, you tend to have le...
2020-11-23 23:50:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Hallo lovely people - last week we tried a new thing for the first time; for afternoon tea level and up, a small group salon. It was very lovely, and I enjoyed it immensely. We’re rotating timezones each Tuesday, but you can come to any or all of them each month if you’re subscribed to afternoon tea or above.
This Tuesday 24 Nov, the Salon will be 8pm U.K. time, which is to say 12pm (PST) and 3pm (East Coast US time).
For Australians, it’ll be 7am Aus time (25 Nov).
L...
2020-11-21 20:46:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Hallo lovely Patreonites - I’ll be doing this first experimental Tea With Alice Salon for subscribers at the afternoon tea level and above.
I sent through the link in the previous post about it, and the password and full invite are also updated there.
8pm AEST.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Xx
A
2020-11-17 04:56:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Hugh Mackay is a family friend, he's also the founder of the Australian quarterly research series The Mackay Report 1979-2003, which later became The Ipsos Mackay Report. He is a psychologist, social researcher and writer. He was a weekly newspaper columnist for 25 years and is generally a social commentator and extremely thoughtful guy. I really enjoyed having the opporunity to chat with him, as he releases a pair of books together, both about love.
We had a fascinating and wide rangin...
2020-11-15 03:29:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Hallo you lovely Patreonites, you mini-Medicis, you community of top notch folks with great taste in whatever this thing is.
As I mentioned a little while back, I’ve been planning to update the tiers for a little while, and then I procrastinated out of fear that everyone would storm off in disgust. But I’ve done it now! There are no wildly substantive changes apart from to the one-on-one calls, which were becoming unsustainable time wise.
So, instead, if you’re on one of t...
2020-11-06 08:20:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Comedy Store Show is live now – the direct ticket link is here: http://bit.ly/201127CS
Telling you lovely Patreonites first, of course! I’ll also let you know ‘As ASAP As Possible’ (as I was once emailed by an HR lady) if/when I get a stream organised, for non-Sydney friends who’d like to watch it live-streamed. Currently discussing it - there’s some fear that it will mean nobody buys live tickets or people in o...
2020-11-05 09:11:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Hallo!
I’m thinking about the future, assuming there is one - I’ve spent most of this year feeling like it’s impossible to plan more than three months ahead, but that now includes the beginning of next year.
If you’re a The Last Post listener, you’ll know that project is framed as “366 days of this year”, and that final show is now in sight. I couldn’t really imagine getting through a whole year of 7 days a week when I started this project, sick as a dog in Decembe...
2020-11-01 04:35:55 +0000 UTC View Post
SpaceAcre are a British Alt-Electro-Pop duo made up of Phoebe Little (lead vocals, guitar, keys) and Jas Scott (vocals, bass, synths, cello). Phoebe used to do music with my twin, and when he told me they were trapped in a bunker making post-apocalyptic music, I thought I'd love to talk to them about the process!
Here you go: http://apple.co/2oyL7Vy
Non- itunes listeners can 2020-10-27 22:16:09 +0000 UTC View Post
ETA: okay! I’ve made the call. I’m going to NOT have a 2 drinks minimum and will pay the extra 25% on venue hire.
It’s worth it to get back in the flow of live performance, and I we can make it so nobody loses money, as long as people come.
I’ll explore livestream options, though there is some reluctance on their part; the premise being, if people can watch from home, why would they come to our venue? (A premise with which I don’t particularly agree)
We’ll see h...
2020-10-26 23:51:54 +0000 UTC View Post
ETA: hallo! I’m at the opera house from now, so if you’re coming along and having any problems, just hit me up and I’ll sort you out. The opera house hasn’t been great with communication, but I’m available, and it’s at the Joan Sutherland Theatre. See you in the next few hours. Doors open at 2.30 and show begins at 3.
Xx
Hallo Patreonite friends in Sydney (and everywhere, but this is specifically for Sydney people).
I have been asked to do a comedy sho...
2020-10-16 07:18:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Laura Davis is a friend of the show, and one of my favourite people in the whole world.
We talked over LOTS of tea about her new bus show, and the horrible little mince man found art who is the unexpected avatar of 2020.
Here you go: http://apple.co/2oyL7Vy
Non- itunes listeners can catch 2020-09-30 01:26:05 +0000 UTC View Post
I have conquered! I can finally use my computer like I could use my computer before I tried to fix my computer!
(Except for Microsoft Word, alas, lost to me. He was a good companion. I knew him all my life, but he will be honoured with a plaque that I will format in another application because fine it’s a subscription service now, but when it won’t recognise its master or accept the coin I repeatedly tried to press into its open hands we must admit it has betrayed us and cast it in...
2020-09-24 05:13:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Today was a fascinating exercise in admin. It made me think of that, “for want of a nail, the shoe was lost/ for want of a shoe, the horse was lost...” poem and also the lady who swallowed a spider. I’ll try to describe the most boring thing in the least boring way.
“An epic quest. A simple task. A wizard’s request. The file space was inside you all along.”
I decided I wanted to write a long form script. But so far I’ve only ever written in word documents like an ab...
2020-09-21 12:37:42 +0000 UTC View Post
And yes, it is immensely embarrassing! This is the LEAST EMBARRASSING PAGE!
Look at that mix of self awareness, self consciousness and smugly precocious pretentiousness! Look at the use of early internet-paralinguistic-cue-speak (smiles wryly)!
And, and, and - who am I talking to!?!?
Why did I write this?
What did I make for dinner that night?
Why did I sign my name!?!!
What was the date?
Why wouldn’t I put a date in? There’s a little line ...
2020-09-17 05:37:22 +0000 UTC View Post
I found this little diary from when I was little. It says “DIARY” and “PRIVATE” and “Keep out Henry that includes you”.
It has a little lock on it, and I’m not sure if I have the key any more. I’m wondering if I should break the lock, find someone who can pick the lock or leave the secrets of little me to the tides of history.
I’ve found so much old stuff, unpacking boxes at my dad’s house. My goodness I’ve written so many letters that I never sent. Love let...
2020-09-16 04:18:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Hallo!
This week's TWA is a reverse one - perhaps an Alice With Tea; this is the unedited conversation I had with David whn he was making his radio show about a jewish comedian ancestor. He asked a lot of interesting questions and I rambled incoherently about context, offense, judaism, caricature and more. He used a few quotes for his excellent radio show, but I thought there were enough interesting things in the whole chat to be worth putting it up here.
Here you go: 2020-09-15 07:46:05 +0000 UTC View Post
I had this lovely chat with Mitch Alexander (he drank water like a chump), and we talked revolution, bullying, intergenerational attitude and landlords. A joy as always.
Here you go: http://apple.co/2oyL7Vy
Non- itunes listeners can catch it here
F...
2020-09-02 03:38:20 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s been a while since I caught up with Mitch on Tea With Alice, and we had a chat about conspiracies, revolution and the number of pairs of shoes I have. It’s up at the top here and should be viewable even if you don’t have an instagram account (let me know if it isn’t.)
I’ll have him back this coming Monday at 8.30pm AEST, 11.30
Today is a bit brutal as I have The Bugle and A Rational Fear to write for and record back to back. I’d be intimidated but since edinburgh ...
2020-08-27 05:12:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Unpacking my dad into his new house, I came across photos of myself at 16/17, encouraged to go to my school formal by my grandmother, who like the glamorous and extravagant lady that she was, took upon herself the mantle of fairy godmother, bought me a fancy dress that made me feel lumpen and extremely unglamorous and talked me into this thing that I really didn't want to do. She said I'd miss not going. So we did the whole thing. I dressed up in this extra fancy dress, asked one of my brothe...
2020-08-24 06:42:16 +0000 UTC View Post
A time travel episode today, over mint tea. Talking laphet and gyokuro too. So a three- tea intro. I originally didn’t put this up because I thought I talked too much. Which is a fun thing to have a moment of self doubt about when you have your own podcast. Anyway, I listened back and I think actually in retrospect, I don’t talk too much, and Ash is fascinating. So I’m putting it up.
Ash Fontana, is a friend of mine who is normally on the opposite side of wh...
2020-08-23 00:51:57 +0000 UTC View PostHallo lovely friends - if you missed it, after a little break, I’m doing the video things again for those of you who are interested.
Here’s me chatting with Laura Davis about cuticles, symmetrical sinuses and owning furniture.
You should be able to watch...
2020-08-12 16:07:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Just went to a friend’s house for a small grownup dinner party and it was so nice I could weep.
I think I’d forgotten what it was like to have a social life where you come and someone cooks dinner while you all stand around in the kitchen offering to chop something and then you sit with a group of interesting people around a table while you all talk about everything for hours.
It’s made me more determined to try the ‘salon’ thing on here.
I have been feeling...
2020-08-12 00:36:48 +0000 UTC View Post
I just ate a plant protein bar with 'added probiotics'. It was truly disgusting, even for a protein bar. It had weird spices in it, and it shouldn't have been trying to be sweet.
Its absolute disgustingness reminded me by opposition of the incredible hazelnut chocolate birthday cakes my jewish Granny used to make for me and my twin's childhood birthdays. These absolute SL...
2020-08-06 03:16:45 +0000 UTC View Post