I am on the train back to RTW having spent a very nice evening speaking to Bromley and Chislehurst Conservatives about internet campaigning and blogging.
The session lasted a good 90 minutes and the questions kept on coming so I hope they enjoyed it and found it useful. I know at least a couple of the councillors there are going to start their own blogs. One said she was looking forward to losing her blog virginity! Let's hope it won't be too painful for her...
I'm getting quite a few speaking invitations from Tory Associations at the moment - and indeed other organisations. I rather enjoy them but I have got to stop saying yes to everything. As my partner constantly tells me, 'a week does only have seven days, you know.'
Now for something which will have all you right wingers reaching for the smelling salts. Tomorrow I am having lunch with Yasmin Alibhai Brown. She looovvves blogs. Not!
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Lunch with Yasmin Alibhai Brown !
Iain - you would go to the opening of an envelope if there was a drink in it !
What I said Iain was that I lost my blog virginity to you in January and one always retains a soft spot for the first.
Andrew, i don't drink!
Ruth, I stand corrected. I should be more careful about virginity comments, shouldn't I?!
And there was me thinking that Cllr Alexa Michael might finally have lost her virginity...
Hey, Yasmin is Ok you know - a bit mad, but all right on a 1-2-1! She has many fascinating stories to tell about Africa, and is well worth an evening of anyone's time.
Yasmin Alibhai Brown ... a wave of nausea just hit.
Adrian Yelland, she couldn't fascinate me if she could tell me the exact spot where the treasure of the Sierra Madre was buried.
Nope.
Verity - do you ever have a nice word to say about anyone?
Iain not at all sure about that banner seeking advertisers for your blog that appeared within this item. Whilst it is unarguable that genuine opinion formers do indeed read this blog I'm really not at all convinced that Adam Rikitts is actually one of them. I daresay he does read it and he may well have caused a few opinions, especially about the A list, but helped to form them.....?
And so you finally highlight the blog problem: too many of them and no-one will read them. Dilution rarely increases strength.
Good thing you were one of the first ... at least you have momentum.
The Yazzmonster!!!!!
Iain you have my sympathy. If there is anything wrong with lunch she will blame it on imperialism.
roiggers tip;
take some sandpaper,sit on it and wriggle when you need to take your mind off things
Get ready to do a lot of apologising for stuff you couldn't have affected.
Don't forget the garlic and a crucifix.
There is a wiki about Yasmin if you found out anything juicy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasmin_Alibhai-Brown
I hope Iain, that you can succeed where so many have obviously failed and manage to puncture her monstrous ego.
Who is Yasmin Alibhai Brown?
Could you ask her if she saw this little piece? I enjoyed writing that...
For the sake of polite conversationa and general bon viveur I would suggest that you don't mention Isreal or the Middle East at all at your lunch.
Plenty to discuss in the world of blogging, MSM and Westminster gossip!
Iain, you might ask Yasmin A B why members of ethnic minorities who are lucky enough to get a public forum, almost always choose to talk/write about racial problems.
If they chose now and then to cover the theatre, fashion,or sport,say, people may start to listen and think, "that's interesting, that's an interesting person."
Huh, even as I write this, I know that the above subjects would almost inevitably include a racial angle.
They can't all have chips. Are editors just as responsible?
What ? That ghastly woman ! I havn't forgiven her for her performance on QT 2 days after 9/11.
Give her a cup of poison from me.
How could you have lunch with someone who writes for the British-hating Indy !
There is something utterly infuriating about Yasmin Alibhai Brown when she turns up on the TV (I suppose she may be different in real life but I have difficulty believing it).
I think it's her supercilious air of being--what she one called herself on TV--a Muslim intellectual... who comes across as ineffably stupid.
And to add insult to injury, when it's the BBC she's on, I'm paying her!
I'm sure my wide was safe in your hands Iain!
A Bromley councillor's blog - wow, can't wait.
Coming next - the thrill of paint drying.
Perhaps you would kindly get hold of some tiger whiskers (possibly from a whole tigerskin rug including head?), chop them up finely and have the chef mix them with her food. Then she would die in agony from a perforated intestine. (I believe this is how Indian monarchs disposed of unwanted wives.)
Nor more than that perfectly wretched high priestess of multiculturalism deserves.
Cllrs. should not talk about their wides in a public forum like this - lowers the tone.
Iain - why don't you post online where you are going to be, as well as commenting on it after you've been there? I don't live anywhere near Bromley, but if I did, I would have quite liked to hear you speak about blogging. Just a suggestion ...
I once wrote an In Touch newsletter for a local by-election and referred to our candidate as:
"Dave, and his wide Mary, have lived locally for 20 years"
Sadly the error wasn't picked-up during proof reading and 2,200 leaflets were printed and delivered.
Three years later the poor woman is still called "wide Mary" by all her friends in the village.
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