• Mind the Gap

    Adventures in the London sci-lit-art scene...and occasionally beyond

    • In which I'll get all meta on your bad selves

      Wednesday, 27 Feb 2008 - 12:09 GMT

      I’d like to personally invite everyone living in or near London to our much-awaited free RI/Nature Network blogging event tomorrow night, already bigged up by our esteemed Editor but worth another mention. I’m already feeling seriously outclassed at the prospect of being on the same panel as Ed “He Writes Like A Veritable Angel” Yong and Ben “His Pseudoscience-Bashing Fury is Terrible To Behold” Goldacre, but very much looking forward to swapping ideas with a friendly audience, hopefully with a minimum of rotten veg propulsion and sceptical, House of Commons-style jeers and guffaws.

      Anyway, we’d love to see you down at the Apple “It’s Really Quite Scarily White” Store on Regent’s Street from 7 PM tomorrow, and for a drink afterwards.

      Last updated: Wednesday, 27 Feb 2008 - 12:09 GMT

      • Comments

        • Date:
          Wednesday, 27 Feb 2008 - 12:22 GMT
          Henry Gee said:

          Jenny, you’ve got your tags in a twist.

        • Date:
          Wednesday, 27 Feb 2008 - 12:29 GMT
          Jennifer Rohn said:

          Better tags than a certain item of underclothing!

          Alas, however, the powers-that-be at NN seem not to have bestowed any way to edit them posthoc. (If I’m missing anything, please shout.) Actually, on closer inspection, I quite like the frame shift mutation I have inadvertently created…

        • Date:
          Wednesday, 27 Feb 2008 - 13:31 GMT
          Matt Brown said:

          Jenny, you should see an ‘edit tags’ link if you’re logged in. If not, I can fix ‘em for you. But I like them all twisted too!

          Looking forward to tomorrow – and glad to hear you’ll be up for a beer afterwards.

        • Date:
          Wednesday, 27 Feb 2008 - 13:33 GMT
          Massimo Pinto said:

          Yep! A glass of Rohnroyal please, on the rocks.

        • Date:
          Wednesday, 27 Feb 2008 - 13:49 GMT
          Frank Norman said:

          Grrr. I can’t make this event tomorrow (I’m doing a recording session with Fran Healy). Looks like a great line-up. I hope there will be more in future in a similar vein.

        • Date:
          Wednesday, 27 Feb 2008 - 13:53 GMT
          Ed Yong said:

          Dear God Jen, your tags have fused me, you and Ben Goldacre into some sort of monstrous freakish hybrid. We’ll have to do our talks from under the same extra-large coat.

        • Date:
          Wednesday, 27 Feb 2008 - 15:03 GMT
          Jennifer Rohn said:

          It’s official: I’m definitely not editing the tags now! Glasses of Rohnroyal all around.

        • Date:
          Wednesday, 27 Feb 2008 - 15:58 GMT
          Henry Gee said:

          But seriously, I hope you all have a wonderful time. I’ll be raising a glass to you, from the land of Turkeys, Pigs and Earthquakes.

        • Date:
          Wednesday, 27 Feb 2008 - 16:28 GMT
          Jennifer Rohn said:

          Thanks, Henry. Have you eaten your Signs and Portents omelette yet?

        • Date:
          Thursday, 28 Feb 2008 - 21:00 GMT
          Richard Grant said:

          You’re at the Apple Store? In Regent Street?

          We hatess you, we doess.

        • Date:
          Friday, 29 Feb 2008 - 08:06 GMT
          Jennifer Rohn said:

          Weird venue. A little theater at the end, no closed off from the shop floor, and when you are speaking you look out over a vast sea of random elements behind the audience who’ve snuck in to check their email. Very distracting, like trying to sing folk music in a pub! But it was fun.

        • Date:
          Friday, 29 Feb 2008 - 08:42 GMT
          Matt Brown said:

          Jenny – you rocked! Well done for being so eloquent despite the store alarms going off every 10 minutes. I’ll blog about last night later on.

        • Date:
          Friday, 29 Feb 2008 - 09:07 GMT
          Richard Grant said:

          Jenny is teh rocking. I’m just jealous I’m missing all this.

        • Date:
          Friday, 29 Feb 2008 - 16:23 GMT
          Jennifer Rohn said:

          Thanks Matt. I changed everything I planned to say once I saw what the space was like. So it was a complete ad lib… I think Ed and I were just happy that we didn’t accidentally say something that Ben Goldacre could pounce on in his witty but brutal fashion!

        • Date:
          Friday, 29 Feb 2008 - 17:49 GMT
          Henry Gee said:

          Signs and portents omeletee. Just one egg, very small, of doubtful provenance. So, no.


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