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Topic: Tea With Alice Salon 48

Time: Feb 1, 2022 08:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85039435664

Re-entry and All Levels Salon

So one of the things that I’ve been thinking about, is that next week I will be doing a discussion on cancel culture on the SBS (Australia’s publicly funded foreign language and culture broadcaster). They have a program called insight, in which they run discussions about things, aiming to be nuanced and in-depth, I guess ...

Doorways

This doorway into nowhere at the cliffs of diamond bay is one of my favourite places in the world. I used to go there and stare out to sea or read a book. Once you go through it, all you can see is ocean and the beautiful honey coloured sandstone cliffs. It’s like sitting on the edge of the world. It’s like a doorway in a...

Birthday Weekend and Tea With Alice Salon 46

It was my birthday on Friday, and also the last weekend of my twin brother being in town with his family, so it’s been a very lovely, mildly chaotic couple of days. I’m definitely just a woman now, if you know what I mean? I’m not a young woman, I’m not an old woman. Just some lady doing stuff.

I fee...

Passcode for Tomorrow’s Salon

Hallo, I can’t remember whether tomorrow morning was meant to be an all levels salon, so I will make it so! All welcome.

Salon Things

• Any topics you want to open up, let me know in the comments here or via DM, or of course you can bring them up during the chat!
• If you are shy,...
  2022-01-04 08:02:48 +0000 UTC View Post

New Year

My goodness I love this lighthouse. It’s so good at catching light and being beautiful. If you’re ever in Sydney, and get a chance to go to Vaucluse, it’s good lighthouse territory. There are three lighthouses (one is actually a signal station, but it’s lighthouse-esque) within walking distance of this park, and I thi...

Tea With Alice Salon 44

Did I mention I’m big (my free documentary is number seven on audible) in India?

In the doldrums of the year I tend to make lists and think about what I’m proud of in the last year, and what I’m ashamed of or want to do better with. I also make lists of what I want to do in the next year. It...

Christmas Thoughts

• Christmas was never a huge thing in my family for obvious reasons, but I’m sad for the people missing out on their traditions this year. My brother’s wife LOVES Christmas, to the point of wearing flashing Christmas tree earrings and singing carols to her children all year round and I can see how it would b...
  2021-12-25 10:17:58 +0000 UTC View Post

Zoom Gig Tonight

Hallo, my friend Kirsty Webeck does lovely online gigs that somehow avoid the zoom curse of awkward clunkiness, and last night asked me to join her lineup show - just doing a short spot first up in the running order, but it will be a fun way to avoid omicron. Show starts 8.30pm Sydney time. I’ll aim to do new mat...

TimeWarp and Tea With Alice Salon 43

This is a photo I took of the three sisters in January of this year, and I feel like that was yesterday and also forever ago. I feel like time is a bit out of joint for a lot of us, these days (can we even call them these days any more?).

I resent it being Xmas already - it feels like a trick. Hence the joke ...

NFT 6: The Live Show

I did a live show on Thursday, six weeks after giving birth. It was probably a silly idea but it was definitely an interesting artistic experiment, and I found it so lovely and my insides didn’t fall out, so I count it as a win.

2021-12-11 19:16:07 +0000 UTC View Post

Passcode for Salon 42 [ALL Patreons]

See you all at midday my (Sydney) time! (Whatever that is in your time)

I’ll answer questions and you can tell me what’s appropriate material for my show on Thursday as I don’t trust my sense of what’s funny at the moment.

Tea With Alice Salon 42

Time: Dec 7, 2021 08:00 P...

La Niña and this week’s Salon

It’s very wet and rainy here in Sydney over the last few weeks, which is unusual but also means we’re unlikely to have bushfires, so despite the fact that I’m showing Andy Zaltzman the beautiful sights of sunny Sydney under near constant grim grey skies, I can’t bring myself to be annoyed that my birthday (7th Jan) wo...

I’m back! (ish), and Salon 41 details.

Hallo lovely Patreonites.

Andy Zaltzman (of The Bugle) is in town for The Cricket (his one true love), and so he came over to record a podcast with me on Friday. It was very strange and nice. I also did ABC radio show Thank God It’s Friday that day (also with Andy). It was absolutely exhausting, particularly as the AB...

#NFT 5 - Reading The Room

I’m a month in to this whole new business, and I think probably next week I’ll bring back the Salons. Likely a bit of a Q&A for the first one back so feel free to submit your questions via DM on this app/website and I’ll try to answer them.

This was last night’s #NFT on … look, to be honest I t...

#NFT 4 - Reactions and Culpability and Being Food

A pretty incoherent Night Feed Thought for this evening/morning.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/uwynqssddbktfox/NFT%204%20-%20reactions%20and%20culpability.m4a?dl=0

#NFT 3

A Night Feed Thought about impact

https://www.dropbox.com/s/t790h934751cpu6/NFT%203%20impact..m4a?dl=0

New Tea With Alice: Justine Rogers

Dr Justine Rogers is a legal academic, an old friend and creative colleague and an ex member of my old girl-group, Aggressively Helpful. I love her dearly, and she's excellent at articulating and unpacking the nuances of complex interpersonal interactions in a way that I constantly find impressive and enjoyable. We talk about...

#NFT 2

This is a late night feed thought about guilt.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9zjct19mvqqor34/Night%20feed%20thought%20guilt.m4a?dl=0

Night Feed Thoughts: NFT #1, Professional Boundaries

This is by way of a bit of agony aunt action.

A friend in comedy dealing with the breakdown of a professional workflow where the person she was working with (a producer) had been rude and mean to her asked me how to deal with it, and when I said “they’re being unprofessional”, she was shocked that I ha...

Update! Baby!

Hello lovely Patreonites! Patreon-knights, Patreon night people and day people, I have a baby! I have had this baby for about a week, and only now am I starting to feel like I can be trusted with the written word. (I am still on ‘maternity leave’. Though why I feel compelled to put it in quote marks when that�...

Update slash non update and New Tea With Alice with Damian Smith

Pre-baby limbo stretches on, and I'm regretting putting all my work aside, because it turns out (at least from what this one midwife lady said) 4 out of 5 first babies come late, and to me that means actually, this isn't a late baby, you just told me the wrong date. Anyway, being this pregnant suddenly illuminates the Chivalr...

Anniversary

Today is the anniversary of mum’s death. It’s also the week my baby is due.* Often I find I can’t sleep much in the first two weeks of October, and it takes a little while to Detective out why, and remember the date.

That’s an interesting feature of being human isn’t it? That your body should know ...

Good Comedy

Okay, the new Chappelle special is out and causing controversy, so it’s probably time to dust off my “good comedy” vs “good” comedy, knee-jerk reaction. I’ve not yet watched the show, but I’m already seeing the arguments and so I’ll do the gritty reboot about how people conflate moral good with arti...

Time warps, subterranean processes and Tea With Alice Salon 40

The clocks have changed, and the U.K. clocks will change at the end of this month! This is very exciting for U.K. connections, because it means the time zone difference is much more manageable (for me).

Though of course everyone who works across timezones has different ways of doing the mental maths, for me figuring ou...

Sleep, allegedly murdered by Macbeth.

I’ve been extremely lucky with sleep over the last few months, not that I’m boasting about it, but this week seems to have tipped into a frenzy of late night reading, as I am not sure when that particular combination of joy and mild wilful self-harm will return to my life after the baby has moved from … indoors to … o...

Tea With Alice Salon 39

Will be at 10pm Tuesday U.K. time this week! I realise that’s fairly late for the U.K. people, but it translates to 7am wednesday my time! Soon the clocks will change and we’ll all be more manageable time-zone-wise.

Also soon I’ll be out of this period of being a service-vehicle and will no longer feel the obliga...

New Tea With Alice with Dan Ilic, and Contemplations on The Nature of Work

Hallo lovely Patreonites

I made a joke once that the joy of working for yourself is that you suddenly find out you're a terrible employee AND a terrible boss.

I'm seeing more and more discussion online of the nature of work, particularly when it comes to a critical engagement with capitalism, and the failures of ....

Salon Passcode

This one’s open to all levels! See you all in a couple of hours.

Tea With Alice Salon 38

Time: Sep 21, 2021 07:00 PM Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84918335088?pw...

Tea With Alice Salon 38 Open To All Levels

Hallo lovely Patreonites!

Today’s salon will be in Australia time at 7pm or your local time equivalent (I have to record one of the bonus/special edition/mat leave Gargle episodes at 8pm).

It will also be open to all levels of Patreon Subscriber.

Salon Things

• Any topics you wa...
  2021-09-20 18:34:26 +0000 UTC View Post