Settled on a name and (draft) image for my new #edinburgh #fringe show this year.

Ego Tourism: Taoism in the Wild
At the Carbon nightclub, wee room
16:25 August 2-24th (but not Tuesdays)

This is an absolutely awesome song in its own right, but it’s made even better because it was on *that* episode of #Fringe.
#OnlyYou
https://music.apple.com/gb/album/only-you-2008-remaster/1436832513?i=1436832671

Cool to see a live conversation between #YA #author A. S. King and Chris Gibson of #Harrisburg #Fringe at Hershey Public #Library. Their talk encompassed #surrealism, #punk music, and giving kids space to grow.

Fromis_9 -- Chaeyoung

I'm glad that the remaining members of Friomis_9 have managed to hang onto the group's name, although I will miss the others. I wonder what sort of sound they will have in the future.

I thought hard about this picture before posting it, because even for a dedicated bangsbeliever/fringeophile like myself, this hair might be too much. Then I looked again, gave in, and decided to post, moderation be damned.

I'm binging the entire five-season run of #Fringe again this month, and nostalgically wallowing in that magnificent little window in the early 2000s when broadcast television networks actually used to greenlight bizarro slipstream sci-fi shows, back before the networks exclusively became "all children's talent shows all the time"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fSuO9RLxMY

Our amazing Small City #Fringe festival ended last night here in Aotearoa #newzealand I saw 25 shows and I'm slightly delirious and absolutely bonkers with inspiration.

BUT if you're someone with a Fringe Festival in your neck of the woods, I can't encourage you enough to go.

Fringe Festivals are where alternate voices can live and thrive, they're where ideas can be explored in interesting, odd and sometimes deliriously funny ways. They're spaces for introspection, celebration and joy.

All the ones I've attended are safe spaces for people of all makes and models to share their stories (or mad skills) with audiences that can feel seen and heard.

From kickass trans cabaret performers to 70 year olds trying their first stand up to... you name it... there is room for everyone.
So yeah, you might even have a fringe festival in your city and not realise it. And if you do, why not check it out.

That is all. I'm off to sit in the garden, have a cup of tea and to try and get my voice back after absolutely whooping my lungs out at last night's amazing cabaret closer.

Any typos spotted in this post are contemplating tootling down to their nearest cafe for a Sunday morning cheese scone and a strong cup of coffee. If spotted, please wave from afar. Conversation is not something extroverted introverted punctuation can do for at least another hour or so.

Newsletter March 2025: Hugo Nominations End Soon!: Hugo nominations close tomorrow, suite requests and party notifications are open, our hotel room blocks are sold out, announcing our first Fringe events, and peeking at what we have planned for our younger members! … (#BusinessMeeting #Fringe #Hotels #HugoAwards #PartySuites #Youth)

Full post: https://seattlein2025.org/2025/03/13/newsletter-march-2025-hugo-nominations-end-soon/

Duck! #adelaide #fringe #gluttony

Newsletter February 2025: Seattle Worldcon Has Fringe: We’re starting to plan our fringe events, attending membership rates will increase on March 1, announcing our virtual business meeting platform and times, our health policy was recently updated, community fund grants are being awarded and we’re accepting donations, and Hugo nominations are open… (#BusinessMeeting #CommunityFund #Fringe #HealthPolicy #HugoAwards #Memberships)

Full post: https://seattlein2025.org/2025/02/17/newsletter-february-2025-seattle-worldcon-has-fringe/

In the garden #adelaide #fringe by the bottle

Note: slight "#mature" theme here. I'm not applying a CW - when I was a kid, this would have caused a 12-year-old to titter, but kids these days have read and seen far more explicit stuff a thousand times.

So I wanted to post something that wasn't politics, that isn't news or topical. Something amusing, maybe, and something I've not posted before. I happened to be reminded of the novel Singularity Sky by Charles Stross yesterday, which has as #inspiration for part of it the #Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

That reminded me of a Fringe experience of mine. So here it is. It won't make you rich, or smarter, or wiser, but maybe will give you a laugh.

My partner and I went to a tiny Fringe festival in a small town some years ago. It was basically a whistle stop between two cities in western Canada; I have no idea why the touring Fringe would even stop there, but it did, at least some of it.

One of the performances we saw was a version of MacBeth. It was highly #abbreviated, sort of a cross between a Reader's Digest condensed version, and what you would get if P.D.Q. Bach had an English cousin who did Shakespeare.

1/3