http://www.redbadge.co.uk/egg/index.php/2005/09/26/a-league-of-their-own/ Parts of it are excellent Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:45:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://www.redbadge.co.uk/egg/index.php/2005/09/26/a-league-of-their-own/comment-page-1/#comment-15 The Curator’s Egg » Blog Archive » London calling Fri, 21 Oct 2005 23:32:29 +0000 http://www.redbadge.co.uk/egg/?p=22#comment-15 [...] Hmmm, I suspect that the Clash reference may date me rather accurately. No matter. Despite what I said here, I am going to the MA Conference in London, though I expect the Scottish contingent to be somewhat smaller than in previous years. We shall see if any of the interesting-looking sessions will live up to their promise. Certainly the last conference in Edinburgh was extremely disappointing, the keynote speakers in particular being, on the whole, very poor. Not that they necessarily lacked anything interesting to say, rather that they seemed incapable of making what they had to say either interesting or entertaining - and even at a professional conference there is a ‘showbiz’ element to public speaking. Frankly, there were not enough jokes, and too much stumbling and bumbling. [...] [...] Hmmm, I suspect that the Clash reference may date me rather accurately. No matter. Despite what I said here, I am going to the MA Conference in London, though I expect the Scottish contingent to be somewhat smaller than in previous years. We shall see if any of the interesting-looking sessions will live up to their promise. Certainly the last conference in Edinburgh was extremely disappointing, the keynote speakers in particular being, on the whole, very poor. Not that they necessarily lacked anything interesting to say, rather that they seemed incapable of making what they had to say either interesting or entertaining - and even at a professional conference there is a ‘showbiz’ element to public speaking. Frankly, there were not enough jokes, and too much stumbling and bumbling. [...]

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