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Galle Literary Festival
A brief encounter with Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal is ranked among the greatest living masters of American literature. Throughout his long and eventful life, he has held steadfast to a brand of progressive “liberalism” that still burns brightly to this day.
I was pretty nervous to even approach him, the man’s a legend, and the journalist who interviewing him as I [...]
Turtles
No, not a treasured childhood memory (one that arguably has been George Lucased recently) but one of the more entertaining sights of our trip to the Galle Literary Festival. We were sitting by the beach recovering from a long day with a cold beverage or two when a turtle crawled on to the beach nearby [...]
We’re not in right now
We’ve had to do a bit of running around today (Saturday) so might not be at the stall until the afternoon. Please feel free to take our brochure and bookmark though!
And if you see anyone shady looking characters messing around with the computers…it’s probably one of us on a quick trip back.
The lunch bell
The lunch bell has just gone off on the first day of the GLF.
Been quite an eventful day so far. We’re quite amazed by the sheer variety of people who’ve turned up for this event. Yesterday we had the chance to speak briefly to Gore Vidal, Vikram Seth and Alexander Mcall Smith among others. The interviews will be up [...]
We’re live
It’s been quite intense so far and due to the slow line speeds demonstrating the site has been fairly difficult. Fortunately we have some printed material with us (recycled and reusable!) that we’ve used to explain to people what MCS is about.
The first day was mainly to do with setting up our table, the press [...]
But what about the…?
We’re obviously intensely focused on development work on the site and creating the material we wanted to display at the GLF. This means that the small matter of assembling all the odds and ends that are needed for an exhibition hasn’t got the priority it deserves. As I write therefore, we are currently frenetically trying [...]
Welcome to the MCS blog
This is the first step in what promises to be an incredibly exciting journey - literally in the case of our trip to the Galle Literary Festival. We’ll be blogging live from there, as well as filing reports on My Carbon Stash development and launch information.