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Welcome to the official blog of Joanna Neary, where you can catch up on Jo’s bewildered world past, present and looming. Mainly, this blog consists of scanned pages from her sketchbook with a running commentary, dashed off between duties, work and other hobbies. As well as banging on about art, there’s also past gigs, and music, such as the one about being interviewed for Prog Magazine in 2019, which led to some delightful exchanges with fellow nerds. It was all very civil, even when Jo had to admit she’d got a Frank Zappa fact wrong.
From Arthur Machen To William Blake and Asterix
I was going to write down what those things were, but I immediately forgot them and just added the rosy cheeks instead. Maybe my Brighton train had arrived in Victoria, or more likely, been diverted by Satan and his goats on the line at Haywards Heath.
Read moreCelia on Brexit, A New Show, and How Tiny Children Are Laughing At Johnson.
It was originally meant to be a celebration of the seaside, and a damning indictment against the fashion for having hermit crabs as pets. But now it’s just a series of stupid voices and a joke about Rick Stein.
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‘At No Time Should The Escort See You Picking Up Articles From The Floor’ – The Books That Shaped Me.
Anita Colby’s Beauty Book is a 1940’s book about following a four week beauty regime, that ends in having a baby. In Week 2, Day 5, you have to lie upside down on an ironing board to get rosy cheeks.
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Bootleg Books
An art auction to raise money for two schools in Lewes has just ended and I was thrilled to be asked to contribute. Here are my Bootleg Books they auctioned. I did them for my own entertainment (and to make a dent in some of my Art College amount of art supplies), so being able […]
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World Book Day 2019 – My Teenage Diary Book Reviews, A Brighton Toilet-Related Business & A Night To Remember.
World Book Day was yesterday but I was too busy reading to post online. *unjustified proud face* When I was 15 I wrote some book reviews in my teenage diary. Here are two of them. ‘Jude the Obscure’ by T Hardy. That Sue, what a pain in the neck, such a flirt. Much prefer Tess. […]
Read moreValentines Pants & Red Devon Cows
Back to the pants (like back to the future, without the stars, budget or storyline). My favourite kind of pants keep your stomach warm.
Read moreRevolting puppet, absentminded woman
I suspect watching a nerdy absentminded woman trying to do an interactive puppet show is better than the actual puppet show. Good job it’s meant to be funny.
Read moreKondo? Kon Don’t, more like. Hat wanted
My leaning when planning a comedy gig, is towards being grotesque, leaping about, saying what I want to say but doing it as a character, so I can be more absurd and sometimes say the opposite of what I’d really say, in order to have fun, be surprising and make people laugh. My favourite comedians […]
Read moreScreen Time, Use Less, Yoga At Home And Shabby Shit. Doodle Daily – 7th Feb 2019
Interesting article in the Guardian today. I usually avoid the papers, I can’t remember why I was distracted into reading this today. It’s about children and screen time, and it’s sort of common sense. The stupid things we do in our own homes, like trying to do exercise with an audience. Shabby Shit, I mean […]
Read more6th of February Sketches – 2019, 2013, 1999
Office Life. ‘Would you put this file in that drawer and go home early? Here’s fifty pence for a cake.’
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