[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-pullman-mullan-and-big-hair":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Last night I was trying, and failing, to draw writer (and very occasional illustrator) \u003Ca href=\"http://www.philip-pullman.com/\">Philip Pullman\u003C/a>.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/pullman_mullan_talk2-a3cf7345a5.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHe and \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mullan\">John Mullan\u003C/a> were giving a talk at Kings Place, next to the Guardian/Observer offices. \\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for more under the cut-->\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/haircut-952a24418b.jpg\" width=\"300\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/pullman_mullan_talk3-845c2d6202.jpg\" width=\"350\">\\r\n\\r\nIt's awfully hard to draw when the subject's head is smaller than a lentil. Ah, well. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/pullman_mullan_talk1-5fe36f6437.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nStuart and I went along with my studio mate \u003Ca href=\"http://www.whodunnknit.com/\">Deadly Knitshade\u003C/a> and her fab sister, \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/nutbrazilnat\">Natali O'Farrell\u003C/a>. Well, sort of. We had assigned seats and the two of them were perched way up in a special balcony box seat. It's quite an impressive hall. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/pullman_mullan_talk4-e813b76015.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nPullman was talking about \u003Ca href=\"http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781846140266,00.html\">\u003Ci>Grimm Tales\u003C/i>\u003C/a>, his recent retelling of Grimm's Fairy Tales, and he did a great job, reading twice from the book. I was hoping John would talk about his Jane Austen book a little bit, but he stuck to interviewing Pullman (which I suppose I would have guessed if I'd read the event description better). Stuart and I met John on the ride back from this year's Hay Festival, and he charmed and fascinated us with the amazing details he could pick out in Austen's work. I'm on the second chapter; \u003Ca href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jun/15/what-matters-in-jane-austen-review\">\u003Ci>What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved\u003C/i>\u003C/a> is a cracking read if you love Austen's books.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/pullman_mullan_books-f168aff853.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nStuart and I had a little look around the place before we left. Stuart and the bear can both do that Jutting Chin thing.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/stuart_bear-f453aa3b9b.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nOh, and there is a big pink head. How curious! \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/stuart_john_humphreys-6ca56e2152.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI took a couple photos of The Filing Station bar and restaurant on the way back to King's Cross station, it's such an intriguing, atmospheric kind of place.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/filling_station1-0029e8b1f2.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg sc=\"http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l27/jabberworks/Events/filling_station2.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/filling_station2-b314164012.jpg\">","2012-10-11T12:51:00.000Z","pullman-mullan-and-big-hair",[],"pullman, mullan and big hair",1776628724294]