My amazing, brilliant, and dedicated assistant of the past year, she who is known as uber-kate has sadly decided that it is time for her to return to her native New York.

This is a cause of much sadness, for us here at sling-central. Over the past year Kate has become the smiling face, the chirpy voice, the just-anal-enough organiser and the geek-chic cheerleader of the slingshot team.

Add to all of that, her sharp critical and creative mind; focussed unrelentingly across a number of our projects, and you get a sense of how much of a void she will leave and how sad we are to see her go. For me she has become that invaluable extension to my own brain, my voice, my right hand and left foot, and has made my too busy life not just better, but possible. Our shared love of Buffy, of musicals, of high theory and low art made her more than an assistant to me.

And so whilst we wish Kate all the very best, and totally understand the call to her home, her lovely parents and equally talented family and the joys of New York, even though we knew this day would come eventually when we hired her, we will miss her deeply.

Hot Jets, young Brokaw. May the skies always be clement to your travels and tell them of us there in this New York you speak of.

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