ASK TREESHIP whats your favorite gilmore girls episode

That makes the transition to a North somewhere in Europe so much easier

is Bildt (or whatever the fascist government renamed it) The North in mentality as well as geography? iirc yes

Oh absolutely!

(+1 for fash gov remark)

btw treeship should move to florence imo

or vienna!

northerness is a state of mind prone to being romanticisation.

I recall a dave queen review of a travis album in which he quite convincingly divided europe into a spirit-drinking north, a beer-drinking middle, and a wine-drinking south. this also lets my drinking habits stand as testament to my cosmopolitan ways

eh you know what I meant

Can highly recommend Thinking Northern, a collection of essays about Britain's North. It covers a range of topics like identity, dialects, conceptions of 'Northerness', Salford, The Fall etc. Oh, and a bonus essay titled "Northern Racism: A Pilot Study of Racism in Sunderland"!

LJ knows how this is somewhat a main topic of mine. I'm still glad I got to live in t0dm0rd3n for a while, for compare/contrast. There are universal Northern similarities, of that I'm sure.

(the North being grim probably the most compelling similarity of all)

Fun fact: my ancestry is North as well (north Cyprus/Yorkshire) but both sides relocated (thanks to Turkish invasion/job opportunities down South) just in time for my parents to happen - I wonder what Northern echoes persist

That's a muddled timeline actually - my Cypriot grandparents set up in London and had my mum long before they moved back to Kyrenia and got displaced. Job opportunities all around then

Anyway as this is Ask Treeship I guess the big man had best tell us if he has any Michigan ancestry or whatever

treesh have you considered emigrating to Canada?

Charlton Athletic is SE London no? You rebel!

Did your gp flee Cyprus because of the invasion? That's rough. xp

our west is afaict our north

our actual north is another thing entirely obv

your actual north entirely different thing, but grim it is

its that northerly thing of beautiful but orrible alright

My grandparents fled Kyrenia and set up in Limassol. They'd only moved back to Kyrenia a couple of years earlier, from Camden

(north London, the least North of all norths)

flightiness in the family nest pas

you leave my family nest alone

i suppose a n'ornithologist wouldve been expected to spot that one

:)

treeship do you bring us any tidings from the great outside world

Yes.

I saw the Whitney Biennial and found much of it overwhelming, but some of it excellent. And I found the discussion around it alienating as every commentator, critical and laudatory, seemed to take it for granted that most important thing about a work of art is its politics.

I’m glad they forced Kanders off the board but it seems like kind of a hollow victory. He is still manufacturing chemical weapons, he just isn’t allowed to be on the board of the Whitney. Is the point of critical art just to purify the museum?

how is the cooking, treechef?

Sorry—first comment, meant to write underwhelming not overwhelming.

Oh cooking is going well! At home I’m doing veganism. Pasta salads, open faced sandwiches, some spring rolls, it’s the best.

My personal life is actually good *knock on wood*

excellent! Glad you are keeping with it.

so vegan spring rolls. Have to imagine you have a great tofu marinade or an amazing dipping sauce?

Tamari and peanut butter. And i put little slices of tofu in the rolls.

oh nice. v simple. will try with the folks that don't do fish sauce.

Treeship, after a lengthy absence you suddenly re-registered just before the impeachment/whistleblower news broke. Actualities you are actively engaging in discussion in on this borad. Are you the whistleblower?

Yeah but don’t tell anyone. Trump might send his killers after me

Your secret's safe with me, buddy

is it happy bday tríseóig

Happy birthday treeship!

thank you!

Happy birthday man!

may your happiness burgeon like a yeasty mass in a warmish place

happy birthday dear treeship, kindly keep on truckin for all our sakes