(+1 for fash gov remark)
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 21 January 2019 16:17 (five years ago) link
btw treeship should move to florence imo
― imago, Monday, 21 January 2019 16:18 (five years ago) link
or vienna!
― imago, Monday, 21 January 2019 16:21 (five years ago) link
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
― ogmor, Monday, 21 January 2019 16:24 (five years ago) link
eh you know what I meant
― ogmor, Monday, 21 January 2019 16:25 (five years ago) link
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.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 21 January 2019 16:50 (five years ago) link
(the North being grim probably the most compelling similarity of all)
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 21 January 2019 16:51 (five years ago) link
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
― imago, Monday, 21 January 2019 16:53 (five years ago) link
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
― imago, Monday, 21 January 2019 16:54 (five years ago) link
Anyway as this is Ask Treeship I guess the big man had best tell us if he has any Michigan ancestry or whatever
― imago, Monday, 21 January 2019 16:56 (five years ago) link
treesh have you considered emigrating to Canada?
― pomenitul, Monday, 21 January 2019 16:56 (five years ago) link
Charlton Athletic is SE London no? You rebel!
Did your gp flee Cyprus because of the invasion? That's rough. xp
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 21 January 2019 17:00 (five years ago) link
our west is afaict our north
our actual north is another thing entirely obv
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Monday, 21 January 2019 17:04 (five years ago) link
your actual north entirely different thing, but grim it is
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 21 January 2019 17:05 (five years ago) link
its that northerly thing of beautiful but orrible alright
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Monday, 21 January 2019 17:08 (five years ago) link
My grandparents fled Kyrenia and set up in Limassol. They'd only moved back to Kyrenia a couple of years earlier, from Camden
― imago, Monday, 21 January 2019 17:11 (five years ago) link
(north London, the least North of all norths)
― imago, Monday, 21 January 2019 17:12 (five years ago) link
flightiness in the family nest pas
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Monday, 21 January 2019 17:15 (five years ago) link
you leave my family nest alone
― imago, Monday, 21 January 2019 17:26 (five years ago) link
i suppose a n'ornithologist wouldve been expected to spot that one
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Monday, 21 January 2019 17:29 (five years ago) link
:)
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 21 January 2019 17:30 (five years ago) link
treeship do you bring us any tidings from the great outside world
― j., Monday, 23 September 2019 16:53 (four years ago) link
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.
― treeship., Thursday, 26 September 2019 03:30 (four years ago) link
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?
― treeship., Thursday, 26 September 2019 03:33 (four years ago) link
how is the cooking, treechef?
― Tart Prepper (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 26 September 2019 03:36 (four years ago) link
Sorry—first comment, meant to write underwhelming not overwhelming.
― treeship., Thursday, 26 September 2019 03:37 (four years ago) link
Oh cooking is going well! At home I’m doing veganism. Pasta salads, open faced sandwiches, some spring rolls, it’s the best.
― treeship., Thursday, 26 September 2019 03:38 (four years ago) link
My personal life is actually good *knock on wood*
― treeship., Thursday, 26 September 2019 03:39 (four years ago) link
excellent! Glad you are keeping with it.
― Tart Prepper (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 26 September 2019 03:43 (four years ago) link
so vegan spring rolls. Have to imagine you have a great tofu marinade or an amazing dipping sauce?
― Tart Prepper (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 26 September 2019 03:46 (four years ago) link
Tamari and peanut butter. And i put little slices of tofu in the rolls.
― treeship., Thursday, 26 September 2019 03:53 (four years ago) link
oh nice. v simple. will try with the folks that don't do fish sauce.
― Tart Prepper (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 26 September 2019 04:01 (four years ago) link
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?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 26 September 2019 17:48 (four years ago) link
Yeah but don’t tell anyone. Trump might send his killers after me
― treeship., Thursday, 26 September 2019 17:49 (four years ago) link
Your secret's safe with me, buddy
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 26 September 2019 17:50 (four years ago) link
is it happy bday tríseóig
― steer calmer (darraghmac), Monday, 20 April 2020 17:51 (four years ago) link
Happy birthday treeship!
― a passing spacecadet, Monday, 20 April 2020 17:52 (four years ago) link
thank you!
― treeship., Monday, 20 April 2020 18:17 (four years ago) link
Happy birthday man!
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 20 April 2020 19:13 (four years ago) link
may your happiness burgeon like a yeasty mass in a warmish place
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 20 April 2020 19:56 (four years ago) link
happy birthday dear treeship, kindly keep on truckin for all our sakes
― ogmor, Monday, 20 April 2020 20:40 (four years ago) link