UK Fnordcooler 23: Immanentizing The Eschaton - When The Pyramid Meets The Eye!

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If I am back in time I may try and squeeeze in a last hour with Kontacke, I shall have a liberty shirt and something orange oh yes.

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

Why do all these things end up happening at the Enterprise? Other end of London, hello. Bah.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

Mmm, thanks for the cookies, Kerr!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

The Enterprise pub? I like that pub.

― Tom D., Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

It's all the way up in Chalk Farm!

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

Last chalk farm southbound tubes are at 0012 and 0020

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

Last stockwell brixton is 0046 which is only 4 mins after the northern line gets there which is a cutting it a little fine.

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, the Northern Line is never the problem - it runs quite late. It's that Stockwell connection. If you miss it, you are stranded in Stockwell, which is not a nice place to be in the wee hours of the morning.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

or ever.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

No, it's OK during the day because there is a bus that goes to Streatham. OK, it's a bit of a mad bus which goes to Streatham via Clapham (go figure) but it does get there in the end.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

It's all the way up in Chalk Farm!

But it's 20-30 mins walk from my house!

― Tom D., Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

20-30 min walk from my house = The Windmill.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

did everyone get the two lots of cookies?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 29 March 2007 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

Morning all.

Anyone seen Onimo about lately? I miss his posts.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy on Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:58 (5 hours ago)

He posts all over the place. Just not here. He's still around in real life too, though I'm guessing that's not what you meant.

― ailsa, Thursday, 29 March 2007 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

Though I haven't actually seen him in real life for a while, so he may not be, and it could be an imposter posting elsewhere in his name. Who knows?

― ailsa, Thursday, 29 March 2007 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

Excellent, a picture of the Electric Jug!

[image]http://starling.rinet.ru/music/sleeves/zap_13th.jpg[image]

Ed, can you learn how to play the Electric Jug?

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

Bah! I am really not getting this today.

http://starling.rinet.ru/music/sleeves/zap_13th.jpg

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

But would Ed get up onstage and play the jug?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 29 March 2007 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

London trip is go, btw. I've jumped on kv_nol's LondonFAP thread and promptly killed it, yay me. But, yeah, I'll be around 21st/22nd April. Mostly touristing, possibly theatring, hopefully FAPping.

― ailsa, Thursday, 29 March 2007 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

In fact, his electric jug (invariably mentioned by all newbies to the Elevators records as, "What IS that weird sound?") was a crock-jug, with a microphone held up to it while it was being blown. Its effect on record was uncanny; its effect live was transcendental. In fact, the band backed up many bands such as Flatt & Scruggs at Love Street and other places, an amazing transposition of pure Texas psychedelia with bluegrass (in other words, the beginning of Cosmic Cowboy).

from

― Ed, Thursday, 29 March 2007 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

Morning all.

Kate, find out where the Alex James cheese can be procured in the cotswolds as the megalith hunting trip will pass right through the middle of that country.

― Ed, Friday, 30 March 2007 07:03 (nineteen years ago)

Why do all these things end up happening at the Enterprise? Other end of London, hello. Bah.

you knew where camden was before you moved to st reatham!

― emsk, Friday, 30 March 2007 08:06 (nineteen years ago)

I bid on an old dynamic mic to do electric jug experiments with.

― Ed, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:08 (nineteen years ago)

St. Reatham? The patron saint of drive-by shootings?

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 09:19 (nineteen years ago)

I was barred when I got in this morning - from ILX, I mean

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 09:20 (nineteen years ago)

what is St Ockwell the patron saint of?

I like St John Bosco coz he's the patron saint of EDITORS!

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:20 (nineteen years ago)

Bastards (shakes fist feebly heavenwards)

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

As Stockwell was one of the first tube stations in London,* St Ockwell should be patron saint of tube lines.

* a pedant writes: but nowhere near the oldest *underground* station.

― Forest Pines, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:23 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, there was an email from grouty this morning "i've been banned again", "this again", I thought, went to unban him, and I was banned as well! haha.

― Pashmina, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:25 (nineteen years ago)

It's like Stalinist Russia, who will be denounced next?

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 09:25 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, I will dig out the Observer Food Monthly where it said where he sold it. If indeed he has started selling it yet!

Electric Jug, yes!

I have Camden, I wanted to move as FAR AWAY AS POSSIBLE from it. I just wish they would stop doing cool things there.

St. Reatham's Parish is the nice end, the drive-bys are all up by Brixton Hill.

Oh god, the hotttt mang was on the train again this morning. Swoon!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

Poll results on sunday!

― Ed, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

He is so lovely (the hotttt mang) - I see him quite frequently at the train station so he probably lives in St. Reathams Parish.

He's had his hair cut since I saw him last - he used to have shoulder length hair, but now it's just kind of floppy like a public schoolboy and he plays with it like he's not used to it. Sideburns. Dark brown, and dirty hair, all shot through with little bits of grey. He's got the best nose in the world, super-pointed but in this weird almost concave way, but not a horrible ski-jump nose at all. And these really, really piercing blue eyes. And he's always wearing lovely clothes - today he was wearing a tweed jacket and a black turtleneck and looked totally hott in a German maths professor sort of way.

I am so terribly misreading of train situations, I need to learn how to look in a flirty way, not an intimidating way. Like, smile and twirl my hair or something crap and girly like that. Because I fear I may be intimidating. And I can never tell when someone is being polite vs. being friendly vs. being flirty and I need to learn how to do it or else I shall turn into a Graham.

Because he was sitting on the bench where I usually sat, and I didn't want to go stand by the first carriage because it was raining. So I kinda looked longingly at the bench and he moved aside to make room for me. And we both smiled and pulled out our Guardians and started to read. Until the train started coming and I got up to go and wait by the first carriage. And he got up and was going to get on the second carriage, but then changed his mind and walked up and waited by my door. Looked up and he was sitting near me and I was pleased because I could continue to try to look at him but every time he nearly caught my eye I was all "ARGH LOOK AWAY, DON'T GET CAUGHT STARING, STARING IS RUDE!" And then he smiled at me and I panicked and burried my head in my paper and then he kind of shifted away and hunched his shoulders so we couldn't see each others faces any more and went back to playing with his hair for the rest of the ride. Until I got off the train before him, and I couldn't help but look back but he saw me and wondering is he thinking "argh, thank god that scary girl who was staring at me has got off?" or was he thinking "oh, she looked back at me" or was he thinking "shall I have bacon on toast or fried eggs for breakfast?"

And I'm just feeling all confused and wondering DID I ENTIRELY IMAGINE THAT?!?!? Like, have I completely projected my attraction onto his actions? Or were we both doing the kind of checking each other out thing, and I totally blew it? Or am I becoming the kind of scary old lady who thinks that the television talks to her?

SPRING PLEASE STOP FUCKING WITH MY HORMONES. BOYS STOP BEING SO SCARY AND CUTE.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

That should really have gone on the "Dear Random Stranger, I Love You" thread but it's almost too entirely creepy for that.

I am worrying about myself lately.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

After having resolved to waylay and talk to the hot redhead I sometimes see on the grays inn rd I have not seen her again, bah. Long hair, I think I will allow long hair if it is flame red.

― Ed, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:08 (nineteen years ago)

almost too entirely creepy for that

you can't be too creepy for that thread.

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:10 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, I thought all your crush belonged to the waitress with the groovy shoulderblades?

Is this sort of behaviour totally certifiable, or just English?

I mean, blokes, if you saw some girl (and not a hott cute girl, but a mad, fat, middle aged woman like me) acting like this towards you on the train, would you think she was a mentalist? Or would you not even notice?

I mean, if someone cuts me off getting on the train, sometimes I glower at them all the way to Herne Hill. I hope he did not think I was doing that!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:12 (nineteen years ago)

I would quite like it I have to say.

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:15 (nineteen years ago)

I think I probably need to get laid. Not have a relationship or anything like that, but just have some kind of random casual sex so I will stop being influenced by the crazy spring thing. But what if I can't even get *that*?

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:22 (nineteen years ago)

I think I have gone insane.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:32 (nineteen years ago)

hint: do not have casual sex on train.

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

I would take any girl making flirty eyes at me on the train as a compliment at the very least. However it is spring and I think they are all making flirty eyes at me.

Re: hoot waitress etc.

It is spring, I want all the girls.

― Ed, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

Also Re: next friday, I will have to get over to spitalfields by about 7-7:30pm that evening so an afternoon slot in the alldayer would suit.

― Ed, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

On a crowded commuter rush hour train, no less. Oh good lord. It must be spring, I don't often get the urge to shout to the dude opposite me "sod going to work, let's get off at the wrong station together and go to a posh hotel and fuck like animals for a few hours between bouts of cream tea and buns!"

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:36 (nineteen years ago)

― Mark G, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:37 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, see, I just hope he thought that I was making flirty eyes, and not glaring at him for stealing my bench or coz his flies were open.

I am taking some comfort in the thought that spring affects the males of the species, too. So I don't feel like such a mentalist.

Ask on the other thread, Ed!

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, blokes, if you saw some girl (and not a hott cute girl, but a mad, fat, middle aged woman like me) acting like this towards you on the train, would you think she was a mentalist? Or would you not even notice?

Oh yes, I notice! It happens in the supermarket. Why a mentalist? That's what people do, check each other out.

But I'd say that the jury's out on whether he is checking you out or not. Say 'Hi, I'm Kate' next time and/or use a smalltalk intro.

― Dr.C, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

I have been paid. When can we look at this bellzouki?

― Ed, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:42 (nineteen years ago)

[i}I am taking some comfort in the thought that spring affects the males of the species, too[/i]

Ha ha, you've only just realised that!?!??!

― Tom D., Friday, 30 March 2007 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

Who's not been? Goddamn BACS!

― Mark G, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

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