The Mongfuxor Chronicles

Yeah, I don't like buying rounds unless I'm getting a big hell of a drunk on and I'm flush with cash.

So are we doing this thing?

i guess rounds are best on jug-o-beer drinking type occasions, such as i tend to be involved in at the uni tav, where beer is cheap anyway. but you guys are probably smart - if i go out for the night i tend to spend inordinate amounts of money and i'm sure some of it is on rounds for people that never pay me back and don't do the 'offer cash up front' approach. not to worry, swings and roundabouts i'm sure.

Yeah, I do love the jug style of communal drinking. Something delightfully medieval about it all.

spot on mikey! especially when you're all sitting at rickety wooden bench/table setups in teh beergarden. i also enjoy the delightfully fun communal drunkenness aspect!

I bought a round for everyone last FAP, but I never get to see you guys, so I think it was justified. It's certainly not part of my normal pub behaviour (otherwise I'd never be able to afford to go out)

Yeah, when I was a poor uni student, as opposed to a poor school teacher, I'd duck across to the Clyde with uni pals and drink jugs for three houres until we were roaring pissed, then I'd go to my afternoon history tutes.

Fuck, those were the good old days, the golden days, the all or nothin' days!

That was fuckin' swell of you to do that Kate.

Nice sidestep of my mutterings there guys ;) Hehehe. Dont mind me etc.

Yeah, never mind the crazy cat lady.

Oh I wasn't looking for praise mikey. I just wish I could be down there all the time. I assure you fapping would be at least bi-monthly.

:P~~~

But aye, a good point re the jugs (fnarr). I mean like if Im out one on one with someone, they get our drinks in and i'll get the next drinks in, thats fine. I dont really think of that as rounds tho. Its a bit hard to be involved in a round when you're saying "o! Might a lady haveth the chardonnay imbibed with the finest of sparkling sodas?" cos everyone will just tell me to stop being such a pussy and drink the bloody VB they bought.

Bwahahahahahah!

When I launch my first novel, you're all coming to the Supper Club and we'll drink our way through the menu.

I'll have to take out a mortgage, but it can be done.

Also, Nick Cave is going to play at the premiere of the film adaptation and I will hire waiting staff to dress up as dead consumptive victorian whores.

GOTHARAMAMAMAMAMALALALAMADINGDONG!

too much coffee.

O man I would totally volunteer to dress up as a consumptive whore zombie, but I couldnt wait tables on my own dinner let alone anyone elses ;P

nAH, ilXors get a big fuckin' table to themselves.

hey gaz! I just came home from Kneel Gayman reading/signing at that Japanese bookshop dans les galeries. via pub and beers and scotches. The Filth is pretty tops, you can re-read it every year and get something different out of it.

Filth Jim:
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So what's he sound like? I imagine he sounds like someone's wet uncle.

Ah, THE FILTH! So it's out in TPB?

Morning mongrels. Happy Thursday. I have to edit some visuals by Tuesday. There is little to no chance I will have this done by the deadline on Tuesday.

Happy Tharsday!

if i go out for the night i tend to spend inordinate amounts of money and i'm sure some of it is on rounds for people that never pay me back and don't do the 'offer cash up front' approach.

Same here. Like you, I buy rounds [when capable] to be kind and do my bit, not to get drinks back. Anyway I can't drink beer anymore so it's a bit of a moot point really.

Trayce: You're nothing like amst ffs, don't worry :)

I'm intrigued to know how we'll pull off this FAP with the board down every three minutes.

S4m Ly [bombing victim] was a guy I used to deal with on the IT desk at M0n4sh btw, I found out yesterday.

Aw no thats awful :(

As for Mr Gaiman/the Continuum thing, etc - my friend Cam was running a forum at'table at Continuum with Gaiman and PZB (? I think) called Gods and Monsters. Cam really be doin' well in this genre it seems. I think his second novel is out soon, and its a kids one with a scifi bent! Talented sod.

$24 for tha filth! 315 pages.

hey kit where i am a-teaching is opposite za ay bee cee.

I am coming to your hood Trayce and Adam so I can take lots of photos, because I am setting a subplot of my novella (I'm way too lame and inexperienced to tackle a novel) there. It's starting to look a little like Goodfellas.

The tragic love interest is a Typhoid Mary kind of figure.

God, I ache to be involved in the whole genrenerdscififantasylit scene. I wish I could sit around all day writing a very twee blog like Gaiman.

Taking photos to support a subplot? Man I should give that a try. What specifically are you planning to capture? Perhaps Trayce and I can give you a couple of pointers to relevant stuff.

Well, I know Balaclava is pretty heavily Jewish, so I want to capture the flavour of the place, what does it look like? How do the people sound? Is it palpably different from other suburbs.

Subplot is -> Supernatural mob war taking place in Melbourne, all the ghosts and goblins of the ethnicities that make up Melbourne are at each other's throats, couple of kids training to be rabbis are selling Golems as muscle/bodyguards to various figures.

Oh awesome. Good places for Jewish things are:

- cnr Inkerman St and Wilgah St, there's a synagogue-thing with security guards always out the front

- Hotham St, between Alma Rd and Inkerman St, Yeshivah College with more security guards standing out the front

- there's a mikveh in [I think] Alexandra St between Inkerman and Carlisle Sts

If you want culture/sounds, Saturday's good because it's no-driving day and they all walk everywhere. Traipsing around Nth Caulfield could be useful too, loads of orthodox jews around there. hth

In case anyone's wondering some completely sick fuck posted autopsy pictures in the 'Photos of Liz' thread. Anonymously, of course; nobody that fucked in the head would admit to being so fucking retarded.

Yeah, looks like I'll be spending following time in the following areas to soak up atmosphere.

- Balaclava (aforementioned Golems)
- Chinatown (The servants of the Jade Emperor NEVER SLEEP).
- Alleyways of Richmond (Beloved by the wee folk, nasty little bastards, which came over with the poor micks in the late 19th C)
- CBD (Corporate Suit Vampire Types, are dispensed with very early in the novel)

I did wonder what the horrible pic was as it was gone before I knew :( Terrible, I expected however that some wanker would eventually troll one of those threads. Suprised (and relieved) it never happened on her RIP one considering it must have something of a public face by now.

In other news, Mikey you may want to exercise caution blithely photographing things like synagogues, schools and hasid men - for what I'd assume were obvious reasons...

Sorry, I assumed Mikey'd do it from a distance :)

Yeah, I was just going to do streetscapes, actually. I'd thought about this.

herro dere. my team leader and the other content person are both on leave. i'm running the department, baby!!!

Trayce, if you're so into Black Books you'd love Nightingales. Shame it's not on anywhere and you can't buy it though.

how handy

content? who do you work for haitch?

PLEASE NEED NEW JOB WILL WRITE WORDS FOR SCRAPS.

WHO
DOES
NUMBER
TWO
WORK
FOR

I am number two.

You are number six.

seeing Serenity tonight.

I work... better not direct link or they'll know I'm here!! dub dub dub dot infoxchange dot net dot au.

Pompous expat Australian hipsters in being complete wankers with no clue shocka:

You don't mind your cultural inputs being constrained to Singaporean levels of harmlessness by the father-knows-best state, and missing out on art and culture that people abroad get to see because some pentecostals don't like the sound of it?

I'm afraid I can't agree with you there. I find the idea of my horizons being forcibly narrowed to suit the whim of some small-minded bigot, of the stupid dictating what everyone else can see or say, thoroughly repugnant. And all the sunshine, good coffee, funky local shops and miscellaneous comfort Melbourne has to offer don't make up for it.

What say you all of this attitude? Maybe its just me but I wanna scream GET ONE PERSPECTIVE at him. The guy's been in london barely a year and he bitches non stop about how crap back home is and how he might never come back because oooh, they banned one film or ohhh, there are people with some kind of RELIGION who happen to be in politics.

Whats that old saying? "God help us if there's a war". F'kin ell.

(sorry thats an LJ quote from someone I know, after I bailed him up for bitching about the request for OFLC review of some new film that hasnt even been banned that made him suggest he will never come back to Aus. I mean good lord.)

is that an individual who is often known by a three letter acronym of his initials?

Interesting place to work, Haitch?

Trayce, I plan to flee the country one day, maybe permanently, but I know a whole lot of countries suck many, many times harder and I will never forget I had it really good here as a young man.

Heh yes Jim, it is indeed. I'm not going to say anything unfair here, but I find him... erm... frustratingly unusual lets say.

Hahah, yeah, well, we all know about him, don't we?

God, there's so much I wanna say - reckon he reads this?

He may do, so I think I should shut up now.

Word.

N'GLAAAYVEN!