London ILB - FAP?

I am doing a phone interview at 6 - but should be there by 7.15 or so?

You will know me easily. I am a large woman with glasses and long red hair, usually accompanied by a tall bloke with glasses.

the Fox's nose is very distinctive.

Oh, it's just me? .. I thought as much.

Hey, did any drunks guys come over to your table, like, "Oy! Wot you prats doin' readin' in a bar?? You're all lucky you got so many pints in front of you or I'd kick everyone one of you asses!"

And someone always woke her at the right stop.

The FAP was grand.

The Irish folk at the FAP were much keener on coemdy Irishness than the other Irish ilxors.

We discussed Donnybrook.

they are TRAITORS!

Books were.

Have had lovely holidays. Now, back to the books.

ILB FAP: 2009 edition. I'd be fine for a drink any day next week Monday-Thursday.

As for pubs: maybe go for one along Borough High Street?

Monday or Thursday would work for me, and Borough High St is A1 for me too.

Thursday's best for me - working a 12 hour shift the other days. Borough High St always a good place to go for a drink.

hey julio, im gonna be down in london next week so pl post details here - hope to come along

i don't live around london. tho i am heading up there for the weekend for the meltdown concerts and maaaay still be around monday/tuesdayish. can't say for sure, though.

hey Ward! This is good timing - hope to see you too. We'll keep details here.

thomp - Oops I knew about meltdown but didn't know if you were going to be around later that week.

Unless Gamaliel can make it Monday (doesn't look like it) I'd say next thur? Looking at the options how about this one just off the main street - Old King's head - but if you all have another option in mind then do tell.

http://www.fancyapint.com/pubs/pub473.html

I'll revive thisILE thread now for casual ILB-ers (or otherwise) who might want to come along.

Unless Gamaliel can make it Monday (doesn't look like it)

I really can't unfortunately. Awkward customer I know - the toad work. I will have an ILB FAP by myself on Thursday if it's not possible for others though, to make sure I pay my alcohol/reading duties.

That's not awkward at all! See you and everyone who can come next Thursday.

Should be at the Old King's from six-ish, I shall be reading and drinking if I don't see anyone.

I'll say which book on the day :-)

Might bother to do a 'Balkanized' ILX London FAP thread over at ILE on the day of the meet.

And thomp - if you're in London later this year etc let us know and we can arrange a FAP (although I might see you on Sunday, I guess?).

Will def be along on Thursday, and will similarly post book-holding details (tho' Gamaliel and I can identify one another - we go back)

I might be back from Brighton in time for this FAP. Then again, come to think of it, I guess I don't know anyone who's going to it.

Pinefox we have been in the same FAP several times. I think you also have talked to Ward Fowler.

bit odd how the board has an entirely different clientele to last time. feels a bit like housesitting.

but, yeah, see you sunday maybe. i'll be hanging around the bar reading the bantam edition of dhalgren, i should think.

New generation, innit?

I shall look for the Dhalgren (bantam ed.)

did anything happen with this FAP?

it's nice to know that people think they've been at a FAP with me, but I doubt that I could walk into a bar and say 'hey, aren't you xyzzz__?' I don't think I can even pronounce it.

It's on Thursday. xyzzz is usually my last utterance of any evening in a pub.

We could get cans, but these FAPs have always been in pubs.

Youn if you come maybe we could put this radical ideas into action. Are you in London sometime this summer?

The questions were hypothetical. If the hypothesis were to be tested, it would be in September.

It’d be excellent to see you, Youn - goodness knows how long it’s been. I might even be tempted out of the ale house and into some park.

I'm just gonna ask, since I can't puzzle it out: what does FAP stand for?

Fancy a pint

Ah, thanks. Given the context, I figured "pint" was in there.

FAC in the Park

The other problem with parks is you have to sit on the ground.

xpost - that's where I gather all the old action happened ...

I still remember the glasses and the half pint glasses.

cup?

wear jeans or white trousers worthy of grass stains?

The other problem with parks is you have to sit on the _ground._

big bag of cans blanket 😑😑😑

I'm a frequent FACker in the park during the summer, which is fine as long as I don't bump into Duncan the LOUD window-cleaner or the mentally ill guy who keeps giving me updates on his legal situation after throwing someone's phone into the road during a heated argument about dog shit.

tbf this is the main topic on ILB also (the dogshit is some book i will never read)

lol i am drunk after the residents assocn AGM ignore me as per

Looking to get to pub at 630 or so.

Ok. I am in town this afternoon as I have a half day so if anyone is going earlier let me know.

Gyac if you have time to kill you could catch the Gursky exhibition on Bermondsey Street, it's only a 10 minute walk away and open til 6.

I reckon 7.30-8 si realistic for me.

The following are in our outbox, free to any FAPpers who want them, just let me know and I'll bring them along

William Heinesen - The Lost Musicians
Ebba Haslund - Nothing Happened Lucy Ellmann - Things Are Against Us
James Hogg - The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Kenzaburo Oe: Teach Us To Outgrow Our Madness (four short novels)
Patrick Modiano: Suspended Sentences
Dasa Drndic - Trieste
Fiona Mosley - Elmet
Arturo Perez-Reverte - The Seville Communion
Haruki Murakami - The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
Elif Batuman -The Idiot
Sabhattin Ali - Madonna in a Fur Coat
Birgit Vanderbeke - You Would Have Missed Me
Carlos Labbe: Navidad & Matanza
Peter Benson - A Lesser Dependency
Georges Perec: "53 Days"
Willa Cather: Lucy Gayheart
Peter Stamm: The Sweet Indifference of the World (tr Michael Hoffmann, which might tempt someone)
David Keenan: This IS Memorial Device
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
Ingvar Ambjornsen - Beyond the Great Indoors
Robert Graves - The White GoddessJulian Ayesta - Helena, or The Sea In Summer
Naoko Takahashi: Not So Too Much of Everything
Denton Welch: A Voice Through Cloud
Nancy Mitford: Love In A Cold Climate
Ashley Hickson-Lovence: The 392

David Keenan: This IS Memorial Device 👀

(this is not a bid)

my meet-up w/my sister has been postponed so i can be there 5-530ish

Dasa Drndic - Trieste
Peter Stamm: The Sweet Indifference of the World (tr Michael Hoffmann, which might tempt someone)

Yes to both. I love Stamm but haven't read that one!

Tim: I think I'd like the Perec from you if possible.

Very good choices!

Feel like the ILB jury was split on This IS Memorial Device, but I liked (what I read of) it.

👀

OTM

I liked quite a lot of the books on that list; TIMD wasn't one of those.

No Bobby Gillespie memoir, no credibility.

That was a keeper, obv.

I had no prior knowledge of David Keenan so I went in with open 👀

Ok so I’m on way to lbg probably via Borough market? It’s hot as fuck so going to whichever pub I can tbh? Let me know if any of ye are there around 5 (I saw you saying you could be early mark)

I am here

Tom D I am sorry you’re not well, because you would love the tiny kitten in this pub

How did public houses come about and what did they drink at different times during their evolution? (I am also very happy indoors and sympathize with the difficulties encountered when sitting on the ground (hardness, damp, insects that might be friendly or unfriendly, etc.), but the upside is that you can bring a variety of equally attractive (non-)alcoholic beverages and snacks to please all tastes, whereas in a pub it seems only right to drink beer. And there might be ducks or other birds and lakes and bushes and the smell of grass and blue sky above. On the downside you might have to invent your own pub games.)

This was great!

Yes - a good FAP.

Much talk about not voting in elections. An explanation, to me, of Tim's Harvill project. Poster Gyac presenting several photographs without warning, while carrying a bright green bag that I admired. Poster Ronan's pursuit of the aesthetics of William Trevor and his account of certain academic creative writing matters. Pub opening times and lock-ins in UK vs Ireland.

Daniel - this is the piece I was talking to you about.

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2015/03/10/dantes-dogs/

Can I just say the photographs were of several ilxors past and present that the pinefox knows!

Ty for your compliment on the bag though!

Also mark s, this was the Twitter thread about Miyazaki drawing a Moomin driving a tank

why did she hate the previous anime so much? well they stories wildly differed from her books and comics, Moomin himself was a lot more of a generic 70s comedy shonen protagonist getting into fights and causing trouble, there were guns and Snufkin drove a car... pic.twitter.com/e5n6aJpr2S

— Michaela Joffe (@joffeorama) April 25, 2022

Yes, it was good especially to see pictures of ilx poster Felicity (aka), including in Shoreditch - 6 years ago?

Funnily enough, overnight I was sent pics which make the Harvill project complete (it might be more accurate to say there's nothing more to add to it that I know exists):

https://300oddleopards.wordpress.com/

Yeah this was a good one! Inspired by the closing hours chat I stayed 'till the end and made myself dinner after midnight, been years since that happened.

from further down the warmoomins thread: "in Miyazaki's book of memoirs and essays, he describes the Moomins as 'grotesque Christian art'" 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

(admittedly neither of these words is necessarily a diss)

anyway hurrah for the FAP which was v nice

tho my cheeseburger had the density of neutronium

Why did Ireland become a poster child for globalization? Did it have to do with the relative wealth or demographics of Ireland, Scotland, and England? Do you think this state of affairs will continue after the pandemic and Brexit? Apologies for off-topic post; please ignore.

How about a FAP in early September?

Sure!

Sounds good - I could do the 8thas it stands.

Grand, let's go for the 8th.