― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 15:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I am doing a phone interview at 6 - but should be there by 7.15 or so?
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 15:31 (sixteen years ago) link
You will know me easily. I am a large woman with glasses and long red hair, usually accompanied by a tall bloke with glasses.
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 16:25 (sixteen years ago) link
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 21:17 (sixteen years ago) link
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Thursday, 6 May 2004 07:17 (sixteen years ago) link
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Thursday, 6 May 2004 14:14 (sixteen years ago) link
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 6 May 2004 14:28 (sixteen years ago) link
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Thursday, 6 May 2004 14:33 (sixteen years ago) link
― the finefox, Thursday, 6 May 2004 15:03 (sixteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 6 May 2004 17:14 (sixteen years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 7 May 2004 09:03 (sixteen years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 7 May 2004 09:04 (sixteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Friday, 7 May 2004 09:27 (sixteen years ago) link
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Friday, 7 May 2004 09:39 (sixteen years ago) link
the Fox's nose is very distinctive.
― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 7 May 2004 11:26 (sixteen years ago) link
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Friday, 7 May 2004 12:11 (sixteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 7 May 2004 12:38 (sixteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 7 May 2004 13:12 (sixteen years ago) link
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!"
― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Friday, 7 May 2004 14:14 (sixteen years ago) link
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Friday, 7 May 2004 15:18 (sixteen years ago) link
And someone always woke her at the right stop.
― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Friday, 7 May 2004 16:34 (sixteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 7 May 2004 17:07 (sixteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 7 May 2004 21:25 (sixteen years ago) link
The FAP was grand.
The Irish folk at the FAP were much keener on coemdy Irishness than the other Irish ilxors.
We discussed Donnybrook.
― the bellefox, Saturday, 8 May 2004 14:29 (sixteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 8 May 2004 15:15 (sixteen years ago) link
they are TRAITORS!
― DV (dirtyvicar), Saturday, 8 May 2004 15:50 (sixteen years ago) link
― David Nolan (David N.), Saturday, 8 May 2004 22:57 (sixteen years ago) link
― aimurchie, Saturday, 8 May 2004 23:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Books were.
― the pintfox, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 11:50 (sixteen years ago) link
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Have had lovely holidays. Now, back to the books.
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Sunday, 16 May 2004 12:12 (sixteen years ago) link
― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 20 May 2004 08:20 (sixteen years ago) link
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?
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 21:57 (eleven years ago) link
Monday or Thursday would work for me, and Borough High St is A1 for me too.
― woofwoofwoof, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 08:55 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― GamalielRatsey, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 11:54 (eleven years ago) link
hey julio, im gonna be down in london next week so pl post details here - hope to come along
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 12:05 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― thomp, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
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
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
I'll revive thisILE thread now for casual ILB-ers (or otherwise) who might want to come along.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 21:17 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― GamalielRatsey, Thursday, 18 June 2009 07:06 (eleven years ago) link
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?).
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 18 June 2009 20:07 (eleven years ago) link
Will def be along on Thursday, and will similarly post book-holding details (tho' Gamaliel and I can identify one another - we go back)
― woofwoofwoof, Thursday, 18 June 2009 22:20 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 18 June 2009 23:52 (eleven years ago) link
Pinefox we have been in the same FAP several times. I think you also have talked to Ward Fowler.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 19 June 2009 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― thomp, Friday, 19 June 2009 22:48 (eleven years ago) link
New generation, innit?
I shall look for the Dhalgren (bantam ed.)
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 20 June 2009 09:25 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― the pinefox, Monday, 22 June 2009 17:50 (eleven years ago) link
It's on Thursday. xyzzz is usually my last utterance of any evening in a pub.
― GamalielRatsey, Monday, 22 June 2009 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
perhaps for somewhat perverse reasons, i quite enjoyed the lillian ross piece -- it's sent me back to brendan gill's "here at the new yorker". i will write reasons and perversity and gill and maybe ohagan up on the LRB thread when i am no longer ill, also ditto wordsworth's fun
(i am no longer ill today in the sense of being i think virus-free at last but i am still very tired and last night was the first thing close to a normal night's sleep since tuesday)
(i ahev not read the poems and think it quite unlikely i ever will, i feel bad about this habit but it is now decades embedded and i'm guessing unshakeable)
― mark s, Sunday, 7 July 2019 12:10 (one year ago) link
Mark yes it is fair to say that though O'Hagan is bad, the review is not unreadable and has a kind of fun element.
I suppose part of the irritation though is the patent obviousness with which O'H attached himself to a certain world that he admired, and then the way that he (often) writes about it - a kind of (non-comic) pastiche of the original; trying to be Didion, or whoever.
If you think of say a Paul Morley encountering a scene, he wouldn't write in a lame pastiche of its manner but would encounter it with his own style.
Unless it was for a book on rock press history in which case he wouldn't write it?
The poems really are bad.
― the pinefox, Sunday, 7 July 2019 20:06 (one year ago) link
yes i don't disagree with that -- abt the attachment i mean. i haven't written this up yet bcz i've been apply for a job by telling the publication start-up i'm applying to that their underlying philosophy is probably bad (i have no idea what it is) and so they should feel bad
semi-unrelatedly i just sent the LRB a snarky email re LR and AO'H pointing out that what in fact transformed the unpleasant qualities he admires in her into tremendous journalism was the involvement in her work (or threat of involvement hovering behind it) of the new yorker's fact-checking department, at-that-time world-leading
(but expressed a lot more directly, in case lanchester is lurking)
― mark s, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 13:22 (one year ago) link
written up here: Book Reviews? LRB vs the failing New York Review of Books vs ... ?
― mark s, Friday, 12 July 2019 14:07 (one year ago) link
Just wanted to float this idea...FAP on Dec 12th?
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 29 November 2019 11:19 (one year ago) link
😬😬😬
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 29 November 2019 11:20 (one year ago) link
Bad idea I think - surely we'll either be out knocking on doors or getting home for 10pm exit polls?
― the pinefox, Sunday, 1 December 2019 14:38 (one year ago) link
i’ll be in f’ing australia *again* as i was for the f’ing referendum. actually i might be in the air on the way back tbh. i’ll be getting absolutely shitted on the plane i can tell you that.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 1 December 2019 14:47 (one year ago) link
― the pinefox, Sunday, 1 December 2019 bookmarkflaglink
The reason for this is I wanted to keep drinking through the exit polls and pretty much (for me at the least) all my door knocking will be done (might do it on the day but reckon I'll be ready for a drink by 7).
Also we did have an ILB FAP on the referendum back in 2016 lol
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 1 December 2019 15:48 (one year ago) link
Hey, some of us are always in f'ing australia
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 02:18 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef3beK367tA
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 02:53 (one year ago) link
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 02:18 bookmarkflaglink
ah man tell me about it. thing is i just can't abide the place. everyone seems really rules obsessed, boorish sports masculinity, racist, vile and totally dysfunctional politics (yes i know), tolerates a load of shitty identity oppression in the name of 'plain speaking/straight talking'. fascism in paradise.
but i love the nature, the sense of interior - as close to a psychological space physically rendered as you can get, gerald murnane, adelaide cricket ground, the friends i have out there, you and your bloody books, james (i often think of this - FAP!), the sense of apac culture, sydney harbour as a geographical space etc.
Basically i just wish western man had never discovered it (i use 'man' advisedly - aus seems a supremely masculine culture).
― Fizzles, Thursday, 5 December 2019 20:51 (one year ago) link
an almost NZ obsession with fucking coffee. what lack are you making up for u c'ts.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 5 December 2019 20:52 (one year ago) link
As someone has said, we're a nation of narcs who like to think of ourselves as relaxed anti-authoritarians.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Monday, 9 December 2019 01:26 (one year ago) link
well, i'm flying back now, but i've had a decent enough time swimming in the sea and the taste of ash in my mouth or walking round in a Sydney bonfire. I feel a bit repentant about my intemperate words. As usual here, the people I encounter professionally are impressive and likable, while the more social side is a bit rubbish, a reverse of my experience in the UK.
I'm besotted by Gerald Murnane - bought three of his books on Sunday, during which process, a woman stared, frozen at me, and said 'you've got a spider on your lip'. I also froze, and then she said 'It's gone down the inside of your shirt'. Cue something of a frightened untucking dance in the bookshop. I mean, I suspect the number of harmless spiders in Aus is the same as the UK, but equally there are some right little shits out here as well and fucked if I know the difference.
Fuck tho this country loves its coffees, cars, smashed avocado breakfasts and its dysfunctionally see-sawing relationship with alkyhol.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 12 December 2019 04:48 (one year ago) link
Am mildly regretting this not happening tonight (and now I have other plans, at least early evening plans). Good luck everyone.
― Tim, Thursday, 12 December 2019 17:14 (one year ago) link
I'll be watching the Celtic v Cluj game then plan on getting blootered later.
― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 December 2019 17:33 (one year ago) link
Signed for crappy gym yoga class then drinking in a local with no TV. That's how I make my own luck.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 12 December 2019 18:14 (one year ago) link
Which local? Just a chance I might be able to swing by later.
― Tim, Thursday, 12 December 2019 18:23 (one year ago) link
Hiya in the half moon from about 9pm. Just planning to drink through the exit poll..
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 12 December 2019 20:17 (one year ago) link
We’ll be there in a bit but don’t worry if you’re inclined to slink off.
― Tim, Thursday, 12 December 2019 21:32 (one year ago) link
Nah just here
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 12 December 2019 21:32 (one year ago) link
Shall we do this soon. First week of Feb?
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 23 January 2020 16:47 (one year ago) link
sounds good to me :)
― mark s, Thursday, 23 January 2020 16:47 (one year ago) link
6th at the usual place.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 23 January 2020 16:48 (one year ago) link
of course getting there since TFL rerouted the 48 is now a minor chore (2 x buses instead of 1)
― mark s, Thursday, 23 January 2020 16:50 (one year ago) link
not good for me >:(
― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 January 2020 17:01 (one year ago) link
6th is ok for me. after that i seem to be travelling for work for the rest of my life so it may be the only slot for a while.
― Fizzles, Friday, 24 January 2020 07:53 (one year ago) link
6th looks OK for me too.
― Tim, Friday, 24 January 2020 09:28 (one year ago) link
Grand (Tom D we can schedule the next one and make sure you attend :))
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 24 January 2020 09:50 (one year ago) link
Sounds good to me!
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 24 January 2020 10:04 (one year ago) link
Yes I think I can make it.
― the pinefox, Friday, 24 January 2020 11:04 (one year ago) link
Tomorrow!!
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 17:31 (eleven months ago) link
See you later.
― Tim, Thursday, 6 February 2020 13:06 (eleven months ago) link
The usual place = Royal Oak, Tabard street
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 6 February 2020 13:12 (eleven months ago) link
early-ish start and an early-ish finish for me. bloody meetings with ‘straya first thing in the morning.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 6 February 2020 13:22 (eleven months ago) link
🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 6 February 2020 16:23 (eleven months ago) link
― Fizzles, Thursday, 6 February 2020 16:34 (eleven months ago) link
good to see everyone last night. DanielRF - this is the Jeremy Deller documentary I think you'll enjoy after reading the King.
on the question of which books have haunted you in the last year (well two years in this case), i was struggling - eric vuillard's order of the day, maybe, until woof reminded me of pierre michon – really good nyrb review of the translations and michon here.
― Fizzles, Friday, 7 February 2020 21:19 (eleven months ago) link
thanks!
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 7 February 2020 22:22 (eleven months ago) link
Non-standard I know but we're doing a little launch for the Mary Butts book I've done (and which some of you have seen) - it's a week today, Thursday 27th at the bookartsbookshop from 6.30 to 8 or so. likely pub after. It'd be lovely to see all or any of you. Gonna spam the London FAP thread with this too, so sorry about that.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B8szLA8nXGV/
https://thehalfpintpress.wordpress.com/imaginary-letters-by-mary-butts/
― Tim, Thursday, 20 February 2020 09:33 (eleven months ago) link
Can't come sorry Tim. Hope this goes well!
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 20 February 2020 19:17 (eleven months ago) link
Yes, I'm in Scotland.
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Thursday, 20 February 2020 19:18 (eleven months ago) link
That Butts book looks wonderful. Can it be ordered online, assuming I have the dosh?
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Friday, 6 March 2020 01:45 (ten months ago) link
Just direct from me really - if you drop me a line on halfpintpress at gmail dot com I can give you the details.
― Tim, Friday, 6 March 2020 06:14 (ten months ago) link
(Or my ilxmail works too I think)
(Special deals done for Ilxors)
― Tim, Friday, 6 March 2020 09:27 (ten months ago) link
It was at an ILB FAP that Tim Hopkins told me about Eley Williams. Big Guardian interview:https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jul/17/hunting-for-mountweazels-eley-williams-on-the-fun-and-responsibility-of-dictionaries I can't recall if Tim knows ms Williams, or just admires the work.
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 08:27 (six months ago) link
I know Eley* a little - from what I know she is delightful. We collaborated on this: https://thehalfpintpress.wordpress.com/the-seas-better-plans/ and I certainly admire the work. I am looking forward to the novel very much.
(*That's Dr. Williams, PF!)
― Tim, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 10:59 (six months ago) link
I'm not too surprised it's Dr Williams, and I would always refer to someone by that title if aware of it, but in this instance I was not, at the time.
Now I know better, I observe that Dr Williams is technically a colleague, at the very federal University of London:
https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/eley-williams(fb5c6c00-d430-4c46-a694-889cede1902a).html
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 11:30 (six months ago) link
I click on the link and I recognize this kind of jar.
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 11:31 (six months ago) link