The questions were hypothetical. If the hypothesis were to be tested, it would be in September.
― youn, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 19:58 (one year ago) link
Itβd be excellent to see you, Youn - goodness knows how long itβs been. I might even be tempted out of the ale house and into some park.
― Tim, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 20:01 (one year ago) link
I'm just gonna ask, since I can't puzzle it out: what does FAP stand for?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 20:02 (one year ago) link
Fancy a pint
― gyac, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 20:03 (one year ago) link
Ah, thanks. Given the context, I figured "pint" was in there.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 20:03 (one year ago) link
FAC in the Park
― Was Hitler a Hobbit? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 20:04 (one year ago) link
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?
― youn, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 20:06 (one year ago) link
The other problem with parks is you have to sit on the _ground._
― gyac, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 20:08 (one year ago) link
big bag of cans blanket πππ
― gyac, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 20:10 (one year ago) link
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.
― calzino, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 20:15 (one year ago) link
tbf this is the main topic on ILB also (the dogshit is some book i will never read)
― mark s, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 21:02 (one year ago) link
lol i am drunk after the residents assocn AGM ignore me as per
― mark s, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 21:03 (one year ago) link
Looking to get to pub at 630 or so.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 5 May 2022 08:45 (one year ago) link
Ok. I am in town this afternoon as I have a half day so if anyone is going earlier let me know.
― gyac, Thursday, 5 May 2022 08:52 (one year ago) link
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.
― Tim, Thursday, 5 May 2022 09:36 (one year ago) link
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 MusiciansEbba Haslund - Nothing Happened Lucy Ellmann - Things Are Against UsJames Hogg - The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified SinnerKenzaburo Oe: Teach Us To Outgrow Our Madness (four short novels)Patrick Modiano: Suspended SentencesDasa Drndic - TriesteFiona Mosley - ElmetArturo Perez-Reverte - The Seville Communion Haruki Murakami - The Wind-up Bird ChronicleElif Batuman -The IdiotSabhattin Ali - Madonna in a Fur CoatBirgit Vanderbeke - You Would Have Missed MeCarlos Labbe: Navidad & MatanzaPeter Benson - A Lesser DependencyGeorges Perec: "53 Days"Willa Cather: Lucy GayheartPeter Stamm: The Sweet Indifference of the World (tr Michael Hoffmann, which might tempt someone) David Keenan: This IS Memorial DeviceVladimir Nabokov - LolitaIngvar Ambjornsen - Beyond the Great IndoorsRobert Graves - The White GoddessJulian Ayesta - Helena, or The Sea In SummerNaoko Takahashi: Not So Too Much of EverythingDenton Welch: A Voice Through CloudNancy Mitford: Love In A Cold ClimateAshley Hickson-Lovence: The 392
― Tim, Thursday, 5 May 2022 09:46 (one year ago) link
David Keenan: This IS Memorial Device π
(this is not a bid)
― mark s, Thursday, 5 May 2022 09:52 (one year ago) link
my meet-up w/my sister has been postponed so i can be there 5-530ish
― mark s, Thursday, 5 May 2022 09:53 (one year ago) link
Dasa Drndic - TriestePeter 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!
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 5 May 2022 09:54 (one year ago) link
Tim: I think I'd like the Perec from you if possible.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 5 May 2022 11:14 (one year ago) link
Very good choices!
― Tim, Thursday, 5 May 2022 11:58 (one year ago) link
Feel like the ILB jury was split on This IS Memorial Device, but I liked (what I read of) it.
― Wile E. Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 May 2022 13:37 (one year ago) link
π
― mark s, Thursday, 5 May 2022 13:54 (one year ago) link
OTM
― Wile E. Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 May 2022 14:01 (one year ago) link
I liked quite a lot of the books on that list; TIMD wasn't one of those.
― Tim, Thursday, 5 May 2022 14:36 (one year ago) link
No Bobby Gillespie memoir, no credibility.
― Was Hitler a Hobbit? (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 May 2022 14:46 (one year ago) link
That was a keeper, obv.
― Tim, Thursday, 5 May 2022 14:58 (one year ago) link
I had no prior knowledge of David Keenan so I went in with open π
― Wile E. Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 May 2022 15:01 (one year ago) link
Ok so Iβm on way to lbg probably via Borough market? Itβs 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)
― gyac, Thursday, 5 May 2022 15:34 (one year ago) link
I am here
― gyac, Thursday, 5 May 2022 16:24 (one year ago) link
Tom D I am sorry youβre not well, because you would love the tiny kitten in this pub
― gyac, Thursday, 5 May 2022 16:25 (one year ago) link
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.)
― youn, Thursday, 5 May 2022 18:13 (one year ago) link
This was great!
― gyac, Thursday, 5 May 2022 21:45 (one year ago) link
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.
― the pinefox, Friday, 6 May 2022 09:00 (one year ago) link
Daniel - this is the piece I was talking to you about.
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2015/03/10/dantes-dogs/
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 6 May 2022 09:02 (one year ago) link
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!
― gyac, Friday, 6 May 2022 09:04 (one year ago) link
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
― gyac, Friday, 6 May 2022 09:06 (one year ago) link
Yes, it was good especially to see pictures of ilx poster Felicity (aka), including in Shoreditch - 6 years ago?
― the pinefox, Friday, 6 May 2022 09:13 (one year ago) link
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/
― Tim, Friday, 6 May 2022 09:21 (one year ago) link
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.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 6 May 2022 09:42 (one year ago) link
from further down the warmoomins thread: "in Miyazaki's book of memoirs and essays, he describes the Moomins as 'grotesque Christian art'" ππ½ππ½ππ½
(admittedly neither of these words is necessarily a diss)
― mark s, Friday, 6 May 2022 09:47 (one year ago) link
anyway hurrah for the FAP which was v nice
― mark s, Friday, 6 May 2022 09:48 (one year ago) link
tho my cheeseburger had the density of neutronium
― mark s, Friday, 6 May 2022 09:53 (one year ago) link
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.
― youn, Friday, 6 May 2022 18:09 (one year ago) link
How about a FAP in early September?
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 22 July 2022 14:32 (one year ago) link
Sure!
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 25 July 2022 08:50 (one year ago) link
Sounds good - I could do the 8thas it stands.
― Tim, Monday, 25 July 2022 09:02 (one year ago) link
Grand, let's go for the 8th.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 25 July 2022 10:05 (one year ago) link
Next Thursday.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 1 September 2022 09:11 (one year ago) link