I saw this, but London is really inconvenient for me.
2: Same. I'm assuming you're not vacationing in London, Ohio.
I'll settle for London since I can't make Pittsburgh. Not sure which day though
Someday I want to meet the London contingent.
Let's say the 8th over the 4th since I touch down 13:25 on the 4th and may be jetlagged.
I'm around all that week but the Selkie is visiting on 8th and she gets priority I am afraid.
the nw-ume contingent are excellent and lovely. have fun minivet and go see the elizabethan-jacobean miniatures show at the nat'l portrait gallery if you want me to be dyingly jealous of you!!! small bizarrely intense portraits, oh i so want to see that show. catch a concert at the wigmore hall (the viola gig on the 11th looks good; i also have a soft spot for the crowd at the sunday morning concerts), buy yourself a lovely floral shirt at liberty (they reliably stock more colorful men's shirts in the store than the relentlessly blue-on-blue-don't-frighten-the-horses numbers they offer online), have such a good time!
Thanks! I'll probably be seeing something at the Wanamaker at a minimum and trying my luck with TKTS; other theatre, comedy, or sub-luxury menswear recommendations welcome.
You should try to find clothes to dress like Young Dumbledore in Fantastic Beasts.
the wanamaker is ace, we saw the duchess of malfi there and the stage was satisfyingly gory at the end. drake's has an outlet, we've sometimes found v nice things there.
Wanamaker has some cheap seats for Shakespeare histories left at the veeeery inmost of the pit, right by the stage ...
Bring a plastic sheet if it's titus Andronicus.
The 8th works for me. Would some time the following week be more convenient for more people, though, since you're there until the 17th?
I would invite you to come hear my choir's gig in London on the 16th, but the director has just decided to include a reading over music of a "poem" written by her partner, and it's so dreadful I can't even bring myself to read beyond the first three lines. She does have an insane habit of self-sabotage.
11: The returns queue for Hamilton could be a good investment of half an hour or so. Don't know if you've seen it, but believe the hype it's amazing.
Yes, I think I am around. Definitely at some point in those couple of weeks, anyway. I work in central London, so most places are reasonably OK. As a general rule, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays are bad (because I have child care commitments), but I can sometimes work around those with enough advance notice.
I should be available either date.
For comedy, I recommend checking out what's on at either the Soho Theatre or the Leicester Square Theatre. Short of a specific tour you want to see, they tend to have the best lineups week in week out. Looks like Anuvab Pal is playing the Soho then - you may know him from The Bugle, where he is excellent. Alternatively, Fortune Feimster is also playing for the first time in the UK, but that may be less appealing to you as a result (though I've no idea how often she plays Minivetville). The LST has the Richard Herring Podcast, which is probably impenetrable if you don't already listen, and Frankie Boyle developing a new set.
I can do just about any Monday and Friday -- for some reason had supposed you were only on London for a week
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NW, any comment on the Rome conference?
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I think I saw those floral prints you were talking about, DQ! Not pour moi, but a nice place to poke around.
11th of March should be OK for me.
they have very sedate dark blue-on-dark-blue ones the most retiring of retiring souls could wear, i encourage you to put a toe in the flowery waters, they are grand! we got a lovely print for the kid a couple of years ago overdyed with indigo, very low key. also if you are in the area do check out drake's outlet: 3 Haberdasher St, Hoxton, London N1 6ED, UK.
my favorite meal in london is a bacon sandwich at st. john bread & wine with a pot of tea, straight from the airport-train and discombobulated with the flight-time change. the sandwich, time change, lack of sleep, and onslaught of different urban sounds, smells and sights makes the tea taste fabulous.
I do wear some colorful things! I have some strange untutored instinct for patterns - when one jumps out at me it's a really strong gut sensation, and tends to be correct, but I have to tear through a lot of stuff for it to come.
Those who have said yes: locations?
11th fine for me and Ume
Locations - I am the least hip thinkable. Would prefer somewhere quiet enough to talk in. Where are you staying?
I'm near Haggerston, an Overground station in zone 2. There's probably nearby options, but the line is a bit out of the way as they go.
Ah, I used to live around there back in the late bronze age. You could try the Narrow Boat pub - short walk west along the canal.
I want to rent a narrow boat and tour the island.
A narrow boat, some pork products, and a keg of real ale is all I need. And whisky.
The Narrow Boat can supply all of those except, ironically, the narrow boat.
You need a moderately wide boat to hold a narrow boat.
The Narrow Boat would barely fit a narrow boat. Probably have to remove the furniture.
Seconding dq in the excellentness of the London contingent--had much fun drinking with NW and Ginger Yellow.
35.2 Thirding. The London contingent is wonderful and a lot of fun.
I maintain that there is a huge, joyous, very entertaining contingent of lurkers in Morecambe. People should have a meet-up there.
Ah: Moby has met that legendary posse, the Wise of Morecombe.
Date and location works for me.
See you there. I'll probably not be wearing a stylish dark-blue-on-dark-blue floral print, and for that I apologise.
I can manage 6.30 at the earliest, I think.
I'll struggle to make it before 7.
NW and I will cycle over from Kings Cross. We should be there between 6:30 and 7.
Let's make the start 6:30, understanding that people will merely trickle in over time.
I'd guess I can be there about 7pm. Give or take. It's walkable from my office near Hatton Garden, or there's a bus option.
Looks more like 7.30 now but I will definitely still be there.
Also running a bit late, I'm afraid. Should be there soon after 7:15.
I should be there around 7:15-7:30, too.
It's possible I'm there now. None of you know what I look like.
I'm also running late vs my original plan, not likely to be there before 6:40.
Wearing burgundy shirt, black jeans.
You might know where I am, if you look at the URL thing.
Snagged a table in the back-ish, facing the front. Only four chairs so we may have to further strategize.
Just left the office, should be half an hour or so.
Query: if you had a spaceship full of water and crewed by dolphins, would they be better able to survive high accelerations? Because they'd be buoyant or something.
No. Lungs are compressible. Which is why Baxter used squid.
Apart from their inherent squidiness, presumably.
Speaking of Thameslink, as we were, all the fucking trains are cancelled.
Did James get afraid to go out in the rain again?
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The perfect summary of today's Brexit bnegotiations came in a text to Tim shipman of the Sunday Times from a senior conservative - tweeted and then deleted after outrage - "Cox took off the codpiece and fucked her"
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Why is it a "codpiece"? Did dicks look like fish in the middle ages?
"Cod" just means a bag - the codfish is so called because it is sort of bag-shaped. And the codpiece is the bit of clothing that goes over your, you know, bag.
I guess nobody noticed Tucker Carlson was racist, sexist, and generally a piece of shit until this week. That doesn't seem possible.
The live blogging sucked but the after action blogging is ok.
It's sort of bulgy and saggy around the underside. Contrast with a herring, say, which is a nice sleek streamlined sort of fish.
Still, it doesn't look very ballsacky.
According to a fashion history book I read ages ago, it was the Done Thing across aristocratic Western Europe in the 16th century for anyone male and postpubescent to go around looking like sufferers of priapism.
I read it was so they could keep medicine for syphilis packed around their junk.
But not any more, dude. We were all really embarrassed for you when you turned up at the pub yesterday.
Here you go:
https://inews.co.uk/news/brexit/geoffrey-cox-codpiece-backstop-brexit-talks-backstop/
As I understand, May was brandishing some new documents agreed with the EU that supposedly gave more of an out to the backstop in the withdrawal agreement, and the next day her own AG is issuing a legal opinion that this adds up to virtually nothing new.
