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The Late Shift V- Winter's Edge

 
  

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Mazarine
00:07 / 30.12.02
That's the other thing, tannins in red wine can cause migraines. But maybe you're just dehydrated.

Okay, Haus: Body armor, elaborate. Are you gonna be an urban knight? Cause that'd be spiffy.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
00:10 / 30.12.02
I shudder to think.

Well, I wasn't around for the stabbing or no, or the beer, or anything else. But I got to speak to Loomis on the phone, which was nice.

It's New Year's Eve Eve and I'm at work. How shit is that?
 
 
Tryphena Absent
00:17 / 30.12.02
I'm not dehydrated I'm just crap (but I don't suck!), I'm gonna go for the histamine thingamy, sounds the least aggressive and the most sensible.

Urban knight? Ha try Knight of the Round Table though I couldn't say which one and I suppose the armour was a bit moddeeerrrrrn.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
00:17 / 30.12.02
Quite shit, realistically. Have the antipodes turned the central shaft into NYE already?
 
 
Mazarine
00:18 / 30.12.02
Hey Rothkoid! I haven't gotten to talk to you in ages. How you doing?
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
00:29 / 30.12.02
Nah. It's the 30th. New Year's Eve Eve. The night before the night before, iffn you know what I mean. But the night before will be bad enough, I imagine. At this point, stumbling around drunkenly while trying to avoid a city full of drunken 15 year-olds in white trousers is probably as good as it's going to get. I'm thinking of a valium-based celebration, frankly. Yeesh.

I'm doing OK, I suppose. But someone calling themselves "scoober" left a message on my blog suggesting - and I quote:

Misery isn't attractive, unless you're just another pseud cunt who think life owes them a great time because you've skim-read The Fall. Cut the tortured artist shit. Grow up.

Which is interesting, given that I was, at that point, merely saying that James M Cain had written some neato stuff on criticism and writing. Eesh.

Other than that? Woo. Hoo. You get the picture. Hardly tortured artist, but not quite laughing cavalier, either.

Oh, and everyone should take this test, because it rocks.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
00:34 / 30.12.02
lavender Which Edward Gorey Book Are You? brought to you by Quizilla

I was hoping for the Curious Sofa. But a friend drew a Goreyesque cartton for me for Christmas. I feel blessed.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
00:36 / 30.12.02
I was The Doubtful Guest, which I like, because there's nice footwear involved.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
00:39 / 30.12.02
I was The Curious Sofa but wanted to be The Doubtful Guest because it makes me want to weep.

Oh and Happy New Year's Eve Eve Rothkoid!
 
 
Mazarine
00:49 / 30.12.02
I too am the Curious Sofa. I suppose I am in fact curious, and I do make a decent seat, thought nay so much sofa sized.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
01:04 / 30.12.02
Erm, this isn't the place to say this but I don't want to thread rot and it's quite impossible to do that in The Late Shift so... the Non-Debate thread is a little serious for Conversation isn't it? I'm not implying that this part of Barbelith is frivolous, more that I always understood that the things here would be deleted, while a moving thread sounds nice this has had a lot of thought put in to it and it seems a bit, erm, crap to have it here.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
01:58 / 30.12.02
I didn't quite understand why it'd been shifted either; I merely assumed it must've lost the rigour expected of the Head Shop, perhaps.

Astor Piazzolla: good.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
02:14 / 30.12.02
Either other moderators moved it, or I clicked the wrong box while trying to change the title.

Incidentally, do you ever get the feeling that Barbelith is a sort of emotional rehearsal space?
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
02:17 / 30.12.02
Unpack? I don't quite get it?

You mean people hone their bitchfights here and then map them into reality? Or in terms of people honing their characters before stepping out and using them in real life? Or just like a green-room for Letterman's show, only with more huggles and glassing of cats?
 
 
Baz Auckland
02:24 / 30.12.02
It says I'm the Gashlycrumb Tinies, but I know in reality I'm one of the dogs from "L'heure bleue".

 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
02:29 / 30.12.02
Oh my god.

Are they fez-wearing dogs?

That could be the coolest thing ever.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
02:31 / 30.12.02
"and E is for everyone,
Dead dead dead dead dead dead dead."

I mean that Barbelith seems a way to express all sorts of emotions, before unleashing them upon the world. A Spartacud Hughes nanoverse made flesh, if you will.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
02:40 / 30.12.02
Hm. You could be right. As a sort of petri dish/crash-test-dummy environment? Is the concept of a safety-net at work here, or something else - I don't get your reference, as am slightly dull, unsurprisingly.

Random note: the new PainKiller live disc is terrifying. Music to dismember by, it is. And it's amazingly good.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:48 / 30.12.02
Anyone else foolish or unfortunate (or in a different time-zone) enough to be around at the moment?
 
 
telyn
21:55 / 30.12.02
I'm about, in a recovered from yesterday way. How is your head Stoatie?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:57 / 30.12.02
Much better than it was this morning. Except that now it, with the rest of my body, is at work. But I bought lots of books this afternoon so I'm happy.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
21:58 / 30.12.02
I'm around.
 
 
000
22:00 / 30.12.02
So, too.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
22:01 / 30.12.02
I'm consuming milk and cookies and dealing with death penalty issues on NationStates, and that's fun if a little slow.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
22:18 / 30.12.02
Argh! HTML DEATH!

I'm working. As usual.
 
 
The Strobe
22:23 / 30.12.02
Surely... HTML DEATH FROM ABOVE?!!!

Anna, you broke the board. Fucksake.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
22:24 / 30.12.02
Hahahahahahaha. I am the Wicked Witch of the erm... Board.
 
 
000
22:24 / 30.12.02
A nice moderator might notice this, soon enough...

They have the power over life and death, yeah?
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
22:34 / 30.12.02
Death from above? Surely Yogaboxing from above!

Fark.

My NYE planned drinking buddies seem to have food poisoning. This means I will most likely be drinking alone, at home, and posting here.

Fucksake indeed.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
22:38 / 30.12.02
Whew... thanks whoever that was... you're my favourite handyman/woman.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
22:39 / 30.12.02
so find better friends.

I'm sneaking out at I can't sleep and it's easier to talk to you guys than pester the friend I have staying for late drunken conversation. She's a new bestest friend but seems to have a night sleep cycle.

Freak.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
22:40 / 30.12.02
Aaahhh... I'll also be working on New Year's Eve- but I intend to smuggle some booze into work so I can get pissed at my desk and get everyone to join me in a festive rendition of "Ace of Spades" at midnight...
 
 
telyn
22:49 / 30.12.02
Oh yes! Ace of Spades! plus festive air guitar?

She's a new bestest friend but seems to have a night sleep cycle.

Always a problem... generally my friends help destroy my sleep cycle.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
22:54 / 30.12.02
bad ins't it? hoping to destroy hers but failling thus far...
 
 
Tryphena Absent
23:14 / 30.12.02
I'm sure you'll manage, just keep trying, it's repairing a sleep cycle that's a pain!
 
  

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