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The name game.

 
 
adamswish
12:46 / 05.02.03
So my brain deceided to download three names into my head over the weekeend. It also allowed me to know that they are part of a group of six, but have yet to tell me who the rest are or, for that matter, who these three are.

The names are:

Gideon Black, Nathanial Stone & "Pinkie" Carmichael.

So who are these guys. Tell me their history and relationship. Are they hired assassins, occult detectives or bored accountants who have watched "Fight Club" one too many times?

And who are the other three that are connected to them.

Let your imagination run riot and enthrall, intrigue or shock me. If we get a good spread then we may of just created some more open-source characters for each of our potential stories.
 
 
Jack Fear
12:54 / 05.02.03
The first two have a definite Warren Ellis flavor to them...
 
 
Jack Fear
13:21 / 05.02.03
...and the third is eerily similar to Pinky Carruthers, a character in THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
14:10 / 05.02.03
Gideon Black:

Gideon is a cinch. Born in Bradford of Bible-bashing parents who brutally repressed his burgeoning homosexuality as a child, he finally lost God when he went to Birmingham University to study Politics. Despite a pronounced stammer caused by a childhood trauma he cannot remember, he managed to rise in the Debating Society, although he was never asked to stand for Parliament as he dreamed. Until recently, he was reasonably happy in his job at Arthur Andersen, but since they were taken over with 50% redundancies, he has lost his job and has now spent his severance pay. He can't keep up mortgage payments on his flat and he is drinking heavily. In dreams he begins to visit his childhood again, and the forgotten trauma is floating ever nearer the surface ...
 
 
rizla mission
14:16 / 05.02.03
Well Carmichael was the obnoxious, possibly murderous kid in the Icehaven issue of 'Eightball'.

'Pinkie' in Brighton Rock wasn't a million miles away as a character..

Possible obscure association on the part of yr. brain?
 
 
Sax
14:42 / 05.02.03
Some random answers from Google:

Last night the only copies of the diaries of
Doctor Gideon Black were stolen from Oxford
University Library. Dr Black was widely believed to
be the legendary killer 'Jack the Ripper' when his
diaries were found after his death.
The handwritten journals detail many unnecessary
experiments that Dr Black performed. The Doctor was
a surgeon at St Mary's Hospital in Oxford but was
living in London during the time that the Ripper was
abroad. During this time he performed much surgery
that was considered additional to requirements.


About Nathaniel Stone
Nathaniel Stone grew up in Marblehead, Massachusetts. He taught tenth grade history in Pasadena, California, and Zuni, New Mexico, where
he founded the local newspaper and currently resides.
www.natstone.com

Whereas Pinkie Carmichael is totally original, it seems.
 
 
invisible_al
14:55 / 05.02.03
Well that's would old Pinkie would like you to believe, can you imagine the effort it takes to remove a man's existance from electronic records all over the world? I suppose his collection of finger bones taken from non co-operative data-entry workers all over the world may explain a lot.
 
 
grant
15:58 / 05.02.03
Pinkie got the name because he's missing part of his left one.

Happened in Chicago - the Puerto Rican riots of '66.
 
 
Saveloy
16:07 / 05.02.03
I've got the start of one, if someone wants to fill in the gaps or finish it they're welcome:

Nathaniel Stone was born in Yorkshire in 1913, the fruit of the first and only
successful mating between a living man and a ghost.

Nathaniel's father, Clarence Stone, was a climber who made a living
cleaning and repairing factory chimneys, and it was inside one of these
that he discovered Esme Fisher (deceased). Esme had been the wife of a
local priest and alcoholic who murdered her and imprisoned her ghost in
the chimney three years before. Clarence was able to free Esme using
techniques he had picked up in North Wales during a stint as a travelling
Methodist preacher.

The two soon fell in love but knew they would never be able to marry, so
they kept their affair a secret - Esme was able to roam freely and invisibly, so she
could accompany Clarence wherever he went, undetected - until the birth of
Nathaniel.

There was no way he could be hidden. Being half-living, Nathaniel could
only render himself translucent at best; being half-ghost gave him a scream
that could take the shine off a fireman's helmet and knock the whiskers off a
ginger tom. So it was decided to ferry him away at night, just 3 days after
his birth, to a tiny village in Norway where Esme had ancestral links, to live
with a sympathetic relative, a single woman named Line (pronounced Leena)
Dahl.

Blah blah blah.... ...Nathaniel ends up being an administrator in the Danish ghost colony on the moon (the vikings built a ladder there), and it's his shaming of the Danish govt with revelations on Earth about the state the ghosts are kept in (he makes an appeal to the people of the world; grannies send food parcels of Christmas cake sandwhiches, the only thing dense enough to keep a ghost tethered to the moon's surface etc) that is responsible in part for Norway gaining independence from Denmark.
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
16:27 / 05.02.03
That's a different Pinkie Carmichael, grant. He disappeared on assignment into Cambodia in the early seventies, though there have been rumors that FF Coppola contacted him in the Phillipines during the filming of Apocalyps Now.

The Pinkie Carmichael adam is talking about is known as the "renegade" archeologist of Cairo, the son of DH Lawrence through homosexual union -- Lawrence had seven sons using a little-known technique of male-to-male gene transmission which produces children with allegedly sumperhuman powers, of which Pinkie was the last. There are many rumors about the origin of his sobriquette, but none of them can really be verified. His life's work involves research into some highly technical archeological theories that don't really make sense to me, as a layperson; he's also raising up his own brood of superhuman sons, the seventh of which, he claims, is destined for great things. Last I heard, he was up to five and a half.

Adam, one of the other names you're thinking of might be Herman Horace Garoanther, another of Lawrence's offspring, known as the knife-thrower of Peru, who allegedly stole a number of JL Borjes's unpublished manuscripts. But if I were you I'd leave that line of inquiry alone -- HH is connected and doesn't like attention.
 
 
that
16:37 / 05.02.03
Why the hell does Pinkie Carmichael sound so familiar to me? It's really quite disturbing.
 
 
Saveloy
23:23 / 05.02.03
Cholister> cos it sounds a bit like Ian Carmichael (British Ealing type actor, played Jeeves in telly series, I think) maybe?
 
 
000
06:02 / 06.02.03
I don't know about the other two that are connected to the first three, but the one I do know is a computer simulation that maintains contact purely through emails and message boards. F.A.C.H. is it's widely known name, H.A.C.H. the more obscure one.
 
 
that
11:30 / 06.02.03
Saveloy: Nope, never heard of Ian Carmichael. More likely it was a once mentioned name in some American kids show on Nickelodeon years ago, 'cause *Pinky* Carmichael definitely sounds very familiar.
 
 
adamswish
12:01 / 06.02.03
Rizla - Possible obscure association on the part of yr. brain? I wish mate. However have never seen either of those.

You are all wonderful and distubed people, I thank you. Keep them coming.

Oh and thanks for the advice Qalyn, HH sounds out of my league.
 
 
William Sack
13:45 / 06.02.03
I think Pinkie could be Ernest “El Rosado” Carmichael, a Bristol sherry merchant. He dreamed of becoming one of the “grandes cantadores” of Flamenco, and travelled extensively to Spain in the early 20th century combining business trips with learning his craft. But while his guitar playing was proficient, his singing suffered as a result of his strong Bristol accent. In fact it was so bad that after one particularly dreadful performance in Ronda the locals threatened to throw him into the Tajo gorge. Some accounts have them as succeeding. Although a Hispanophile, he had no tolerance for the Andalusian climate and he suffered dreadfully from sunburn – hence the nickname, (trans. “The Pink One”) which became his stage name for his 3 public performances. Thankfully he didn’t live to see the country he loved consumed by civil war. He died of skin cancer in a Bath hospital in 1931.
 
 
rizla mission
14:28 / 06.02.03
I think I might just be considering some future fictional outings for the mysterious "Pinkie" Carmichael..

Anyone object?
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
15:29 / 06.02.03
Bill Borroughs might, but fuck 'im, he's dead.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
16:54 / 06.02.03
That's what Gideon Black said about Pinkie.
 
 
Saveloy
14:38 / 07.02.03
So... if those are they, who be

- Cherry Bassett?
- Daphne Tintinitus?
- Quality Quackminster?
- Gruntambuliss Vane?
- Monteray Moog?

and

- Alan Slater?

And how are they all connected?
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
14:59 / 07.02.03
I'm Quality Quackminster, you nit.
 
 
adamswish
16:16 / 07.02.03
not at all Rizla. As my colonial friend might say "Fill your boots son".

Just let us know how the end result works out.
 
 
grant
17:42 / 07.02.03
Montague Bunswife.

Called "Monty" by aquaintances and "Mo" or "MB" by close friends. Loathes all sports except tennis, polo, and all forms of martial arts. Salt & pepper brushcut and a well-trimmed moustache. Despite external appearances, a devout vegetarian and adherent to a little-known Buddhist sect (a Burmese offshoot of Chinese Ch'an Buddhism, commingled with Confucian social ideals and Hindu/tantric visionary techniques).
Drinks heavily, but never fails to apologize to the yeast before each glass.
Has a pet siamang.
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
12:54 / 08.02.03
Pinkie Carmichael, or Pinky as he is better known is in fact a laboratory mouse who, in league with his co-conspirator Thaddeus Hogmany Edrhardt Brain, plan to take over the world on a nightly basis.

You should all be aware of this dangerous entity and prepare to run should you hear the dread utterance of "fnord".
 
 
William Sack
15:01 / 08.02.03
- Cherry Bassett?
- Daphne Tintinitus?
- Quality Quackminster?
- Gruntambuliss Vane?
- Monteray Moog?

and

- Alan Slater?

And how are they all connected?


Cherry et al are all hookers who work for Alan Slater, the world's meekest pimp.
 
 
rizla mission
13:54 / 09.02.03
and

- Alan Slater?


could Alan Slater be..

a)connected in some way to Dr. Who or some other similar British TV show?

b)the protagonist of a moderately well regarded Science Fiction novel?

c)a noted politician, scientist or journalist?
 
 
adamswish
13:10 / 10.02.03
Alan Slater is a noted author of trash dectective novels found in airport bookstores and discarded at the passengers destination.

The rest are characters of his who seem to be appearing in Alan's own live.

The fact that twenty seven air crash sites have all held at least one copy of his work (most notably "The quicker you run" anovel from the mid 80's featuring the enimatic scientist Gideon Black and love interest/glamourous spy of the KGB's middle hand Cherry Basset in a spiral search for the speed of time) has jarred Alan's, already fragile, mindset.

Beseiged by his creations haunting (the ghost of "Pinkie" Carmichael appeared next to Alan last night in bed where he proceeded to break wind and push the writers head under the covers before disappearing after wrting a rude and highly blasphmous limerick on the bedroom mirror in eye shadow) Alan is slowly descending into his own world

Are these remnants of a guilty secret surrounding Alan's past with the secret service of wales, or a clever conspiracy to break the only man to remeber the thrills of a naked Queen Victoria?
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
15:34 / 10.02.03
Is Stig Luftgorten someone to do with submarines? And who is Amelia Maize?
 
  
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