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The Late Shift's Ninth Gate

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00:39 / 26.03.03

If this is the best distance I can get near you, I will wait until I leave you.......

00:39 / 26.03.03

... speaking of missing time, it seems like i only turned my back for a minute.

heh. Heard you were short one paranoid drama queen and thought I'd be spot-on for the gig!

Tryphena Absent

00:40 / 26.03.03

Hey boys and girls, insomnia has kicked in and I got booorrreedddd!

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

00:43 / 26.03.03

Extra huggles for Rothkoid. I'm supposed to be monitoring press and stuff right now, but I'm arsing about on Barbelith sending virtual hugs to imaginary friends. And listening to Patti Smith's "Peace and Noise", and trying to get motivated.

00:45 / 26.03.03

No insomnia here, it's just early for me. 9:43 pm. Im taping 24. Coffee is brewing and the smell is tiptoe its way from the kitchen to the computer. All is good. (in this room at least) How the heck are you fine folks?

Tryphena Absent

00:48 / 26.03.03

Darling, darling, honey, darling, Mix- I didn't realise it was you! You came home!

Kegboy I'm fine, how are you?

00:52 / 26.03.03

Im doing great..full of caffeinated goodness, enjoying the warmer weather (+14c) and just doing some photoshop work (ok there's no work involved whatsoever but who ever heard of photoshop play?).

00:57 / 26.03.03

Kegboy- Tiresias is a seer in Oedipus Rex and Antigone, and the primary subject of about the first third of my paper. Old blind guy, figured out what the gods wanted by the flight of birds and reading entrails. Nifty character to boot.

The Return Of Rothkoid

00:58 / 26.03.03

Aww, thanks Stoatie.

Just feeling kinda flat at the moment, which admittedly isn't different from the past fuck knows how long. But yanno. Moved on to Grant Lee Buffalo. Which I just typed in as "Grant Lee Buggalo", which presumably would be a group of cockroaches singing in falsetto?

Tiresias is like The Shadow. Only crossed with Daredevil. And without the dodgy kung-fu shit.

Maz: a desk? Were you doing some MAZARINE SMASH! stuff again?

01:03 / 26.03.03

Hey Keg, I put your latest mage toon up on the site; I love the costumes. Hello everybody... I'm off to read in bed, though.

01:05 / 26.03.03

Nah, I was hiding from other work by helping a co-worker who's retiring tomorrow fetch some personal effects from very ill-mannered file cabinets that had been buried behind the dismantled parts of a cubicle. I overestimated the stability of one such part, which tipped over (heavy). Unfortunately, it had a printer on it, and in the split second decision between leg and printer, I decided the printer probably cost more, caught the printer with my hands and caught the desk with my leg. Fortunately I drink my milk, as I have been directed to do so by many celebrities, so welts but no cracks. (Did that sound oddly S&M to anyone but me?)

I've got about 4 pages done in the paper, working up a good sweat. God I'm glad I don't have carpal tunnel. That would really suck.

01:08 / 26.03.03

Persephone: I saw it. Thanks. That site is really gettting a workout this week. The costumes were a blast to do..im thinking of doing a D!MIT series set in OZ.

01:10 / 26.03.03

Sorry... been away. Site? Toon? Costumes?

and Maz... did Tempura find a new home?

01:13 / 26.03.03

Mixmage: This is what we're refering to. More specifically the last one.

Yes Maz...Tempura was amazing I was sooo dissapointed when it went away...to quote dickens: "Please sir, I want some more."

01:14 / 26.03.03

Silly me, forgot to put the link

http://www.queergranny.com/103magesintraining.html#

01:15 / 26.03.03

I'm afraid Tempura is on semi-permenant hiatus. My friend who does the amazing art can't commit to more than two strips a month, and as fun as it is, I have a really hard time working on a creative project unless I'm immersed in it, and so I'd be on script 45 and we'd still be on strip 17. Which sucks, because I felt cool for like, six minutes there because I was part of a web comic. But thank you for asking mixmage. On the bright side, Kegboy's funnier than me anyway. : )

01:15 / 26.03.03

ta!

01:23 / 26.03.03

Maz: It seems to me that maybe most of the time consumed on the art would be in the colouring. Why not see if your partner would get someone else to colour or just do it it B/W.
Thanks for the compliment but im not funnier than you; its just a punchline is an instant gratification whereas a plot gets you more involved and the joke at the end is much more worthier.

Whisky Priestess

01:24 / 26.03.03

Cripes. It's twenty past three in te a.m. here and I'm still in the office, having ventured out only briefly at eight in order to reinfoirce myself with caffeine and nicotine. I haven;t pulled and all-nighter for ages and had forgotten how much tiredness makes your eyes itch. Hay fever doesn;t help.

SKRITCHY SKRITCHY SKRITCH

Ahh .. that's better. Tonight I have:
Printed out and sent poems to two separate people (one competition, one magazine)
Created anonymous versions of about 10 poems for competition entry purposes
Written a humorous sketch (again for a competition) on the subject "If only they could talk" where the characters could be anything but human - God it took me four hours just to come up wiht an original idea. Anything but talking fucking animals/chairs/machines, please God.

Rewritten about forty pages of the illiterate gibberish a certain production company has the temerity to call a screenplay, and in doing so finished the whole bastard job. I hope. Until they want another rewrite. Why am I doing this? It's not like I'm getting paid. Yet.

Pootled on Barbelith and answered my emails a LOT.

Eyes still hurt. Bah.

01:25 / 26.03.03

Is pootled and actual word? I like the sound of it.

01:27 / 26.03.03

yup. Heard it used in that context many a time.

01:33 / 26.03.03

Kegboy- You're sweet, but I still think you're funnier.

Whiskey- No fair getting stuff accomplished! Dammit!

Tryphena Absent

01:34 / 26.03.03

Whisky that sounds extremely boring-- now I can 1) pretend to write my dissertation and be, fitter, happier, more productive or 2) I can perversely carry the Harry/Draco addiction to new heights by reading more. Oh I'm in a quandry.

01:56 / 26.03.03

I just got done reading a Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Trading Spaces crossover. It was high comedy.

I still only have four pages done.

Tryphena Absent

02:12 / 26.03.03

We really must have a proper slash catalogue thread so that we can stick links up and thrill each other with our finds! Not that I have anything to put up there right now... I just seem to wade through trash at the moment, funny trash it may be but it still deserves the bin!

I'm going to bed, sleep well my fellow night time fanatics (or people in countries where the time scale is way off)!

02:25 / 26.03.03

Night Anna.

Whisky Priestess

02:45 / 26.03.03

It is. But it's not in online dictionaries, so I can't define it exactly. Let's just say it's the plosive equivalent of "tootle", defined as:

Tootle verb (tootled, tootling) intrans
1. to toot [or poot, in my case] gently or continuously.
2. (colloq) to go about casually (usually tootle [they mean pootle] about or round, etc)

03:31 / 26.03.03

Surely it is to tootle in a Pooterish manner or rather with a Pooterish air. I always wanted a Pooterish air. Damn insomia.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

03:37 / 26.03.03

I always thought it was like a cross between tootling and pottering.

The Return Of Rothkoid

03:39 / 26.03.03

b3ta give another definition (from here)

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pootling (poo-tull-ing) Verb Add Definition
1 Pootling is when you are changing the text on an image by using letters already there or adjusting them to make new ones, rather than just delete them all and put your own brand new text in. It takes longer but it's relaxing and more satisfying when you're done.
Example:I've been pootling on this Marlboro packet for the last half an hour. I thought it's pootle it because it keeps me practiced.

But it comes after "poogina", so I wouldn't put too much stock in it.

Goodness Gracious Meme

23:34 / 26.03.03

I'd like to thing that it's to toddle with a Pooter/Potterish air.

all barbelith roads lead to slash.

oh yes

Tryphena Absent

23:38 / 26.03.03

...and it's beginning to get very disturbing.

The Return Of Rothkoid

00:26 / 27.03.03

As long as I remain unslashed, I'm sure everything's right in the world. Ain't no horses devouring each other in stables juuuust yet.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

00:32 / 27.03.03

I could see Barbelith Mafia slash getting particularly messy...

Goodness Gracious Meme

00:43 / 27.03.03

".... Stoatie wanders into Granton,
his innocence like a beacon, illuminating the town for miles around..."

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