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The Late Shift… like,… Whatever…. Talk to the hand…

 
  

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Strange Machine Vs The Virus with Shoes
01:00 / 22.06.03
Not sure what the protocol for starting a late shift is, is it 7 pages?
Anyway it is lat (for me anyway)
Just got a double of Tom Waits Blood money/ Alice cheap so I’m awake, and up for the craick (whatever that is?). But only for ½ an hour.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
01:02 / 22.06.03
What do you think of them, then?
 
 
Mazarine
01:13 / 22.06.03
I'm awake, reading HP5, realizing that I have very very few short sleeved shirts which are office-worthy, and that it's getting steadily warmer.
 
 
mixmage
01:20 / 22.06.03
Howdy all... just sitting here avoiding doing any real work. Good weekend/solstice type thing?
 
 
—| x |—
01:38 / 22.06.03
Why the hell would I want to talk to a hand? Unless, of course, it's all drawn up like a little face with felt marker so that when you make a fist the thumb acts like a lower lip and you do a bit of amateur ventriloquism!

Happy Solstice all!--even though this longest day has been overcast and rainy where I'm at.
 
 
mixmage
01:39 / 22.06.03
Over here, Rothkoid!
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
01:47 / 22.06.03
Ach, fuckers.
 
 
Strange Machine Vs The Virus with Shoes
01:49 / 22.06.03
I’ve only given ‘Blood Money’ heavy rotation, I like it, especially love the first track. But I think you have to be in the right mood to listen to Waits.
 
 
mixmage
01:51 / 22.06.03
heh... answering the game thread in the lateshift?
they musta been some serious choco-martians!
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
01:53 / 22.06.03
OK. Booze recipe here. Just answer here.

Before all that, though, I spent about an hour sitting in Waverley Cemetery with a friend, watching the sun go down on the solstice. And dear god, but it put on a show - the heaving sea in front of us, aircraft landing on the right (a couple of suburbs over), clouds blowing across the sky like someone had turned on a pinkish-filled smoke machine, a full rainbow curved across the sky, and the most wonderful light I've seen in a long time. And a statue of Jesus about 200m in front of us that looked like he was conducting a symphony. It was a really lovely experience... just so calming, so restive; none of the bad vibes I've gotten from other cemeteries, none at all. Hot damn.

Then, I got home and discovered I'd won my ebay auction and now have a $20 Holga. Woo!
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
01:56 / 22.06.03
Gah. Well, Maz did ask! I posted to the Game Thread, too.

Once a mod approves it, the rest of that post will show up. Fuck's sake. Stupid HTML brain evil.

Of the two Waits albums, I think Alice edges it out in terms of coherence. It's a more effective album, though one I can't listen to that much; it's remarkably depressing, even for Waits. Blood Money's a bit looser, and rocks a little bit more - things like "Starving In The Belly Of A Whale", say.
 
 
mixmage
01:58 / 22.06.03
Not to be outdone:

Nuts & Berries
2 shots Amaretto
3 shots Khalua
about 1/2 pint milk
*1 shot vodka [optional]

veeeeery misleading... without the extra vodka, this tastes more like milkshake than alcohol. You could feasibly down a couple of them before the first hit ya.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
02:01 / 22.06.03
See, I try to stay away from anything cocktaily with creamy stuff in it. I just think it's a direct route to Vomit Hell. Then again, I also avoid anything with passionfruit in it, as a result of an evening of incredible cocktail indulgence with a couple of barbeloids at a members' bar somewhere in Soho. I was wearing pleather trousers. I woke up the next morning with my chest feeling like someone had sat on it, and with every blood vessel in my eyes blown out because I'd been that sick.

I suppose I'm lucky I didn't get alcohol poisoning. Eep.
 
 
mixmage
02:03 / 22.06.03
ahhh... sorry mate, I see it now. It was just one of those synchroLithities - I'd just read the question in the game thread as you posted the answer to XIX.
 
 
mixmage
02:05 / 22.06.03
skimmed milk
 
 
Mazarine
02:40 / 22.06.03
Gah. Well, Maz did ask! I posted to the Game Thread, too.

I most certainly did, and with interest.

I ruined brandy for myself when I was sixteen, what a wretched night that was. Drank a pint of it, while taking medications that effectively doubled that pint. (This is back when I was slightly more slight than I am today.) My liver came out the next day and slapped me, and said "You stupid wench, if you ever put me through something like that again, I swear to god I'll quit." I was ruined for wine, especially reds, when I was seventeen by truly good wine, in Sweden, by the culinary generosity of my neighbor's brother. (Note to self, find wealthy benefactor who will benefact for wit alone, like that guy.) Not much occasion to drink anymore, which is probably good, because it makes me curl up posessively around my fiance and glare with deep disdain at anyone who looks at him with a more than healthy interest. It also makes me think that I can dance, and that I'm far more clever than I am. (Doesn't help that alcohol loosens my normally tripping lispy tongue enough to make it easier to say all those multisyllabic words, and thus allows me to talk even faster than normal.)

But a chocolate martini and a kalhua amaretto milkshake kinda make me want to find an occasion.

Anyway, off to bed, Rothkoid, don't stay up till the wee hours of the morning playing video games, you'll ruin your eyes, huggles for everyone.
 
 
mixmage
02:44 / 22.06.03
Sweet Dreams, Maz... HP5 must be good, hardly been a peep outta you tonight!
 
 
Strange Machine Vs The Virus with Shoes
02:51 / 22.06.03
It seems I had a pan-chant for a cocktail from an early age. I was given a Soda Stream at the age of 8 or 9 and decided to ad a few of my parent drinks to a heady concoction with a friend of mine. We made our cocktails, mine heavy with gin and brandy, if I recall. Anyway, my parents came home and my mate said, “Do you want to taste our cocktails?” Of course I was dead against it, “taste his,” I said, “no we want to taste yours”. Anyway they took one gulp and sent my friend home, sent me to bed with no supper and hid the drinks until I was about 19.
 
 
mixmage
02:53 / 22.06.03
well... only 9 minutes until reset on my silly internet games, followed by about ten minutes of clicking, rounded off with the smug satisfaction that I will be that much stronger and faster, and that all my adversaries will log in to find themselves slain. Muahahahahaa!
 
 
Strange Machine Vs The Virus with Shoes
02:58 / 22.06.03
Well, I’ve been awake for more than the half hour I had intimated, so good night and sweet dreams all.
 
 
mixmage
03:00 / 22.06.03
It would be Bailey's in my case.

Back when I was about 14, a coupla mates and I came up with a photocopied comic. Mostly obscene and violent, it was an instant success - we sold all our copies in a single day, accruing enough coin to purchase a bottle of gin and a bottle of Baileys. We sat on the climbimg frame [jungle gym] at the local park and consumed the lot, swig by grimacing swig.

Strangely enough, gin and I were still friends the next day.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
03:07 / 22.06.03
Well. Am about to venture out of the house to get milk and to hope that this whole chest ache thing goes away. ach.
 
 
gingerbop
13:10 / 22.06.03
Ahh... i have ruined my appetite for so many drinks.

Brandy was rejected when i was, errr, 13. I had had pasta for dinner- the pasta came out my mouth, the sauce out my nose.

Whisky, and also to a cetain extent, vodka, when i was 14. I went to Edinburgh, drank half a litre of each, and was thus violently sick in a pringles tube. It held it suprisingly well.

As for my recipies: (last night)
1 bottle Chardonnay
2 neon straws (joined)

Drink.

I am still hiccuping, but it was a great night. It was a gymnastics barn dance. After the wine somehow dissapeared, i thought it'd be a great idea to go and chat to my coach. For some reason, i also thought it'd be a good idea to talk about sex. And i loudly told about my last year's summer solstice, which, if she remembers it, will cause much embarrasment. Much talk of the great outdoors.

Later, i went with a friend to tescos car-park, where we pissed behind recycling bins. Im so classy i could cry.
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
19:38 / 22.06.03
Found a cheap copy of 'Horses' yesterday so am annoying my upstairs neighbours with 'Gloria', 'Land' and 'My Generation' played several times a day.
 
 
Lea-side
22:07 / 22.06.03
im just sittin here in the dark watching a big old thunderstorm out the window. very pretty it is too. Lots of lightening, yet strangely serene. There was a big one last night too, but i was only subconciously aware of it in my sleep and had weird apocalyptic-lovecraftian dreams about pychic stirrings from the sea causing the storm. (i live very near the sea)....i like to tell myself it was mass psychic phenomena caused by the solstice and the storms, but it might just have been that slightly too old tuna sandwich.
 
 
Char Aina
22:10 / 22.06.03
hullo.

just back from a long and strange one...
got my hole, as the saying goes, but didnt get my nuts, as i understand the variation.


man, i need to sleep with more willing strangers and less interesting friends.
 
 
Shrug
22:18 / 22.06.03
Am creating a extremely crappy web page on geocites without the aid of dreamweaver.
 
 
Shrug
22:20 / 22.06.03
Will it be spiral binder or floral margin for my photos page. Choices, choices!
 
 
Char Aina
22:21 / 22.06.03
why no dreamweaver?
 
 
Shrug
22:26 / 22.06.03
Unfortunately I don't own a copy (I must pick one up). But anyway tell me more about your weekend I bet it tops mine (as I was working all weekend)
 
 
Char Aina
22:33 / 22.06.03
yeah.
well, not to give away too much, as there are those present to whom it might... not be necessary, shall we say.

i met this girl recently, and barring one bizzare drunken shambles of an evening, we have yet to have sex of the kind that results in my orgasming. (im not even sure i did then either, as i was too fukkn drunk to know)

which i find distinctly strange.

she has, i havent.

should i try to reclaim the faked orgasm from the ladies? do you think its possible?
 
 
Char Aina
22:35 / 22.06.03
also, i tyhink if you wink hard enough, you may find a copy of dreamweaver becomes available through Improper Channels.
 
 
Shrug
22:40 / 22.06.03
Yeah I know I could just burn it or crack it... but it just seems so eh dishonest. (though I'm sure my pesky ethics will be pushed aside when I find out the price)
 
 
gingerbop
22:47 / 22.06.03
My interesting weekend involved telling my gymnastics coach about similar sex to as you have just described. Then fell on the floor laughing. And then started crying. And i can never show my face to her again. Dear lord, that pesky wine!

Ex has just textd me asking if im going to come round to "abuse" him. Wanker. Knows i have no control around him.
 
 
Char Aina
22:52 / 22.06.03
is that the gym teacher like the one in all those racy novels that i have certainly never openead a single copy of?

y'know, the one who makes the Bad Girls stay behind for an extra shower.
 
  

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