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Good Morning Barbelith! June 2nd, 2004

Spyder Todd 2008

14:39 / 02.06.04

(so, even though in the UK its already 4:30, here Chi-Land its 10:30 in the morning...)

The whole idea of this thread is this: Barbelith has gotten huge- over 4,000 members- and with all that traffic it’s easy to miss some really cool stuff. So, this thread will be a sort of daily newsletter for people to announce their spiffy new topics, and if there’s something phenomenally brilliant going on in an old one, they can mention those things too. Just so people can look for interesting things to talk about. So, good morning Barbelith, what’s happening today?

Ganesh

16:33 / 02.06.04

I'm being pedantic about misplaced apostrophes. Would you mind editing title and abstract to spell "Your" correctly, please? It jumps out at me somewhat.

Spyder Todd 2008

16:39 / 02.06.04

Woops... sorry about that... I sent in a moderate request...

Ganesh

17:30 / 02.06.04

Thankyou, my good man. Personally, I'd recommend the mighty 'Big Brother 2004' thread, but that probably reflects my scary level of sucked-inness. Also, it's likely to be around for 10 weeks or so, so it doesn't really qualify as 'new'. But there y'go.

Spyder Todd 2008

21:02 / 02.06.04

Also, to point out the obvious, "Wedding Bells for Mr. Morrison?" should be important to all 'Lithers. I mean, it's not like Barbelith was set up as a reaction to the Invisibles at all. Of course not.

Baz Auckland

02:45 / 03.06.04

Never mind today, did I miss anything in the last two weeks? I bet something really neat happened and I missed it (pout)....

We're The Great Old Ones Now

05:57 / 03.06.04

I get to move back into my flat soon, and apparently Marks & Spencer are in the doldrums. Iraq's still a bit of a mess, 90% of Opium grown in Afghanistan is turned into H there, which indicates a massive proliferation of labs and a production infrasctructure a few years ago. It's rumoured the foreign military units stationed there spend a great deal of time laughing falling over, then screaming about the Evil Hurricane Babies coming after them.

The weather in England is patchy but basically warm and sunny, although this is a mixed blessing in my parents' house, because the thermostat's broken and I get a sauna every night at around four a.m. (All news, anywhere, is important only in as far as it affects me - according to a survey.)

Friends ended (thank God) and the new Big Brother will be deliberately unpleasant. Whoopdeedoo.

And my ex-girlfriend's mother's three-legged cat died. The trauma.

Other than that, not much has changed.

ONLY NICE THINGS

07:27 / 03.06.04

I'm not sure whether it belongs in Comic Books, Creation, Conversation or Policy (as we should change the name of the board from Barbelith, which attracts the wrong sort, to "Mike Robot's board"), but Ultimate Cannonball is TEH MEGATON.

Ganesh

08:17 / 03.06.04

Also, to point out the obvious, "Wedding Bells for Mr. Morrison?" should be important to all 'Lithers.

Alternatively, buy a random issue of Hello, turn to the celebrity wedding, and simply imagine the happy couple are Morrison and his lovely lady wife. Guaranteed to bring a tear to even the dryest Barbe-eye!!!

ONLY NICE THINGS

08:43 / 03.06.04

Or, follow up on the purchase of your copy of Hello by glueing the heads of Mr Morrison and his lovely partner onto a celebrity wedding picture. Then draw a thought balloon in Tipp-Ex over Morrison's head and add in biro, "This marrying lark is fun, and sure she's a lovely lady, but I will be glad to get back home from the honeymoon and invite (your name here) over to the mansion for a game of air-hockey and an Enterprise marathon".

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

11:50 / 03.06.04

And in international news:

Grave doubts for national security are being raised as the situation in Moldova descends further into chaos. Claims by a British tabloid that it has pohotgraphs of denim-clad ants torturing a milkmaid have yet to be substantiated. Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon, currently on holiday, has recorded an answerphone message saying "Hi! Geoff here. Sorry, I can't come to the phone right now. But leave a name and number and I'll try to deny responsibility for whatever you're enquiring about as soon as I return."

Spyder Todd 2008

12:42 / 03.06.04

Wait, where's the factory that's producing these army ant denim suits? What kind of money is there in smuggling low grade military equipment to insects? 'Cause I'm intrigued now...

illmatic

13:11 / 03.06.04

Morrison and his lovely partner onto a celebrity wedding picture. Then draw a thought balloon in Tipp-Ex over Morrison's head and add in biro, "This marrying lark is fun, and sure she's a lovely lady, but I will be glad to get back home from the honeymoon and invite (your name here) over to the mansion for a game of air-hockey and an Enterprise marathon".

I have actually cut this picture out, with Grant and Kirsten's heads and all, and superimposed it on a fractal. This way, I can imagine that as they are wed, they enter the supercontext. Their partnership represent the union of the Outer Church with whatever-it-was in a freaky deaky act of alchemical union, ushering in the new aeon....

Ohhh, I've just come.

Ganesh

13:37 / 03.06.04

Wowww... If you sigilised it, Illmatic, it will come true!

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