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Mistoffelees joins, he´s new, excited and likes to say Hello!

 
 
Mistoffelees
20:23 / 09.01.05
Hello fellow Lithers!

For months (since finding this page) I´ve been wanting to be a member, too. But it´s never been possible, because there is some "site rethinking", which makes it impossible to become a new member.

But this afternoon a friend came by, and we surfed the www together, and I showed him Barbelith, and surprisingly, he not only knows the site, but is a member.

Since he never much uses his account, he gave it to me. So it´s abila no more (at least here), now it´s Mistoffelees! : )

As for my introduction:

I´m living in Berlin and don´t really know anymore how I found this site, I guess I googled "Barbelith", since I´m a big Invisibles fan (oh no, not another one!). Which is a bit weird: in 2003 there had been many changes to my life, and as a kind of "collateral damage" I began to get interested in comics, I had never looked upon, like Hellblazer, Preacher and Invisibles (Most of the time I had been reading other Vertigo and A.Moore stuff and Hellboy). These last weeks, I was reading much of the comics and especially magic threads.

Yes, I really like magic, although, like too many people, I must confess to being an armchair magician, although I practise a tiny bit every day. Essentially, I´ve been avoiding especially thelemic subjects, because I had too many bad experiences with Thelemites. Maybe Thelemites are different in the UK or the US, but the german Thelemites are (95%) arrogant, dangerous and, um, geezers?

Sooo, I´m really happy, that I so surprisingly became another Barbelithe (magic of the empty hand ;-), and look forward to joining all these very interesting and timeconsuming discussions of yours.

Cheers!
Mistoffelees
 
 
Alex's Grandma
20:32 / 09.01.05
That's, um, really cool, I suppose.
 
 
alas
20:43 / 09.01.05
Welcome.
 
 
Warewullf
20:45 / 09.01.05
Welcome aboard! You'll love it here.
 
 
Mistoffelees
20:46 / 09.01.05

Cool?

Well, the way this happened so unexpectedly today, after weeks of me not being able to get an acoount here and all of sudden...I like it, when something good happens that way.

He only came over, because he wanted me to lend him my camera, because he needs it to "shoot" some people for the company of his girlfriend (and he lent his camera to somebody else, who landed in jail on new years eve). I said ok, and then he showed me some stuff, he created on a www-site of his, and then we started showing and comparing www-sites we knew to each other (for example, I showed him the TOPY-sigil-garden, and he started grinning and showed me some of HIS sigils, that are featured there). And when I wanted to introduce him to Barbelith (and wanted to start complaining, how I can´t seem to get an account),...
 
 
alas
21:10 / 09.01.05
I like your enthusiasm. No need to apologize. Be happy! You will enjoy it here, and we're all really nice. We are the nicest place on the web!

(Wait, hang on, most of us are actually mean and a gang of us will most likely put a kick me sign on your back when you're not looking, but don't take it personally. We're just mean. In fact, we're all in a meanness recovery program, but a lot of us can't get beyond step one: admit that you have an uncontrollable urge to step on the backs of peoples shoes as they walk in front of you.... )
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
00:19 / 10.01.05
Troll!
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
01:01 / 10.01.05
We're all horribly horribly horribly mean. When not engaged in active meanness, we drink orange-bergamot chai lattes and have our nails done whilst plotting the next bout of meanness.

To avert some forms of meanness, read this.
 
 
Saint Keggers
01:27 / 10.01.05
I dont drink lattes or chai.

But helloo!
 
 
Sean the frumious Bandersnatch
03:08 / 10.01.05
Hello, Mistoffeles. Are you on our side, or are working with...them?

And what's up with your friend? Does he think that he's too good for us or something?
 
 
Brigade du jour
04:16 / 10.01.05
Guten tag und wilkommen!

There, that's the full extent of my recollection of GCSE German. Hope I didn't fuck it up.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
04:39 / 10.01.05
Was is der underschiet zwischen ein burstenfrizur und ein balasen ?
 
 
Sax
06:15 / 10.01.05
I once knew a gel in Soho went by a monicker not dissimilar to yours. Miss Toffee Lees, she caller herself. Lovely lass. Wore those knicker things with no derriere in 'em. Former gymnast. Could do amazing things with a Werther's Original.

Er, you're not her, are you?
 
 
Mistoffelees
08:02 / 10.01.05

Thanks everybody for the welcome!

And about being mea-n-ice: Last august I met some fellow club members in London, and I was very surprised, how nice everybody was. And one drunk woman was always apologizing, because she made all kinds of jokes about Germans, and then instantly apologized, than started joking again. I didn´t mind, I only was a bit miffed, that I didn´t understand half of what she said, and I would have liked to hear some of these jokes (or maybe they really weren´t funny?).

And don´t worry, I can be mean, toO! My ex used to call me an asshole all the time, but she always said it laughing and with a big grin, so I don´t know, if that counts for something.


>Hello, Mistoffeles. Are you on our side, or are working with...them?
Hi! If I worked for them, I would probably not tell. But if you mean …them, I wouldn´t even know…

>And what's up with your friend? Does he think that he's too good for us or something?
Oh, he is very chaotic and doing so many things all at once, maybe he just doesn´t have the time, or his english is not that well. Anyway, for the next three weeks, he works for the U.S.Army in Nürnberg, where he is a "civilian extra".

>Er, you're not here, are you?
What do you mean, here = online? Well, it´s 10.46 here, and I just finished breakfast and reading the news (and I ordered an DSL-account minutes ago, because everybody else got one, and they treat me like a www-neanderthal). So, right now, I´m here. But I´m not online that often.

>I once knew a gel in Soho went by a monicker not dissimilar to yours. Miss Toffee Lees, she caller herself. Lovely lass. Wore those knicker things with no derriere in 'em. Former gymnast. Could do amazing things with a Werther's Original.

Pics? Link?

Mistoffelees


p.s. what the hell is a balasen?
 
 
Sekhmet
12:27 / 10.01.05
Antwort: Ein belasen hat mehr Kartoffeln an!

Ha ha ha ha ha.

(I have no clue.)


Welcome to Barbelith! Just don't let anyone come too close to you with any candles...
 
 
Alex's Grandma
14:21 / 10.01.05
Blasen. Sorry, that should have read " blasen. "

To think I got an A at O-level as well.

In the language that is, not that, er, other thing.
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
16:07 / 10.01.05
[ twirl candles ]

[ thrust ]

[ light ]

[ stands back ]

[ watches ]

[ reaches ]

[ retrieves candles ]

[ blows out flames ]

[ twirls candles ]

[ holsters candles ]

Welcome. You should get feeling back below your stomach in a few minutes.
 
  
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