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14:17 / 29.03.05

Well?

Me, I saw a review of this site on a late-night TV programme that did that kind of thing - a roundup of what's hott and what nott in the interweb. Strange, eh?

I lurked about a bit, and decided I too wished to be sarcastically roasted by Haus for being a [insert invective here]. And I was!

Also, I cut my own hair, refuse to get a proper job because I like the mucking about I get to do now, and grew up a bit when my son was born, and don't want to get too gnarly too quickly. So I'm saving some for later.

Yourself?

14:26 / 29.03.05

I'm not exactly sure how I first found the site. I was sorting through my bookmarks and found it. Since I had just read the Invisibles at that time, I'm guessing that I had probably found it in a search and just bookmarked it for later reference.

My brother cuts my hair. Usually, I get it cut really short and then let it grow until it's way too long before getting it cut again. I usually get away with 2-3 haircuts per year.
Last week I found that my bank account had swelled with the equivalent of £800. No clue where they came from, but if I get to keep them, I can put off getting a real job for a while longer.
Growing up is something I hope to put off even longer. Responsibility, yikes!

14:32 / 29.03.05

I found this site while googling for info on some chaos magick group with underground in their name. I was confused by the 'lith at first, but I knew this was where I belong when I saw the Is Paris Hilton a Simulacrum thread. I lurked for a while and then joined up around the same time (same day I think) as the change to the rainbow-board.

I am hair-cut and job free because I've only got a couple more years to screw around in college before I have to become a real person.

14:35 / 29.03.05

Pappuce found the site back when it was The Nexus, but I wasn't interested because The Invisibles didn't really float my boat.

I started to post after all things invisi calmed down but only very infrequently.
It was 9/11 that got me posting on a regular basis - I'm not sure why. It has something to do with needing to hear some liberal/left voices, and something to do with being very freaked out. Weird really, 'cause it's not like I wasn't already part of a close-knit, left leaning community.

Oh yeah, and comics, I like talking about comics and I don't get to do it nearly enough IRL.

I've got a proper job. I'm getting a haircut soon. I hope to start growing down.

14:45 / 29.03.05

I think I found my way here in about 1998. I'd just got back into comics, had a laugh on the DC Message Boards and someone there posted a link to "The Nexus" (Barbelith Underground's pre-underground name). That was it. Kind of became a lurker a couple of years ago when my business folded and I found myself with much less time to be online, but I've started poking around again. Hi.

On the subject of haircuts, any more and it'd be gone, and I'm getting to the age where I don't want to chance it not coming back. Growing up? Well, I'm growing older. I don't necessarily feel I should grow up.

unheimlich manoeuvre

14:57 / 29.03.05

I will always remember my Grandad giving me my first werthers original. That sweet creamy taste.

Sorry, I've absolutely no idea how I ended up here. By grud, I'm glad I found you Barbelith. Without you I'd probably watch Tv or something... Hell, Politics, Philosophy, Music, Comics, and Films are my life. Where else can you get all that in such an intelligent package?

I'm due my spring shearing soon. I'll get it cut when the sun comes out. Honest.

Grow up? Pah! I'm cultivating a child like sense of wonder.

15:23 / 29.03.05

I hitched a ride with a vending machine repair man
He said he's been down this road more than twice
He was high on intellectualism
I'd never been there but the brochure sure looked nice
*sorry*
I think I saw it linked from the Web Review.
And unfortunately I have a proper job, if I'm lucky maybe not for long though...mwhahahah heh heh.

15:53 / 29.03.05

I don't remember how I found Barbelith - that's lost in the feverish haze of desperate Internetting that occupied my days when I DID have a proper job. But I do remember the thread that first peaked my interest enough to make me stay and eventually register to post. The Urgh Fuck Anger thread struck me as so funny... surely that says something or other about me.... I'm going to get a haircut next month, I'll never get a proper job because I choose to work for myself, and I'm growed up already.

15:53 / 29.03.05

I think a trawl on Gnosticism and another trawl on some other freakiness (DMT?) both turned up Jay Babcock's site, I was already reading Invisibles, and somehow after reading through the articles there wound up on Nexus when it was black and Tom's face was in the background around the text.

I like comic books.

I cut my own hair and my wife's. This is a statement of luuuuv. We're both about due for a trim. I just grew a beard again. My job is delightfully improper, and I'm about as grown-up as I can be.

hanabius yamamura

17:44 / 29.03.05

... I was told of the wonders of 'lith by the uber-lovely Xoc and Ganesh and my reasons for joining? My absolute trust in their fabulous taste and a deep desire to see what they were really excited about

I'll always remember one of my first posts - I discovered the '

' function and peppered my post with a scattering of yellow-faced smiling madness ... ah, nostalgia ... I can't remember who but someone remarked they had been away for a while and had returned to find the board infected with smileys

... I'm not a huge poster but I'm on the board most days and I've never found a better one ... cue eyes misting over

... ahem ... anyway, I cut my own hair i.e. shave it with clippers bought from John Lewis to an ICD-10 diagnosis of no. 0.5 i.e. awfy short

... tragically, I have a proper job ... with the NHS - in fact, it was Xoc's before he left for the Big Smoke and I sit in his old chair and, on the odd occasion, break wind whilst reading his pithy remarks on this very board!

... I will never grow up - life is far too short ... plus, my son probably wouldn't appreciate losing his infantile father

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

17:59 / 29.03.05

I found Barbelith in 2000, when I finally got around to checking out the Invisibles. The final issue in vol. 3 had a bit in the back telling me to check this place out. So I did, and here I am.

Haircuts are expensive, and I am very poor. My hair grows really fast, too. So I'll just keep it long until I have money to support a nice, respectable hairstyle.

Proper job? You mean...leave the restaurant industry? Gad! Even a proper job would feel like a joke to me, I'll wager. And I'll grow up when you do, you bastards.

18:00 / 29.03.05

After the end of the Invisibles, I wished there was a real Invisibles College I could go to.

In the last issue Grant mentioned something about Jay Babcock's site and some clicking got me here.

I've learned a lot from the people here. And not all of it is about posting etiquette and how to talk down to newbies.

I can honestly say Barbelith is my favorite thing about the Web. Yep, even more than the pron. That I could find before the Web. But with the 'lith pretty much every new book or movie or philosopher I learn about is already discussed in a thread here that tells me where to learn more and about the context around the book/band/philosophy.

I just got my haircut an hour ago and have been pretending to be grown up and working in a semi-proper job for about ten years. I'm actually in the middle of a real tough decision. I'm likely to get two job offers. One's more corporate and theoretically allows me more time to paint. The other's at an agency like the one I'm at, with no dress code, fun people, in the city here (Philly) and a little more fullfilling than the job I have.

Neither one has anything to do with art. Which is all I really want to do. I'll go look for a thread on this decision, but I think I'm on my own.

To those of you have haven't grown up, put it off until you've tried to achieve all your low-probability dreams.

Tryphena Absent

18:10 / 29.03.05

I've been following barbelith around like a little lost sheep for about 4 years now. I was introduced to it by my bestest friend's ex-boyfriend who is one of the board's moderators. At first I liked the magic forum, most of the others I'd been to were really pitifully bad but as time went on I got more disenchanted with it and fled to conversation, switchboard, a teeny bit of Head Shop and well everywhere else. I joined because I wanted to join in and I'm not a natural lurker, just naturally lazy.

I'm not sure when I'm going to get a haircut- it's getting pretty long but I could do with a slight trim. So sometime in the next 10 months then. I'm trying to get a proper job but no one loves me and I am growing up as I type.

18:27 / 29.03.05

I found an article on The Invisibles in The Rotten Library (An interesting addition to dailyrotten, if you haven't seen it). I made the whole thing seem so interesting that I got my hands on and read the entire series in the space of about a week. I found this site mentioned in the commentry at the back somewhere, which is where I imagine most people found it.

My hair, as previously stated, has at least as much free will as I do, and it's likely to stay that way for as long as I can possibly stay in academia.

18:32 / 29.03.05

Once upon a time, a long long time ago, I worked with sleazenation and meme buggerer. Fun times.... anyway, they introduced me to the board and much Barbe drinking.
I get my hair cut every month, cause I have a proper job and am, I suppose, grown up. I'm not sure how that happened.

All Acting Regiment

19:05 / 29.03.05

"Wow, the Invisibles was cool. Hmm. Wonder what happens if I type www.barbelith.com in to my computer?" (types)

"..."

"OoOoOo..."

19:51 / 29.03.05

I was introduced to Barbelith in 2001 by the Return of Rothkoid who sadly doesn't post here much these days. I'd never done any of this message board stuff before so meeting lots of lithers IRL in London helped to make the whole experience quite welcoming.

Lots of the names I got to know in my many months of lurking back then aren't around anymore but it's cool to see people I recognise in this very thread. Welcome back Captain Zoom!

20:45 / 29.03.05

I asked my pal Margin Walker a question about either bees or the Sons of Dan, can't recall which. He suggested that this would be a good place to look and that I'd find it less wearying than our other board, and he was right on both counts. I've tried to recruit people from other boards when I thought they'd fill a gap -- I think we could stand to have a few more people who are knowledgeable about the sciences, for example. None of them have done any harm, to my knowledge.

21:13 / 29.03.05

I've no idea. The link appeared mysteriously in my IE history one day and refused to be deleted. So, "What the hell," says I, and leaped in.

02:49 / 30.03.05

I am a huge Invisibles fan since issue one, so I guess I googled and found this site via the Bomb.

I joined because I liked the pastel color scheme.

I'm waiting for the weather to warm up before I get a haircut, after which time I suppose I'll get my standard bob, unless I come across something cuter in a magazine.

I have a proper job, unfortunately.

Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying. And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun.

02:53 / 30.03.05

how did you find Barbelith

through checking out an Invisibles site on the net after reading a Wachowski's interview that mentioned the comic. I wanted to see what it was.

why did you join

to speak about magick with magicians that I could relate to.

and when are you going to get a haircut, get a (proper) job, and GROW UP?

haircut shortly, job (proper) hopefully in the next month to month and a half, grow up fo' real when the illusion fades a little more. (which is anytime from when I hit post reply to a year or two)

04:01 / 30.03.05

How did I join? Hmmmm somebody emailed me a link to one of the threads in Temple as it was about a talk we had both been to and enjoyed although I don't recall Gypsy Lantern thrashing everyone in a fight :P

I read though a lot of the old threads in said Temple then realised to my shock and disappointment the board was shut to newbies..... so I lurked for ages and eventually found my way in, only to be robbed of any chocolate I was carrying.

Haircut? Hmmm getting a tad long now but goes with the hippyish look I'm currently having. Unfortunately I have a proper job although how anyone can call photography a proper job I don't know. But hunting for a new job as per the 'I QUIT' thread.

And I'll never grow up, you can't make me.

05:08 / 30.03.05

It all started the minute I finished the first issue of Volume 2. Fell in love with the series, had to gobble all the previous issues and briefly ran one of the handful of early Invisibles sites (the politically ranty one if anyone remembers) alongside Babcock's, Target:One and Robert J. Petersen's Invisibles Covers page.

Found the Nexus through Babcock's Barbelith site and have been here, in one fictionsuit or another, ever since.

As for a haircut? Are you crazy? I just started this thing. Why ruin it now?

I look so hard.

11:30 / 30.03.05

(threadrot)
Careful, DM, you are threading dangerously into mullet territory....
(/rot)

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12:11 / 30.03.05

I'd say the territory was marked, guarded and camped in, and a small township had sprung up, with convenient parking, a couple of bars and a Happy Eater.

12:50 / 30.03.05

I got here through a blog. Can't remember who it was or even when ! - but I do remember reading it for a long time before joining, as I think there was a newbie ban at the time.

12:57 / 30.03.05

I used to check Barbelith waaaaaay back in the early days of the first Babcock site. Then registered here in about 2001/2002 when the webzine thing was was still going, I can't remember if I ever posted or not though and I have no idea what my password was or even a clear idea of what my ficsuit was either. Internet access stopped and I was away for a while until registering again at the arse-end of last year.

14:02 / 30.03.05

I googled Stokey and ended up in one of the Gatherings threads. I have no idea what the Invisibles are, or to what Barbelith refers. I just like the pretty colours.

And I have a proper job, thank you very much. Why on earth else would I have enough time and a speedy enough internet connection to make extensive interweb browsing possible?? Diddling round on the internet is what having a proper job is all about.

Yeah. That's power, that is.

03:17 / 31.03.05

i now have no recollection why, but i googled 'i am jack' and found this thread [yes, i know now it is from fightclub but i saw a ref somewhere else at the time, dunno wot, memory failing, must eat...] it is still the only chat board type thing i look at on the web. my browsing is usually entirely more random, or work related - but i love you guyz

i still have no idea who this grant morrison person is... [where is that favourites link to google again...]

03:21 / 31.03.05

oh, and i pledge only to grow old, not up.

you don' wanna know 'bout my hair now; but i used to have it variously bright red, fluouro yellow [flavine], pink, tangerine, turquoise, dark blue [though blue fades real fast and i soon had faded denim hair - neat!] and just plain white (or golden, 'pends how the peroxide brought it down) amazingly, pink suited me best.

11:49 / 31.03.05

Started rereading comics around the same time I got a regular internet connection (at work). Altavista'd* for "the invisibles", found Jay Babcock's site, which had just posted a link to the brand new Invisibles YahooGroup, signed up for that about two weeks after it had started, and then signed up on to the Nexus when Tom posted about it on the YahooGroup a few months later. Been here, on and off, in various guises ever since.

I think at one point I was the one person who had met more Lithers in real life than anyone else, but I'm not sure if that's true anymore.

I was going to get my haircut this week (which I have been saying since December), but I keep forgetting to make the appointment, partly cos I've hardly left the house. I think I need to leave the house to get a job.

I don't think I'm EVER going to grow up, though. I'm stuck at 5'2" forever.

11:51 / 31.03.05

*post script from previous post:

"Altavista'd" just doesn't have the same ring as "googled", does it? But it was pre-Google...

13:09 / 31.03.05

Yahooed? Jeevesed? Hotbotted? MSNed?
I was drafted in here by about the 3rd season after the network decided there wasn't enough 'keyboard kandy'.

14:52 / 31.03.05

I found the site when it was mentioned in the Invisibles letter column. This place was (is) great. Smart creative people from all over the world talking about all manner of interesting things.

I started cutting my own hair last year. The front looks better than the back and I'm not sure why??

I got a proper job writing computer manuals and it turned out to be a boring waste of time and I'm not sure why??

I went to a Chinese buffet and I couldn't get berry-flavored anything and I'm not sure why??

---> Ah Experience, you cruel mistress you.

But besides my general cluelessness, or perhaps because of it, I'm in the process of changing my dayjob and if all goes well by the end of summer I'll be living in another part of the world.

04:36 / 02.04.05

Anna, have you met Amity/Mononoke? We got onto Barbelith around the same time -- the same ex-girlfriend introduced us to The Invisibles in 98 -- and I did the onelist in 98 and then Barbelith --

-- lots of late nights in the Disinfo chat, and looking over Am's shoulder as she wrote GM emails --

-- came back to posting on Temple after the Knickers Fiasco of '01 & mostly stay put there.

Has it really been 5 years since it all 'ended'?

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