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hi ogmor,

who is the o.g. of m.o.r.?

There's always going to be some unfermentable sugars. If you're mashing, you can try to control that by doing a long mash at low temperature, but if you're using extract, you're probably stuck at a good middle-of-the-road mash, which is going to leave your high gravity beer very sweet at the end

So, not high.

an original practitioner of the unoriginal is a thorny paradox.

idk some pythagorean acolyte trying to follow rules in a cave to get a pat on the head? the first person to copy a horn design? the more i think about this question the less I understand it

I aßumed ur username was as gaeilge for a long time

If I could be bothered to go there and was the wdylling type I could surely make a good effort partly obscuring this http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qahn8sby0C4/UVhYRV8y7bI/AAAAAAAAGKs/1aI2bF3GAfk/s1600/P3316052.jpg

ha i didnt think of in that way, aristotle would be an easy genealogy for middle path as higher aim i suppose though thought only of via media between west coast rap and....wings?

as a poster with notable negative capability, could trust you to assess middle of the road music without conventional presumptions

anyway, ask thread for valuable poster who links thing together on ilx

i love the name gaz coombes

― ogmor, Friday, December 4, 2015 12:03 PM (2 weeks ago)

thoughts on why you like this name?

ha, besides tapping into my fondness for fine devonian place names it's also v similar to the name of one of my best friends. more recently he's tried to become a gareth but I've spent so long concocting gaz-based names for him that the name has acquired a magical cadence

there's such a middle england feel to it, clive martin stuff
thinking about people who play acoustic guitar to girls who don't know bob dylan is
sort of know someone like that and quite surprised he isn't called gaz coombes
so that and the fact it must be the biggest assymetry between length of syllables in a two syllable name
gaz caz vs goombes coombes is like pink flag vs bruckner

i'm not familiar with the thug clive vision of middle england, for all I know it contains wales. what I have seen of his has seemed either like ethnographies of the lower orders or examining Realness from a critical distance

my gaz is a window cleaner with an MA in aztec history but neither of those aspects hint at the ecstatic nonsense of the man. nonsense is imo just as salient a lens as realness through which to gaze at sweet england

yeah hes written some crap articles about the most boring normcore stuff, not worth reading
middle england as just things too colourless to think of, even if trying to think of 'colourless things'
gaz coombes is essentially indivisible though
gaz is not half of gaz coombes, it is none of it

such a happy thought

gaz is not half of gaz coombes, it is none of it

i dont care abt any of this stuff but i thought this was really lovely