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Hey, just got a note from sometime poster, Jerry, aka Mr. True, about his book-signing in London this Friday, so I thought I would pass on the invite. Oh, and some band are gonna be playing there, too... (and likely being thrown out for not being acoustic enough- unplugged, my anus)

Just thought I'd drop you groovy cats a note to inform you that a live chat (possibly) based around my book Live Through This is taking place this Friday in Border's in Oxford Street between 6.30 and 8.30 pm. My fellow panelists include Steve Gullick and Stevie Chick. Coincidentally, these are two of the men who - alongside myself - are helping set up a new music magazine.

So now you know.

― Kate the Saint, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm really intruiged by the idea of a new music magazine! Anything would be better than what's currently out there.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah any chance of a job.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Say hi to Stevie Chick! He's a lovely guy.

― nathalie, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wow. Doomie on Wednesday, the True and the Chick on Friday: a week of meeting heroes. (or at least, standing near them feeling self- conscious)

― chris, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Doomie?

― DG, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That's Mr Doom if you're nice.

― nathalie, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Check the Soft Boys thread...

― chris, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ye Gods! I think I'm going to have to go along now, so even if I don't pick him out of the crowd I'll still know I've seen him.

― DG, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"I'll still know I've seen him": blimey this is surely momus logic!!

― mark s, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Back from my "bwiefing" for my new job. (I'm a proper illustrator now! Hooray! Though I'm going to be drawing mobile phones for the rest of the week...)

Yes, this magazine idea looks extremely interesting. It's about time somebody did something about the poor state of the British print medium. After the demise of Select, and the deterioration of the NME into the Time/Warner/AOL/Proctor&Gamble/Thorne organ, there's a great big hole in my heart waiting to be filled.

― Kate the Saint, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No Mark, it's DG lunchtime logic. Where's me pasta?

― DG, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Uh-oh Kate, not thee mighty THORNE CORP again? I'm feeling soooo Lee Remick.

― suzy, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

While we talk about the state of British print meejah, I'd like to add that I bought the first UK edition of CosmoGIRL! last night whilst lurking WITH INTENT at Blackfriars and it's RUBBIDGE. The American version is so much better! There was nothing at all new that magazine adds onto the teenage gurl rag stands apart from a bit of RESPECK YRSELF mumbo jumbo that seems so insecure and FAKE. Give me J- 17, at least that makes no bones about being how to snog BOYS. Am now going to read my American CosmoGIRLS! and see if I only loved them for the hem hem, cultural oddities.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well ok I am not I am going to go to a MEETING gulp.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oooh Sarah when you are back from your meeting will you share some of J17's tips on how to snog boys as I am way way too old to buy it.

― Emma, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Or to snog boys possibly.........*awaits punch*

― Ronan, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Quite right, Ronan, at the ancient age of 26 I am too old to snog boys and am reduced to snogging men.

― Emma, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It must be an awful step down for you.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There's a review of Jerry's book on the Poptones website today. Good to see them maintaining their usual high standards of critique.

http://www.poptones.co.uk/soundoff/soundoff20010925.shtml

Personally I think it's is a great read.

― JD, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am back! Meeting was rubbish. Right - Just 17 would recommend pulling at the DISCO. As would I, despite having pulled at a disco hem hem, just the once. You must be confident, sassy, happy and MAKE EYE CONTACT which is a bit of a biggie. And you can casually reach out and Touch him. Where J-17 goes wrong is that it does not say this only happens in the real world when BLIND FROM BOOZE so therefore made dorks like me feel inadequate for years.

That and I never found the right shade of foundation for myself. And I'm no good at wearing lipsticks which you are SUPOSED to down the disco. Oh, and when he calls you and suggests a DATE in the daytime, you are suposed to do that natural look and wear a subtle amount of lipgloss and do not look like the disco slapper that he pulled last night.

In fact there are no end to J17 dating tips. Has anyone got any more? My dating tips involve the "Make them remember your name in the morning" look (doesn't work) and the "I am very drunk" stumble. SOMETIMES it work sometimes it do not but as boys are wets and weeds anyway I am going to say la and fie and read some PEOTRY.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the poptones review was the funniest book review I've read in ages. I'm glad they are starting a music magazine, another one to throw in the cesspool when finished reading it at the store!

Hahahha..

*evil laughter*

MOIHAHAHAHAH...

― doomie, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

They have cesspools at the store? Which store is this? Cesspools 'R' Us? Or Wal*Mart?

― Paul Strange, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sarah, I cannot believe that J17 are recommending that young girls go round groping men in discos! It would never have happened in my day.

― Emma, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

J17 is remarkably brazen, but not quite up to the Cosmo seXor stories book they just published. CRIVENS. And J17 does say "reach out and touch his arm" and mentions nothing else. "Cheeky grabbing of bums" often features on the "OH MY GOD HOW EMBARASSING!!!!! - you confess!!!" pages. Eeey, I weren't doing that when I were a nipper.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Walmart, obviously. Jeez! Aw shucks! I will see you all at the Soft Boys! Group hug, anyone?????? Come on, I know you want to!!!!

― doomie, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Paul, I'm fairly certain Wal Mart does indeed have cesspools (not to mention hellmouths), so Doomie could be buying his magazines there.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

WalMart probably does sell cesspools. I used to know someone who worked there who once found human excrement in one of the aisles. Urgh.

― Paul Strange, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Probably placed there by a disgruntled employee.

― suzy, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I dunno - it was Wal*Mart in Dillsboro, NC... Maybe an employee, maybe not.

― Paul Strange, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

didn't walmart buy Asda or something? i mean, that would explain a lot.

― gareth, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes, Walmart now own Asda.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thanks, Paul, for bringing even this thread down to the usual scatological standard of ILE.

― Kate the Saint, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hey, I'm not the one who brought up cesspools!

― Paul Strange, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm sorry. I didn't realise you were serious. I will stop posting.

― Paul Strange, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Employee?

Are you sure that Wal-Mart didnt put it on the shelf, tag and price it?

Interesting Wal-Mart factoid: Moe Tucker did time at Wal-Mart as a store greeter.

― doomie, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Maybe that was Moe Tucker shitting on Walmart.

She's a genius. Everyone should own Moe Tucker's Life in Exile album.

What happened to Jad Fair's 50,000,000,0000,000,000 Watt Label?

― doomie, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You want scatological? I'll give you SCaToLoGiCaL!

If the tag'n'stack turd was 4 Real they'd make the employees spend the 15 minutes after their first coffee and cigs break TRYING TO CURL ONE OUT.

― suzy, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

After browsing the Pooptones site today I have become convinced it is the last refuge of the unrepentant dickhead. "anyway, if you don't get it by now... get some shades, take some drugs... oh and get a girlfriend..." Pfffffffffffffffff! Was this written by you, Doomie?

― DG, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Poptones rocks my world. It is rock and roll (what a beautiful combination of words). But everyone here knows I love poptones, so I'm not going bother trying to defend my choice to listen and love whatever music coming my way.

Back to the poo.......

I could throw the book on the poo and then slip and fall, suing everyone that could have possibly defecated in America on that day.

― doomie, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But do you write the Pooptones site though? Reading the site after all the fun we've had on Greenspun, the style strikes me as being awfully familiar.

― DG, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Maaaybeeee....

Paul could defend the poo lawsuit? Make your name?

― doomie, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wal*Mart = Poop = Pooptones hmmm degrees of seperation....

I realised whilst walking to the tube last night that I was three degrees of seperation away from I really hate but annoying enough I can't remember WHICH person I hate which it was. I will have to give this some thort.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is it Kevin Bacon?

And if Kevin Bacon defecated on the floor of Walmart that day....hmmmm.....

― doomie, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Separation. Brane + nearly hometime = no coherence, me.

Poo vs. Poptones?! Soon to have a legal textbook of its own for children to nick from bags?! Sheeeeesh. SEND ME HOME.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

*grips you by the shoulders*

Before you go....

Beware of Kevin Bacon and defacation.

Please...now....run child! Run!

― doomie, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Aha! I thought so. So is your Pooptones connection only with the web site or the company itself?

― DG, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Aha! I thought so.

GOOD GOD MAN! IF YOU KNEW IT WAS KEVIN BACON YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN OUT WARNING THE PEOPLE AGAINST HIS DEFILEMENT OF AMERICA'S FINEST CULT..

THE WAL-MART.

― doomie, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hooray! How lower can things get?!

― Sarah, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Run child! Run!

RUN THROUGH THE STREETS OF LONDON...!!!

GO!!!!!!

― doomie, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

They don't unshackle me from my desk till 5.30 NGGGGGGG the only thing to do now is get someone to fetch me a chainsaw so I can hack off my legs and escape ALA Evil Dead!!!

HOLD ON! No legs = NO RUNNING. Sheesh.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No legs ... no running through Kevin Bacon's evil poo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Or maybe Kevin is going to pay a visit to your company???

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WE must save Sarah!!!

: - o

He knows, he has been watching, Kevin is in YOUR COMPANY. Look quickly around, he is a master of disguise.

― DOOMIE, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A frightened Sarah quickly turns around.

Kevin: Hello Sarah.

Sarah: Nooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And in front of her is something that she can't escape, can't walk past.............

What will our heroine do?

― doomie, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

blooieie

― Pennysong Hanle y, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think this thread should involve James Spader somehow.

― doomie, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Can anyone post reviews & stuff to thee poptones website? I'd like to do s.th. on emerson, lake & palmer.

x0x0

― Norman Fay, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Those who can, do. Those who can't, clearly go and work for Poptones to just rant about it on their website.

― Kate the Saint, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And this is connected to James Spader, how???

Oh...I get it, in an alternative universe, Kevin Bacon's dastardly deeds against America went unpunished and James Spader fought him, in a duel of death. And somehow, the book that got reviewed on the poptones website was the Battle of Kevin Bacon's poo and now Everett True's book. Obviously a glitch in the matrix.

― doomie, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Norman, man, if you want to do stuff on Emerson Lake and Palmer, why don't you do it up and send it in?

― doomie, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And Emerson Lake adn Palmer soundtrack the movie version of the book. Tied that up very tightly!

― doomie, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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