Ain't there one damn song that can make me break down the corrugated board, and subsequently the door behind same, of a graceless, clock-watching liquor retailer which has the NERVE not to be open wh

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It's tricky.

Denise Lambert, Friday, 1 November 2002 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

...the apostasy caused by the sudden realisation of the complete and unuttered pointlessness of the man Billy Childish, hiding out in Chatham as though he had yet to be scalped by Klook?

Denise Lambert, Friday, 1 November 2002 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Over time, many layers piled up, squashing the shells and making the layers hard, compact and thick – turning them into rocks. When sea level lowered, the reef became exposed to the air. Soil eventually covered the exposed reef, and enabled trees and other plants to grow and cover the old reef

gareth (gareth), Friday, 1 November 2002 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

...who nevertheless rocked their way back into the hearts of the Rock Nation with their surprise Christmas #1, "It's Your Letters (Ian Van Dahl '02 Remix)." Quipped tequila-soaked frontman Gary Stringer, "We can't stand the fucker, but if anyone else hates it, that's a bonus."

Denise Lambert, Friday, 1 November 2002 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Enter the Milesian natural philosophers. The first to speculate on the nature of the cosmos, their ideas helped Hippocratic medicine reject supernatural explanation of disease and replace it with natural explanations. Previously, natural phenomena such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and eclipses had been explained as supernatural, a godly expression. Rain was quite irrationally thought to come from Zeus urinating through the sieve in his chamber pot. So the Ionian thinkers around the 6th century began to postulate natural causes. All things came from water, one philosopher, Thales, said.9 The earth floats on water, which allows the philosopher to quite radically deny the existence of Atlas, whilst earthquakes are the process of the earth ‘rocking’ upon the movement of the water, thus refuting Poseidon. Others, such as Anaximander and Anaximenes certain that thunder and lighting is not infact sent by Zeus, but are caused by wind.10 Eclipses, the most divine of all natural phenomona, are amongst other less sophisticated explanations, caused by the blocking of apertures in the sun and moon.11 However naïve these ideas seem to the modern thinker, as Longrigg rightly protests, this should ‘…not be allowed to obscure the intellectual revolution which they in fact represent.’12 This relationship between Milesian natural philosophy and Hippocratic rationality is best illustrated in the fact that their literature is both written in the Ionic dialect.

s magnet, Friday, 1 November 2002 12:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Crewe Alexandra 2, Watford, 4.

Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 1 November 2002 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

‘The Green Man’, a name coined by Lady Raglan in 1939, is a mediaeval image usually found in churches. Carved in stone or wood, depicted on stained glass, illuminated manuscripts and where else, he can be recognised as a face, often grotesque, with foliage sprouting from his mouth, nose, eyes or ears. Alternatively, he may be a face composed entirely of leaves. Exterior or interior, he features on capitals, corbels, choir stalls, bench ends, fonts, screens, roof bosses - indeed, any surface open to ornamentation.

michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 1 November 2002 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

"Until I was in my forties — I could settle the date by seeing when I wrote To the Lighthouse, but am too casual here to bother to do it —the presence of my mother obsessed me. I could hear her voice, see her, imagine what she would do or say as I went about my day’s doings. She was one of the invisible presences who after all play so important a part in every life. . . .

Then one day walking round Tavistock Square I made up, as I
sometimes make up my books, To the Lighthouse, in a great, apparently
involuntary, rush. One thing burst into another. . . . I wrote the book very quickly; and when it was written, I ceased to be obsessed by my mother. I no longer hear her voice; I do not see her.

I suppose that I did for myself what psychoanalysts do for their
patients. I expressed some very long felt and deeply felt emotion. And in expressing it I explained it and then laid it to rest. But what is the meaning of ‘explained’ it?"

(Virginia Woolf, from Moments of Being, "Sketch," 80-81;
Woolf was 45 when she began writing To the Lighthouse in 1925)

Denise Lambert, Friday, 1 November 2002 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Frankly, I blame their parents.

Yes/No Interlude (Yes/No Interlude), Friday, 1 November 2002 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Psychotic Behaviour (2002)

I lopped off a stranger’s head today
Whipped out my scimitar and hacked away
It was on the Piccadilly line, at 6:43
The train was delayed but I made it home for tea

The day before I shot a granny in the eye
My shiny silver magnum causing her to die
Then I nodded to the shopkeeper standing by
Said: "where’s your lovely wife, tell her I said ‘hi’"

And just last week I knifed my girlfriend to death
I was bored, OK, restless and short of breath
So in a frenzy of bloodlust I slashed her throat
Then went down the boozer for a beer and a gloat

Roger Fascist (Roger Fascist), Friday, 1 November 2002 13:36 (twenty-two years ago)

"Sir, you were wont to affect mirth and wit -

But here's no place to talk on't in the street.

Give me but leave to make the best of my fortune,

And only pardon me the abuse of your house:

It's all I beg. I'll help you to a widow,

In recompense, that you shall give me thanks for,

Will make you seven years younger, and a rich one.

'Tis but your putting on a Spanish cloak:

I have her within.

You need not fear the house;

It was not visited."

(Ben Jonson, The Alchemist, Act V)

Denise Lambert, Friday, 1 November 2002 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

"Eat you out i wanna Eat you out

Open up your legs i wanna eat you out

Eat you out i wanna eat you out

I DON'T CARE IF IT'S RUNNY AND I DON'T CARE IF IT SMELLS'

(GG Allin, 'Eat You Out')

s magnet, Friday, 1 November 2002 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

As the Monica Lewinsky scandal unfolds, many conservatives are crowing that it demonstrates the moral emptiness of the Clinton administration. What it really reveals, however, is the moral emptiness of today’s conservatives.

Denise Lambert, Friday, 1 November 2002 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

"I'm only in it for the beer."

brg30 (brg30), Friday, 1 November 2002 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

current music: the
faint/bright eyes/ok go/
pretty girls make
graves/the
pixies/fugazi/weezer/q
and not u/clinic/the
cure/wolfsheim/idlewild/
sigur ros/trail of
dead/the
donnas/bjork/beck/blur/p
edro the lion/death cab
for cutie/blonde
redhead/radiohead
likes:
cigarettes/red/sex/icecr
eam/black
eyeshadow/80's
night
dislikes: just about everything else
don't IM me thinking you can get a piece.

Aaron A., Friday, 1 November 2002 17:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm going sofa shopping tommorrow.

lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 1 November 2002 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

i saw whigfield marry dominic diamond

mark s (mark s), Saturday, 2 November 2002 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Racing Santander have made a £975,000 offer for Beto.

Madureira have rejected the offer.

Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Saturday, 2 November 2002 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)


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