London ILB - FAP?

Tuesday?

good for me.

OK!

btw Royal Oak is hardly an outdoors pub (assuming it's not thunderstorming by Tue pm anyway). does ILB FAP need a special alternative spring / summer venue?

A new era for ILB FAPs may be upon us!

If we want to stay in the area, The George?

Curious, that doesn't show up on FancyAPint's list of pubs with garden. I don't love the george tbh - how about this (which I've never tried): http://fancyapint.com/Pub/2175 ?

yeah, got my reservations about the george too, but it seemed easy. But we can do better than easy! Ship looks good.

*sniffs suspiciously* I guess that might be ok. Also not a fan of The George.

working round here this week, something about the combo of the area, its pubs and the weather really makes me want to sit and drink and read for a while after I get off. And at lunch.

if the ship is bad we can stroll up to the george. via the lord clyde and the blue eyed maid - ilb crawl!

BELUSHI'S

Happy to go w/ship.

It'll probably rain anyway :-)

Ship is fine, obv. Yes, it'll be freezing.

Agreed, woof - god this weather gives you a thirst. The thought of sunlit daytime pubs brings tears of WANT to my eyes.

Reckon I'll make this at about 8 tomorrow, what with a meeting inconveniently scheduled for 6:30.

will be there uncharacteristically early I suspect, as I'm dodging the toad work in the afternoon.

"Think of being them"

yeah it's great thanks.

As long there is no madness (coming in from Hemel) I'll be there round 6-6.30

The Madness Out of Hemel

An unexpected addition to the Cthulu mythos.

spent a happy hour, on friday, reading the spoils of poynton by henry james, in the sunshine, by the duck pond, in queen's park, glasgow.

Anyone want to have a read of Englischer Fussball, the book that Ismael sent me? He said to pass it on, but there haven't been any takers. I'll bring it along just in case.

Unfortunately I won't be able to make this after all :(

will be there uncharacteristically early I suspect, as I'm dodging the toad work in the afternoon.

Hiding in the road like a Pasolini toad?

I might pop along as I actually have more of a connection to books these days, besides occasionally getting pished with a load of blokes who read 'em. Depends on how the day goes.

toading in west london, there about 6.30.

Looking into career as loblolly-man.

A Fap of Literary Losels.

xpost. I had to google it. I haven't knowingly heard Chariot Choogle. I'll listen to it later and let you know. it certainly sounds more appealing than sitting in our head office pretending to work.

just staring out of the window dreaming of drinking and fapping.

I can get there for 6 but unbelievably for ILB I don't have a B with me in case I need to pass some time on my own. Might have to hang around with the toad for another half an hour, at least he has the internet.

I am looking forward to this FAP
though it is a pity Stevie won't make it!

I can probably get there for six, ledge. Can't provide the variety of the Internet, can stare moodily into pint.

xpost yeah seconded - wd've been good to see Stevie before he retires to his happy garden state.

will aim for 6 then.

I am heading for the Ship now. Hope you are there!

I thoroughly enjoyed that. so nice to see pinefox tom d ledge woof xyzzz. it's always a highlight of the year.

I thoroughly enjoyed all the drunken impersonations of a poetry lecturer i have no knowledge of.

fuck the head on me this morning tho.

I had a thought while awake at 5am which was: the relative phrasal unmemorability of Hill's dense verse, a point on which there was a degree of agreement, might actually be something he shares with ... cue Fizzles impression ... "POETICS". I don't really find 'poetics' stuff memorable.

I remember looking at the Lanchester book together and finding that it was just as bad as has been said, but if anything it seemed even more irritating than I thought for its multicultural-London obsession.

At 8am on the corner of Pepys Road, Shahid opened the corner shop on the corner of the road. Mine, all mine, he thought, looking proudly around the tins of inedible English biscuits.

The greatest compliment you could pay to all those who helped Fabrice Muamba to come back from the 78 minutes when, in the frank words of the Bolton Wanderers's doctor Jonathan Tobin, he was "in effect dead" was the sight of a FA Cup tie played out in exactly the spirit you would hope for between any two teams anywhere in any circumstances. Once the tributes to Muamba and his progress were paid the occasion swiftly segued into a routine game. For everybody who was here for the original match ten days ago, there could be no greater symbol of recovery.

As the players warmed up in the evening sunshine and the crowd filtered into White Hart Lane chattering and cheerfully greeting their friends, beneath the superficial bonhomie was an appreciative relief that everybody was able to gather again for this rematch in an atmosphere of optimism.

The home fans sang of Wembley. It was only the little band of visitors, with their clarion call refrain in honour of Muamba, who added a layer of extraordinary emotion once the game was underway. In the 41st minute of the match, the time when Muamba fell on this turf, the Bolton supporters began to chant the name of Bolton's No6.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/mar/27/tottenham-bolton-fa-cup-fabrice-muamba

That was fun. Some of later stages a bit disconnected. Sorry if I was a bore or a boor at any point. I am aware that others might not have found shouting in geoffrey hill voice as much fun as myself & fizzles.

I am agreed on Hill's phrasal unmemorability, I think - it could be just because I don't read him that much (and one doesn't bump into his verse quoted in other books a lot) so nothing has stuck, but it feels more generally like a failing or limit of a certain kind of cerebral modernist verse.

I can't even imagine having the authority to do an impression of him.

dont remember the presence of any boors or bores (if you can't name a mad relative, you are the mad relative maybe). But then again I don't remember sending that post last night either. Highlight of the year!

Still, did have a good time.

Doing off-beam Geoffrey Hill impressions definitely a part of this I will apologise to no one.

I heard a more recognisable Paul Mason impression from pf as we headed south of the river (and beyond for me).

Great stuff, see you all soon!

drink for the summer - which I'm told will be finally here - can do Tue or Thur, usual place and time.

you know, i might actually be in london.

Let us know which day when you know thomp.

THOOOOOOMP.

Shit, just found out a really good recital on Thursday - do go ahead if it must be but i think that means tuesday is the only feasible day for me (also out on Wednesday, wish i could cancel that).

I can do tuesday but not thursday.

errrrr i am in london tuesday evening i think BUT i might be stuck at a friend's poetry reading /:

and despite my drunken hallooing, this week's a bit difficult.

ok if thomp is stuck and unable to come and fizzles can't attend I'd suggest next week. not sure which day yet.

doing this as i assume people are off somewhere in august.