Posts by Rich Lock
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It is really rather hard to imagine that these are the same places.
I've missed a couple of riots in London by strolling off at the end of a protest march for a pint ten minutes before everything kicked off.
The weirdest thing was being a couple of streets away and having absolutely no idea anything was happening until we got home that evening and saw it on the news. This was before the mobile phone changed from a yuppie's tool for yuppie tools and became ubiquitous.
it would take about 15 million coppers to contain it. We actually have about 150,000.
I've read something that suggests the police are having trouble containing this because it's opportunistic rather than organised - it flares up semi-spontaneously and randomly. They can't focus their resources because they don't know where it's going to happen.
I suspect things may get worse as people start to realise this and become emboldened.
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Hard News: The Orcon Great Blend 2011 in…, in reply to Russell Brown,
consequently drank quite a bit of it.
It ran out fairly early on.
Just sayin'.
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Hard News: The Orcon Great Blend 2011 in…, in reply to Jackie Clark,
I want to know why you didn't introduce yourself, Sir.
Well, thanks to unavoidable domestic duties, I arrived so fashionably late you could have given me my own spread in GQ, and so I missed the initial meet-n-greet part of the evening.
Anyway, the enthusiam with which you hugged me when you left gave me the impression that you remembered me from a previous encounter. Or is that simply your SOP for encounters with tall, dark, handsome strangers?
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Shout-out to the brewery whose name I forget
Hallertau. If the weather's nice, their Riverhead base is worth a visit for a couple of afternoon beers in the sun.
My crazy German friend Albrecht was giving them advice behind the scenes, and since he holds a German Braumeister's qualification...gutes Bier über alles.
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Hard News: How much speech does it take?, in reply to Steve Barnes,
I avoided the cost of personalised plates by changing my name to WI 2449
#viztoptips....
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Busytown: What was lost, in reply to Danielle,
I recently re-watched Help!
My 8-year old self enjoyed the Ker-Ay-Zee!!!11!1!!! antics a lot more than his older counterpart....
But I'm prepared to forgive them, because 'Yellow Submarine' is Teh Awsum.
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Busytown: What was lost, in reply to Joe Wylie,
In the 1960s, a lot of Baby Boomers were disrespectful of World War II. Gee, Mom and Dad, why do you keep going on about the war? It's over. Get with the '60s, you squares. It's the age of Aquarius..
Gentleman: Don't take that tone with me, young man. I fought the war for your sort.
Ringo: I bet you're sorry you won.The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night - 1964
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Anyone want a coffee some time?
I'll buy you a drink or two at the blend.
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Hard News: An open thread while I'm down…, in reply to recordari,
I realise you are joking, and mocking at the same time
Mocking with love, Recordari. With love. :)
I actually use a Bialetti stovetop. Although I've started calling the man in the logo drawing 'Gio'.
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Muse: NZIFF Rant: A Diva's Place Is On…, in reply to richard,
I guess it just goes to show that high art like Space Battleship Yamato demands more of its audience than Macbeth did during its first run at The Globe :-)
I want to go back to people openly screwing in the audience.
Anyone ever get to go to 'La Scala' in London's King's Cross on their OE?
Stories surrounding those nights are legion: the dope-fiend projectionist who scratched a CND symbol into a Pearl & Dean army recruitment ad and got the reels in the wrong order at a horror festival; the antics at the gay-themed all-nighters. "We had to try to explain to Serena the cleaner why there were so many used latex gloves on the floor after a lesbian all-nighter," says Giles. "I told her it was a fashion statement."