OK, so I agreed to do this a year ago...
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jfs about a year ago...
I just found the email, and so here you go:
bonfires - I have always found fire fascinating, I find it mesmeric/hypnotic and can watch the ever changing shapes for ever. It is also amazing that it is so random and never repeating. Fire has been a lifelong interest and I really have to fight hard not to dip my fingers in the melted wax in a candle, or adjust any fire that I am around. If you ever need a bonfire building/lighting then I am the person for you. There is something comforting about bonfires, something that takes me back to childhood as we had fairly regular fires in the back garden/field just to clear stuff out. They are something that I associate with my Dad who would be in charge of proceedings and I still love the smell of woodsmoke on clothes and hair.
chinstrap penguins - I have a penguin addiction. I know far more about penguins than is really necessary, and chinstrap penguins are my absolute favourite, there is something so cheeky and resilient about them, and I was assured at one point that they are the only bird who can survive entirely on sea water, with glands to excrete the salt under their chin - I cannot verify this anywhere, to be fair, but I like to think that it is true, and adds to their unique appeal!
cosib - I wish I could remember exactly where this started, whether it was Blather initiated, or Whitby initiated. It was an idea for an event/Whitby outfits/various other things. It stood for Cheerleaders Of Satan in Bondage - there may still be outfits at some point...
george alec effinger - One of my top two authors. I did have a long pause before typing that, and I think that there in no-one else who comes into that duo (the other being Primo Levi). There is something about his writing that I find totally immersive - within a couple of lines I am there with him, whether it is disappearing into the future in an Islamic cyberpunk world, or a trip around New Orleans (surprisingly close in some ways the way he writes it) , whether it is a crime thriller, or following Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson, he makes me smile.
michael rosen - I grew up with his poems, as a childhood bookworm and member of the Puffin Club (anyone else remember this - you got a magazine and badges and there were events where you could meet your favourite authors, and stuff?) I met Michael when I was very young and remember him reading poems from "You Tell Me" alongside Roger McGough. I remember him being so full of life and passionate about books and reading signing possible the first poetry book I ever owned. There was also a book that I thought he wrote (I cannot find it in my collection or his bibliography) which was ghost stories, one being about ridding the Bakerloo line of rats - by putting an open knife in half a loaf of bread with the blade turned up and the rats brought themselves to it and slit their own throats - does this ring any bells, I would love to find a copy).
rvd - As some of you know, and as I have kept quiet from many, I am a bit of a wrestling fan - not the sanitised, americanised Vince McMahon empire, but something a little more real and gladiatorial. ECW was that for me for some time (thanks tothecreepshow) and my favourite was Mr Monday Night, The Whole F'N Show... Mr. Rob. Van. Dam. Cheeky, characterful, and the longest running champion holding the ECW Television Championship belt (I believe from April 1998 until January 2000, when he lost due to having a broken ankle). He has had a tumultuous private life, and I am not sure that he is someone that I would want to invite out for dinner, but I do love watching him wrestle - the fact that he is rather pleasing to the eye and can do box splits might help a little...
ultraviolet - I loved this miniseries, with Jack Davenport and Susannah Harker, a different twist on the vampire myth in a time when there were really only four television channels for us mere mortals making this a mainstream show rather than one of the hoard of supernatural shows that you can fill your schedule with nowadays. I liked the integration with (then) modern technology and modern London and the way that it fit in with the idea that it could be happening around any corner right now (well maybe not outside their cars with UV protected glass, to be fair).
Any questions? Other than how long it has taken to post this?
jfs about a year ago...I just found the email, and so here you go:
bonfires - I have always found fire fascinating, I find it mesmeric/hypnotic and can watch the ever changing shapes for ever. It is also amazing that it is so random and never repeating. Fire has been a lifelong interest and I really have to fight hard not to dip my fingers in the melted wax in a candle, or adjust any fire that I am around. If you ever need a bonfire building/lighting then I am the person for you. There is something comforting about bonfires, something that takes me back to childhood as we had fairly regular fires in the back garden/field just to clear stuff out. They are something that I associate with my Dad who would be in charge of proceedings and I still love the smell of woodsmoke on clothes and hair.
chinstrap penguins - I have a penguin addiction. I know far more about penguins than is really necessary, and chinstrap penguins are my absolute favourite, there is something so cheeky and resilient about them, and I was assured at one point that they are the only bird who can survive entirely on sea water, with glands to excrete the salt under their chin - I cannot verify this anywhere, to be fair, but I like to think that it is true, and adds to their unique appeal!
cosib - I wish I could remember exactly where this started, whether it was Blather initiated, or Whitby initiated. It was an idea for an event/Whitby outfits/various other things. It stood for Cheerleaders Of Satan in Bondage - there may still be outfits at some point...
george alec effinger - One of my top two authors. I did have a long pause before typing that, and I think that there in no-one else who comes into that duo (the other being Primo Levi). There is something about his writing that I find totally immersive - within a couple of lines I am there with him, whether it is disappearing into the future in an Islamic cyberpunk world, or a trip around New Orleans (surprisingly close in some ways the way he writes it) , whether it is a crime thriller, or following Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson, he makes me smile.
michael rosen - I grew up with his poems, as a childhood bookworm and member of the Puffin Club (anyone else remember this - you got a magazine and badges and there were events where you could meet your favourite authors, and stuff?) I met Michael when I was very young and remember him reading poems from "You Tell Me" alongside Roger McGough. I remember him being so full of life and passionate about books and reading signing possible the first poetry book I ever owned. There was also a book that I thought he wrote (I cannot find it in my collection or his bibliography) which was ghost stories, one being about ridding the Bakerloo line of rats - by putting an open knife in half a loaf of bread with the blade turned up and the rats brought themselves to it and slit their own throats - does this ring any bells, I would love to find a copy).
rvd - As some of you know, and as I have kept quiet from many, I am a bit of a wrestling fan - not the sanitised, americanised Vince McMahon empire, but something a little more real and gladiatorial. ECW was that for me for some time (thanks to
thecreepshow) and my favourite was Mr Monday Night, The Whole F'N Show... Mr. Rob. Van. Dam. Cheeky, characterful, and the longest running champion holding the ECW Television Championship belt (I believe from April 1998 until January 2000, when he lost due to having a broken ankle). He has had a tumultuous private life, and I am not sure that he is someone that I would want to invite out for dinner, but I do love watching him wrestle - the fact that he is rather pleasing to the eye and can do box splits might help a little...ultraviolet - I loved this miniseries, with Jack Davenport and Susannah Harker, a different twist on the vampire myth in a time when there were really only four television channels for us mere mortals making this a mainstream show rather than one of the hoard of supernatural shows that you can fill your schedule with nowadays. I liked the integration with (then) modern technology and modern London and the way that it fit in with the idea that it could be happening around any corner right now (well maybe not outside their cars with UV protected glass, to be fair).
Any questions? Other than how long it has taken to post this?
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Date: 2008-02-26 02:38 pm (UTC)I had a lot of fondness for Ultraviolet when it was on - it *worked*
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Date: 2008-02-26 02:42 pm (UTC)"holy shit!"
"holy shit!"
"holy shit!"
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Date: 2008-02-26 03:02 pm (UTC)Great chants, alongside "You can't wrestle" and "Fuck 'em up [insert name], fuck 'em up" *g*
I still want an EC F'N W t-shirt...
The question is have you discovered NOAH? Or noticed that they are coming to the UK? I only found out yesterday about the UK date.
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Date: 2008-02-26 03:18 pm (UTC)I really would recommend checking out Pro Wrestling NOAH if yo haven't already. It's pretty bloody special and RING OF HONOR in the US is occasionally quite fun as well
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Date: 2008-02-26 03:20 pm (UTC)It was, however, beta tested by the blather.
Given that various LRP groups have delivered variations on a theme with significant production values since the original rules set was published I doubt COSIB will ever see the light of day.