Whips for wasp tamers, pyramids of stress cubes

[squirmelia]

On Saturday, after I had emerged from the bunker, expecting to see the apocalypse, I visited the clocktower in St Anne's Church, Soho. The clock was blue, gold and black and made from cogs, but I did not wait for it to chime five o'clock.

After that, at the Thames Festival, I saw a giant bird made of lights, some people made of sand having tea, and a whip for wasp tamers.

And after that, I saw part of an aeroplane with goths posing around it. I did not sleep that night.

And then, when Monday came, I travelled to Nottingham and handed out blue stress cubes and tins of mints at the E-Science All Hands Meeting. I built pyramids from just about everything.

I met robotron_5000 and we shared nostalgia for the locations that Stuart N Hardy's letters were published - Digitiser, Amiga Power, etc. On this occasion, it was none of those that caused me to laugh so hard I cried, but simply a stack of tourist information leaflets.

After that, I grew ill and it took some time to recover and I have yet to arrange the scribblings in my notebooks into a state of coherency, but really I am writing to tell you that on Thursday, you may want to listen to a radio play by Jeff Noon or on Friday to watch SubUrbia (directed by Richard Linklater) on TV.

Comments

[remotepush.livejournal.com]

where on tv is the linklater? is that on one or our human channels? or one of the fancy pants channels?

i suggest avoiding the film "when will i be loved", which is showing in some cinemas at the moment - which is written and directed by someone who clearly heard about linklater, but didn't get the idea.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

It could be considered a fancy channel in some areas, but more likely to be known as a fuzzy channel, since it is on Channel 5. ;)

Thanks for the warning about "When will I be loved".

[remotepush.livejournal.com]

oh dear. we don't get channel 5 in our area. rather we get entertaining bouts of static. thats a pity.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

If you have access to a video player, I could send you a video tape of it?

[remotepush.livejournal.com]

interesting, i would have thought it would be readily available on dvd or something, but it doesn't seem to be.

i have access to video, if it wasn't too much trouble, i'd appreciate you sending a tape. if thats cool then i'll email you, the address in your profile is good?

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's kind of difficult to find. A friend noticed it was for sale a few years ago on EBay, so I bought it on video tape then. Taping it off the TV will probably prove easier than copying tape to tape, so I shall attempt that. Address in my profile is current, yep.

Tether your ladybirds...

[roxy641.livejournal.com]

Hi squirmelia,

love your "Tether your ladybirds here"
icon. It cheered me up, thanks. :)

Roxy641