Jamal

The signs, taken together, appear to be saying that whichever way you go, you'll be able to go in any direction, but if you stay on the road you're on...

Unfortunately, a noxious personality is much harder to give up than smoking.

Yes, I knew that. At the same time, I also wanted to explain its existence.

Yes, but it exists to gather all the anti-life stuff in one place, so that it can be easily ignored. Until Baden merged them all into this thread, the...

There's nothing like the words of a professional torturer to send you into a peaceful sleep.

I'm told the version with Jonathan Davis is excellent. Don't know about Roy Avers. In any case, prepare to have no idea what is going on or why. :grin...

I do that too. Doesn't work for me either :chin: Too, I do that too. Attention deficit.

Not sure it matters with Henry Cow. Legend or Western Culture. But I’m a bit more familiar with solo Fred Frith. Gravity and Traffic Continues are ver...

:up: I’m sure I’ll read it again. Not right now though. Although I am curious about his other Sun books.

Finished it. Brilliant, and in my opinion gets steadily better as you go through the four parts. Sort of Jack Vance plus Nabokov, Borges and Proust. A...

Of course. Don't play dumb.

+1 for cedars

Great trees, linden trees. They're good to sit under on hot summer days.

Prog feels like my musical home. I don't know about Ian Anderson; what I hear is the influence of Henry Cow (now that's a weird rabbit hole for you if...

Yeah I think that's one of the things that really attracted me. They did a lot of stuff with bassoon as well. This was the first song of theirs that I...

I skipped to the last paragraph and will read the rest later. First impression: like! The failure and regret is a much stronger ending in my opinion. ...

That's cool. Definitely hear the influence.

I wait with eager anticipation.

Something weird, interesting, or curious, something more involved and convoluted, which I'd been led to expect by the story up to that point. I guess ...

Nice. Fascinating. An odd and colourful detail, economically conveyed. Haven't read it but I read her recent book, Piranesi, which is great.

Shame it wasn't in the competition because I'd have given it an "I enjoyed it", because I enjoyed it. I like the epistolary form, and the style. I was...

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I didn't mean to imply that the porridge and custard were mixed together.

Yes. If anything, this is where we see the vicious anti-Scottish prejudice rear its ugly head: I'm offended! Porridge and custard were the original fu...

It so happens that I'll be in Edinburgh in a couple of weeks. Big Dave is still hanging around the High Street. I'm sure he'll be happy to chip in. /u...

I never really got into the Cardiacs--I think the vocals put me off--but I do like one of the bands that came out of the Cardiacs, called Knifeworld. ...

After we've done the Renaissance we can go to Enlightenment Street, Las Vegas.

I don’t want your deference. Go read some philosophy.

No, I'm guessing you just misinterpreted my use of the phrase "our existence", by which I meant the existence of me, Pie, 180, and everyone else aside...

If you really don't see it, then maybe you're not aware of how certain you actually are of our existence. We don't need proof for the things we're mos...

So the following wasn't a joke?

Great post.

Nice, but we'll need Greek yoghurt so...not sure.

And right next door to the post office too :up:

/uploads/resized/files/4b/4ronj7py3d9motzo.jpg We could hold it here, at Renaissance House near Rotherham, Yorkshire.

Yes, I live in the heart of Mordor so I know it's all true.

I'm having a similar experience right now. I'm reading The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe, in which Wolfe claims that the narrative contained withi...

Agreed.

If buns were pies, rather than small loafs, I'd admit defeat here. *loaves?

Your logic is valid but this premise makes it unsound.

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According to thankchickens.com, "Older eggs are easier to peel because the egg white shrinks, leaving more space between the shell and the egg". On th...

It's easier to get the shell cleanly off the soft inner flesh when they're old. Not sure why.

it's not easy when your eggs are too fresh. Back when I had chickens I had to leave the eggs for a couple of weeks before they were good for hard boil...

At least you don't have to face the hellish nightmare of grating cucumbers like @"praxis"

Obviously they can be and have been both.

Starting with the Presocratics, Greek philosophers were very sceptical of mythology. Plato (and probably Socrates) thought the ideal republic ought to...

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