2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla & Feed Publisher http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=336007#Comment_336007 2012-07-06T23:41:59-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 razrangel http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2075

Haven't seen this 'un for July so here goes. I'll try not to be too crabby. I'm trying to reach for the silver lining. Just two more days of this freaking show. It really is a thing of ...

I'll try not to be too crabby. I'm trying to reach for the silver lining.

Just two more days of this freaking show. It really is a thing of wonder. I really am proud of what we did. We have some strikingly talented people working here for less than peanuts.

But it's just two more days and it's over, thank God.

Two more days and then it'll be a while before people question me again on knowing what I'm doing, no more actors arguing with me and then telling me they don't want to feel upset, no more ASM questioning me (in front of the actors!) like I've never done this before, no more director bitching to me about the actors and actors bitching to me about the director and me just having to hold it all in.

Come 'ere, my darling Balvenie, let's be friends.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=336029#Comment_336029 2012-07-07T06:28:56-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 flecky http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8949

I'm flexing my hug-muscle to give our inside fed' operative, the great government spy, a fat slice of happy-pie to celebrate the creation of government spy: the next generation. Metatemporal ...

Congratulations, matey!

It's my fleshvurld birthday today. I think I'm something like 3000 years old/young...or maybe just 2, it means so little to me. I suppose I'll have to get some custard and ginger beer out to keep order at my space-chimp's tea-party. Bastards! I refuse to wear make up and a dress to stop space-chimp from humping my leg, that much I'm certain of.

I'm a cancerous crab-person, me.

*splooortch*]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=336033#Comment_336033 2012-07-07T07:28:24-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 taphead http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2284

@flecky - A superlative birthday, sir! Hmm. I've been kinda quiet around these parts for a while, and going through a really nasty phase. Yesterday some sort of switch finally flipped, and I've ...

Hmm. I've been kinda quiet around these parts for a while, and going through a really nasty phase. Yesterday some sort of switch finally flipped, and I've ... regained some sanity points, I guess? I'm looking at the thing that's been gnawing at me for a year now (and really digging into me for the past three months) and thinking: "What? THAT thing? Huh."

The thing is still there, but I feel utterly calm about it. I think I'll pour it another cup of coffee and we'll talk things over.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=336042#Comment_336042 2012-07-07T09:28:06-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 JP Carpenter http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2485

@Flecky - magnificent birthday to you @Taphead - glad whatever it is you're putting in perspective is being put in perspective... down with the thing... Weather here is abominable, so just ...

@Taphead - glad whatever it is you're putting in perspective is being put in perspective... down with the thing...


Weather here is abominable, so just having a quiet day of consolidation in my study, with green tea and the rain pounding on the roof. Now have a WWAN card back in my new laptop, have got the GPS working of sorts (although I've never found a use for GPS in a laptop when one has it on one's phone), ASIO4ALL installed which seems to have alleviated the need to drop more megabucks on a new soundcard, couple of letters ready to post, now about to sort out the unholy mess that the room's in.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=336092#Comment_336092 2012-07-08T01:07:21-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 razrangel http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2075

One of the best shows of the run tonight, despite my screwups. I love my guys.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=336126#Comment_336126 2012-07-08T10:44:15-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 Rachæl Tyrell http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=552

@ Flecky - A joyous day of birth to you, sir! Me, I've been waking up at 8:30pm. And I'm totally ok with that. Much as I hate summer heat in NYC, it does provide me with the environment that is so ...

Me, I've been waking up at 8:30pm. And I'm totally ok with that. Much as I hate summer heat in NYC, it does provide me with the environment that is so disgusting and caustic that I can live the most extreme of nocturnal lifestyles with total and complete lack of guilt. And that's awesome. This is the first month that I've been not freaked out about the government and money and applications and I actually have enough money to exist.

Also, seeing Wrath of Khan as a midnight show last night, finding out through post movie discussion with others that Ricardo Montalban's chest was NOT in fact a prosthetic but his real flesh (hotness!), and following it up by watching Search for Spock back at a friend's house. Go geek life, go!]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=336159#Comment_336159 2012-07-08T18:02:12-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 government spy http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6088

Flecky: Happy belated womb spawning, friend! And thank you (and everyone) for the kind words and wishes. Me and the future Mrs. Spy are really excited, and trying to navigate governmental ...

Me and the future Mrs. Spy are really excited, and trying to navigate governmental bureaucracy to get me off of work for a couple days to actually get married and have our mini-moon.

Managed to work on the 4th, (yay holiday pay), followed by a double-shift (yay overtime) and then I got a credit card from my Union, so I should be able to pay for all of that, and not be completely broke right away. Going to stress myself out eventually, I can feel it coming. I need a beer.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=336168#Comment_336168 2012-07-08T22:38:37-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 Vornaskotti http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6665

Blah, moving here from the old thread: *** Hmm, I think I've been welcomed into the neighborhood. I have developed a habit of having a good beer bar as a home away from home, ie. a living room ...

***

Hmm, I think I've been welcomed into the neighborhood. I have developed a habit of having a good beer bar as a home away from home, ie. a living room with good selection of beers and a chance for random encounters, a good place to read, write and code games. When I moved to my new apartment, which is on an island next to Helsinki downtown, it took me a little while to find a good place, but finally managed to find a cozy place with a rather good beer selection and a friendly staff and atmosphere.

For the last two evenings I've been sitting in the chosen place, playing The Walking Dead. The local denizens just started chatting with me at the bar counter about beers, and the bartender joined in - later turned out that she was the boss woman of the place. Enter a fun evening where the bartender didn't bring me the trappist beers I was ordering, but instead of what she thought I'd like :) Had nice chats of The Island, as the locals seem to call the place, with "nah, you don't need anything from the mainland, just raise the bridge up and all is good".

Camaderie! Also just found out that there are bike and pedestrian lanes leading out to the other islands around here, so when the sky stops pissing down like a racehorse, dive to do some exploring on a bike!]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=336211#Comment_336211 2012-07-09T12:40:53-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 Cat Vincent http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=447

The long, horrible saga of my divorce and forced moving house is almost over. We exchanged contracts on the house we're buying late this afternoon. Which was a good thing, as we're moving ...

We exchanged contracts on the house we're buying late this afternoon. Which was a good thing, as we're moving tomorrow.
(Admittedly, we're moving to Hebden Bridge, which just had the second major flood in 2 weeks... but that's just details at this point! Our place is safely uphill.)]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=336215#Comment_336215 2012-07-09T13:23:59-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 trini_naenae http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=183

Two things: First, the weekend of too much at once is over. I don't have to go back to the crappy weekend job for two weeks, and the last of the relatives from the family reunion have left. My ...

Second: I'm actually going to an Amanda Palmer concert. Granted it's in October and I have to drive to the Twin Cities to go it, but the tickets were surprisingly affordable (my great-aunt actually offered to cover the costs if it wasn't - to my surprise). I've wanted to see one of her shows - her theatricality is widely known, so this is going to be quite fun. Maybe I can manage a Whitechapel meetup the day after even.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=336217#Comment_336217 2012-07-09T13:36:38-07:00 2012-07-09T13:36:54-07:00 oldhat http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=75

So it's my friend's birthday and she really wanted to go for a tour of the Steamwhistle Brewery with her fiancee, but when they got there they were sad to find that all the tours were booked and ...

I don't know what feels more weird. The fact that I seem to have clout or that I did a good deed.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=336234#Comment_336234 2012-07-09T17:02:39-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 sellmeyoursoul http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=9518

@GovSpy - Congrats on your kid news! @Flecky - One more year who's teeth you kicked in. Good man. @Raz - Way to survive the show. @Vorn - It's good to have a home away from home. Sadly, mine's an ...

@Flecky - One more year who's teeth you kicked in. Good man.
@Raz - Way to survive the show.
@Vorn - It's good to have a home away from home. Sadly, mine's an hour an a half drive away, which makes staggering home at the end of the night challenging. And thus the three years of excessive sobriety. I'm not sure at what point it's officially a lifestyle, but I think I'm getting close.
@Cat - Glad to see you got that sorted. I saw your tweets earlier and was a little worried on your behalf.
@trini - Way to score tickets to a show.
@oldhat - Ain't you all TV and internets famous beer goddess or some shit? Personally, I'd be using that to have the brew-master make a special batch to sell to the tourists made from hops used to exfoliate me, but that's why I'm not allowed near anything that might be ingested by other people.

My hugs? Well things are generally going pretty well. I'm bracing for a week from hell, but I had a first date last night that went well. Not a shag in the back seat of her BWM well, but that relationship ended poorly, so perhaps it's best if I pace myself a bit anyway. I'm still marveling at how great my Yamaha HS80Ms sound. This weekend, I'm going to mix like a mutha'. And now to beer and sleep. Cheers y'all.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=336247#Comment_336247 2012-07-09T20:15:16-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 Rachæl Tyrell http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=552

On my near daily trip to the local store, I saw a young grocery employee that I sometimes talk to. I don't know if he's even 18, but he's very polite and cute, and had previously asked me if I knew ...

he tried to take it off and give it to me on the spot. So adorable!]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=336412#Comment_336412 2012-07-11T16:18:12-07:00 2012-07-11T16:21:11-07:00 oldhat http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=75

MORE fun beer clout news. - Got told that I'm getting some special Euro Cup Weiss glasses in the mail. Yee! - Having a fancy dinner later this month and decided that a bottle of DeuS Brut des ...

- Got told that I'm getting some special Euro Cup Weiss glasses in the mail. Yee!
- Having a fancy dinner later this month and decided that a bottle of DeuS Brut des Flandres, a Champagne beer from Belgium that is served in champagne flute glasses and goes for about $35-$40 a bottle, would do well. Problem is, our liquor stores don't sell it and it's only available at two bars in the city that I know of and no takeaway allowed because it's illegal. So after a day-long search I contacted the importer, said who I was and asked if I could purchase a single bottle if they had one lying around (normally importers only do private orders by the case). Not only did they say I could have one, but they're giving me a couple for free. A good reason is apparently the beers from this brewery are coming in to LCBO in the Fall so to me anyways, a review before they hit definitely couldn't hurt.

And the brewery? Bosteels. They also produce a beer called Kwak, which this importer also deals in.

So they're also throwing in a Kwak glass and stand for me as well.



WOO!]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=336417#Comment_336417 2012-07-11T17:14:34-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 WaxPoetic http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1809

@oldhat - Total Woo. that is awesome.

that is awesome.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=336438#Comment_336438 2012-07-12T02:25:01-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 texture http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1472

I love Kwak. Can't get enough of it. (sorry, couldn't resist) Any beer that looks like a science experiment is OK by me. Really enjoying your beer coverage Robin :)

Any beer that looks like a science experiment is OK by me. Really enjoying your beer coverage Robin :)]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=336443#Comment_336443 2012-07-12T03:38:11-07:00 2012-07-12T03:39:48-07:00 Alan Tyson http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1299

Nothing to actually do with me, but my dad and a buddy of his (also name Alan) made it onto the local news yesterday. Them, and their kickass WWII trainer biplane, Rocinante. Dad's the first guy you ...

Rocinante. Dad's the first guy you see, in the red shirt, and the guy who does most of the talking over the radio.

I'm saying this here because I'm pretty sure he doesn't read it, so it's okay: My dad is basically the coolest grownup in the world.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=336487#Comment_336487 2012-07-12T11:37:54-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 Alastair http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=287

@oldhat.... so jealous

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=336518#Comment_336518 2012-07-12T18:57:25-07:00 2012-07-12T19:03:00-07:00 glukkake http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1693

I gilded a bunch of hamburgers this week and it even got covered on Boingboing and Laughing Squid - comments on BoingBoing are fun as always! Went to a seekrit (as in, not sharing the location) ...

Boingboing and Laughing Squid - comments on BoingBoing are fun as always!

Went to a seekrit (as in, not sharing the location) beach in NYC where I got to run around topless with my friends and swim in the ocean and fall asleep under the sun while stuffing myself with beer and chips and salsa. It was the best day off yet.

Am getting a replacement laptop soon as Mirabelle II is about to kick the bucket with her faulty battery and increasingly slow RAM.

Also have plans in place for next paycheck to get a magnet installed into my finger. Endless Magneto jokes to follow.

edit to add: @oldhat did a quick search on beermenus and it's sold at a place down the street from where Nick now lives. We're gonna pick one up too!]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=336584#Comment_336584 2012-07-13T23:11:42-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 Rachæl Tyrell http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=552

Yesterday I managed to finish photographs for a deadline, and then successfully dragged myself awake again after 2.5 hours of sleep to make a doctor appointment where I was told I lost 4 pounds from ...

Later that night, standing on a street corner, my friend and I were approached by a fellow asking for change. We'd already given away our change, but my asked the man if he smoked, to at least offer him a cigarette. The man was quite rude and said:

"If you gave me a cigarette, I would crush it into pieces and give it right back to you. I'm smart enough to not smoke. If you keep smoking, you'll look like you are fifty by the time you are thirty."

It was my friend's 37th birthday. Hah! Awesome!]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=336597#Comment_336597 2012-07-14T10:19:05-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 city creed http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4530

So hey, not posted in here in a while. Right now I have ghastly virulent hugs for everyone who wants one, so this seemed like the place to come. I spent last weekend away, in a remote part of the ...

I spent last weekend away, in a remote part of the west coast of Scotland. Myself and one of my best-beloved friends had been hired to cater the wedding of two other mutual friends of ours. He a tattoo artist of some renown, she a singer, songwriter and activist. For the last few years they've together been running one of the last remaining club nights in the country that's actually fun to go to. They are lovely people, with many lovely friends and I'd been excited/slightly daunted at the prospect of the whole thing since last year.

I, along with a hired double-oven and crockery, was collected from glasgow by the groom on Wednesday. Within minutes we were so deep in a conversation about Jeff Noon vs Philip K. Dick that we overshot our turning and were forced to abandon plans to convoy on the road north - bear in mind we're basically wrestling a mississippi paddleboat through wet angry traffic. This pattern of events would become familiar as a series of missed turnings led us eventually on to a coastal road from which there was no apparent escape and we proceeded north slower than summer, at sea level the whole way. An unbelievably beautiful drive and a good chance to reconnect before the weekend. We arrived just in time for last orders too.

That's when I met the Mexicans.

The bride had spent several years in Mexico City with her mother doing activism work years ago and these were friends of theirs from then.
Raoul, who kicked my ass at chess right then and there, Dodger, who is way the happiest MMA fighter I've ever met and Gustavo, who instructed me in the shamanic importance of Mezcal while we played pool in a darkened village hall and discussed, of all things, Tolstoy. At some point during this process I appear to have become committed to travelling to Mexico in the near future. I do not remember ever making this decision but it seems clear I have little choice now.

Thursday, when it eventually started, was prep. Lots of prep.

Ninety people attended the ceremony and reception on Friday afternoon, four different canapes, main course of spit-roasted hog which was carved to order top-tableside, plus all the usual roast dinner trimmings and a ridiculously awesome vegan alternative. I was going to post the menu in detail in the cooking thread, partly to show off but also in case anyone was curious about any of it, but that thread has lapsed until august.
The ceremony and reception were on the Friday afternoon and the rest of the weekend was one big long party centered around the village hall, marquee and guests' campsite.

Whitechapel, it was good.
It was no ordinary wedding crowd - many of them came from a community on the other side of the highlands, let's call it the foundation - though there were others there from all over. Fine people, unadulterated good vibes and lots of happy hippy sweetness. It had been a long time since I'd seen most of these folks, I spent a summer around the foundation about five years back and made a lot of friends there. Other guests I knew from what I think the kids are calling the outdoor party circuit these days. So anyways there was lots of excitable hugging and shiny eyes and people being good to each other. There was also multi-phase inebriation, loud music and wild dancing, all to a thoroughly unwise degree.

Honestly, the whole experience has made me feel nourished and refreshed and full of all the fucking joys of fucking spring.
I think I forget, when I spend too long in the city trying to be serious and mysterious and wise among the successful folk, how utterly utterly crucial it is to have people around you who know your weaknesses and your idiocies and your dark places and still love you for being strong and smart and bright - and who aren't too afraid for their own ego to say so. I've realised that over the last few months, since at least early this year really, I had lost sight of something very important about myself. It's not that all my problems have turned to air (they really haven't), but I feel like I just remembered who I am and what that has to mean. And that just makes everything easier to deal with.

I'm sorry if that all comes off a little too gushy - I'm unable to muster much cynicism at the moment. It's just that there are so few places or people in my little world to which I really feel like I matter or belong and this experience served as a timely reminder that it really doesn't matter that we are few and scattered far. It matters that we recognise and honour each other when we can, in the way that only we can.

Thus: Hugs. Vile hugs. Ghastly and virulent.
Hugs for you whitechapel, you are also such a place and such a people. Awful, beautiful and important in many ways, but mostly to each other.

The post-weekend drive back down to what passes for civilisation here in Scotland is an epic tale all of its own, and for another discussion. If there's ever a Spinning Yarns thread on insane, beautiful, terrifying, cursed-by-awesome journeys I'll come back to it.

@Alan - that video is great. Your dad is a very cool grown up.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=336615#Comment_336615 2012-07-14T18:14:47-07:00 2012-07-14T18:15:47-07:00 Lazarus99 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3143

Recent purchases of awesome... Screwdrivers left to right: 10th's, 11th's, Master's Laser Screwdriver

Screwdrivers left to right: 10th's, 11th's, Master's Laser Screwdriver]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=336628#Comment_336628 2012-07-15T01:14:51-07:00 2012-07-15T01:17:32-07:00 razrangel http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2075

Lagavulin 16 Final gift from the director. This after a bottle of very nice French wine. It was almost all worth it. (Image is coming up broken right now, Whitechapel continues to give me ...

Lagavulin 16

Final gift from the director. This after a bottle of very nice French wine. It was almost all worth it.

(Image is coming up broken right now, Whitechapel continues to give me fits for this sort of thing. Image is here: Lagavulin)]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=336629#Comment_336629 2012-07-15T02:15:05-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 Alastair http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=287

wait... $99 for FFVIII?!

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=336633#Comment_336633 2012-07-15T04:22:56-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 texture http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1472

@City Creed: Sounds like a hell of a party man!

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=336636#Comment_336636 2012-07-15T08:10:03-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 phill_sea http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1859

In a case of incredibly awesome worlds colliding my friend's friend is also friends with @LexMachina, whom I met last night. \m/ And a delightful young woman she is, at that.

And a delightful young woman she is, at that.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=336641#Comment_336641 2012-07-15T08:58:13-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 Rachæl Tyrell http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=552

kissing.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=336666#Comment_336666 2012-07-15T14:09:22-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 Lazarus99 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3143

@Alastair That's AU$ Similar prices on ebay. They also had FF7 for $200 and FF9 for $150. I managed to get it for $80 worth of PSP game trade-ins (about 15 or so). Apparently, they're quite hard ...

That's AU$

Similar prices on ebay. They also had FF7 for $200 and FF9 for $150. I managed to get it for $80 worth of PSP game trade-ins (about 15 or so). Apparently, they're quite hard to get...]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=336668#Comment_336668 2012-07-15T14:12:06-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 Alastair http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=287

jesus i downloaded 7 for a tenner off the PSN

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=336698#Comment_336698 2012-07-16T01:19:21-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 Lazarus99 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3143

a: How long ago? b: I don't really like/trust PSN.... c: WHY IS IT THAT IT'S ONLY AFTER I BUY SOMETHING EVERYONE SAYS "OH, IT'S CHEAPER SOMEWHERE ELSE", GODDAMMIT?!

b: I don't really like/trust PSN....
c: WHY IS IT THAT IT'S ONLY AFTER I BUY SOMETHING EVERYONE SAYS "OH, IT'S CHEAPER SOMEWHERE ELSE", GODDAMMIT?!]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=336702#Comment_336702 2012-07-16T01:49:04-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 Alastair http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=287

sorry :( about a year ago?

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=336706#Comment_336706 2012-07-16T06:04:41-07:00 2012-07-16T06:06:03-07:00 Littlepurplegoth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10699

I have a cold. its stopping the words working properly, the sleep working properly, the cackle working properly, ditto singing voice :-( Big fat misery. Died on my arse and not well last night - but ...

Not helped by the migraines being back with a vengence - lost lots of weight, discovered I am nasty allergic to something, and had a whole 12m since without them. Not the properly hurting sort this time, but the 'am I going mad' sort that eventually turn into a mild headache after 12 hours but only after they scare me witless and remove my night vision first... and then I accidentally read something about this as an expression of migraine and start to question the MH diagnosis of my teens wondering if it was actually this responsible for the rapid cycling mania and etc etc etc...

Moan moan, whine whine. Going to run away a bit early to write stories before hopefully laughing my arse off this evening even if I am stuck going into Walthamstow on my own as DP is working and the only other person I'd want to ask isn't available either.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=336767#Comment_336767 2012-07-16T23:49:03-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 Rachæl Tyrell http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=552

More kissing and more than kissing.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=336834#Comment_336834 2012-07-18T07:21:16-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 city creed http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4530

@texture - the very mountains jigged. I personally saw one shimmy, not sure which. Aaand I have just received a proper invite to go hang out at the beach in Mexico for a month around ...

Aaand I have just received a proper invite to go hang out at the beach in Mexico for a month around christmastime, inclusive of a free place to stay and all of the mezcal. All of it. Hug on that, vile huggers.
I want to go so fucking badly, but it will be a question of money (somewhat obviously) and exam timetabling.
It would be my first trip west over the atlantic, though I've been a long way east before.
What you think Whitechapel? Who can give me a breakdown of those vegetarian options on the traditional Mexican Christmas menu? Will I definitely be arrested/imprisoned/shot/decapitated/enslaved/wrestled/barbecued/dumped in the desert by cartels/federalis/womenfolk/luchadors/angels/injuns/minutemen/UFOs or are less melodramatic outcomes feasible? Do I need to start taking levels in macho right now or would a few ranks of sensitivity serve better? Would a tattoo help? I fret-jest, I think. So many things to know, such a limited dataset of actual experience to draw on.

@razrangel - That's a potent gift, its name alone a sigil that speaks of the spirit of the thing far louder than any picture of its shiny, ephemeral chrysalis could anyways. Slange va.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=336837#Comment_336837 2012-07-18T09:02:10-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 JP Carpenter http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2485

@Rachael - sober?!

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=336853#Comment_336853 2012-07-18T15:26:29-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 razrangel http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2075

@city creed - where in Mexico? I hope you can make it! I genuinely don't know vegetarian Mexican food options. While the older style is largely vege, meat is has been the traditional anchor of ...

Probably won't be arrested/abducted/flayed etc, unless you play your cards perfectly. Or try to buy Mexican tar from a government official. Or if you're a journalist. Try not to be a journalist, especially in the North.
Neither machismo nor sensitivity will help if you're especially white. Speaking Spanish will help, though likely you'll still have an accent, even if it's Castilian. Oh well. Some people at the open air markets will try to cheat you, maybe pick your pocket. Confidence in yourself actually does help, as does grace and a knowledgeable native guide. So... mind your manners, but don't be a doormat. }:>
God I miss Mexico.

That Lag is... I don't know. A treasure. I spent a lot of time griping that the stresses of putting on a play drove me to my bottle o' Balvenie. I was expecting something else on a par. I would feel bad if I allocated the Lagavulin as just drinking for when the day has been long and obnoxious. It should be... well. I don't know. It should be save for like a holy day. Feast of St fuckyouarsefaces or some'at. Pairs well with freshly slaughtered fatted calf, right?

@Rachael - crowing and happy for you (and ignoring quibbles of jealousy)(yes I am!)(shut up!) Yay!!!]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=336884#Comment_336884 2012-07-19T01:37:40-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 Vornaskotti http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6665

Last weekend was... um, different, but yesterday I'd classify as a rather great day. Started the day by reading interesting science stuff and some plant pottery, then the first date I've been to in ...

different, but yesterday I'd classify as a rather great day. Started the day by reading interesting science stuff and some plant pottery, then the first date I've been to in 14 years and a change. An initial buttsniffery thing, can't remember the last time when I had been so absorbed in a conversation with a total stranger that I totally lost the track of time. Going to meet in an urban exploration trip next, I think. This was followed by a couple of mojitos and enjoying the sunny afternoon, then a really great RPG session, and some post-game beers and initial talks about converting one of my flash fic stories into a comic script.

Well now.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=336909#Comment_336909 2012-07-19T10:07:45-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 city creed http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4530

@razrangel I'm not sure exactly where yet. "On the beach" is the only thing I know for certain. All three of the guys who were over were from Mexico City so I imagine that will figure ...

I'm not sure exactly where yet. "On the beach" is the only thing I know for certain. All three of the guys who were over were from Mexico City so I imagine that will figure somewhere.

Not being a journalist turns out to be one of my core competencies - no worries on that score.

I was just kidding about the food really, though now I'm looking forward to some ferocious gravel chipotle.

Speaking of ferocious gravels, I believe the Lagavullin marries well with night-time and naked flames. There's hallowing enough in that.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=336919#Comment_336919 2012-07-19T11:53:43-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 Rachæl Tyrell http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=552

@ JP Carpenter - Yup. Sober!!! (Though delirious from sleep deprivation.) @razrangel - Thank you. @Vornaskotti - HIGH FIVE! So yeah. There's the silly giddy doofy thing. I mean, ...

@razrangel - Thank you.

@Vornaskotti - HIGH FIVE!

So yeah. There's the silly giddy doofy thing. I mean, "making out"?! Seriously?! I'm like a teenager. That's a vile hug all it's own. Oh yes, am I doofy.

ALSO, the night before last, a fellow I know treated me with a ticket for THIS:



oh YES! and then took me out for an AMAZING dinner where we ate a ridiculous amount of fancy food.

And yesterday, after literally 6 hours in a doctor's office where I was forgotten about, I got an upgrade on my glasses (for free!) and now my prism lens is an 18! And I can seeeeee!]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=336946#Comment_336946 2012-07-19T17:37:37-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 Comicbookbunny http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=5151

I have not had much of the good to report of much lately so I've be lurky mclurkerson. My job officially loves my face instead of trying to consume it-. there are still the crazy ladies but at ...

My job officially loves my face instead of trying to consume it-. there are still the crazy ladies but at this point I am doing the "i keel you with my kindness and will be helpful at you!"
I was making the teeth with my hands but now i am master of the CAD-CAM program for teeth! I"m all important and shit, they make me make phone calls....

I have a date 0_o I am violently against a relationship right now and this person very much doesn't want one for various reasons so It all works out. I hung out with a few people who had said they don't want a relationship but it got kinda kingly on their end... Apparently If you tell a dude you just want to use him as a sexual pogostick and nothing else they want to hang around and stuff. *shrug* I come as advertised.

So far the wasband doesn't have skin cancer so we are being optimistic it stays that way- and crossing fingers that they no longer need to turn him into a human sieve plus stiches.

Also I am getting an ungodly amount of make-up work and keeping really busy. I really do need time to work on my house it looks like no one lives here! heh

@Rachael SWEETNESS!!!!
@city creed Epic sometimes it is great to have a good time around really cool peoples it is what the brain needs to be reminded that there are still some out there!]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=336971#Comment_336971 2012-07-20T07:51:44-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 Fauxhammer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=27

@bunny "wasband" rules

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337006#Comment_337006 2012-07-20T23:53:25-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 RenThing http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=155

Two of my friends recently honeymooned in Ireland and found this... and thought of me and my podcast. I HAVE FRIENDS WHO BRING ME TOPICAL BOOZE FROM OTHER COUNTRIES! My life fails to ...

and thought of me and my podcast.

I HAVE FRIENDS WHO BRING ME TOPICAL BOOZE FROM OTHER COUNTRIES!

My life fails to suck.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337013#Comment_337013 2012-07-21T03:17:49-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 razrangel http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2075

Nicely done @Ren Watched Batman Rises. *curls up in a ball and rocks back and forth with a shit-eating grin plastered on* Yeah, I guess it could have been better. But lemme just say, FUCK it ...

Watched Batman Rises. *curls up in a ball and rocks back and forth with a shit-eating grin plastered on* Yeah, I guess it could have been better. But lemme just say, FUCK it was good. }:>]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337059#Comment_337059 2012-07-22T07:43:23-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 lexmachine http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3428

@phill_sea It was delightful dancing with you!

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337066#Comment_337066 2012-07-22T13:05:01-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 Flabyo http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1306

It is actually summer in the UK at long last! Had a wander around London this afternoon, it's always fun to see the groups of tourists enjoying themselves at the best of times, but with the Olympics ...

Regent Street is kitted out with all the flags of the world, in alphabetical order. It's a pretty impressive sight. But not quite as impressive as the several hundred rollerbladers that came past in convoy complete with police escort. Every phonebox I went past had a tourist in it posing for photos with their friends. There were some VERY large groups as well, all in matching hats and rucksacks.

I know it's not the done thing to be excited about the Olympics but sod it. I am.

@RenThing - that sounds like the sort of thing uncle Warren would drink...]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337102#Comment_337102 2012-07-23T08:04:33-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 RenThing http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=155

@Flabyo If I was ever to be in Ireland and then anywhere near him, I'd give him a bottle. In other news: IT'S MY BIRTHDAY! Made it to 32 which is kind of amazing.

If I was ever to be in Ireland and then anywhere near him, I'd give him a bottle.

In other news: IT'S MY BIRTHDAY! Made it to 32 which is kind of amazing.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337128#Comment_337128 2012-07-23T17:28:16-07:00 2012-07-24T02:52:52-07:00 Rachæl Tyrell http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=552

I don't think Batman COULD have been better. A combination of minor components of Year One, Dark Knight Returns, Batman Returns, Batman Beyond, No Man's Land, and Knightfall, bringing the whole ...

La la la la la.

After watching Batman at midnight on opening night, I spent the last three days with the fellow I'm dating, and tonight he's bringing me to see a theatre release of two ST:TNG episodes to celebrate the anniversary and remastering of the series. Eeeeee!]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337195#Comment_337195 2012-07-24T14:00:48-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 flecky http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8949

@RenThing: Belated, yet elated, celebration of inhabitation of the human anatomy. May your next vessel be a shift-ship, traversing the realms of the Multiverse. @Rachael and Raz: With you on my ...

@Rachael and Raz: With you on my fun-time viewing of Batty. Something...twanged in ma heed through it, and I neuroflipped into happy-state.

On Sunday, someone said I look like Christian Bale. On venom! :)]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337262#Comment_337262 2012-07-25T06:01:50-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 phill_sea http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1859

Just shouting into the 'nets. . . M O A R Octopus T o d a y!

M O A R Octopus T o d a y!]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337267#Comment_337267 2012-07-25T08:16:50-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 ErikCJones http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8341

In the letters column of the new issue of Saga, there's a picture of me bodyslamming my friend Nancy and a shirt for my old tag team. I thought that was pretty neat.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337271#Comment_337271 2012-07-25T08:52:43-07:00 2012-07-25T08:55:37-07:00 oldhat http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=75

Vanilla malts, "American" Fries*, long walks, longer talks, sitting in a park and watching the sunset. Last night was pretty damn good. *Neither the person I was with or myself felt ...

Last night was pretty damn good.

*Neither the person I was with or myself felt particularly patriotic towards America with those fries, although he DID question Obama's citizenship briefly.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337274#Comment_337274 2012-07-25T10:17:03-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 RenThing http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=155

@Flecky That would be truly awesome. Cheers!

That would be truly awesome. Cheers!]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337278#Comment_337278 2012-07-25T11:23:50-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 roadscum http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7712

Today i have been driving a dustcart. I am ashamed, truly ashamed of how good it felt to switch on those yellow flashing lights and sit there, knowing all those around me stuck in their various ...

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337284#Comment_337284 2012-07-25T12:34:47-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 Prof Structure http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1583

Visited The Hepworth, Wakefield - as well as the expected Babs sculptures there was an amazing Richard Long splashed on china clay waterfall covering a whole wall. Love his stuff.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337289#Comment_337289 2012-07-25T12:43:12-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 JP Carpenter http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2485

Yeah, I like Richard Long. not seen any of his stuff for a while... nice day at the beach, nearly built the guinea pigs a nice big run, now have beer in the garden...

nice day at the beach, nearly built the guinea pigs a nice big run, now have beer in the garden...]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337351#Comment_337351 2012-07-26T08:57:29-07:00 2012-07-26T10:45:25-07:00 flecky http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8949

HAHAHA!!! I was walking back home from a meeting. Suddenly, I was in the midst of a throng of humans cheering the Olympic torch on. Like that scene in Taxi Driver, when Travis is at the political ...

I was walking back home from a meeting. Suddenly, I was in the midst of a throng of humans cheering the Olympic torch on. Like that scene in Taxi Driver, when Travis is at the political rally, I stood with a massive grin on my face and clapped the bastard on.

For about 1 second, I felt like a normal person.

Being normal is overrated.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337374#Comment_337374 2012-07-26T10:36:39-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 sellmeyoursoul http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=9518

@Rachael and Oldhat - glad to hear you're finding someone who's company you enjoy (and @R - making out is awesome. At any age. At least if there's chemistry.) @Bunny - Glad to see you out of lurk ...

@Bunny - Glad to see you out of lurk mode. In those guys defense, I want to hang out with you too (speaking of, when you coming north again? I think one of us owes the other drinks) even if you were also to sexual pogostick me.

@Ren - Always good when people think "I should share my booze with..." I hope the birthday was happy and all that.

@Roadscum - You sadistic bastard!

@Everyone - Inappropriate cuddles.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337383#Comment_337383 2012-07-26T11:22:36-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 CrusherJoe http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3260

When you know you're being submitted, you can't really complain as an actor; you go in and do the best version of what they give you and then try to forget about it. I read for a Jennifer Aniston ...

I didn't want to start a new thread yet, but if you have thoughts about Baltimore Comic Con, I'd love to hear them.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337402#Comment_337402 2012-07-26T13:41:29-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 ErikCJones http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8341

I love Baltimore Comic Con. Big but not overwhelming, easy to find the people you want to meet, and a decent amount of smaller artists who aren't as well known. I never fail to have a good time.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337426#Comment_337426 2012-07-26T19:21:07-07:00 2012-07-27T08:46:09-07:00 Littlepurplegoth http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10699

had a lovely evening out with some fellow petrol heads. Didn't talk about F1 for more than five minutes, lol shame it came on top of a shitty day. that was actually strangely good. someone dear ...

shame it came on top of a shitty day. that was actually strangely good. someone dear to me acted on their instincts and was true to themself. which as I've spent the last couple of years relearning how to do so myself is wonderful and bliss inducing to see in others as I really do know what it takes and what it means (compersion but for lives not relationships). Just wish that the 'we' that was beginning wasn't the casualty in that. But they have been so 'rar' all over FB whilst 'off their head busy' and utterly not talking to me at all the last few days I could see it coming...it was nicely done, quedos huge quedos for that.

Then get one of those 'I'm stopping knowing you because ' emails from someone I only ever saw as an aquaintance; had no idea at all they thought of me like that. But I'm still responsible in their eyes...

Just call me the celibacy fairy!

But Life has to change here.

I'm scared witless of how utterly dependent I am on DP, of how I might fail if I do (and thus end up not doing because what's the point to fail and leave us in a shithole) and all that. But to do anything about that in any sort of the ways open to me (and yes, that I'm actually capable of) I am going to end up hurting, neglecting, or whatever either/or/and DP or children. Or I suck it up, & bury me underneath whatever again (and will probably need a chemical cosh to do so) and do the perfect housewife thing. Which right now I dont think I'd manage to live through. Walking right now is tempting, but then I'd totally screw up a half dozen lives. But how else....

*head**desk**not going near the kitchen*]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337441#Comment_337441 2012-07-27T01:00:59-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 razrangel http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2075

Finally got see my best friend after a few months. Got a couple extra friends as superawesomeyummy icing on top. too, too long. YAY FRIENDS

YAY FRIENDS]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337465#Comment_337465 2012-07-27T06:00:12-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 Vornaskotti http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6665

Okay, this was new. My life has been sort of intense and complicated for quite some time and I'm pretty much habituated to constant stress and activity so that nothing happening scares me. I ...

My life has been sort of intense and complicated for quite some time and I'm pretty much habituated to constant stress and activity so that nothing happening scares me. I haven't been in financial trouble, but my finances have been Interesting, with running a company, doing jobs here and there, etc. For the last three years there's been a dip in the overall income and this has forced me into a very fucking annoying game of three card monte that has been gnawing my ass all the while, since because of circumstances I haven't been able to just Arrange It Away before this. So, I finally had enough brain energy to hit Excel and generally just Take Care of Business. I just managed to do that, stepped out, there was a flood of relief and the weirdest thing: it felt like something inside relaxed, and it was suddenly physically easier to breathe. O_o And I hadn't noticed it being exceptionally hard before, but wow. I certainly don't hate the feel of this.

Body-mind interaction. Not just fluffy new-age stuff.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337480#Comment_337480 2012-07-27T12:12:49-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 JP Carpenter http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2485

@Vornaskotti - good on you; I guess I should do something similar. My finances are like pumping up a punctured air bed, money goes out faster than it comes in... I'm in the garden, with the last ...

I'm in the garden, with the last of the sun, and a pint of cider, having criminally wasted today. Eldest daughter is off having an MRI scan, she's been a lab rat since birth, as my partner signed up to the Southampton Women's Survey - a long term study project about the effect of diet in pregnancy, she goes off for scans and tests every year. I wanted to have a T-shirt made with her skeleton on it, like Nigel Tufnel in Spinal Tap, but we haven't had a clear enough picture come back for that.

Am pretty chilled this week, last year's holiday was a disaster, as I was coming to the 'go splat' point of a long depression and couldn't relax at all. This time, I've been too far in the other direction, so laid back I can hardly move - didn't get up until 1pm today. Then on Sunday we're off to Wales for a week. First proper holiday for three years. Should be nice.

@Razrangel - YAY FRIENDS]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337510#Comment_337510 2012-07-27T23:54:56-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 flecky http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8949

@JP - Have a good holiday, lad. Instead of throwing cups of it around, I've decided to drink some coffee - with cigarettes, music and a comic. That, and the awful-and-sad knowledge that I have the ...

Instead of throwing cups of it around, I've decided to drink some coffee - with cigarettes, music and a comic. That, and the awful-and-sad knowledge that I have the secret weapon of masturbation to employ to destroy reality whenever shit gets weird, are reasons enough to sneer at existence.

I'm meant to be sharing a room in rehab - with a male of the species. Maybe if I tell them I'm a bisexual serial killer (who only sleeps in a leap-year), they'll give me a hammock. In a hut. In a tree.

*sigh* Probably not!]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337525#Comment_337525 2012-07-28T02:07:30-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 Alan Tyson http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1299

@flecky: Yeah, but, what do you do if his eyes light up and he goes "Oh man, you too?!"

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337578#Comment_337578 2012-07-28T12:22:45-07:00 2012-07-28T12:23:02-07:00 Vornaskotti http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6665

Okay, I'm... I don't know, I'll just leave this here: "Okay, I'm not really sure if this is a new high or a new low. Hangoverish and in a supremely weird mood, just remembered that back at ...

"Okay, I'm not really sure if this is a new high or a new low. Hangoverish and in a supremely weird mood, just remembered that back at the time I used to train ventriloquism for over a year, and totally forgot about it, so I just walked around the apartment trying to project my voice. Aaaaaand managed to startle myself, spent a few seconds staring at a juice box with "wtf, did that thing just say something". Yeah. How much of a retard do you have to be to be able to startle yourself by saying something :D"

Well, made my day. :D]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337626#Comment_337626 2012-07-29T11:28:31-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 Paul Sizer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=44

My wife took MVP Blocker in her derby bout last night. Why? Cuz she's a fucking badass, that's why!

My wife took MVP Blocker in her derby bout last night. Why? Cuz she's a fucking badass, that's why!]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337682#Comment_337682 2012-07-30T12:54:33-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 oldhat http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=75

An interview another beer blog did of me finally went up.

An interview another beer blog did of me finally went up.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337771#Comment_337771 2012-07-31T15:10:59-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 flecky http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8949

Damn - I'm pushing myself like a motherfucker at the moment. Doing at least one meeting a day, helping to set them up and putting the literature out, reading it, sharing the best I can, walking miles ...

Fookin' Kung Fu! Hippy bastard!

When I isolate and think about my life...it's shit! But if I actually look at it, it's much better than it used to be. Lots better, really.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337773#Comment_337773 2012-07-31T15:44:51-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 Rachæl Tyrell http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=552

I mentioned my brain strife over on the open mic.... but um, so yesterday was bad. And I was all in my head and sad. And so the lovely fellow I'm sharing bodily fluids with came by unannounced just ...

Yay!]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337852#Comment_337852 2012-08-01T18:38:47-07:00 2012-08-01T18:39:09-07:00 oldhat http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=75

HIV test came back negative, surprising no one. But it was good to get that done and know FOR SURE. And while I can't prove that a deranged hobo ISN'T breaking in to my house and injecting me with ...

And while I can't prove that a deranged hobo ISN'T breaking in to my house and injecting me with blood while I sleep, I CAN prove that he isn't injecting me with HIV positive blood. So, THERE'S THAT.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337863#Comment_337863 2012-08-01T21:37:28-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 Alan Tyson http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1299

Yay! Incidentally, that's good blood you're getting. You should appreciate that blood. Whatever stealthy, smooth dude who is totally not a hobo he's just between jobs right now probably works ...

Incidentally, that's good blood you're getting. You should appreciate that blood. Whatever stealthy, smooth dude who is totally not a hobo he's just between jobs right now probably works really hard to steal that blood from old people who when you think about it don't even need it anymore.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337864#Comment_337864 2012-08-01T21:44:06-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 DavidLejeune http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4220

And he could be selling that blood, and making good money, but no, he likes you so much he's just giving it to you, free of charge! And do you have any idea how hard it is to inject blood in the ...

could be selling that blood, and making good money, but no, he likes you so much he's just giving it to you, free of charge! And do you have any idea how hard it is to inject blood in the veins between your little toe and second littlest toe while your sleeping without waking you up? Damn hard let me tell you!]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337865#Comment_337865 2012-08-01T22:05:13-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 allana http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4019

At the very least, you could leave out some cookies for the poor guy.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337866#Comment_337866 2012-08-01T22:05:36-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 Steve Toase http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10253

Been a roller coaster week as my little boy Charlie was born on Monday morning, a couple of weeks early but a healthy 7lb2. Nothing really prepared me for what an emotional battering spawning is; to ...

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337867#Comment_337867 2012-08-01T22:06:28-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 allana http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4019

In other news, someone bought a digital download of one of my photographs this morning. I am, now, officially, a paid photographer. Only $98 more in sales before I can request a payout! Yay!

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337911#Comment_337911 2012-08-02T13:57:34-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 Soviet Rocket No. 9 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8855

At the office I intern at, we received a lot of tickets to go see the President speak at Rollins College, and I got one! It was probably the most surreal, oddest thing that happened in my life. ...

I also found out that I'm the first of my family to see a sitting President speak! I also found that I'm actually proud to be an American for once!]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337958#Comment_337958 2012-08-03T11:16:05-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 oldhat http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=75

You're right guys, I've not shown my gratitude enough. I'll leave out some cookies for him tomorrow night.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337960#Comment_337960 2012-08-03T11:39:46-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 oddbill http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4272

No cookies. Blood Fairy wants meat.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337963#Comment_337963 2012-08-03T12:37:49-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 oldhat http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=75

Meat cookies?

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337965#Comment_337965 2012-08-03T14:10:29-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 Alastair http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=287

you seem to know a lot about the blood fairy oddbill...

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337966#Comment_337966 2012-08-03T15:05:18-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 flecky http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8949

Glad about the test results, oldhat. My horrible hobo plasma-injecting fairy mate is drooling at the prospect of finding meat-biscuits in your home.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337967#Comment_337967 2012-08-03T15:08:55-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 Soviet Rocket No. 9 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8855

Meat Biscuits....that's actually a good name for a punk band.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=337968#Comment_337968 2012-08-03T15:14:30-07:00 2012-08-03T15:22:11-07:00 flecky http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8949

Good band, The Meat Biscuits. They're even better than The Oat Steaks. EDIT TO ADD: I'll get me coat!

EDIT TO ADD: I'll get me coat!]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=338001#Comment_338001 2012-08-04T16:48:13-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 dorkmuffin http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6719

D above high C with ease today. According to the voice teacher, I gots potential for entering aria competitions. That feels really, really, really good.

That feels really, really, really good.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=338008#Comment_338008 2012-08-05T01:23:54-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 DavidLejeune http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4220

@Alastair: Yes, oddbill knows a lot about the blood fairy. *grabs coat, signals to Alan and flecky, runs out the door*

oddbill knows a lot about the blood fairy. *grabs coat, signals to Alan and flecky, runs out the door*]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=338032#Comment_338032 2012-08-05T11:23:19-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 RenThing http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=155

WRITER ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: Received First Royalty Check It's tiny, from a tiny anthology at an indie publisher, BUT IT'S MINE.

It's tiny, from a tiny anthology at an indie publisher, BUT IT'S MINE.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=338039#Comment_338039 2012-08-05T13:18:08-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 oddbill http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4272

Congratulations, RenThing! Those first barriers falling, even a little, is worth celebrating.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10753&Focus=338049#Comment_338049 2012-08-05T16:36:56-07:00 2013-05-19T14:35:51-07:00 Rachæl Tyrell http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=552

Methinks a new thread for August is appropriate? Yes.