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Aug-05-08
 | | Domdaniel: <mack> I dunno what JH wrote about Freddie, but I can vaguely guess. It wasn't one of those <God sent this disease to punish your sinfulness> rants, was it? Odd that the puritan streak is shared by the British left (well, bits of old Labour anyway, not counting Saint Tony of Benn) and the American right - how come they never seem to 'bond' over it? Or did he merely point out that Bohemian Rhapsody is neither Bohemian nor a Rhapsody? I presume you googled or something to make sure I wasn't inventing Joehaynus, god of knives, fork him. |
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| Aug-05-08 | | mack: <I presume you googled or something to make sure I wasn't inventing Joehaynus, god of knives, fork him.> 'course. I don't know nothing, me.
<I dunno what JH wrote about Freddie, but I can vaguely guess.> A scan of said column can be seen here: http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/48... I can't even bring myself to give an excerpt. Horrible man. I'm gonna properly shaft him in my thesis. |
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Aug-05-08
| | Domdaniel: <mack> Hilarious. Poison, too, of course. What year (BCE) was it written? Funny, I could've sworn Freddie expired during the 20th century, but obviously not, from this sort of primeval ooze. Two minor points. I don't think anyone told Haines that 'wicked' has a new sense as well. ('Wild' a term of approval -- like that Bill Hickock fella -- whatever next?) And surely the ice-cap scenario he describes would be a satisfactory resolution from all sides? If Ingrams and Haines are both extreme pooftah-phobics, then it can't really be politics. Dementia? Not that it's always easy to tell the difference. |
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Aug-05-08
| | Domdaniel: <Harv> -- <Aggro-rock>
I won't hear a thing said against punk. It hurt my ears, and I have a serious objection to spitting, but still ... I liked its chutzpah and its eschatology. Also, *Never Mind the Bollocks* is one of the major artworks of the 20th century. Up there with Duchamp's Large Glass and Nimzowitsch's Zugzwang Game. Oh, and Gravity's Rainbow. |
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| Aug-05-08 | | mack: <If Ingrams and Haines are both extreme pooftah-phobics, then it can't really be politics. Dementia?> Gawd, and they both wrote for TW3. And they're both in my mobile, to boot. Haines was writing in 1991, for the record. |
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| Aug-05-08 | | mack: <punk. It hurt my ears, and I have a serious objection to spitting, but still> You ever into Crass, matey? I was at a 'festival' in Cambridge last weekend, and one of the many attractions was a tent run by The Idler magazine (which we must both surely know well?). On the morning of my birthday I managed to absinthe-stagger over there in time for one of Penny Rimbaud's poetry dos. Only turned out he was performing his complete remake of Ginsberg's Howl -- it lasted forty five minutes, he must have spat a million buckets, and there was a lunatic violinist in the background the entire time. Plus, the words were reet good. One of those moments you live for, eh. |
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Aug-05-08
| | Domdaniel: <mack> Sounds good. Some might say that civilization went down the tubes the moment punk discovered violins [make own pun on 'violence' here, pls, I can't be bothered] - but I disagree. That happened earlier. Sax, ditto. |
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| Aug-05-08 | | mack: For the record, a choice snap from Cambridge, with me playing white: http://bp2.blogger.com/_T3Gqqkz9Mm0... I've long since said everything there is to say about myself. Why not put a 'face' to it all? |
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| Aug-06-08 | | mack: I cannot believe I just wrote the following sentence: '[David] Dimbleby's comments, then, can be seen as a sort of bizarre pre-echo of Baudrillard's "awakening dream of communication".' Any sort of context would spoil it, surely? |
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Aug-06-08
| | Domdaniel: <mack> It's the [David] that provides that touch of authenticity. As everyone knows, those Dimbleby boys are always bizarrely pre-echoing Baudrillard - but it took [David] to tackle his "awakening dream of communication". Much as that biblical David chap might have tackled Goliath's awakening dream of gianthood - ie, with balls. Low-slung ones. |
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Aug-06-08
 | | jessicafischerqueen: What ho!
Stupid Pacific Ocean.
And just whose idea was it to make it so big???
I mean really. |
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Aug-07-08
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> -- <And just whose idea was it to make it so big??? > But if the Pacific was smaller then the Atlantic would be bigger, and nobody would ever have sailed across it. And everyone in North America would speak Chinese. Which will happen anyway, but geography delayed it for a few centuries. Good flight? Or are you waiting for your soul to catch up, aka jetlag. Stupid souls. Plodding along like camels and totally thrown by timezones. |
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| Aug-07-08 | | mack: Oi oi Jess, which of the many countries are you in at the moment? <Dom> You know, I don't think I'm going to be inflitrating the Cabinet War Rooms this time around. If *you* were judge, then I probably would, because last time I looked I'd quoted Baudrillard, Orwell, McLuhan, Seymour-Ure, G. McCarthy, Richard & David Dimbleby, Jan Hein Donner, A.D. Woozley and Enid Welsford. But it ain't Cabinet minutes, is it? |
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Aug-07-08
| | Domdaniel: <mack> Seymour-Urea? Is that one of those leaky syndromes afflicting elderly chaps? And chapettes too, for all I know. Do I sound like a schoolboy humour perp twerp? Like phoning some pompous establishment and asking for Ulick Myers, or whomever... Right. The funny names division has been defenestrated, except for chessplayers (Orr-Knott). PS. I think we're beyond the reach of 'countries' in here. As it were. Country matters, I'm not so sure. |
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Aug-07-08
| | Domdaniel: Am I really childish enough to post that? And then to refrain from deleting it? Merciful Evans. |
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Aug-07-08
| | Domdaniel: <A Morphy Can Fly>
"... and I went down to the sacred store
Where I'd bought some Reinfeld years before
But the men there said that Reinfeld couldn't play.
But in my heart the knights still pranced
The kings were mated, rooks still danced
But no words could be trusted
Annotations all were busted ...
And they were singin'
Bye-bye, a Morphy can fly
A Fischer can soar
And a Nimzo is sly ..." |
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| Aug-07-08 | | Harvestman: This is a great day for me. My much anticipated camping knife arrived today by mail order. I have spent the last several hours with my new knife and a piece of dead tree that I acquired earlier. After much skilled craftsmanship, I now find that I have made three things simultaneously: 1. My knife blunt.
2. A mess all over the carpet.
3. A pointy stick.
I am so proud.
What?!... Oh, hello dear...yes, of course I'll clean it up...no, I won't do it again... (must go)... |
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| Aug-07-08 | | mack: <Am I really childish enough to post that? And then to refrain from deleting it?> Oh, we've done it before.
Domdaniel chessforum |
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Aug-08-08
| | Domdaniel: Do I *have* to look?
Is Joehaynus the god of camp knives?
Questions, questions. |
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Aug-08-08
| | Domdaniel: <mack> I just noticed the can of Carlsberg in the Cambridge pic. Obviously now there's no doubt as to authenticity. Why were you dressed as a court eunuch? And the other clown? Also the white pawns seem suspiciously advanced... |
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| Aug-08-08 | | mckmac: < "And they were singin'
Bye-bye, a Morphy can fly
A Fischer can soar
And a Nimzo is sly ..." >
But if you must play Rubenstein
keep the switch close by... |
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Aug-08-08
| | Domdaniel: <But if you must play Rubenstein
keep the switch close by...>
Heh. Or, indeed, the environmentally toxic chemical spray. "Bye-bye, a Morphy can fly
Rubinstein has one
That sees googol-ply ..." |
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| Aug-08-08 | | mack: <I just noticed the can of Carlsberg in the Cambridge pic.> Your Danish blood coming out, no?
<Obviously now there's no doubt as to authenticity.> Aye, a can of beer is very much my equivalent of Superman references in Seinfeld. Not that I'm an alcoholic or anything. The voices in my head told me that when I was having a pint with them the other day. On my windowsill. At 3am. In a thunderstorm. <Why were you dressed as a court eunuch?> Gotta dress for the job, no? I was at the festival under entirely false pretences (free ticket, natch), and had to look vaguely, well, freakshowish. Had to 'accessorise'. I'm thinking about buying a fez, I was so taken with it. <And the other clown? Also the white pawns seem suspiciously advanced...> The 'other clown' was a non-chess playing friend. Thus, I wasn't exactly playing my normal game, rather trying to vaguely demonstrate 'principles' like 'development'. We even opened 1.e4?! e5 2.Nf3?!, for Pete's sake. My pawns aren't too far advanced, though: it looks to me like I've got an overprotected lad on e4 and a queen (!) on f5. I mated him on my sixteenth move. |
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Aug-09-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: You <DomDaniel>!!
You better stop making fun of <Federico Reinfeldini> or I'll have <Deffi> threaten to sacrifice you to the Moon Goddess again!! A. You have supplied no actual proof of his incompetence. B. I just compared his annotations to <Alekhine's> own annotations to the game I kibbutzed on there. They are the same but in more detail. C. I just tested all of the variations and lines he gave in two of the Brilliancy Games he annotated against my <Shredder> and it has failed to pick up any <FreinFeld> innaccuracy and my <Shredder> is rated over 40,000 on the <Elo Mouse Pad> scale of Chess goodness. You better cut it out buster!!
Mrs. Reinfeld |
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Aug-09-08
 | | Open Defence: ......and the 3 men I admire most
Danailov, Kirsan and the Toilet Ghost
They pulled the draw chain of the moat
and then, Dragon died......
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