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Aug-28-08
 | | Domdaniel: <mack> What sort of help? I've heard the name, but I don't think I've ever played him. Or even met him, that I can recall. But I'm pretty sure he's not the same Joyce who had a son named Jimmy what ran off with a Galway lass named Nora, taught languages on the Continong, and wrote long dirty books about philological orgasms and meaty smells. Not to mention Sandymount Strand.
The ICU rating list currently has an individual of that name rated at 2166, club affiliation <Trinity College Dublin>. |
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Aug-28-08
 | | jessicafischerqueen: Well I"ve had to abandon plans for the chess film.
As <Howard's> lawyer, I've advised myself that I don't have the legal rights to the intellectual property necessary to move forward. So we are changing it up a bit-- We are re-shooting <Jaws>, but with chess sets and references in every scene. <Insane Olde Batte> will play the "woman chess player" We were going to spend a lot of money to build a <mechanical shark>, but luckily <Rush Limbaugh> was free and has agreed to stand in for the shark as a "stunt double" in key scenes. |
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Aug-28-08
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> I'll sell you the rights to King Horse Chess for 50p and a handshake. Though I should warn you that my verbal promise isn't worth the paper it's written on. As Executive Producer I'll want product placement too. And a frog scene. |
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Aug-28-08
| | Domdaniel: <mack> -- <ketamine>
Wasn't it John Lilly - after an industrial dose - who became convinced that his penis was invisible and controlled by aliens? |
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| Aug-28-08 | | Ziggurat: <Dom> Don't know about Lilly (he's the one with the dolphins, right?) but a woman I once talked to described the feeling she had had after taking ketamine: <I felt like I was a mountain that walked around inside myself>. |
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Aug-28-08
| | Domdaniel: <Zig> That sounds plausible. And, yeah, it's the same Lilly - he was one of the first recreational ketamine users. At the risk of losing what little street cred I possess, I must point out that K is one of the drugs that I *haven't* taken. |
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Aug-28-08
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> Spoke to Terry Gilliam. He's agreed to direct my megabudget sequel to The Fisher King, to be called <The Fischer Queen>. The bad news is he wants to cast either Robin Williams or Uma Thurman as you. Have you got a preference? Robin can tell bad Korean jokes with a Canadian accent, but Uma is easier on the eye. |
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Aug-29-08
| | Domdaniel: <Selwyn> This may err on the side of blandness, but better safe than sonny, eh? Sorry, I'm still confusing n with r.
"Sit on soft rock, get stung by jellyfish." |
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| Aug-29-08 | | mack: @#$%'s sake, Geoffrey Perkins is dead now. Seems like everybody I wanted to interview for my PhD next year has died in the past month. Oh wait, I didn't mention I got funding, did I? Life's not actually bollocks for once. |
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| Aug-30-08 | | mckmac: < the usual suspects > Thank You.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6Ww... |
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Aug-30-08
| | Domdaniel: <mack> Of course Pynchon put it best: "Dawn is almost here, I need my life's blood, my funding, funding, ahhhh, more, more ..." |
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Aug-30-08
 | | Open Defence: The White Bishop is on b5
The White Bishop is on b5
Should I play the Marshall, Zaitsev or Breyer
Gotta love the Dark Side of the Ruy
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Aug-30-08
| | Open Defence: Well I'm about to get sick
From watchin' Wijk Aan Zee
Been checkin' out the draws
And the wins Leko fails to see
I mean to say that every game
Is just another Petroff
And when it's gonna change, my friend
Is anybody's guess
So I'm watchin' and I'm waitin'
Hopin' for the Najdorf
Even think I'll go to prayin'
Every time I hear 'em sayin'
That there's no way to delay
That draw comin' every day
No way to delay
That draw comin' every day
Hey, you know something people?
I'm not playin' black
But there's a whole lots a times
I wish I could say I'm not playin' white
blow yer harmonica son....
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Aug-30-08
| | Domdaniel: <Deffi> Heh heh heh. But, to be frank ... Najdorf Daddy
Don't you lose your cool
If we enter a Closed Sicilian.
Najdorf Daddy
Don't ya act the fool
Let the database just fill ya in.
You can play like a civilian.
It's time to do some thinkin'
Some connectin' and some linkin'
You can still have fun
You old son of a pun
And go forward without shrinkin'.
If you'd let my message sink in. |
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Aug-30-08
| | Open Defence: Watch out where that Najdorf goes
And dont yer play that Poisoned Pawn
Watch out where that Najdorf goes
And dont yer play that Poisoned Pawn
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Aug-30-08
| | Domdaniel: <Deffi> Could we be accused of treason here? Giving vital strategic information to the <metal enemy> in the form of coded Zappa songs? I'll play <blindfold firing squad> as long as both sides wear blindfolds... |
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| Aug-30-08 | | mack: <Dom> You playing Galway this year? Cuz I almost certainly am. |
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Aug-30-08
| | Domdaniel: <mack> I wasn't really planning to -- for some reason I've never played in Galway -- but I think I just changed my mind. Given my deplorable failure to pop over to the Smoke recently, the least I can do is travel up the coast a bit. Is it in Oct or Nov or sometime like that? I'll check it out ... |
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| Aug-30-08 | | WBP: <Dom> I saw your post in <Jess's> regarding a "suburb" move...I'm still laughing like hell (flight to the suburbs and all) |
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Aug-31-08
| | Domdaniel: <Bill> Being both addled and raddled, I have quite forgot where I saw it. Maybe GOTD, or the Whateverday Puzzle or lost in the Nickelodeon. Could always do a kibitzing search, I suppose, but sometimes the best found objects are those that are quickly misplaced. Or mislayed, like Tal. Funny thing: it was immediately followed by a post from somebody else, talking about 'furniture' - in a chess context. Suburbs, furniture ... what is this? Is CG subject to hostile takeover by a Domestic Improvement Catalog Website? Will we be expected to play the Panno Variation when cooking, the Polish Defence on silverware and work surfaces, the Siesta Variation in the afternoon, the Old Main Line when commuting, and the Reversed Stonewall when showing off the garden? Life could get very, well, Samisch, in suburbia. |
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Aug-31-08
| | Domdaniel: Of course there are ten zillion rock songs that either vilify the suburbs or sing their mysterious hosannas. Furniture is a more elusive topic. I only know two direct mentions: "You'd be surprised at what came
Galloping out of the darkness
Just like furniture"
John Cale, 'Chinese Envoy' - which I once heard him say was based on a Maupassant story. No idea which one. "And best of all the furniture
Need not be rearranged
If it suits the way it is
There is no need for change".
Horslips, 'Furniture'. Has any rock combo ever expressed the essence of conservatism more eloquently. Certain political parties I know could use these guys to get the message across. Do <McCain & Mrs Abel> need a theme song? |
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| Aug-31-08 | | Red October: Three hunderd years ago
Thought I might get some drink
Poured myself a vodka and a shot of coke
And a few ice cubes made my glass go *clink*
You know I'll never drink no more
To me it seem that is just ain't wise
Didja ever wake up in the mornin'
With a BLACK NAJDORF behind your eyes |
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Aug-31-08
| | Domdaniel: <Morning, Red Deffi> At least I think it's morning. I could be wrong. Ironic, rilly. Jess regularly says "What are you doing up at 6am?" to me in mid-afternoon. Now it really *is* 6am, and ... and ... And I'm going to bed. G'night. |
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| Aug-31-08 | | WBP: <Dom> <Suburbs, furniture ... what is this? Is CG subject to hostile takeover by a Domestic Improvement Catalog Website? Will we be expected to play the Panno Variation when cooking, the Polish Defence on silverware and work surfaces, the Siesta Variation in the afternoon, the Old Main Line when commuting, and the Reversed Stonewall when showing off the garden? Life could get very, well, Samisch, in suburbia.> LLH (laughing like hell, which is, I suppose, as repulsive as LOL, which actually, technically, makes sense--one does, after all, laugh out loud. But what does hell laughing sound like?...Maybe Pat Boone singing [sorry, you myriad of Pat Boone fans looking in]). But I must say, <Jess> said recently that your posts were art, and I wholeheartedly agree. And I love watching the exchanges between you and <Deffi> (or <Red October> on occasion), and/or <Mack>, and/or <Niels>, and/or the occasional <Other>, even when I can't for the life of me figure out what you all are saying. |
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Aug-31-08
| | Domdaniel: Hi, Bill - <LLH (laughing like hell, which is, I suppose, as repulsive as LOL> -- as it turns out, I think LLH is cool and in a different league from the dreaded LOL ... Hmmm. Why, I wonder, do I dislike LOL? It's partly routine distaste for any kneejerk term used without thinking. But there's more than that ... I think it's *callow* -- as in the laughter of teenage males. Which is all about belonging to the pack and LOLling at outsiders (who have the wrong colour skin, or are too old, or wear the wrong shoes on the wrong feet, or even on their hands, the dirty perverts LOL). It is also frequently used without punctuation; and used as if a high-volume laugh is a form of validation. Which, for these anthropoids, it is. Except most apes are better at hiding their primitive in-group vs out-group rivalries ... Hey, d'you think we could get CG to host a chessgame on those lines: in-group vs out-group ...? I'll be with the outsiders, of course. Chez Nickel, there have been attempts to paint me as a conservative. If only they knew. BTW, maybe 'laughing like Hell' is a bit like 'laughing like Texas' (or 'sighing like Belgium') ... it's the *denizens* of the place one needs to imitate, not the place itself. |
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