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Jul-12-14
 | | Domdaniel: <Shams> I keep changing my mind with black against the French/KIA. Sometimes ...Be7, or ...Bd6, or ...g6/...Bg7 (my current favourite, but not really convincing). Sometimes ...b6 with a solid structure, sometimes ...b5 and a queenside pawn advance. I sometimes play the KIA as white - after 1.Nf3 - so I try to see this from both sides. I haven't had to play very many French games against 2.d3 in the last couple of years, however. I don't really adhere to a fixed system. |
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Jul-12-14
 | | jessicafischerqueen:
<Dom>
heh... I recently came across some information in which Ian Anderson said "Thick as a Brick" was meant to be a practical joke, not a "real record." Of course, this statement may have been intended as a joke as well. Speaking of fey, I noticed a humorous reference to our old friend <John Hurt as Quentin Crisp> in the unusually fine BBC sitcom "The Royle Family." I watched all of them and all the specials.
Ricky Tomlinson my ass! |
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Jul-13-14
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> I met that John 'gravel voice' Hurt, of course. A brilliant, brilliant man. He was complaining vociferously about the crap abstract art decorating his hotel suite. I suggested, mildly, that some of it wasn't so bad, really, all things considered. Anyone else would have said I was an idiot who knew nothing about art. But Mr Hurt just smiled and said that I was more generous than him. Have you seen 'The Shout'? Great cricket game... |
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Jul-13-14
| | jessicafischerqueen:
<Dom> I have not, but I soon shall. I'm getting it right now, in fact. Incidentally, there was some miscommunication earlier. I wasn't reminded of you because I think you're fey, I was reminded of you because you long ago said you really liked the <Carpet Crawlers> lyric "There's no one... to avoid." It was <Genesis> who were fey. I have to say I preferred Peter Gabriels' "fey period" with <Genesis> more than his unaccountably butch dress and stage manner in the first few years of his solo live performances. I liked him best when he dressed, and acted, like a woman. |
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| Jul-22-14 | | Shams: <Domdaniel> Sometimes in the French I just don't know where to put my kingside minors. Case in point, this blitz game I played today-- White has just played <13.Be3>. How would you handle this position as Black?
click for larger viewI'm probably retreating my Nb4 to the c6 square, so ...Ng8-e7-c6 is out. Is ...f5 bad? |
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Aug-04-14
| | Domdaniel: Hello? |
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Aug-04-14
| | jessicafischerqueen: Helooo
Are you trapped at the bottom of a well? Try to text your coordinates so we can arrange a rescue. |
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Aug-04-14
| | Domdaniel: "This is a song from the bottom of a well/ I didn't move here, I just fell..." "This is a song from under the floorboards/ This is a song from where the walls are cracked/ By force of habit I am an insect..." |
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Aug-05-14
| | jessicafischerqueen:
<Dom!>
What an incredibly track from <Keven Ayers Rock, Australia>!! He's got the industrial noise sweeping from left to right speaker and back, and now in with the <Nick Cavish> vocals... Hmmm Cave is also from Australia, and a cave is made of the same material as a rock... I highly doubt this is a coincidence.
Great song though, thanks mate. |
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Aug-05-14
| | jessicafischerqueen:
<Dom> speaking of fey Australians (if we indeed ever were), here is Nick Cave and Blixa Bargelt prancing about like tits: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqhO...
Your <Ayers Rock> reminded me of this. |
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Aug-05-14
| | jessicafischerqueen:
Oh and just to sew up this month's round of suspicious coincidences: Your friend <John Hurt> (played a fey chap in a brilliant film) also played a demonic character in "The Proposition" (another brilliant film), which was written by <Nick Cave.> I suppose all things are connected when reflected on by the ooman brain eh? This is how conspiracy theories get started... |
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Aug-06-14
 | | perfidious: <Dom> Good to see you have come back! |
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Aug-07-14
| | Domdaniel: <perf> I'm only part-way back ... some of me is still in the demon dimension... but thanks. |
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Aug-07-14
| | Domdaniel: Hmm. Wikipedia has recently removed links from search results ... "Among the links removed are a page about Irish former criminal Gerry Hutch, dozens of pages that mention a Dutch chess player, and a page about Italian gangster Renato Vallanzasca." I know of Hutch (no relation!) and Vallanzasca ... but who is the Dutch chess player? |
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Aug-07-14
| | perfidious: <Dom> Guido den Broeder. I have read some of the discussion on Wikipedia editing to which this gentleman refers. http://wikipediareview.com/index.ph... While I have edited there for over five years, it has not been an entirely positive experience, either. |
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Aug-07-14
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> -- <I suppose all things are connected>
Didn't Mr Cohen write a poem about that?
I can't recall the exact words -- yep, senility is setting in -- but a paraphrase goes something like this: "Last night I blew bubbles of Bazooka
Today the lizards blew bubbles
I believe the mystics are right to say we are all one". (I'm guessing that Bazooka is a type of chewing gum ... either that, or hand-held artillery pieces are operated by blowing bubbles.) Note (1): 'Bubble' is also rhyming slang for (Ancient) Greek, from 'bubble and squeak' -- eg, "Aristotle was an ancient bubble". Note (2): The late Michael Jackson reputedly had a pet chimpanzee named Bubbles. Some unkind souls have said that this is why Jackson sang "I'm forever blowing Bubbles". |
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Aug-07-14
| | perfidious: <Dom> Never heard that charming little bon mot from note 2, though I should note that it reminds me of a racy joke on Jackson a friend told me some years ago. |
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Aug-07-14
| | Domdaniel: <perf> Given what we know, or even suspect, of Jackson's lifestyle, I'm not at all surprised that such jokes exist. Although, contrariwise, I heard from somebody who met him on a holiday in Ireland that he was a shy and amiable devoted family man... The 'jokes', however, will probably always be more appealing. And will get me banned if I keep this up. I'm reminded, somehow, of Pynchon's parody version of 'Animal Crackers in my Soup' ... which is, er, 'Super Animals in my Cr...' No, best not go there. |
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Aug-07-14
| | perfidious: <Dom> Decided I didn't need a ban either, which is the reason I refrained from regaling the masses in the world who await my every kibitz with bated breath (rolls eyes), by recounting my friend's joke. |
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Aug-07-14
| | Domdaniel: <perf> The bated breath of a master is always welcome. |
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Aug-07-14
| | Domdaniel: Dear Abby Marshall, dear Abby, My feet are too long... |
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Aug-07-14
 | | Annie K.: You are <not> going there. :p Glad to see you're back online. How's things? :) |
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Aug-07-14
| | Domdaniel: <A> Didn't I say that I wasn't going there .. ? I'm not quite certain whether I'm back or not, rilly. Things are ... things, yanno?
At least I'm not boycotting anyone, eh? (Named, I think, for a certain Captain Boycott in 19th century Ireland, who was shunned for being a baddie...) |
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Aug-07-14
| | Annie K.: Heh, ok then. Try to drop by chat sometime this weekend? :) |
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Aug-10-14
| | Domdaniel: I admit to being one of those boring anal would-be control freaks who invariably uses the 'preview kibitz' mode before posting. I try to eliminate errors. Admittedly, some typos sneak through, but not so many that you'd notice.
Fortunately - for the sake of human merriment - many other folk are not so pernickety. It never occurs to them to edit a post: they type their messages in a kind of frenzy, and the results can be hilarious - particularly if their command of the English language is not what it might be. (For some strange reason, this latter point applies particularly to kibitzers in Britain and the USA, allegedly Anglophone territories...) So, in the first of an occasional series, I propose recording some of the linguistic mutations thrown up by frenzy and carelessness. These are the voyages of the starship Typo... First log entry coming up... once I've checked this post for errors... |
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