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[Todd Gross]

Have a fun weekend!!!


No plans unless the wife comes up with something.

I really need to get caught up on my comic reading. I just picked up the last 3 weeks of books Wednesday and I already had a huge backlog. Nice problem to have, I guess!

[Chris Fenton]

I also have no plans for this weekend. I'm sure Helen will come up with something, hopefully not something too expensive!

[brucegray666]

I picked up three weeks of comics last week and it only amounted to about 9 comics or so. Says a lot for how my buying habits have changed over the past year or so. I do have a ton of trades to read though so I guess I've got plenty to keep me busy!

[Stephen G]

I plan on sitting out on a deck...in the middle of no where...letting the breeze blow by me, as a read & sleep for 3 days.

[garjones]

My daughter says she wants to see monkeys in the jungle so I guess that's what I'm doing.

[Todd Gross]

My daughter says she wants to see monkeys in the jungle so I guess that's what I'm doing.

Putting on a monkey suit and standing in the jungle?

[garjones]

Putting on a monkey suit and standing in the jungle?

That's more effort than just pointing to the cheeky macaques already there.

[David Meadows]

He didn't say anything about needing a suit

[Mike]

Sanjay and I learnt yesterday that if you have a monkey in a portrait, it's usually code for 'this person is sexually liberated and free in a particular way'. However in the case of the portrait we were looking at we were assured that the lady in question simply liked monkeys.

My weekend so far has included seeing Ted, climbing the Monument, Tate Modern, wandering the SouthBank, the Imperial War Museum, a tour of the Houses of Parliament, tempting Sanjay into drinking BrewDog's Olympic beer (Never Mind the Anabolics), Olympic watching with more beer drinking (sadly not in the Olympic Park, still being thwarted on all attempts to get tickets), touring Apsley House (No 1 London, ancestral home of the Duke of Wellington), doing a Duck Tour on the Thames, climbing Wellington Arch, seeing the Shakespeare exhibition in the British Museum and soaking up the gorgeous sunshine. I'm sure I've forgotten something too. And tomorrow's only Saturday, woo!

[garjones]

I wanted to climb the Monument when I was on a training course in Lower Thames Street for a week, it was 20 feet outside the office I was in, but it was being worked on and was closed.

I did the Houses of Parliament Tour though when I was in school and our local MP showed us around, we laughed in the public gallery as Nigel Lawson was half asleep with his feet up on the bench in front, this is before they allowed cameras in.

[Mike]

I've been meaning to do it for ages, but wanted to do it on a sunny day and early on in the day before the fat tourists had managed to get to the top and block the place up.

It's impressive; it was built so quickly after the Great Fire and you get an idea of just how imposing a structure it must have been in pre-highrise London. And I got a certificate and everything!


When I first read your post, I parsed it all wrong and thought you'd said you had to run up the Monument FOR a training course, and I had this sudden image of you as a covert Welsh secret agent who's been fooling us for years.

[garjones]

When I first read your post, I parsed it all wrong and thought you'd said you had to run up the Monument FOR a training course, and I had this sudden image of you as a covert Welsh secret agent who's been fooling us for years.

You may have read it correctly!

For those not in the know this is what Mike and I are talking about:



Built very soon as a memorial to the great fire of London. It doesn't stand out as one of London's great landmarks as it is mostly hidden behind tall buildings now in the financial sector but it is a remarkable construction dating back to 1677 or so that would have really stood out then.

[Mike]

I told off a 7 year old lad for spitting off the viewing platform (proper phlegm ball too, the lad had technique). His dad immediately appeared and tried to tell me off for telling off his son "How dare you tell my son it's not OK for him to spit on people down there! If he wants to spit then BY HARRY he shall spit!', but his wife appeared immediately after and told them both off, in exponentially more strident language. I started laughing which may not have helped at that point.

[Miqque Loveland]

Weekend will be eye drops,attempting to make both eyeballs work together, wishing I could just go ahead and get the other eye done, picking up comics, getting some sun (I have no Vitamin D in my body, somehow, and had to get prescription vitamins - which I find past weird into bizarre), taking out garbage, cleaning out my car, and making plans to go to a steampunk-themed wedding in late September. Odd part about this last; my friends designed the wedding and so forth, and were well into it (even with gear-laden hats and other Victoriana) before they ever heard the term "steampunk". Both were flabberghasted when I began explaining steampunk and offering them a copy of my own steampunk GN as a wedding present. That's what happens when you don't listen to Miqque!

Todd - it's so funny you put up a Tower of Power thingy. I knew Doc and Mimi from ToP, years after seeing them open for CCR (AndTony Joe White - the Polk Salad Annie dude). One day we were at my friend's house playing music and imbibing in illegal substances when we were joined by Robby Krieger (the guitar player for the Doors). Ah, good times indeedy!

Okay, eyes are freaking out with computer, so I'm going to go driving or something else safe.

One other thing - I became an instant legend at the hospital for asking my anasthesiologist for "a goody bag to take home".

I'm a little different from the rest of the folks!

[njerry]

Glad to see the cataract surgery hasn't slowed you down, Miqque.

The Ironman Challenge is biking through my town tomorrow, wreaking havoc with all the major roads approaching the George Washington Bridge. I think I'll stay put and see if I can spot Tony Stark....what? What do you mean, "It's not that Iron Man"?

If the weather is nice on Sunday, maybe I'll be able to salvage the weekend.

[craggy]

Saturday will be spent in Helm's Deep Edinburgh, primarily to see Mick Foley's Prisoner Of Raw stand-up show, but no doubt there will also be many wonderful sights to be seen. It finishes late, so will only be doing a half-day awake on Sunday probably.

[Chris Fenton]

Craggy, I am very jealous of you right now... I keep trying to convince MIck, via Twitter, to do a show in Cambridge.

Edited by Chris Fenton, 10 August 2012 - 08:06 PM.

[Nicholas Taggart]

Saturday will be spent in Helm's Deep Edinburgh, primarily to see Mick Foley's Prisoner Of Raw stand-up show, but no doubt there will also be many wonderful sights to be seen. It finishes late, so will only be doing a half-day awake on Sunday probably.

It has been bugging me that there was something I really wanted to see at the Fringe but completely forgot what it was. That's what it was. Damn.


Hope you have a good time though!

[Mike]

I forgot - the other thing I did yesterday was find a pop-up art show by a guy called Mr Brainwash. Over the last few weeks/months, images have been going up on the walls outside the Old Sorting Office at the Bloomsbury end of New Oxford Street, with masked Beatles, a picture of the Queen doing graffiti, a giant monkey urging people to follow your dreams, and a small piece of written graffiti just saying 'Life is Beautiful'. A few days ago, the Old Sorting Office - a huge cavernous space - opened up, and it's full of hugely fun pieces of street art and sculpture. Wandered around with a big grin on my face for the best part of an hour. Well worth seeking out if you're in London.

[Nicholas Taggart]

Oh dear, the Italian art exhibit at the Kelvingrove closes tomorrow. I guess I better go.