MrBen

That's one of admin's best posts in a long while.

Is there a Legal Precedent that we can Refer to *Bob* ?

Capital letters, exclamation marks and Random Capitalisation.

Anyone who feels they must contribute to Every. Single. Thread. I miss the show/hide poster option dearly.

I have you down as more of a Bucks Fizz kind of guy.

On my first Lucky 7's night I played some "cool" tunes and it was a bit meh. Then I stuck on "I want to break free" by Queen and the place went nuts. There's a real beauty in that.

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The forest hill thing was meant to be a joke. The > point is, we live in 2012, and no one except for > you would conside Bellenden Road to be part of > East Dulwich. It's not even borderline close. > > You say that post codes don't count because they > came in around WW1. I dread to think what you > think about Israel! Have you consulted the MAPS Otta?

I find Melbourne Grove a bit dark and dank for some reason (residential part). Woodwarde, Dovercourt and Beauville are all very lovely with a great betwixt park and ED proper location but the people....sheeesh... I reckon they all wear salmon cords and force their kids to learn the violin.

With a nod to Quids on his early 1980's New York experience (see Great Gigs thread)....I so wish I could have visited NYC in the Taxi Driver era, where an edge of menace, depravity and wild excess would all have brought a certain frisson to proceedings. But for any place, was the reality depicted in films, stories etc really like that and how much is bullshit? Two East Dulwich examples to start you off: 1) An elderly neighbour across from my flat on Landells told me that our building used to be a refuge for battered women and that back around 1980 a pimp drove up, got frustrated at not getting in and so shot two holes into the side of our building. 2) Another ED born and raised local told me that EDT used to be effectively segregated with White Irish on one side and black folk on the other I can't imagine either* arriving as I did in 2002 but then no idea if both are nonsense. *Recent gang related drive-bys and gunpoint post office robberies excluded.

> > I think 110th Street has probably changed a fair > bit since Mr Womack wrote that song! I love all > that gritty 70s funk/soul - Curtis Mayfield being > the master It has indeed. Well on its way to gentrification. But walk up to 120th and up and it's mostly black. I got stares walking down 125th in a suit. And not always in a good way. Great part of town though and found it much more community feel /friendly welcome in the bars etc. Basically all that music from American Gangster comes to mind walking through those old Brownstone terraces....

Decent bargains in Egypt at the moment as people are scared off but not for any real reason according to my pal who commutes weekly and has a place there. El Gouna is a self contained resort with villa accomodation on the Red Sea that has everything kids would want, hotel pools you can use etc decent cheapish restaurants (Italian, European, African) and some beachfront with good diving. Not too pricey either at the moment and Easyjet fly into Hurghadha. If I had any dosh left this month adn had your spec with kids and wanted it fun and easy that is where I'd go. http://www.elgouna.com/

I would love to go to Bobby Womack. So much good stuff from him. I happened to be on 110th St two weeks back and couldn't resist sticking it on the headphones. Does a beautiful spaced out cover of California Dreaming too.....

If you love the Blues check out "Muddy Waters and The Rolling Stones" documentary shown last weekend on BBC 4 (you can still find it on iplayer for another 4 days). They're sitting in with Muddy Waters at Buddy Guy's tiny blues club The Checkerboard Lounge in 1981. It's more Muddy (who died not long after) than the Stones and Jagger looks like a massive bell end convulsing around in what I can only describe as a shiny red baseball suit. Then, at about 50 mins in it really starts to smoke as Buddy Guy himself (my all time hero) gets up and sings /plays whilst jagger sits back down in the crowd. Also a real unsung Chicago player called Lefty Dizz is on it in one of the only film recordings of him playing live. These old blues cats wipe the floor with Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood who both look plastered but they kind of hold it together. Fascinating point in time stuff.

Any Grandads are creepy at the moment post Savile. They have kind of generated their own mystique and gravitas that allows them to be who they are. It's a weird phenomenon. And one that really wont be around for ever. Very jealous of GG!

He's actually alright and a decent bloke who's taken back stuff for me. But he's disorganised and I doubt the place takes much at all so not the best play if it mattered to you. Why didn't you ebay it if was worth anything? Best sorted out offline?

Circa day 26, he's actually sporting one of the best I've seen. It has a fair bit of thickness and density to it and a shape that's just the right side of "handlebar". He's done a stonker with ?2833 raised to date. Come on East Dulwich.... let's try to get him over the ?3k mark.

Ticket prices well outside the reach of Joe Normal but the Stones are getting great reviews (as opposed to the usual "good") from even some of the most cynical music journos for last nights performance. And the peeps in my office who went last night back this up. Was anyone lucky enough to go?

Annette Curtain Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Oh be kind, please. > > Maybe jak4 actually forgot they'd openned a > Athena-a-like store. > > Maybe ! Well then it's a 3 x 2ft screenprint of 1920's New York builders eating lunch up a sky scraper and that tennis playing girl with her bum out for me.

At least there's an open acknowledgement that Dulwich Village is boring.

I'm with Jack White who said on the recent, brilliant It Might Get Loud film (with Jimmy Page and The Edge) that he's scared of being satisfied. I also have that fear. Living in a nice house, with a nice job, 2.2. happy kids and a decent job are all things people aspire to but to be contented just terrifies me for some reason.

Movember is a genius charity format in it's sheer simplicity because: - Any bloke can do it (unless you're a baldy mouth). Beats running a marathon. - it's funny and so people are more likely to dip into their pockets - it's backed by a great website and has caught on - loads of people doing it for a decent cause - It's thankfully temporary.

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > WTF are you wittering about SJ it's nothing like > local businesses choosing to ignore the forum! > What a bizarre conclusion. I am on social media > and engaging just amazed at so much ill thought > out rubbish that goes round. I think SJ means it's just another conduit for the human voice. Plenty crap from people in papers, on radio talk shows, on the telly too. But the problem with the web is that it has become a kind of dumping ground of information that's now hard to erase and which can be googled for years to come (good or bad) and secondly it's a medium that can hit millions across the globe instantly making it hard to control (again good or bad). It's potential to damage an individuals or businesses reputation overnight scares me. Freedom of speech is one thing but it surely needs at least *some* controls.

In Edinburgh airport's passenger security hall there is a life size cardboard cut out of a woman in a BAA uniform and where her mouth is they have some kind of mouth shaped video screen of moving lips trying to tell you something. You can hear a disembodied voice that doesn't sync with her flashing video lips whilst her eyes and nose and cheeks are frozen in cardboard. The overall effect is terrifying. Edit: I've been getting the train lately.

Walworth Road has some of the best non-descript or overly literal shop names anywhere in london. My current favourites: - Food City - Afro World Superstore - The Best Kebab

The Mail is standard "safe" tabloid issue on BA long haul along with The Times.