― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 10:05 (seventeen years ago) link
I cracked open some IKEA Boss Glogg (Bøssa Glögg). Tastes like brandy with raisins and cinnamon.
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 10:08 (seventeen years ago) link
She got here on Saturday. I did not drink on Saturday. On Sunday, I had a single beer while I was making dinner. No drinking Monday. Tuesday, two hot toddies. Yes, terrible drinking problem! Sheesh.
Boss Glogg. Weren't they a NYC noize band?
― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 10:10 (seventeen years ago) link
There *is* a Doctor Who box set of the David Tennant series out now, isn't there? I cannot imagine that this would not be marketed and packaged up for Xmas.
If there is, I might go and brave the Xmas shopping at lunchtime to go and get it.
― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 10:19 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Doctor-Who-Complete-Box-Set/dp/B000FFL702
You can also get it in a limited edition shiny Cyberman head!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Doctor-Who-Lenticular-Exclusive-Amazon-co-uk/dp/B000GB5OWW/ref=pd_sbs_d_h__1/202-8724019-5075007
― Onimo has his finger in the stink (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 10:22 (seventeen years ago) link
That's what I'm doing for Christmas settled, then. I don't mind if there's no transport if I can hunker down and watch an entire series of Doctor Who on DVD.
― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 10:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 10:38 (seventeen years ago) link
Who am I kidding? It's Dr. Who, of course I'll buy it. Especially if it's metrosexual Captain Jack.
I'm not so sure about Robin Hoodie, tho.
― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 10:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 10:44 (seventeen years ago) link
As it almost always is.
― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 10:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 10:51 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/totheendsoftheearth/images/photogallery/340x255/anderson.jpg
― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 10:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 10:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Onimo has his finger in the stink (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 11:03 (seventeen years ago) link
(I haven't seen this week's yet)
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 11:18 (seventeen years ago) link
Should I have another mincepie? Why not.
― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 11:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 11:25 (seventeen years ago) link
I wonder where my mum hid our mincepies! We bought two packets. I liked the Taste The Difference Brandy flavoured (coz, you know, I'm an alcoholic and all) but my mum perfered the ordinary kind which I found too sweet.
But of course home made ones are the BEST OF ALL!!!
― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 11:27 (seventeen years ago) link
(I don't like raisins and sultanas and currants and things like that, which kind of takes the edge off Christmas eating for me)
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 11:35 (seventeen years ago) link
Brandy butter covers a multitude of sins.
― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 11:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 11:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link
(I'm pretty sure my liver's irredeemably knacked already))
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 11:44 (seventeen years ago) link
It had changed location/date several times, but settled on a greek restaurant in't stockbroker belt. We'd been told it was Chris Tarrant's favourite place and he often is there. Oh. Right. Good.
So anyway, yep. he is. Now, why should he happen to be there on a given night? He's not doing a standup/cabaret, so he either owns or joint owns the place, or he has some sort of 'I'm a celebrity, feed me for nothing' deal which pulls the punters in. Dafter things happen.
So, anyway, We're doing the usual eating/drinking/dancing/loving (actually, not that last one, went into bedsitland my only home for a bit there) and look up to see CT doing the Conga around the place with many others to "agadoo". Which is what you'd make up if you going to make up something plausible. Add to that, some time later we click that CT's guest tonight is Paul McKenna, and we see him later dancing badly to "Don't you wish your g/f was raough like me" which is almost (but not quite) the weirdest party night out involving celebrities I've been to.
― M Grout (Mark Grout), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 11:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Onimo has his finger in the stink (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 12:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 12:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 12:19 (seventeen years ago) link
£60 for the Doctor Who box set. But, at least I have it in my hot little hand. And it was the last one.
And got a bunch of other CDs, too. Gilbert and Sullivan (Pirates and Pinnafore complete), John Tavener, Lloyd Cole - Donovan and Dylan because I know it's music my mum will actually like, as opposed to just putting up with.
― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 13:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 13:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 13:31 (seventeen years ago) link
£5 for Bringing It All Back Home! Best Dylan album evah! (If you are not PBW and therefore stupid and irrational on the subject.)
― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 13:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link
Maybe it was simply bad choice of words on yr part but if you are simply "glum"...
Yes, bad choice of words on my part (i.e. supermegaunderstatement) and *no* intent to offend anyone. My only point being that for most of my teen and adult life people have commented on or asked why I am depressed (or complained about it), meanwhile sometimes it seems like everyone else and their dog are "on" something.
Now back to discussions of Dr. Who boxed sets...
― substitute, mitya for him (mitya), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― M Grout (Mark Grout), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― M Grout (Mark Grout), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link
Ailsa, brandy, honey and fresh ginger in a glass topped up with boiling water is STEP ONE to shifting a cold. STEP TWO involves a trip to an Indian food outlet: think Jalfrezi or Dupiaza - somehow chili, garlic and onions help too. I trust you will find this agreeable, or at least more so than sinking a bottle of Actifed.
― suzy artskooldisko (suzy artskooldisko), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link
(I had an older CD version, no idea what happened to it. My parents had a beat-up vinyl one.)
x-post
― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 14:08 (seventeen years ago) link
Lloyd Cole - Rattlesnakes (plus 4 bonus tracks) - £5Lloyd Cole - Rattlesnakes Boxed Version - £10
Like, what kind of mug do you think I am?
― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 14:21 (seventeen years ago) link
A quick trip to the drinks cupboard shows that I appear to have finished off the brandy. Bah. I have some honey rum left instead, so am now drinking that. Oh noes, I am a terrible alky!
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 14:21 (seventeen years ago) link
How can this be a best of Donovan if it has no "I Like My Shirt"?
Chiz!
― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link
A lot of xposts:
My theory on raisins is that they have been dried up for the express purpose of soaking up liquid and that if that liquid is booze then so much the better.
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link
Aaaah, it's too bad I can't wind up my mum by telling her that Donovan was a better lyricist than Dylan. I used to get great amusement by winding up my sisX0r's mum by telling her that. She was such a Dylan freak that she had this massive fuckoff terrifying Lionel-Ritchie-In-Hello-Video style clay bust of Bob Dylan in the spare room. It used to terrify me because with its massive larger than lifesize mole. Anyway, I used to tell her that "First there is a mountain then there is no mountain then there is" was heights of lyrical abstraction that Dylan could never hope to scale.
But then she gave us her copy of the box of A Gift From A Flower To A Garden. And my sisX0r and I sat up all night taking speed and eating M&Ms and we covered the cover of the box with M&Ms the same colour as the picture until we had a giant Chocolate Donovan. Hence the song of the same name.
Aaaah, happy times.
― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link
I used that as a nom de poetry (or whatever you'd call that) for a while.
― M Grout (Mark Grout), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link
That was the first cd I ever bought, back in 1986 and it cost me £13 back then.
I plan to celebrate Christmas by pouring brandy on my muesli.
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link
Man I had forgotten just how GROOOOOOOOOOOVY Donovan is. Why let hippie parents have all the fun?
― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link
He's got the most hilarious accent this side of a Jesus and Mary Chain song - i.e. pretending to be west coast Dylanamericana when he's really from Glasgow.
― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 14:43 (seventeen years ago) link
I still hate raisins but have never met an olive I wouldn't eat by the kilo.
Ailsa it is now time for CURRY UPGRADE. Go for Thai red.
On Monday I had OMG proper Mexican carne asada burrito after which my entire family cussed me out for going to "the ghetto" to get it. Minneapolis has a LARGE Mexican population (who have all moved Norte over the past decade) and the bigot wing of my family assumes they're all undocumented unless they are practically brandishing papers. FFS. I'm kind of sick of this attitude my immediate family have developed where nobody in America does an honest day's work except for them.
I am going back to said "ghetto" (actually a heavily gentrified former Sears building) at least once every few days until I come home.
― suzy artskooldisko (suzy artskooldisko), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link
Nick sounds nothing like Donovan. Donovan way cooler.
― masonic boom (kate), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link