The Medusa Fora

I just wanted to say (belatedly and apologetically... again) hope you're ALL having a gas at the gigs (and after) and that YOU in particular Sensei, are looking after yourself. Arigahto goziemashita for all you time over these past few years, in the face of my blatant self-promotion (as pointed out to me by not just my OWN inner voice).

And sorry for tarnishing your Diamond-like friendship online with my petty outbursts. My deepest apologies.

Go raibh míle maith agat, a Pilib, le do thachaíocht dilis agus cairdeas 'ar-líne' ar feadh na trí bhliain ifreanda anuas.

Le ghrá agus dea-mhéin,
Craig

CraigBatty wrote:I just wanted to say (belatedly and apologetically... again) hope you're ALL having a gas at the gigs (and after) and that YOU in particular Sensei, are looking after yourself. Arigahto goziemashita for all you time over these past few years, in the face of my blatant self-promotion (as pointed out to me by not just my OWN inner voice).

And sorry for tarnishing your Diamond-like friendship online with my petty outbursts. My deepest apologies.

Go raibh míle maith agat, a Pilib, le do thachaíocht dilis agus cairdeas 'ar-líne' ar feadh na trí bhliain ifreanda anuas.

Le ghrá agus dea-mhéin,
Craig

Hey! I'm a speak and be heard kinda guy Craig, you know that!

Actually, I appear to have sprained my wrist sometime between checking into the Arizona Biltmore yesterday and having breakfast here this morning and I still can't figure out how it happened, The Biltmore is a "resort" "spa" "golf" hotel, which means it's maximum security massive and closed off from impolite society, where Ron and Nancy Reagan spent their honeymoon in the Fifties (Pause for mass gagging). I wouldn't be surprised if Ron and Nancy were still here actually: if they figured out an exit strategy, they had better smarts than I. Some of the others did get out last night - time deducted for good behaviour - to see U2 in Phoenix, but I resisted the opportunity to hear Bono weave Jimmy Webb lyrics seamlessly into "Bullet The Red Sky".

In the old days, an unexplained wrist sprain could be written off as regrettable collateral damage from a hearty late session in the hotel bar. These days, I'm more inclined to suspect aliens.

philipchevron wrote:...In the old days, an unexplained wrist sprain could be written off as regrettable collateral damage from a hearty late session in the hotel bar.

Or a busy lonely night alone.... but ANYWAY..... that's just... me... then.... (can I get a boom-tish! people?)

Hope it gets better real fast. Are you doing double shifts this whole tour with the Rads?

philipchevron wrote:These days, I'm more inclined to suspect aliens.

Me too. That's why I've sent you one of the great new special tinfoil hats I got from EricV recently. I must ACTUALLY get in touch with the Mystery Man. Kinda miss his butch macho banter. In a totally non-gay "not that there's anything wrong with that my mother made me a homosexual ooo really if i get the wool will she knit me on too" way. HAH! Honey, don't GO there!

-Tuning into new mellow frequency on the old Cosmic Emotional Headset-
"Ahhhhh... urge to kill... fading.... fading.... fading.... gone." -Saint Homer d'Eauville

philipchevron wrote: The Biltmore is a "resort" "spa" "golf" hotel, which means it's maximum security massive and closed off from impolite society, where Ron and Nancy Reagan spent their honeymoon in the Fifties (Pause for mass gagging). I wouldn't be surprised if Ron and Nancy were still here actually: if they figured out an exit strategy, they had better smarts than I. Some of the others did get out last night - time deducted for good behaviour - to see U2 in Phoenix, but I resisted the opportunity to hear Bono weave Jimmy Webb lyrics seamlessly into "Bullet The Red Sky".

Are there that many rabid Pogues fans in Arizona that it's necessary to put you all up in a compound?

Smokey wrote:Are there that many rabid Pogues fans in Arizona that it's necessary to put you all up in a compound?

Well, apparently.

But... is it to keep the fans OUT, or that lot IN?

CraigBatty wrote:But... is it to keep the fans OUT, or that lot IN?

It evidently didn't work very well if they buggered off to a U2 concert.

DzM wrote:

CraigBatty wrote:But... is it to keep the fans OUT, or that lot IN?

It evidently didn't work very well if they buggered off to a U2 concert.

Shonky shoddy FOREIGN made fence no doubt. FOREIGNERS.... it's always them.

Who's U2? Din't that crash in one o' them Commie Varmint countries?

I hope that Gary Powers fella has another hit record soon...

Smokey wrote:

philipchevron wrote: The Biltmore is a "resort" "spa" "golf" hotel, which means it's maximum security massive and closed off from impolite society, where Ron and Nancy Reagan spent their honeymoon in the Fifties (Pause for mass gagging). I wouldn't be surprised if Ron and Nancy were still here actually: if they figured out an exit strategy, they had better smarts than I. Some of the others did get out last night - time deducted for good behaviour - to see U2 in Phoenix, but I resisted the opportunity to hear Bono weave Jimmy Webb lyrics seamlessly into "Bullet The Red Sky".

Are there that many rabid Pogues fans in Arizona that it's necessary to put you all up in a compound?

On closer inspection, the resort is a bit of an architectural treasure designed by students of Frank Llloyd Wright's. On the other hand, these places always remind me of the Meisner Brothers and Boca Raton.

philipchevron wrote:On closer inspection, the resort is a bit of an architectural treasure designed by students of Frank Llloyd Wright's. On the other hand, these places always remind me of the Meisner Brothers and Boca Raton.

philipchevron wrote:
On closer inspection, the resort is a bit of an architectural treasure designed by students of Frank Llloyd Wright's. On the other hand, these places always remind me of the Meisner Brothers and Boca Raton.

well, unless the students surpassed the teacher...it's just another place where Walshy can loll by the pool and order cabana boys around... wait, that doesn't sound so bad

KathleenwithaK wrote:

philipchevron wrote:
On closer inspection, the resort is a bit of an architectural treasure designed by students of Frank Llloyd Wright's. On the other hand, these places always remind me of the Meisner Brothers and Boca Raton.

well, unless the students surpassed the teacher...it's just another place where Walshy can loll by the pool and order cabana boys around... wait, that doesn't sound so bad

I always worry a little when the poolside cabaret is a man with an electric piano exhorting folks to singalongajerryleelewis. These are not my people.

Whose are they? Y'know, I mean....

philipchevron wrote:On closer inspection, the resort is a bit of an architectural treasure designed by students of Frank Llloyd Wright's. On the other hand, these places always remind me of the Meisner Brothers and Boca Raton.

It still looks a little correction facility-ish, but a nice one at that. I wouldn't turn down a chance to stay there, just as long as I didn't have to pay for it.

Smokey wrote:

philipchevron wrote:On closer inspection, the resort is a bit of an architectural treasure designed by students of Frank Llloyd Wright's. On the other hand, these places always remind me of the Meisner Brothers and Boca Raton.

It still looks a little correction facility-ish, but a nice one at that. I wouldn't turn down a chance to stay there, just as long as I didn't have to pay for it.

In truth, it resembles a correctional facility only in its lack of proximity to any form of civilisation that cannot be provided within its own parameters. If you get queasy, as I do, when deprived of theatres and convenience stores and suchlike, and you don't drive, as I don't, well they might just as well have just locked you in.

KathleenwithaK wrote:

philipchevron wrote:
On closer inspection, the resort is a bit of an architectural treasure designed by students of Frank Llloyd Wright's. On the other hand, these places always remind me of the Meisner Brothers and Boca Raton.

well, unless the students surpassed the teacher...it's just another place where Walshy can loll by the pool and order cabana boys around... wait, that doesn't sound so bad

pool.. boys.... yeah KWAK now we're talking !! wooooooo