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Gravy Hole Rank: Oddie	An absolutly brand new Mitton thread replied on: 2/6/2006 12:13:55 PM quote: quote: My brother got hit by a bus last week in Malvern. Go on then - it was a number 23, wasn't it? No regretably, the bus was on "special service", whatever that means.
Ariel HS	BBC replied on: 2/11/2006 10:48:01 AM Last Updated: Wednesday, 8 February 2006, 00:32 GMT E-mail this to a friend Printable version Exotic crabs in waterway invasion Mitten crabs have spread as far north as the River Tyne An exotic Chinese crab that preys on British native species is on the verge of taking over the country's major waterways, environmental experts warn. Mitten crabs were first brought into Europe in ships' ballast water. The UK spread has been most marked northwards to the River Tyne and on the south coast westwards to the Teign. A study by researchers at Newcastle University compared their invasion to that of grey squirrels, which pushed native reds to the verge of extinction. The study authors predict the mitten crab - so called because its claws are coated with small clumps of dark brown fur, or mittens - has the potential to establish itself in all major UK estuaries in several years' time. 'Drastic measures' The crabs are already present in some waterways, including the Thames, Humber and Tyne rivers, and parts of the North Sea and Channel coasts. They survive in both sea and fresh water, prey on protected native species, such as white-clawed crayfish and salmon eggs, and can destabilise river banks by burrowing into them. Dr Matt Bentley, a member of the research team, said: "The pattern of the spread in the UK since the 1970s mirrors the spread in mainland Europe and in the Baltic region which experienced a major outbreak. "This is a fairly good indication that the UK is set for a similar situation." The study, published in the academic journal Biological Invasions, recommends that a nationwide monitoring and trapping system for the crab be introduced before it is too late to control the population. Dr Bentley added: "With most invasive species, such as the grey squirrel, the problem is not recognised until it is too late to do anything and you cannot eliminate it without taking drastic environmental measures."
DocSausage	Mitton spotted hitting the vodka in Sutton... replied on: 2/15/2006 9:55:26 AM I have been reliably informed that Lord Mitton was, less than an hour ago, knocking back the vodka outside Marx & (Herbert) Spencer's in Sutton. My informant tells me that, nice as it was to bump into The Living Legend after such a long time, he had to rush off to catch his train which, by a strange coincidence, was due at 23 minutes past 10am. I can only suggest that you visit this webpage: http://www.last.fm/music/Doc+Sausage
m8e Rank: Ozzy	Mitton spotted spitting the vodka in Virgin replied on: 2/22/2006 3:59:17 PM Nice work, Doc. Has a similar vibe to some of the tracks on Eno's "Apollo" album. Would be nice to listen to in a floatation tank. As for Mitton, he came up to me while I was browsing in Virgin Records the other week and started raving-on about "the voices" again. I therefore put a pair of headphones on him and played him some hardcore techno at full volume in the hope that it might get rid of them. But he got even worse after that. I really think he should be talking to a psychiatrist about these voices, rather than just a psychonaut. "It is no great accomplishment to hear a voice in the head. The accomplishment is to make sure it is telling you the truth." - Terence McKenna.
Derradah Rank: Toyah	Mitton spotted spitting the vodka in Virgin replied on: 2/24/2006 8:51:30 AM quote: As for Mitton, he came up to me while I was browsing in Virgin Records the other week and started raving-on about "the voices" "It is no great accomplishment to hear a voice in the head. The accomplishment is to make sure it is telling you the truth." - Terence McKenna. Terence McKenna said something about alcohol producing in a person the wrong manoevres socially. Those hippy intellectuals who took acid spurned alcohol so why does Matey need it to give him the bottle to say something at important gatherings or hide behind a user name in internet chatrooms. Say no to psychonaut. Say yes to socionaut. London Calling. As for the voices they're there alright. They say: PAKI Bastard. Brick Lane. Harry Cripps. The first and second can be lumped together. Charlie says, recalling his girlfriend Andrea from Kentish Town that she once told him that they were going to the Brick Lane Festival. You can always get some nice spicy food there and even a bagel may be tolerated. As for Harry Cripps - a second division goalscorer. Charlie reckons that he's more Charlie George or at least Georgie Greyhead Graham.Come on. Frankie Stapleton. Liam Brady. Spider Stacey. Filthy McNasties in Islington. Jack was a drinker. Neal was a drinker. We were never drinkers or so said the jewboy Allan Ginsberg. Zen pork pie. It's Matey that needs a psychiatrist.A Chalk Farm existential psychiatrist - for paying all that money every week for a rabbit hutch and throwing a lot more away on the losers who he is helping to kill like Jim who is obviously turning yellow with the Matey poison. Then there are his other beneficiaries on whom he lavishes money for company who slag him off in chapbooks and MEAN it.London Calling. Parle que le francais. Think Marseille. We told 'em Oldham. Donne-moi un peu de maroc. Vive le Maghreb. Charlie knows them all.Spider Stacy. Don't wander down Camden High Street putting on that phoney Irish accent,Shane. We'll give you some more dental work. Up the Gunners. The voices have been continually saying: The Arsenal win again.
Barriminge Rank: Jasper This message was updated on 2/24/2006 4:12:09 PM by Barriminge	Mitton spotted doing nothing wrong. replied on: 2/24/2006 4:08:58 PM For sure. These voices are coming from actual people. Certain people around town have noticed it. Matey is probably so wound up in his world of microwave food and work (something he never talks about but which some people are proud of) that he has not noticed that there are some odd looking people wandering around talking odd things.Charlie has told me that some of them look quite posh.In fact some look like posh Pakis.Charlie says he's been wearing DMs and giving them a bit of Bethnal Green and Bow.You may talk vodka but I'm talking the sounds of Warsaw and Kiev. He tells me he had been thrown out of the Rep bar several times for performing. Two nights ago he sneaked in again and he thought that he was back at the Cannes Film Festival, perhaps at the little Martinez except that half of them looked like Pakis. There was however two quality looking women behind him at a table and they spent about half an hour playing with an A-Z of B'ham, running their slim fingers pointlessly around so many roads. They then took a piece of paper and then started drawing diagrams. It was a freak show. The pretty Cinderella bar girl on whom he had taken pity called some foreigner from the restaurent to throw him out for buying nothing. Playing absent minded he then politely made his way to the bar and ordered a glass of the 'finest claret'.The restaurant thug however insisted that he leave. Charlie tells me that he was wearing bovver boots and a crombie at the time and then turned nasty. He put his fists up at the jerk and yelled,'come on then take on the ICF'. The jerk backed down. As Chaz went off and past the window of the bar he made peace signs to the Chelsea set to which they replied with bonhomie.He was completely sober.
m8e Rank: Ozzy	Mitton spotted spitting the vodka in Virgin replied on: 2/24/2006 4:27:27 PM See what I mean? There's enough material there for a whole conference. "He struck me as the saner of the pair, although at this level who needs to split hairs?" - Iain Sinclair, Landor's Tower. BTW, it's not the booze I buy him that's turning Jim yellow, it's those Havana cigars he chain-smokes.
Barriminge Rank: Jasper	Mitton spotted spitting the vodka in Virgin replied on: 2/24/2006 7:57:39 PM quote: See what I mean? There's enough material there for a whole conference. "He struck me as the saner of the pair, although at this level who needs to split hairs?" - Iain Sinclair, Landor's Tower. BTW, it's not the booze I buy him that's turning Jim yellow, it's those Havana cigars he chain-smokes. Well, if he can afford them he should buy you a drink.
Derradah Rank: Toyah This message was updated on 2/24/2006 8:18:22 PM by Derradah	Mitton spotted spitting the vodka in Virgin replied on: 2/24/2006 8:14:35 PM quote: See what I mean? There's enough material there for a whole conference. "He struck me as the saner of the pair, although at this level who needs to split hairs?" - Iain Sinclair, Landor's Tower. BTW, it's not the booze I buy him that's turning Jim yellow, it's those Havana cigars he chain-smokes. Charlie says that the thing to read at the moment is Stewart Home's 'Tainted Love'.It's right up his alley . The voices have said 'Portobello Road'. The Pink Fairies.Les cousins. Lay Coozann.This is what Stewart has said in a recent interview with 'Scarecrow': "I wrote Tainted Love precisely because I don’t find most memoirs worthwhile. They’re formulaic, particularly the celebrity memoir or autobiography. I wanted to create the double of the memoir, something with a twist and that recorded a genuinely interesting life. Celebrities are never interesting, they’ve become pure image with all their humanity removed from them, celebrities are just an abstraction of what it is to be human and their pseudo-lives aren’t of interest to me at all. I’m more interested in people who can’t afford to do rehab in The Priory, but unfortunately it’s the rich and famous who most usually get their memoirs published. Not all memoirs are bad, and since we’re dealing with the sixties I might as well mention some examples which address that era. I thought Brian Barritt’s autobiography The Road Of Excess was very interesting as far as it went. The problem with the book is that because Barritt wants to be perceived as a psychedelic warrior, he doesn’t really detail his involvement in a whole range of drug dealing, and knowing about this makes a bit more sense of his life. Barritt only really touches on stuff like pot and LSD which are acceptable to weekend hippies, although he does at least mention his smack use. He’s also very funny on Alex Trocchi, so the book is well worth reading despite a few reservations. I also liked parts of Hammond Guthrie’s AsEverWas: Memoirs of a Beat Survivor. He’s very good on the early psychedelic scene in California, some great stuff about the scene there, I’m not so interested in his juvenile pranks or the breakdown of his marriage, but he writes well."
Barriminge Rank: Jasper This message was updated on 2/25/2006 4:46:46 AM by Barriminge	Mitton spotted spitting the vodka in McDonalds replied on: 2/25/2006 4:45:39 AM quote: See what I mean? There's enough material there for a whole conference. "He struck me as the saner of the pair, although at this level who needs to split hairs?" - Iain Sinclair, Landor's Tower. Are you claiming to be mad? Then speak for yourself. Charlie is completely sane as far as I can see.Sinclair's book is fiction so that means it is not true. Or maybe you derive some sort of vicarious satisfaction by being re-created in mutational form by unreadable writers. What's important is that Mitty has an odd ability, either that or it's a giant set-up. Now listen, last week Charlie was told to leave McDonalds, Paradise Forum on several occasions for drinking vodka and even smoking.As he has the security in his pocket however he is able to return. This week, having decided to stop drinking he was wandering around town listening to the voices when he decided to head for McDonalds for his favourite; large fries and cheeseburger.While sitting in three young grunge punk skateboarders came and sat opposite. To our hero's amazement they started tossing a half bottle of vodka (half-drunk) amongst themselves. They were not ejected. They seemed somehow more hip and knowing than the average that hang out in the vicinity.It was either a big coincidence or it's all been arranged. Whichever way, Mitty wins
Barriminge Rank: Jasper	Mitton spotted spitting the vodka in McDonalds replied on: 2/25/2006 4:08:52 PM The voices have been saying 'Blackburn Rovers'. Blackburn v. Burnley.Ay, I'm Burnley.We love the old claret and blue in Burnley. We've got Andy Lochead in the air in Burnley. You can't fault Arsenal for lack of effort. How about Geordie Alan. You met him at 'T'aint Nothing but the Blues' in Kingly St. off Oxford Circus. You were with Sharon from Pimlico. You had to go and say 'Howay the Lads'. Sunderland are pressing. As Geordie Ken from Ashington (Bobby Charlton) said. You were never a Geordie Alan . You're a Makem. Alan goes quiet. It's maximum points for Birmingham. Thierry Henri could not do it .Alan had to say,'better be a Makem than a Mag'.Alan disappears for years but has to send me a card from Cork. He's at the Rory Gallagher bar. Now he's back in Mitcham selling the Big Issue. Ruan 'o' Loughlain - Deke 'O' Brien. He's back in Dublin.Spider Stacey. At least the Arsenal behave themselves. Bees Make Honey. I just heard Canvey Island And then Dagenham.
Derradah Rank: Toyah	Mitton spotted spitting the vodka in McDonalds replied on: 2/25/2006 7:21:29 PM Krakatoa East of Java, 23 miles out. Spread 23 miles north to -------------------. It's 8.23.
Derradah Rank: Toyah	Mitton spotted spitting the vodka in McDonalds replied on: 2/25/2006 8:20:27 PM quote: Krakatoa East of Java, 23 miles out. Spread 23 miles north to -------------------. It's 8.23. I mean KETIMBANG. 23 miles north. The biggest sonic boom in history - outdoing any silly rock band that sprockhead can mention. Krakatoa was the biggest art event in observed history. Evolution was determined by the movement of techtonic plates. The skies were turned blood red.KREEP. Stan Gooch spoke of red ochre.Charlie Mitten was Matt Busby's first rebel.He managed Newcastle United and kept Three Greyhounds. His son John played for Coventry City.As did Chaz's half brother who also played for United. His Father comes from Vilnius. Russia, Poland and now Lithuania. Like Rodinsky it is not quite clear whether he is Russian or Polish.Sinclair says he thinks that Rodinsky has become someone else. Today Coventry City beat Burnley 1-0.We like the claret and blue in Burnley.We've got Andy Lochead in the air.Last week he met some big geezers from Burnley just down the road. Meet THE claret and blue. Meet Bethnal Green. As Ronnie would say ...Always keep a Jock on the firm .....Aye, Tommy Doch.
m8e Rank: Ozzy	Mitton spotted spitting the vodka in Virgin replied on: 2/25/2006 9:43:27 PM quote: quote: See what I mean? There's enough material there for a whole conference. "He struck me as the saner of the pair, although at this level who needs to split hairs?" - Iain Sinclair, Landor's Tower. BTW, it's not the booze I buy him that's turning Jim yellow, it's those Havana cigars he chain-smokes. Well, if he can afford them he should buy you a drink. What goddamn business is it of anyone who I choose to buy drinks for? At least Jim can take his drink like a gentleman without turning into a pathetic autistic prat like Charlie does after a few sips. And as for the voices, I couldn't care less what they're saying (just so long as it isn't "Kill Matey").
Derradah Rank: Toyah This message was updated on 2/26/2006 1:25:35 AM by Derradah	Mitton spotted spitting the vodka in Virgin replied on: 2/26/2006 1:17:09 AM quote: What goddamn business is it of anyone who I choose to buy drinks for? At least Jim can take his drink like a gentleman without turning into a pathetic autistic prat like Charlie does after a few sips. And as for the voices, I couldn't care less what they're saying (just so long as it isn't "Kill Matey"). As we have already said , Matey should pay attention to text. That novel which Angela Carter described as ‘ crazy, dangerous and prophetic’ - ‘ Downriver’- is the one where John Millom appears and rewrites Sinclair’s text with reference to the dead ( Sinclair wrote 'Downriver' years before he met Chaz). It is the part, ‘The Sexing of Stones’ which inspired ‘The Birmingham Triangle’. In it Sinclair, posing as Joblard describes himself ( Sinclair): “ His skull’s too heavy, surfacing from the dredge of sympathetic autism” (p.384) We suggest that this could be constructed as a reference to those autistic people who have special powers ( like the one that can tell you which day of the week any day in history fell upon) Also we can judge that all of Sinclair’s utterances are text (and intended to be) and the jiffy bag is a trope. For example: “ A fortnight later the repaired machine (typewriter)was was back at my desk. Feverishly, I whacked out the first sentences of the twelfth ( now never to be written) tale. And was returned a few random lines of gibberish. The keys I hammered bore no resemblance to the symbols that defaced my page. For example:my attempt at ‘ From this point I’ll write by hand’ emerged as ‘Fff- thjy jfjttf Jjuu yfjtt hyhftu'. ‘I’m going crazy’ was spat back as ‘Jf- -fjt uffty.’"(p.377) Or in ‘ Dining on Stones’’: “ She would stick with Norton , with the jiffy bag” (p.139) So that letter concerning Whitehead and the twin texts (one review) might be seen in a different light. We can create, by playing the opposite pole to the Necropolis, an energy or a wave of optimism not seen at least since the time of St. Dunstan.
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