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worldofagwu

" what's wrong - the wrong - that's always in wrong...! "

Sep 19, 2007 06:33

ITEM! bottle tops ( aka thameside wines ), the off licence on the gorner of oxford road & putney bridge road* has been replaced by an "optimum health clinic" - what a country...!

* opposite what used to be orac's - the blakes 7 themed restaurant

ITEM! it was rather wonderful to see alan moore & posy simmonds reading out excerpts from the ec horrors ( Read more... )

posy simmonds, omelettes, forbidden planet, curry, london, cakes, eggs, stan lee, associates, morrissey, julie newmar, fatties, comics britannia, meat is murder, yvonne craig, jose mourinho, off licences, batman, bjorn borg, putney, jill st john, hulk, advice on arrest, dark they were & golden eyed, toyah, desperate bicycles, john mcenroe, glasgow, five questions, alan moore, jam, comic showcase, memes, 30th century comics

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lairdofdarkness September 19 2007, 08:21:53 UTC

Oh I really hope you weren't lying about there being a Blakes Seven themed restaurant. The thought of being served by someone dressed as Servalan...or eating a Blake Burger, too good to have not been true!
We used to have a Lord of the Rings themed one about 10 years ago called Elronds.

worldofagwu September 19 2007, 17:23:02 UTC

- sorry to disappoint but the restaurant was actually called oracle - its main bit of signage went round the corner - & from one side you could only see "orac" - so we got into the habit of calling it orac's ( - it was a launderette before that )

( i feel guilty now )

( i have been to a blakes 7 themed wedding tho - honest guv - & the bride was a big fan of orac )

centurion's sausages stickismyfriend September 20 2007, 01:09:55 UTC

all this talk of themed restaurants makes me nostalgic for Caesar's!

Re: centurion's sausages worldofagwu September 20 2007, 09:23:57 UTC

- atia of the julii's dormouse burgers, titus pullo knuckle sandwiches, mark's tongue in aspic etc

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Legendary Comic Shop... crazycrone September 19 2007, 09:08:57 UTC

I actually met my (short-term & disastrous) husband in DTWAGE!
Oddly,I don't recall bongs and exotic aromas, but I remember being astounded by hardback reproductions of Crumb sketchbooks,selling for about £25, an astronomical amount in those days.They were kept safe by the cashier.

Re: Legendary Comic Shop... worldofagwu September 19 2007, 18:01:04 UTC

this is what i "remember": to get to the shop you had to go down a v.narrow alleyway which led to a courtyard - & then dark they were etc was down some stairs - & to get to the comix & books you had to go past these display cabinets w/the exotic & alien items in 'em...

despite only being there the once, it = quite a vivid childhood memory - so i hope it's not a false 'un

- i think r.crumb sells the gomplete original art to one of those sketchbooks - whenever he wants to buy a new house...!

Re: Legendary Comic Shop... erkinpeaviss September 21 2007, 13:43:39 UTC

It was all DTWAGE, I think, but upstairs with the paraphenalia were the pictureless books, mostly SF.

They did not sell any war comics.

Re: Legendary Comic Shop... worldofagwu September 23 2007, 08:47:30 UTC

- i forgot to mention derek "bram" stokoe

( any relation to bob? - or jocelyn...? )

Thread 5

mwwhitesf September 19 2007, 14:57:29 UTC

i believe there's a place there called nob hill - wouldn't it be great to live on nob hill

There is and when I first moved to SF, I lived on its western slope.

worldofagwu September 19 2007, 18:11:27 UTC

- would the "sf" at the end of yr username stand for san francisco, by any chance...?

( we're v.slow on the uptake here at w.o.agwu )

mwwhitesf September 19 2007, 19:51:02 UTC

Why, yes. How perspicacious of you. ;)

A Pedant writes... mrs_leroy_brown September 19 2007, 15:27:00 UTC

...Wisconsin's a state, not a city. If you merged London and Milwaukee it would be a lot like many of my dreams where I'm on a London bus, going down Farwell Ave in M'wee.

Re: A Pedant writes... worldofagwu September 19 2007, 19:02:26 UTC

- oops...! sorry - no offence - geography was never my strong point - & all i know abt milwaukee i learned from fonzie, potsie, ralph malph etc - except that it's a twin town w/galway, eire ( iirc )

Re: A Pedant writes... mrs_leroy_brown September 19 2007, 21:42:55 UTC

oh i was wasn't offended! besides you can hardly be blamed for not knowing US geog - most yanks don't either to be fair and WI is not really a tourist hotspot :)

fun fact - Happy Daze was actually filmed in like Ohio or something.

Re: A Pedant writes... worldofagwu September 20 2007, 09:13:51 UTC

- aw, for shame - telly lies to audience shocker...!

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your limitations are our every care stickismyfriend September 20 2007, 01:03:39 UTC

turns out I couldn't think of any questions for yoooooo
lovely to see the associates being sung along tooooooo

Re: your limitations are our every care worldofagwu September 20 2007, 09:17:37 UTC

- stephen, you're really something...!