what is it like...
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- paraselene0
ha! whaddya say, vee? nah, i reckon we think a lot about it cos we're foreigners or maybe because we think a lot about things in general.
- CaP0
i don't know why i always picture cities as women... barcelona seems to me like this young playful loving mother who hugs you and welcomes you just becouse you are there, whilst london seems this appearently middle-aged mum, who seems very strict but is just a bottomless pit of wisdom and mistery... although i haven't lived in london, so i'm just figuring that out from close friend's experiences...
- CaP0
i don't know why i always picture cities as women... barcelona seems to me like this young playful loving mother who hugs you and welcomes you just becouse you are there, whilst london seems this appearently middle-aged mum, who seems very strict but is just a bottomless pit of wisdom and mistery... although i haven't lived in london, so i'm just figuring that out from close friend's experiences...
- paraselene0
i miss my new orleans, that grizzly old whore in a sumptuous ball gown!
- kelpie0
fair do's ;P
over the course we still have you whupped for cold wet and windy though
*sticks out tongue
- mrdobolina0
wicked, rand/
- Gorbie0
thinking is good. sleeping is too.
this is my 8,000 post and my last one tonight.
thanks for sharing everybody.
good night.
- Kuz0
Kelpie!
- skt0
My old dear = my dear old mum.
- _me_0
aye :)
and we're normally good at all that sunny beachy kinda nice stuff and that :)
- paraselene0
g'night, gorbie. congratulations on your 8k and sweet dreams.
- kelpie0
Kelpie!
Kuz
(Jul 1 05, 06:40)bruv!!
- paraselene0
ah! some brand new scorterish vernacular for my ever-growing glossary!
- CaP0
i miss my new orleans, that grizzly old whore in a sumptuous ball gown!
paraselene
(Jul 1 05, 03:49)+++++
lol! i did likes milano, though... that posh lively good looking lady who is somehow living also a dream...
- vespa0
"the city of which london most often reminds me is havana, with all it's pulsating jungle sex frenzy threatening to burst up through the concrete."
yer a goddam genius para.
if i'm ever driving out of london i can physically FEEL the dark mass of london pulsing behind me, it's like a magnetic heart that we can't escape for long. whenever i'm driving back in at night i feel like a little bloodcell getting pumped back in, all the red lights of the cars in front of me are the red cells and the white lights coming the other way are little white haemoglobins sent out to look for oxygen in the countryside.
re the book, have you read "London: A Biography" by Peter Ackroyd, or seen the bbc series? awesome stuff. i read about the farringdon marxist stuff in there. he talks a lot about how specific places in london have been used for specific purposes for thousands of years, as if particular personalities and purposes get physically etched into the concrete.
- paraselene0
this is a fun game!
san francisco: super hip young trannie with a social conscience!
- _me_0
- save0
- |oo|0
Oakland:
used to be a cheap place to live and with it's bad rep. most people wouldn't think of living here. now the ghetto bungalows are starting at half a million and you still wouldn't want to live in some neighborhoods.
great parks with redwoods up in the hills, restaurants and 10 minutes from SF.
been here 30 of 37 years but will be moving to colorado for my wife to closer to her family. Hope I can make it happpen out there.
- chossy0
Braco a small town with around 100 houses, going to sleep with the sound of silence and waking up with the sound of wood pigeons a step from your door and you are in a private woodland makebelieve it is unknown to anybody else nothing to do here but read relax think and enjoy.