http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Lighten our existential angst en Wed, 13 May 2026 03:08:20 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20077#post-322231 Sat, 08 Feb 2020 15:44:09 +0000 gembo 322231@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The section of Wildlife highlights riffing on a description i gave of a dead bird near Burnham Overy Staithe in North Norfolk one summer could be submitted to Oulipo </p> <p>See Harry Matthews Oulipo translation of the speech from Hamlet (wee first to lines of the soliloquy)</p> <p>Two beers, Naughty Beats, Shatters Equation </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20077#post-322228 Sat, 08 Feb 2020 14:22:51 +0000 gembo 322228@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Vole funded by Python Terry Jones </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20077#post-322218 Sat, 08 Feb 2020 12:08:40 +0000 gembo 322218@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Buried inside Corson The Rules (well in an articulate about whether the Occupy Movement was just camping) there was a reference to Richard Boston’s magazine Vole</p> <p>1978-81</p> <p>So little before my time. Shame i would liked to have read it.</p> <p>Mostly men called Richard who wrote in it (including Richard Mabey)</p> <p>Articles such as Why are Whales Big and Why are mice small?</p> <p>Vole was keen on cycling and shove ha’penny</p> <p>There are descendants</p> <p>The website Caught By The River and it’s tributary The Antidote to Indifference. and the artist Shauna Richardson who crochets life sized larger mammals. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20077#post-322208 Fri, 07 Feb 2020 22:02:34 +0000 gembo 322208@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@iwrats that is a good thread</p> <p>I would also suggest Corson The Rules</p> <p>I re read the rules of Corson every two years or so. I also re read the comments. They do not change but they remain funny. Corson will not sell his customers anything except paraffin and dynamite. Et cetera</p> <p>I commend Corson The Rules to the house </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20077#post-322172 Fri, 07 Feb 2020 10:19:22 +0000 chdot 322172@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Do stuff. </p> <p><a href="http://burgh.buzz/2019/03/24/burntisland-cot-burn-cleaner" rel="nofollow">http://burgh.buzz/2019/03/24/burntisland-cot-burn-cleaner</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20077#post-322169 Fri, 07 Feb 2020 09:53:48 +0000 I were right about that saddle 322169@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18327#post-322161">@gembo's recent post got me thinking.</a> Back in the day CCE itself was part of my angst-lightening toolkit but the angst has swollen and seeped. </p> <p>I guess everyone has such a toolkit? Things on the internet that can be summoned at will to nucleate joy. Here are some of mine. </p> <p>These two are just accidental crystalisations of how I see myself;</p> <p><a href="https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/063/549/portrait.jpg">Tron Guy</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.askideas.com/media/22/Cat-Shaved-Funny-Picture.jpg">Shaved Cat</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.nationalgalleries.org/sites/default/files/styles/postcard/public/externals/41776.jpg?itok=ZSiciAhz">And this is often how I see the world</a>, adopting the perspective of one of the participants depending on circumstances. Sometimes the snake, sometimes the receiver of Law, sometimes the monster with fried egg eyes.</p> <p><a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=643&amp;page=90#post-225086">And this full-team effort from CCE is wonderful.</a> </p>