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Vagabond wrote:

"Whoa, holy double-post....

I can't beleive we've let this one lie idle for a whole six days. So I had to add something.

Just to keep it relevant, I do intend to go off and buy some tea - if Her Majesty in Right of Canada will ever give me my bloody money! I still don't have my student loan in yet! I'm living off my visa, and that's just about topped out! I'm not a happy camper.

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11 November - LEST WE FORGET

""Forgive me, sir, but I talk to God all the time - and he never mentioned you.""
-Phillipe (the Mouse) Gaston, Ladyhawk"

Mike Carey wrote:

"Vagabond, a man shouldn't have to live without tea. Give us your snailmail address and each of us will mail you a teabag or a spoonful of loose leaves. :)

Seriously, having been in that ""where the **** is my grant cheque?"" space myself, I sympathise.

Nil carburundum."

Karon Flage wrote:

"Based on stories I have heard from Canadian friends, I shudder to think what Canadian customs would think of loose tea leaves. Could be fun to find out."

When I was in school some idiot showed the same wit that Karon is accusing Canadian customs and excise of, and rolled himself an earl grey spliff. He maintained that this did too get him high (probably because he'd used superglue to seal it shut). It seems the idiot had seen a reference somewhere to beatniks smoking tea, and it hadn't occured to him that this was slang."

Rama Bonn wrote:

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Originally posted by D. McDonagh:
It seems the idiot had seen a reference somewhere to beatniks smoking tea, and it hadn't occured to him that this was slang.

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I remember trying to smoke banana peel when I was in high school 'cause I'd read about its psychotropic effects. Banana just gave me a headache, so I don't recommend experimenting with brain cells!

In spite of the Arizona heat - we're still in 100+ degree weather here, I bought some Earl Gray to help me bring some aromatic elegance to my summer evenings.

I see that there is a new Lucifer out - I'll pick up a copy later today when I take my son to the gaming league that plays there every Saturday afternoon.

Stay free!"

Seamus wrote:

"All right.
I come to the DC Message Board roughly once or twice a week and head straight to the ODCUT board.
Once every month or two I drop by the Lucifer board to see if the writer of one of my favorite titles is still participating in message board discussions.
In my limited experience, this thread is the funniest I have ever encountered(yes, I sat and read the entire seven pages). It successfully tops my prior favorite: ""You know your a comics geek if..."", which I never thought possible.
I will endevour to visit here more often.
On topic...
I don't drink tea.
I drink Wild Cherry Pepsi, which was my cure for my Pepsi addiction.
When I drink alcoholic drinks, I'll drink most anything which isn't beer, but my favorites are Doctor McGillicuddy's Peach Schnapps, and various flavours of mead when made by home mead makers who love sugar. The way I see it, sugar and alcohol are the ultimate legal buzz.
On Lucifer himself...
Does the Morningstar feel the effects of alcohol, being a supernatural being? Could wine merely be a drink to him, like water, or juice is to us? Based on this hypothesis, he could drink wine constantly and not have an alcohol problem. Maybe an wineglass fetish, but certainly not an alcohol problem.

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""Does the word 'Incomprehensible' mean anything to you?"" Tim Hunter-Books of Magic"

Twinings Russian Caravan is kind of nice, if it hasn't been said before."

Vagabond wrote:

"Yay! I have money! I have Money! I have Money!

Not a lot, but enough.

And this morning, I'm very glad that I live in Canada.

And I'm even more glad my old girlfriend, who lives in Maryland, doesn't work for the government.

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11 November - LEST WE FORGET

""Forgive me, sir, but I talk to God all the time - and he never mentioned you.""
-Phillipe (the Mouse) Gaston, Ladyhawk"

A ""friend"" brought me in a mixed box of herbal teas because he was concerned about the amount of coffee I drink. However, they're cheap and cheerful flavour-free vaguely fruit-scented cups of hot water which can in no way be described as tea. They're almost as bad as those packets of instant fruit teas you can get in Whittards, which are mostly sugar with a chemical that smells and tastes slightly like whichever fruit is on the box. *Shudder*"

Mr. Gage wrote:

"If you can get them, I find that the 'Republic of Tea' brand are really good. They come as loose tea, packed in narrow tins. They've got a great selection of black teas from around the world, plus many herbal infusions.

Plus, you get to look like a gourmet for using a tea strainer. (If you're American, you even get curious looks from people who think tea only comes in bags.)

Some of them, like the Assam or the Breakfast, are as hearty and bracing as a good cup o' joe. And the fruit ones are flavored by fruit, oddly enough.

The ad copy is a little too much of a Southern California new-age thing, but the product is really good. I'm a fan.

And a nice cup of tea really does help almost anything. Jeez, I sound like a commercial.

Click here to check it out. "

If he's trying to intefere with your coffee intake, Seahorse, he's not your friend."

Nothing had better try to get between me and my coffee jar first thing in the morning. Anyone who tries to take that jar away will face a world of horror.

The Entity wrote:

"Amazing. Seven pages of inane discussion about teabags. I thought the Lucifer board would be about, I don't know, anything except... teabags.

Oh yeah, and if you want decent beer, come to Germany. Stricter beer quality regulations and a variety of local beer types like smoked beer (rauchbier) and black beer (schwartzbier) etc."

Mr. Gage wrote:

"Well, obviously, people are easier to push around if they haven't had their proper caffiene intake. I'm the thinking man's school bully, you know.

G."

Entity, we like to make sure this board surprises people. You should have seen the thread about cakes - the heated debates about the merits of battenberg became quite ugly. :) "

Vagabond wrote:

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Originally posted by Mr. Gage:
Well, obviously, people are easier to push around if they haven't had their proper caffiene intake

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Most of the people I know, including myself, are not easy to push around when they haven't had their caffeine intake.

Some of them (this is where I fit) are simple a large pile of goo-200 pounds of dead weight. Not easy to push, pull, or throw.

Others seem to replace caffine with anger-inspired adreneline. Thus, trying to push them around is often a fatal proposition.

I've been making Dewey numbers for the last hour and and in bad need of caffine myself.

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11 November - LEST WE FORGET

""Forgive me, sir, but I talk to God all the time - and he never mentioned you.""
-Phillipe (the Mouse) Gaston, Ladyhawk"

Emma Pooka wrote:

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Originally posted by md:

This thread is getting dangerously long.
If someone where to read this in one go,
I'm sure we'd be looking at serious
case of dementia!

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Well, I just have, but considering my state of mind beforehand I'm not a great control in that experiment.

Hi folks, if anyone remembers me, I posted once or twice and then disappeared for months, and will probably do the same again.

Oh, it's true about the Scottish rusty drink, and it sells by the bucketload in the UK under the name of Irn-bru. There are also cheap imitations that don't try to disguise the fact that the real name of the drink is Iron Brew, but they all have much more orange food colouring than rust in them.

Why do I know this stuff?

Because I've been trapped in threads like this before, that's why...

Oh, and tea-wise I recommend two of the fair trade brans, Tea Direct and Clipper Teas, which are worth the small premium for the moral superiority you can drink them with.


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""Life...is like a disease. Sexually transmitted and invariably fatal."" - Death"

You are the Pop-In Pooka! We look forward to your next visit. :) "

The Entity wrote:

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Originally posted by Emma Pooka:

Oh, it's true about the Scottish rusty drink, and it sells by the bucketload in the UK under the name of Irn-bru. There are also cheap imitations that don't try to disguise the fact that the real name of the drink is Iron Brew, but they all have much more orange food colouring than rust in them.

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Irn-bru? that stuff's cool. i didn't realise that was what everyone was talking about. Or that it had iron oxide in (which isn't necessarily the same as rust, as iron can exist in more than one oxidation state).

i'd like to add that fair-trade stuff is generally pretty good quality too. in particular, i like oxfam's Earl Grey, although I'd recommend avoiding their Darjeeling.

i'm also someone who read through the entire teabag thread in one go. i haven't succumbed to dementia yet, but as soon as i do, i'll inform you all."

I got a gift which including various teas (darjeeling, assam and orange pecoe) - but I've got a really bad cold so I can't taste or smell anything. Oh vicious, cruel world! "

Karon Flage wrote:

"Best thing for a cold is to make up some of that tea, add some lemon, honey and a good shot of bourbon. Better than Nyquil or other ""nighttime cold medicines"" anyday."

Big slices of lemon, lots of honey and hot water. Plus regular shots of caffeine and a hefty whisky before bed. Works for me! :) "

Karon Flage wrote:

"So, I'm sitting here at work about 8:30 pm drinking a very nice Sam Adams Octoberfest. While it really isn't that unusual for me to work this late, today it was to get everything done that I needed to skip work tomorrow and Monday. You see, my best friend from high school and college is flying up from Texas tomorrow to spend one of those semi-milestone, I really should be an adult by now, kind of birthdays with me.

We have had problems keeping up a long distance friendship the last couple of years and really need this weekend to play and get reaquainted in many ways. Way back in college we started going to the Texas Renaissance Festival for my birthday each year so this year we are hitting the Maryland Renaissance Festival. (Greg is thankful cause I have drug him with me the last three years.) It should be a lovely visit.

Anyway, I have finished my beer - I hopped over here to see if there were any new posts to read and realized that the teabag thread had gone 10 days without a post which certainly can not be allowed - and I'm heading home. Yes, it is nifty to work in a place that keeps a fridge stocked with beer for late nights."

Mike Carey wrote:

"Well I'm reading your post at 7.30 the next morning GMT, having been up for two hours because the twins climbed into our bed and there was a ""little one said roll over"" effect that resulted in me sliding out the far side of the duvet. I've had one cup of tea (just the regular Quick Brew kind) and the second pot is brewing. I finished writing the first draft of #24 yesterday, so today is a fairly easy day. Polishing up a pitch; catching up on some correspondence.

Hope you have a great weekend, Karon. I've never come across a Renaissance festival outside the pages of The Wake, but they look to be lots of fun on the basis of that limited sample. Tell us about it next week.

And quaff wisely."

Then you're going to hate me, because I had a LOOONNGGG lie-in and woke up at 12.30pm. I need a few cups of coffee in the morning to avoid that ""zombie in a shopping mall"" look when we stumble into town later. Or I could skip the coffee and carry an axe as an accessory. :) "

Heathen wrote:

"It comes to my attention that a now rather dull thread over on the Hellblazer forum has more ""pages"" than this one, which concerns me.

In an effort to expand the ""tea"" thread, I have devised the following, rather clever, I think, tangential thread.

As a coffee and beer drinker with an occasional predilection for malt whiskies, I can't say much beyond the twin assault on my head from caffeine-withdrawal and alcohol-overdose. So ...

The theme is ""My Cup of Tea"".

Just to be clear that everyone understands the term is used in england to mean something that you are fond of. As in ""The films of Johnny Depp are just my cup of tea"" which means they really hit the spot.

In the light of a conversation I had when I was recently summoned by The Headmaster, my cup of tea is a type of music I will refer to as ""American Gothic Folk"" or ""alt.country.gothic"".

This music is much maligned and mislabelled by the people who make labels for music.
(An immediate aside: in the fashion trade there are people who make clothes and there are people who make labels. I know which group of people are more talented.)
Like its ancestor ""Country"" (which after all brought us Johnny Cash and Emmylou Harris) it is seen in a rather cliched form.

I am not an american, but I think much of this music is American Folk. Tales of real people's lives that have as much in common with Bruce Springsteen as Woody Guthrie.

I should say that their are british artistes that play this stuff too, but on the whole I associate it with Americana.

The scope of this music is so diverse that you might not recognise its extremes. Jim White has music references in common with Beck, Jason Downs plays with rapper Milk, Sparklehorse collaborate with Tom Waits, PJ Harvey and Nina Persson on songs that combine melody with distortion. Indeed Persson's own solo project A Camp is produced by Sparklehorse main man (and genius) Mark Linkous in the country feedback gothic style. A fine change from the also fine power pop of the Cardigans.
Loose Music is my recommended record label, they have a name for ""alt.country"" but three artists show how diverse they are.
M.Ward sounds like a younger, fitter Tom Waits with a touch of cajun thrown in. His version of Bowie's ""let's Dance"" is surprising.

Canadian Hawksley Workman is a charming charismatic vaudevillian balladeer who has written my favourite song of this year. ""Let's make love like we're the last on Earth, and I've made the choice for us my darling to be the last on Earth."" Intensely sinister !

The Handsome Family tell tales that would not be out of place in the late lamented Flinch anthology. The Giant of Illinois who died from a blister on his foot. The insane woman who gets drunk, but ""there is only so much wine you can drink in one life and it can never be enough to save you from the bottom of the glass"". ""The Cathedral in Cologne looks like a spaceship"". The tale of broken love which states ""it's only human to want to kill a beautiful thing"". The Woman Downstairs who starved herself to death. But you can read the lyrics as stories on the webpage http://handsomefamily.home.mindspring.com/Nlyrics.html
Brett Sparks is the main voice of The Handsome Family, and for me he has the finest, most soulful voice around. On their new album ""Twilight"" he sings ""When the rope of death strangles and dark waters roar and foam, when fear and trembling hold me and the slimy pit pulls down, I know you are there.""
His wife Rennie writes the words and she is a startling storyteller. And very funny between the songs. A song laments the passing of billions of passenger pigeons through culls and hunting and afterwards Rennie scowls ""they're only rats with wings"".

The Handsome Family are My Cup Of Tea.

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Papercut Fun wrote:

"It's been a while since I've checked in with the board...nice to see ""teabags"" is still barrling along.

I've been tied up with a new play I'm in here in Toronto, by Canadian playwrite Brad Fraser. It's been on all over the world and is called ""Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love"" just in case anyone's heard of it. I play ""Bernie"" a good ol', fun lovin', yuppie office worker, who just happens to be as serial killer.

It's a kickass roll and I'm having a great time with it...playing a character not unlike Christian Bale's ""American Psycho"" role is a hoot (maybe I'm having TOO much fun) and great preparation for when our Headmaster calls me up and says, ""I've just finished the Lucifer screenplay and I think you'd make a great Morningstar""....and that WILL happen right Mike?

Mike?

Well, it's our Canadian Thanksgiving this weekend so I'll wish you all a happy turkey day...."

Papercut Fun wrote:

"Oh yeah, and if you have the money, I highly recommend you chek out the new Vertigo Hardcover ""I, Paparazzi"". I started a thread on the ""Other Vertigo Topics"" board to talk about it. I can't recommend it highly enough."

Vagabond wrote:

"Unidentified Human Remains... isn't that the one they made the movie out of?

Anyway, I'm pretty sure there was a Brad Fraser play they made a movie out of. It was set in Edmonton in the play, but city council was afraid to have E-town assoiciated with a play about *gasp* gay people. So it moved to Montreal in the movie.

If I wasn't a) 2,000 klicks away, and b) unwilling to set foot in Toronto, I'd come see you, Papercut. But have fun.

As you can see, my English class is...enthralling.


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11 November - LEST WE FORGET

""It starts! It runs. It goes. It goes fast! It turns. It doesn't turn!!""
-Red Green, The New Red Green Show"

Congrats, Papercut. Is it a stimulating and rewarding gig? Does it pay? or were you just deeply taken with the notion of playing a dangerous psychopath?
All good reasons..."

Congrats, Papercut. Is it a stimulating and rewarding gig? Does it pay? Or were you just deeply taken with the notion of playing a dangerous psychopath?
All good reasons..."

Jesus wept, there's an echo in here. Sorry about that."

Mike Carey wrote:

"Papercut, I swear to God if there's a Lucifer movie and they let me anywhere near casting, you're on the list. True, that's probably not going to happen unless I become both the Managing Director of Time-Warner and the Pope, but there's a finite chance. In the meantime, sharpen up your psychopathic body language and wait by the phone. :)

Right. My cup of tea. And the first person who laughs is going to get a thousand lines and a detention.

My cup of tea is this. It's sort of nine o'clock-ish, and the kids are in bed. I cook a meal for me and Lin (probably pepper steak, chili or a curry of some kind), and she reads the latest Terry Pratchett to me while we work on a bottle of red wine or a four-pack of Speckled Hen. Then we eat the meal watching either (a) an episode of Buffy or (b) some British drama series from the sixties or seventies such as The Avengers, Randall and Hopkirk, Sapphire and Steel or whatever.

The simple pleasures are the best."

Heathen wrote:

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Originally posted by Mike Carey:

Right. My cup of tea. And the first person who laughs is going to get a thousand lines and a detention.

My cup of tea is this. It's sort of nine o'clock-ish, and the kids are in bed. I cook a meal for me and Lin (probably pepper steak, chili or a curry of some kind), and she reads the latest Terry Pratchett to me while we work on a bottle of red wine or a four-pack of Speckled Hen. Then we eat the meal watching either (a) an episode of Buffy or (b) some British drama series from the sixties or seventies such as The Avengers, Randall and Hopkirk, Sapphire and Steel or whatever.

The simple pleasures are the best.

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No laughs here <sniff> that's so romantic.
Although it has to be said ... Avengers from the Sixties is the romatic one. Gareth Hunt would just spoil the mood.

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Mike Carey wrote:

"Please. Don't spoil my breakfast.

I was talking about Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg, of course. Mrs Peal being the first fictional woman I ever loved.

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Your evenings sound like mine - except we sometimes add Dr Who to the list. We've got all the Avengers available on UK video and we're now accruing the DVDs, and shelves of Blakes 7, Sapphire and Steel, X Files, Ultraviolet (fantastic UK vampire series)... etc etc. "

Mike Carey wrote:

"Aha, so Ultraviolet is worth getting, is it? Thanks, Brian. That goes onto my Christmas list. :) "

Papercut Fun wrote:

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Originally posted by Mike Carey:
Papercut, I swear to God if there's a Lucifer movie and they let me anywhere near casting, you're on the list.

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Thanks Mike, but God's probably the last guy you want to swear to if you hope to get a movie made about Lucifer. :)

Thanks for the support all. The play was a blast and we had great crowds. The theatre was actually attached to a mental institution (Toronto's a great city) so we had some interesting characters meandering about which really helped me get into my character of a psychopath. I was hoping we could do a show for them...it would have been the one audience that would have cheered for me!!

And yes Vagabond, that was the play they made into a movie. It was called Love and Human Remains and from what I hear, it was pretty poorly done. But I've never seen it myself.

And as for DVDs, I added the Godfather collection today (I haven't ever seen a Godfather movie, so I bought them on blind faith) but I'd trade every DVD I've got if I could just find some decently priced Tom Baker and Peter Davidson Doctor Who DVDs.

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Mr. Gage wrote:

"Hey, I'm trained as an actor, too! Though I don't really look like anyone... maybe I could play a loudmouthed, wisecracking demon who kills people while Lucifer takes a more urbane and subtle approach. Make it a buddy picture, in true Hollywood style. My character keeps hitting on Mazikeen, and she keeps ripping my eyebrows off.

Anyway. Sorry to go off-topic (if such a thing is possible in this thread), but I've got a note for the Headmaster: Mike, I tried sending you an e-mail this morning, and an auto-message bounced back saying the 'host is blacklisted.'

That's terribly droll, of course, but I think it means that your mail server and mine are no longer speaking. Could you send me a note, to test it out? Thanks.

(We now return you to the regular nonsense.)"

Mike Carey wrote:

"Will do, Mr. G.

I wonder what you'd look like with no eyebrows. Probably pretty strange and unsettling."