Where are you going tonight?

[Gooner Girl]

I think id rather wear espadrilles or boat shoes maybe? or dr martins, high heels, cowboy boots, clogs, bowling shoes, brogues, moccasins, ballet shoes, ski boots, ice skates, jester shoes, flippers...

espadrilles?? get you!!

and - boat shoes??? you mean like those posh-knobby pretend sailors who inhabit pubs around marinas? (careful - you'll set Il Pirate off!)

crocs ARE boat shoes - it's what they are for!! the water runs in and out of the holes - ideal for launching and the opposite of launching!

Crocs are the most hideous shoes known to man but i have to confess my 2 year old daughter has been in crocs this summer because if she has an accident potty training its easier to wash the wee off crocs then trainers. You shouldn't judge General, that's probably the reason Bish is wearing them too...

[Il Pirate]

and - boat shoes??? you mean like those posh-knobby pretend sailors who inhabit pubs around marinas? (careful - you'll set Il Pirate off!)



GRRrrrrrrrrrr

[Lost Leopard Spot]

- ideal for launching and the opposite of launching!

antonyms of launching include Landing, Concluding, and Splashdown. Thus giving Crocs more meaning as the Bish uses them for launching and landing whilst GG's twins use them for launching and splashdown!

[Worthy4England]

I think id rather wear espadrilles or boat shoes maybe? or dr martins, high heels, cowboy boots, clogs, bowling shoes, brogues, moccasins, ballet shoes, ski boots, ice skates, jester shoes, flippers...

espadrilles?? get you!!

and - boat shoes??? you mean like those posh-knobby pretend sailors who inhabit pubs around marinas? (careful - you'll set Il Pirate off!)

crocs ARE boat shoes - it's what they are for!! the water runs in and out of the holes - ideal for launching and the opposite of launching!

Major pedantry alert. That's not what the patents say.

Breathable workshoes, I think you'll find.

Not all Croc patent designs have holes in them either.

[thebish]

I think id rather wear espadrilles or boat shoes maybe? or dr martins, high heels, cowboy boots, clogs, bowling shoes, brogues, moccasins, ballet shoes, ski boots, ice skates, jester shoes, flippers...

espadrilles?? get you!!

and - boat shoes??? you mean like those posh-knobby pretend sailors who inhabit pubs around marinas? (careful - you'll set Il Pirate off!)

crocs ARE boat shoes - it's what they are for!! the water runs in and out of the holes - ideal for launching and the opposite of launching!

Major pedantry alert. That's not what the patents say.

Breathable workshoes, I think you'll find.

Not all Croc patent designs have holes in them either.

in that case - I stand corrected!

[LeverEnd]

I think id rather wear espadrilles or boat shoes maybe? or dr martins, high heels, cowboy boots, clogs, bowling shoes, brogues, moccasins, ballet shoes, ski boots, ice skates, jester shoes, flippers...

espadrilles?? get you!!

and - boat shoes??? you mean like those posh-knobby pretend sailors who inhabit pubs around marinas? (careful - you'll set Il Pirate off!)

crocs ARE boat shoes - it's what they are for!! the water runs in and out of the holes - ideal for launching and the opposite of launching!

Major pedantry alert. That's not what the patents say.

Breathable workshoes, I think you'll find.

Not all Croc patent designs have holes in them either.

in that case - I stand corrected!

Said the man in the orthopaedic breathable workshoes.

[2399]

PBS Studios to do my third Show!!!

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[Bruce Rioja]

PBS Studios to do my third Show!!!

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Good luck with that, Matty.

[2399]

Thanks Mate!

[Dr Hotdog]

Well now, on Friday night just passed I went to watch the mighty Soundgarden at the Apollo. It was one of the best of all time. What a performance. Sensational times.

[Dr Hotdog]

Daniel Kitson at the Royal Exchange.

[mrkint]

Is it his 'After the Beginning...' show? Saw that a few month back - tis superb!

[Dr Hotdog]

Nah I missed that, it sold out before I remembered tickets went on sale. DOH!

I'm not sure what it is tonight, but I can't wait. He's incredible.

[Prufrock]

We've a new lad moved in with us a few weeks back, from Astley Village; I swear he IS Spencer.

[William the White]

Tonight was An Inspector Calls at the Octagon.

This old warhorse of a drama asks, at its heart, that ancient biblical question - Am I my brother's keeper?. Or - in truth - his killer?

It has aged round the edges but at its heart it beats powerfully still as it tells the story of poor Eva Smith, stricken by poverty, driven ever deeper into the mire by the ruthlessness, capriciousness and lasciviousness of her 'betters' until she dies in terrible agony...

Will the perpetrators take responsibility or not?

David Thacker gives us a production with a powerful moral centre, and the play has one of my favourite last lines in all English drama (apart from Shakespeare who repeatedly hits us with the best at the end...).

[clapton is god]

Our turn at the Octagon tonight for An Inspector calls, set two years before The Great War and the week before the 'unsinkable' Titanic heads off for New York.

The socialist heart of the author visible right through it like a stick of old Blackpool rock. Moments of dark comedy interspersed with the drama. Margot Leicester effortlessly brilliant, again. David Prosho, as the eponymous Inspector, an actor many will know from TV such as Scott And Bailey, was great, very Yorkshire (even if he isn't from there) and our particular favourite actor, Kieran Hill with yet another face to his acting skills.

Alastair Sim is a very hard act to follow as the Inspector but I loved every minute of this production. A full house and a very appreciable audience. A really, really good opener for the new season.

[William the White]

Our turn at the Octagon tonight for An Inspector calls, set two years before The Great War and the week before the 'unsinkable' Titanic heads off for New York.

The socialist heart of the author visible right through it like a stick of old Blackpool rock. Moments of dark comedy interspersed with the drama. Margot Leicester effortlessly brilliant, again. David Prosho, as the eponymous Inspector, an actor many will know from TV such as Scott And Bailey, was great, very Yorkshire (even if he isn't from there) and our particular favourite actor, Kieran Hill with yet another face to his acting skills.

Alastair Sim is a very hard act to follow as the Inspector but I loved every minute of this production. A full house and a very appreciable audience. A really, really good opener for the new season.

Good stuff, Clapton...

And many of this cast in the next, which is the production I'm most looking forward to this season. I've never seen A Long Day's Journey into Night but Eugene o Neill is one of my favourite American playwrights, with a powerful sense of language, character and feeling... The first American writer to take the Nobel for literature, i think (and maybe the first playwright)... 20 years ago I was on holiday in California - and visited his house, sat at his desk, bought his complete works... Anyone who saw the brilliant production (by Andrew Hay) of his play The Hairy Ape at the Octagon (in 1994?) will be snapping up tickets...

[Gooner Girl]

Off out to the pub with friends. Can't wait. I need a break, has been a tough week!

[William the White]

To Manchester tonight with eldest daughter to the National Theatre Live's much praised production of Othello on screen at the Printworks (it was, in fact, on three screens - so this kind of event is gathering an audience). Daughter is training as an English teacher and feeling the need to brush up on Shakespeare - and I'm a very willing companion.

It was the best Othello I've ever seen, really clear story telling, brilliant performances from Rory Kinnear as Iago, Adrian Lester as Othello and Lyndsey Marshal making the absolute most of the often thankless role of Emilia.

It was set in a modern day army camp (brilliant violent drunken scene choreographed so well by Kate Waters who's about 5' 1". In a war between Christian Venice and Moslem Turkey. Resonances were there - bold decision by director Nicholas Hytner.

I think there are a few performances left before it goes out of repertoire - recommend this without reservation to our London members.

[LeverEnd]

Off to Matt and Phred's in Manchester for a friend's birthday to see the Paul Edis Sextet, don't know much about them but like the club a lot. Turned down a free ticket to see Kris Kristofferson at The Bridgewater tonight so hope they are decent!