Apologies for the poor image quality folks. Tried to convert the flier from PDF on photoshop. First time I've used it. No idea what I'm doing. The things you do when you should be writing. If you click on it, it's easier to read.
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Did they email that to you? If so I got it too.
Is there still a Maze prison? I thought it was becoming some kind of GAA/Ulster ground or something.
Adrian - Sam Millar sent me the flier originally. A little after that Mike Stone sent me his invitation from some PR guy to see if I'd like to go in his place. Seeing as you're in Melbourne and Mike's in Stoke-on-Trent (a mere jaunt away), I'd imagine you'll not make it either, then?
RE the Maze -- Still no agreement on whether or not they make it a stadium. I went on a tour of the old site last year with my parents and siblings. A couple of H-blocks and watchtowers were still standing, but they might be reduced again by now. I think the plan was to keep one block open as a museum of sorts and rebuild one of the towers nearby, leaving room for the stadium, or whatever else ends up there.
Cheers
gb
See they didn't invite me, despite Mohammed Maguire being almost entirely set in that establishment? Of course I do value my knees so wouldn't have made it anyway. Not that that kind of thing goes on any more. And Long Kesh? Politically biased from the start!*
* This statement has been sponsored by the Protestant Crime Writers Association of the Plantation of Ulster. You know it makes sense.
Colin - Does the PCWAPU have a newsletter I can subscribe to? We're happy to promote all the nutters here at CSNI, regardless of political bias. It's all about the synergy, man.
Cheers
gb
Ger,
Hmmm thats interesting, I was in the Beaten Docket once (yes I know and I'm sorry and yes I was wearing a big girls blouse and Hugh Grant was with me) and round closing time this leary and vociferous fellow came to our table and staring going on about how we were all PC wankers. Years later I now see that it was an approach by the PCWAPU, I just couldnt follow the man's accent. Oh dear when I think of the joys and comradeship I missed out because of that road not taken...
Obviously a big prize to anyone who gets the character of PC Wapu into a crime story.
Colin
Wasnt he a replacement for PC McGarry who was sacked from the Trumpton PD after the Stalker Report? If I remember correctly Chow Yun Fat played PC Wapu in the movie version.
So PC Wapu walks into The Beaten Docket...
gb
No, thats his credibilty blown already.
PC Wapu walks into the Borough Arms in Carrickfergus...
If he gets out of there in one piece he deserves to be Inspector Wapu.
PC Wapu arrests the serial killer known as the Tree Surgeon, and gets promoted to Special Branch?
Adrian - A thought occurs. PC Wapu as Bullet Proof Monk Chow Yun Fat, rather than the gritty Hard Boiled or even Replacement Killers Chow Yun Fat, could lend a whole new dimension to his vist to the Borough Arms.
Colin - I want to groan, really I do, but that is pretty feckin' funny.
gb
Colin
Aside from your many cinematic, televisual and literary endeavours you havent just been made the editor of the Beano by any chance?
Yes, but it's now called The Effing Beano. And i've passed on your comment to Supt. Wapu, so expect to have your collar felt some time soon.
Desperate Dan's now a bulemic teen boy with unfocused rage issues living in Moss Side.
Isn't Desperate Dan a Dandy man?
gb
ask Colin he's the expert
The Dandy, yes. Ah, how memories of the old country fade once you desert it.
Bonus points for the first to name a Beezer character.
gb
Ger
You must be kidding me, surely we all remember Adrian the Barbarian! The only comic book character called Adrian until Watchman's Adrian Veidt.
Colin
Your sly dig did not go unnoticed.
It wasn't 'sly'. The first time I ever walked into a bar in New Orleans, all ready for the blues, there was what I can only describe as a 'c*nt' on stage singing 'I Wish I was in Carrickfergus', and I understood then what you clearly do not, that you can run, but you cannot hide from effing Carrick, or Larne, for that matter.
Colin - Ta for I-Predict-A-Riot-ing the c-word.
Adrian - You're too clever for your own good. Muchos kudos.
gb
Colin
That was your chance to burst into the Star of the County Down. But did you? No. You were too busy cursing that fair town across the lough and perhaps wondering if it was the heat and humidity that was making your arm feel all prickly or was it finally that incipient heart attack you'd been warned about.
Ger
Not brains just a thoroughly thoroughly wasted childhood.
(1) The last time I heard The Star of County Down it was being sung by Van Morrison on the telly.
(2) Our fellow N. Ireland crime writer Paul Charles used to manage Van Morrison.
(3) Van Morrison and his band rehearse for tours in a hotel I can see from my study window.
(4) Last year Van and I were the only two customers in a cafe a couple of hundred yards from my house. I pretended not to recognise him, and he didn't know who the f**k I was.
(5) I love trivia, but it doesn't get the novel written.
This is stopping you from writing? You're both barred!
gb
"study window"
"cafe"
oooh who's Mister Fancy Pants then?
Jesus, managing Van Morrison must have taken the patience of a saint.
Ger, this is what Freud calls "displacement activity" its a well known psychological phenomenon. It was also called "wanking off" by my US high school students though I suspect they didnt quite get the physical aspect of that particular bit of British slang.
Simply substitute 'cell' for 'study' and 'chip van' for cafe and that'll be it Carricked.
its funny because its true...sigh
ah but which town has the most nursing homes?
score 1 for carrick.
But we have wall to wall charity shops. And a lot of visitors from Carrick.
When I were a lad ah used to dream of visitin Bangor one day, was shining city on hill ta us. Nay lad, me old dad would say, Bangor's not for t' likes of us, so twas with stony heart went ta Whitehead instead.
Gerard steered me here to read the Colin Bateman/Van Morrison 'trivia'. You guys are all too funny, even when I don't get half the references.
Seana - One or two references slipped me by too.
Cheers
gb
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