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Lateshift Hates the Dreaded Page Nine!

  
  

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ALL KINDS OF DEAD TREES
(prev. Papers regarding Tlön & Uqbar)
03:32 / 01.08.08
A narrow brush with the dreaded Nine has landed us here: Shiftlandia, the great, towering city of Lately.
 
 
Deculture Decedent
03:35 / 01.08.08
It's always good to run up and touch the abyss for a moment. Makes you an ipssissisomethingorother.

Good save, though. Nice to visit Page 9, but well, I've lived there before. It's like escaping Cleveland.
 
 
ALL KINDS OF DEAD TREES
(prev. Papers regarding Tlön & Uqbar)
03:38 / 01.08.08
Someone's been rereading their Invisibles.

Welcome to the capital city of Lately: steam-baths on every street. It's touched by darkness, of course, having seen the abyss--but there's so much neon! You may want to close your eyes at times. Give them a rest.
 
 
Keggers From The Crypt
(prev. Keggers vs Dracula)
03:39 / 01.08.08
Ah, good ol' page 9.
 
 
Deculture Decedent
03:43 / 01.08.08
Steam baths. Y'know, I think I'm slowly working to a lifestyle where the only time I get out of the pool is for a hot bath. I'm going to grow fins and an orange shirt any day now.
 
 
ALL KINDS OF DEAD TREES
(prev. Papers regarding Tlön & Uqbar)
03:47 / 01.08.08
O, Aquatripper! (Hey, good suitname...)
 
 
ALL KINDS OF DEAD TREES
(prev. Papers regarding Tlön & Uqbar)
03:48 / 01.08.08
I could live in my shower, of course.
 
 
Keggers From The Crypt
(prev. Keggers vs Dracula)
03:48 / 01.08.08
Sure, but its the pants that make the man. If you aren't decked-out in greenscale you just aren't trying.

and a golden hook-hand couldnt hurt.
 
 
ALL KINDS OF DEAD TREES
(prev. Papers regarding Tlön & Uqbar)
03:49 / 01.08.08
Well, chopping off the original hand probably would...
 
 
Liger, Audaciously Hopefull
(prev. Liger Null)
03:51 / 01.08.08
What about a matching golden peg-leg?
 
 
Deculture Decedent
03:54 / 01.08.08
Well, when it can turn into a proper hand, anyway. I mean, what if I'm trying to get the hair out of my face and... or worse roll over in bed and scratch an itch. Oi.

I actually have no idea what old Talks to Fish is up to in current continuity. I hope there's a Mera or Dolphin in there somewhere. Them, I liked.

(I just mistyped that 'Them, I lived.' Make of that what you can.)
 
 
Deculture Decedent
03:56 / 01.08.08
Someone remind me to be Auqatripper in a few weeks. It's splashy!
 
 
ALL KINDS OF DEAD TREES
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03:57 / 01.08.08
I've known for a while now that you were a screen name of Mera's.

I have no idea. I don't get the impression DC knows, either. Normal strength Aquaman was gone while a younger version was running around, apparently different but entirely duplicated. I didn't really get it. Again, I don't think DC did, either. He had a good team-up with Metamorpho, though--with some nice art.
 
 
ALL KINDS OF DEAD TREES
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03:57 / 01.08.08
I'll remind you. I think I'm going to be The "Fact" is.
 
 
Keggers From The Crypt
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04:01 / 01.08.08
Im going to have to make a chart of barbname changes.
 
 
Deculture Decedent
04:02 / 01.08.08
That's a good one.

I still think, really, the only things this board needs to keep going is a Comics forum and an open lateshift. I - quite solipsistically - shelve everything else in Other.
 
 
Deculture Decedent
04:03 / 01.08.08
And I may bring back the Barbe-mythology thread, since so many have shifted far in their handles, new folks have arrived, and probably a few old guard are now unidentifiable if you're just running from on-the-board information.
 
 
ALL KINDS OF DEAD TREES
(prev. Papers regarding Tlön & Uqbar)
04:12 / 01.08.08
Yay! You should do that immediately.
 
 
ALL KINDS OF DEAD TREES
(prev. Papers regarding Tlön & Uqbar)
04:13 / 01.08.08
...I still think that description of me-as-Papers that you gave is one of the most brilliant, ever.
 
 
Keggers From The Crypt
(prev. Keggers vs Dracula)
04:25 / 01.08.08
Which thread was that? My memory isnt at its best right now. I need coffee.
 
 
ALL KINDS OF DEAD TREES
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04:26 / 01.08.08
People described what they imagined people were based on suitnames. I can't remember what it was called, exactly.
 
 
Deculture Decedent
04:31 / 01.08.08
Took a long time to find because I thought I'd google first. Not my most shining moment.

Anyhow, it's back up on its suppositional legs now.
 
 
ALL KINDS OF DEAD TREES
(prev. Papers regarding Tlön & Uqbar)
04:33 / 01.08.08
Holy cats! Kegs, you're the one to describe me this:

Papers Looks like DC's The Question and wherever he/she goes a trail of papers appears behine him/her.
 
 
Deculture Decedent
04:35 / 01.08.08
That's def. the best Papers description ever. So dashing and definitive.
 
 
ALL KINDS OF DEAD TREES
(prev. Papers regarding Tlön & Uqbar)
04:48 / 01.08.08
Arrr! Facehugger must die!

Yes, I love it to this day. I can even imagine the skulking alleyway, the gloves--because who wants to get newsprint all over their hands?--and the dinginess.
 
 
Keggers From The Crypt
(prev. Keggers vs Dracula)
04:51 / 01.08.08
yeah. and for some reason I always picture the trench and hat looking an oily greyish-black.
 
 
ALL KINDS OF DEAD TREES
(prev. Papers regarding Tlön & Uqbar)
04:52 / 01.08.08
Because I'm not the Sunday Colour Supplement, obvs.

Maybe I'll switch it up when my 28 days concludes, to Dashing, Mister Papers or something similar.
 
 
ALL KINDS OF DEAD TREES
(prev. Papers regarding Tlön & Uqbar)
04:53 / 01.08.08
(because I'm in love with suitname punctuation)
 
 
Deculture Decedent
04:58 / 01.08.08
I think the only time I tried punctuation in there, it somewhere went weird. What I typed was not what was seen.
 
 
ALL KINDS OF DEAD TREES
(prev. Papers regarding Tlön & Uqbar)
05:03 / 01.08.08
I'm fond of exclamation points in suitnames, which is somewhat counter-personality for me. I am not, on the whole, prone to them in general.
 
 
Deculture Decedent
05:08 / 01.08.08
Clearly, you just aren't reading enough comics. Elliot S! Maggin made me Pavlov's exclamatory hound. Or something of that sort.

Love the exclamation mark! C'mon! Show it some love!
 
 
ALL KINDS OF DEAD TREES
(prev. Papers regarding Tlön & Uqbar)
05:13 / 01.08.08
!!!

Which reminds me of Middleman, an episode involving a new kind of pop called !!! which kept being referred to in dialogue and was indicated by a kind of "jazz hands" / excited gaping mouth combination.
 
 
Keggers From The Crypt
(prev. Keggers vs Dracula)
05:16 / 01.08.08
I havent seen Middlemen but I plan on it asap.
 
 
Deculture Decedent
05:18 / 01.08.08
You should see my new novel's half-draft. Named a character and a magazine just that, and then let the rest of the character deal with it differently, from avoidance, to innovative sounds and gutturals, or just using their given name instead. ! is fun.
 
 
Deculture Decedent
05:26 / 01.08.08
I still haven't watched an ep, or finished all the comics. What I have read I liked, though.
 
  

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