They See Me Coming You Know

[liadnan]

London Review of Books Subscriber Evening
"Come and do your Christmas (or other) book shopping in the peace and tranquility of the London Review Bookshop without the plebs general public, with [free] wine and nibbles and with 10% discount on all books."

Bastards.

• Number of books bought: err. Some. Many. Lots.
• Number of Christmas presents bought: err One. Probably.
• Number of glasses of wine drunk: err.

V. bad. Oh, hang on, my life is a different film.

In other news, can someone answer me a question that has been causing some puzzlement for the last week: what in the name of buggery are the strange lights dancing in the sky down the end of Oxford Street every night? Anyone inclined to refer back to The Incident of the Green Lights on Canary Wharf would do well to remember that I was actually right, notwithstanding that accusations of absinthe poisoning were not entirely groundless.

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Spotlights

[rrc.livejournal.com]

They appear to have spotlights in green, purple and white lighting up the clouds instead of the normal christmas lights this year. I also saw a Harry Potter poster stuck to one of the scaffolding towers they're mounted on when I was walking back to Paddington last Thursday.

[chrysaphi.livejournal.com]

I saw a bunch of lights dancing around in the sky from the theater where they're showing Woman in White, when I was in London last week. IIRC that was pretty near the end of Oxford Street.

And...hm. Clearly I should become a subscriber to this London Review of Books thing.

[nicnac.livejournal.com]

Apparently they are supposed to shine Olympic rings onto the clouds, but instead they are coming out as randomly shaped blobs.

Perhaps they are the wrong type of clouds?

[scribeoflight.livejournal.com]

Oooo - I nearly went to that one, but decided I wanted to go home. But I did pop by earlier and get a copy of The Thin Red Line; they were kind enough to give me the 10% off at 2.00pm.

And I wanted to go into the basement, but there was filming going on - apparently.

Re: Spotlights

[liadnan]

I can't say I'm wildly impressed with the effect..

[liadnan]

Aye you should. Or the TLS. Or both, like me.

[liadnan]

So are they purely Olympic or Christmas lights as well.

I don't want the bloody Olympics.

[liadnan]

they were wandering around all evening asking people why they liked the LRB and knocking down piles of books.

I replied that I'd had too much wine to answer.

[scribeoflight.livejournal.com]

When you are sober, you must provide an account of purchases made - they have such a great selection in that small space.

[scribeoflight.livejournal.com]

The NYRB is also worth a look.

And all three have brilliant online archives...

[nicnac.livejournal.com]

I think they are the bastard child (http://www.ukstudentlife.com/Ideas/Album/ChristmasLights.htm) of both.

[susumu.livejournal.com]

Yeah those are indeed the Christmas lights on Oxford Street this year. Personally I prefer the Regent Street ones, which are apparently themed after The Incredibles.

[frankie-ecap.livejournal.com]

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Withnail and I, apparently.

[frankie-ecap.livejournal.com]

No idea what I did there. Where do I get actual livejournal tuition?