Friday, August 22, 2008

delegates

At last, the photographer for the conference in July has got organised enough to process the official photos.

For reasons of privacy, faces have been cosmetically altered. Full-size versions are available on click-through.






















16 comments:

Hotboy said...

How have they been altered? They all look perfectly normal to moi! Hotboy

ion said...

Fantastic- thanks very much! HB is much handsomer than I so I am pleased to have received his phizzog. That's much better!

Anonymous said...

I say!

The plastic surgery was obviously a complete success, then.

MM III

Lee Ann said...

The only one I can make out is Rob. Which are the two of you Hotboy and MMIII?
Looks like fun!
Miss you all a lot.
~xo
Lee Ann

Anonymous said...

The only one I can make out is Rob. Which are the two of you Hotboy and MMIII?
Looks like fun!
Miss you all a lot.
~xo
Lee Ann

Lee Ann said...

Sorry about the same message twice.
I put the wrong logon and it got messed up.
See, if you click on my name here, I still have my blog.
:)

Anonymous said...

I say!

I'm the most handsome one of the two.

MM III

Anonymous said...

I say!

The cricket score in the background of the last snap is most interesting.

MM III

Anonymous said...

I say!

Hello again Lee Ann. Long time no see.

In the second to last comment above, that should have read "I am the more handsome of the two"

To be more precise, the one not in urgent need of $10,000 dental treatment.

Henry Morton is to my right in the table tennis snap.

I must say, the TT tournament at the conference "Muscle and Minds" breakout session was a great success, though as predicted, I won as usual, mainly because I always keep the score, and adjust it as necessary.

MM III

rob said...

Mingers! Is there a website for the Muscle and Minds session?

Anonymous said...

I say!

Rob, I’m afraid that is unlikely to emerge. As you know, no cameras were allowed in the ‘Muscles & Mind’ breakout session after the group photograph shown above was taken. Just as well in the light of what happened.

You’ll obviously remember that half an hour into the session, shortly after Hotters demonstrated his headstand, things got very weird indeed. It was during the discussion of various teleological corollaries of Ralwin’s Third Postulate, I believe.

After the M&M session was broken up by security, you were probably too busy trying to excuse yourself from the bliss session that was timetabled to follow to notice that the M&M flip chart ramblings were deemed over-inflammatory by the conference organiser, and were carried off to the incinerator by a volunteer assistant, who the Safety Officer insisted on blindfolding for her own safety. Fortunately, the whiteboards had already been trashed by the attendees.

All that I managed to salvage from the session were Brian Wilson’s scribblings. You’ll remember that he spent the whole session crouching in a corner listening to his iPod, with a notepad and pen in the hand that you yourself had untied.

I repeat them verbatim, below, FYI.

MM III


1. Lucky Old Sun is 10 miles higher better than his last two shite albums, especially the cringingly awful duet with Macca and the other one with Elton.

Brian Wilson has reached to the heavens for Lucky Old Sun, and with that special Brian Wilson Band behind him, has produced music for the angels.

Imagine what this stuff sounds like to those who may have participated in some candybliss? They’d likely never, ever, come down.

Imagine what it sounds like sober!!!

I'm listening to it right now during the Ralwin Postulate nonsense session.

Luck Old Sun is wondermint music. It has, after all, been created by the guy who for two years regularly nosedived quarter ounces of Manson's first name and came out walking at the other end (though not as someone who could relate to everyday world situations, it has to be added). Sadly Dennis, who was possibly equally half as talented, and who also was at the piano during those days up in the Holywood hills, didn't make it out the other end for much longer.

Few people are old enough to listen to Dennis. So let's not get stuck in that one.

Correlating this music to literary stuff, we're talking Hemmingway + Kerouac + anyone else you'd like to add to the recipe, and then powering up by a magnitude of 'n'.

This is a heavy, heavy duty album that deserves the rest of our undivided attention, for the rest of our lives. This is new stuff. I have never heard anything to match this, and that includes SMiLE. Well, maybe not, because SMiLE was avant-garde, after all, and this Lucky Old Sun is 'of the day' and magnificently produced, so that's rather like comparing chalk and cheese.

2. Maybe there is something to this Ralwin postulate stuff, especially his pre-Shag Island musings. For example, this morning I watched a man and his dog approach a shop window. The dog sniffed at the base of the window, and lifted its leg. At exactly the same time, and with almost the same style of motions, the man peered into the shop window, and reached into his pocket. I can’t help thinking that, as Ralwin suggested, shopping is merely man’s way of marking his territory.

3. Message to self. Ask Dr Z if the dosage can be reduced yet.

4. There are three paths to true enlightenment:
This path.
That path, and
The other path.

Note to self. Don’t mention this to Hotters.

5. Why are the other people in this room screaming?

duneditin said...

With Thanks.

In taking the necessary action when Mr Wilson's delusional thinking became a danger to himself and others, The Management was ably assisted by a Mr Albert McClochendichter, possibly the most responsible of the delegates.

Anonymous said...

I say!

Do you think McClochendichter used excessive force? There certainly seemed to be a lot of blood, or was that just red wine?

MM III

Anonymous said...

I say!

I'm reliably informed that the location for Duneditin may, or may not, be the Isle of Skye, week beginning 8th August 2009.

Already I've started work on one of my proposed papers:

The Bogd Khan and cannibalism amongst Tibetan Buddhist Lamas in early 20th century Mongolia - a bloggers perspective.

Possibly too populist a title, but I can work on that.

I hear that Hotters is also preparing an abstract on:

The effects of premature nappy training on bloggers in the Scottish diaspora.

How exciting. I'm sure that if those papers are accepted, the sessions will be well-attended.

MM III

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