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Little Things That Make You Smile 6: Nowhere To Go But Up
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Happy Ch'an Poetry Day everyone.
Let's celebrate this joyous and most prestigious of days first and foremost with a wide grin , a steaming hot beverage of your choosing (I'm goin' with raw cider vinegar and organic honey ) and, of course, a Ch'an poem:
You no sooner attain the great void
Than body and mind are lost together.
Heaven and Hell -- a straw.
The Buddha-realm, Pandemonium -- shambles.
Listen: a nightingale strains her voice, serenading the snow.
Look: a tortoise wearing a sword climbs the lampstand.
Should you desire the great tranquility,
Prepare to sweat white beads.
Brilliant.
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Got really rasta-d out after my night shift yesterday morn, had £5.01 in my Xbox wallet and Forsaken Remastered is currently £3.99 so I bought it and installed it and forgot about it. Until now.
But I'm enjoying Half Life 2 so much right now it almost feels like a different game to what I remember from yonks back once you've done the first half. Don't even remember the second half, tbh, pheromone balls n' whatnot. I was probably playing it on the beer or summat. Yeah, beer. Lager. All I know is I'm currently gallivanting about in an insanely atmospheric prison bit that actually evokes feelings of a real prison, it looks very stark and naturalistic, clinical. Not all 'grimy' and overegged.
Oh, and was daydreaming a few hours back on the bus home about motels in videogames, how I always seem to find them pleasant locations, even the ones in Call Of Juarez: The Cartel. I think it's one of the best bits of that game, it's almost like an old skool 1980 Butlins made of motels.
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Any games that have Travelodge-style locations in? There must be one. If they ever make a new Getaway, Travelodge-style locations should be included.
Memories of The Getaway make me smile. Hey, a smile day, couple of days back I was Mr Moodswing and was considering saving up for a guillotine as a painless (sorta) suicide aid. Then I was thinking, if the brain stays alive then surely it'll hurt the head like mad if it hits the deck with a thud. And then I thought of straw baskets with cushions in. And then a big chamber pot of bucket full of gin where the head can bob about and get pissed for a coupla mins until death drops its gavel.
And then I thought of adding a few floating treats, like marshmallows or them things in that American Cereal, Lucky Charms. Little marshmallows I think they were. Them, as well.
Anyway, final image I had was of my burning head bobbing about in a huge silver punchbowl full of bobbing red apples and IGNITED gin, roasting in the alcohol. Or is it something else?
I believe there is a certain term in cooking relating to roasting something in burning alcohol. But I've forgotten the term.
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Happy Attach a Root Vegetable To Your Face Day everyone!Last edited by Zen Monkey; 15-05-2019, 09:59.
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