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spinoza1112
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We need
An English, Chinese and Tagalog bookstore (Nick's stall and Bookworm aren't true bookstores but great to have anyway)
Artist's supply shop and stationer's
Newstand carrying International Herald Tribune, Economist and New Yorker, dammit. That lovely lady is great to see on the other side of the dark water but I for one am tired of scratching my nuts and reading the South China Moaning Pest on the inbound trip.
Small movie theater with popcorn called Tivoli showing movies like The Set-up, Out of the Past, Lady from Shanghai, and old mysterious black and white Kung Fu movies from the 1940s, with special effects painted on the film stock, and starring female fighters who become goddesses through suffering, who lose their children and live under the sea.
A couple of hookers
A ferry boat that takes a full hour to get to Central with a bar and cafe and an onboard band
Lamma International Airlines: one flight: to Central: inflight entertainment consisting of 5-minute Chinese Opera performed by the flight attendants and flight engineer if possible. Stick the airport on pylons in Yung Shue Wan bay, and bring back that old Kai Tak feeling of kiss your ass goodbye. I have never experienced Kai Tak, but I am certain somehow it was cheap psycho-analytic therapy.
Joe's American Bar
We DON'T need
Borders, Virgin Books and Records, Starfuck's, 7-11, White Hen, Steak and Shake, Bed Bath Bazonger and Beyond, Louis Vuitton, or Billy Bob's Guns
...for the coffee and the veggie roll at Green Cottage tastes wonderful precisely because it is unique to the Green Cottage, whereas the misery of being told exactly what to do is the taste of Starbuck's, the death of laughter, surprise, and waiter, is fly in my soup we no charge for fly.
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Wow, an informative, clear, well-written, understandable, even funny story without too many big, impressive words and phrases from our Ghost Teacher. He can actually do it! 
This is Lamma-zine-worthy, I think and I've published it with a date of March 21, in full and uncensored. Congratulations!
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spinoza1112
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| Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Lamma-Gung wrote: | Wow, an informative, clear, well-written, understandable, even funny story without too many big, impressive words and phrases from our Ghost Teacher. He can actually do it!
This is Lamma-zine-worthy, I think and I've published it with a date of March 21, in full and uncensored. Congratulations! |
As Napoleon said, Mr. Lamma Gung, of Corsican.
Thanks for your kind words, which understandably contain a teensy bit of anger, at me, perhaps justified, for making such a DRAMATIC exit last fall from this great stage of fools, with such an over the top implication that it was a case of the pearls and the swine in the Good Book.
Which exit was followed by a rather devious return as is usual in forums of this nature: some Great Souled person slays a bullock and makes a final speech, and a few weeks later he is back, like Hamlet's old man:
I am thy Father's spririt
Seriously, now, it is no great shakes as we Yanks say to write in a downsized fashion for the South China Moaning Pest or the Rabbit Fancier's Journal. The problem is finding the willingness to do so. Generally speaking I prefer to sail in strange seas of thought, alone.
Thanks most awfully for your kind words and also for your heroic, if not Augean, if not Homeric labors in keeping this site ship shape in the world of Spam.
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Lamma-Gung
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| spinoza1112 wrote: | | The problem is finding the willingness to do so. Generally speaking I prefer to sail in strange seas of thought, alone. |
Well, that's your prerogative, of course, but if you'd like a wider readership than just yourself and if you'll ever "find the willingness to do so" and take a respite from your usual sailing in strange seas of thought again, then the Lamma-zine is a community platform open to everybody, no matter if the high'n'mighty Editor agrees with the opinions expressed or not.
Any (understandable) writing style and any vaguely Lamma- or Lammaite-related subject matter is welcome, anything from serious, hard-nosed opinions to pure fiction and woolly poems and even plain old SIlly Stuff; plus pictures, videos, animations, whatever!
P.S. Never mind about ever getting me angry, it would be very difficult. I'm one of those annoyingly happy, mellow people with great peace of mind that are very difficult to upset. A very useful temperament for running a community website and forums which have looked like the Augean Stables in the past occasionally, but rarely. So I've felt sometimes not like Herakles, but more like Sisyphus...
There's only one English word that immediately shoots my blood pressure through the top of my skull and causes me to start spitting venom like the most agitated pit viper: The name of your president!
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Nancy
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| And the majority of Yanks, including this one, are with you on that last statement, Lamma-Gung. |
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spinoza1112
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| Lamma-Gung wrote: | | spinoza1112 wrote: | | The problem is finding the willingness to do so. Generally speaking I prefer to sail in strange seas of thought, alone. |
Well, that's your prerogative, of course, but if you'd like a wider readership than just yourself and if you'll ever "find the willingness to do so" and take a respite from your usual sailing in strange seas of thought again, then the Lamma-zine is a community platform open to everybody, no matter if the high'n'mighty Editor agrees with the opinions expressed or not.
Any (understandable) writing style and any vaguely Lamma- or Lammaite-related subject matter is welcome, anything from serious, hard-nosed opinions to pure fiction and woolly poems and even plain old SIlly Stuff; plus pictures, videos, animations, whatever!
P.S. Never mind about ever getting me angry, it would be very difficult. I'm one of those annoyingly happy, mellow people with great peace of mind that are very difficult to upset. A very useful temperament for running a community website and forums which have looked like the Augean Stables in the past occasionally, but rarely. So I've felt sometimes not like Herakles, but more like Sisyphus...
There's only one English word that immediately shoots my blood pressure through the top of my skull and causes me to start spitting venom like the most agitated pit viper: The name of your president! |
President Bush is a psycho. Unfortunately, his particular form of psychosis is normalized in American corporate and government circles. He is the dark heart of the American dream. I'm afraid that Otto von Bismarck's rule ("God protects children, drunkards, and the United States") is in the process of being withdrawn owing to our sins, and "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just".
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Fortune Chan
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| Perhaps we can have a shop that protects children, drunkards, and the United States? |
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spinoza1112
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Great idea, Mr. Chan. A shelter for lost children, beswizzled dipsomaniacs, and American girls on holiday. A sort of hotel, orphanage and rest home all rolled into one.
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Tavis
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| Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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Hows 'bout another coffee shop with comfy chairs, a decent seating capacity. It could be combined with a used bookshop - perhaps a partnership with Nick?
Maybe a head shop?? Would give more substance to the island's rep. 
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spinoza1112
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As long as we are dreaming, a live theater. The Lamma Island Shakespeare Festival, out of doors and in the round. Yeah, yeah, I know: Shakespeare is like a stinkbomb because he is used in the British system to separate sheep from goats. Pity. That's not what he's about.
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Insomniac
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Pawn shop.
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Tam
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| Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:17 pm Post subject: art supplies |
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Speaking about shops needed on Lamma...I do not have a shop but I am selling Art supplies such as Windsor and Newton paints, canvas, easels, brushes etc etc for very competitive prices plus you don't have to go into the city to get it!
I have a catalog ....if you are interested please email me at tamara@vividvibrations.com
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