My Lamma Forums

[Tavis]

Get a load of the nonsense on the cover of HK Magazine: a cartoon of a hoity-toity young gal complaining,

"I hate it when my Lamma mates mooch off me for lunch."

I'm continually defending my beautiful island paradise home against similar slander from my DB based coworkers.

I'm thinking it's time to write a few letters to HK magazine!!

[Alan]

Don't bother, they'll just use it as excuse to make more Lamma "jokes".

[Birdface]

Let's sue them for defamation. If we use Yu Lai Fan's official notepaper and write it in Legalese, it might make them sweat a bit

[Foxy]

This is what keeps the Lamma rents (relatively) low.

[Insomniac]

My favorite Lamma quote was Michael Shakespere for BC mgazine:

"When I mentioned to people that I used to live on Lamma they said, oh, I didn't know you smoke pot".

[Tavis]

Well, if it keeps the rents down and helps to prevent the overcrowding of paradise by uptight metrosexual riff raff then I guess I can learn to put up with a little abuse

[Birdface]

I went to a Persian carpet store looking around and was shown some very nice Nain and Qum rugs. The merchant asked me where I lived. When I said Lamma, he immediately ushered me to another part of the showroom and said "we have some very nice cheap ones too!"

[Marc Antony]

Apart from Savage Love, is anything in HK Mag worth reading?

[taihunggao]

Yeah and Savage Love is syndicated from the US.

May I use this opportunity for some shameless promotion of Brink magazine, a new monthly competitor to that arrogant bunch of Lamma-hating artistes over at HK Magazine.

Published by Tsunami Diaries author Mark Aldred, Brink is art travel & life for Hong Kong. Reader reply cards from the December issue show we have an older readership (45+) than HK magazine; we've got high quality photojournalism, unique art & poetry, a fast growing listings section and... WE LOVE LAMMA! It's free, printed on quality paper, no money is spent on "magazine designer" (yes, we use Arial and Times New Roman with huge variations in size and leading throughout... ) as all our budget is spent on contributors, artists, photographers and our long suffering printers.

I'll leave a bunch in the Waterfront; advertising starts at HK$388 for listing in Things to Do section, HK$888 for directories and full page full colour HK$8,888. Deadline for Chinese New Year issue is Jan 31. Massage, bars, restaurants, photography, art, face-painting, web services, anything you want to promote to HK's monied locals & expats.

And any adventurous souls with some good photojournalism or travel pics from recent travel, drop me a note here, we're looking for contributors for March.

SPECIAL LAMMA DEAL: anyone on our fair isle comes up with the goods, we'll give Lamma Gung a FREE four-colour 1/8th page directory listing in the Chinese New Year issue.

Thanks,

James
Editor at large
Brink

[spinoza1112]

Enjoy it while you have it. I know of several such communities including Door County (Wisconsin), Santa Cruz and Sausalito in CA, that used to be hippie havens and which are now overrun by the *haute bourgeois*.

Door County (Wisconsin) was a paradise if a bit nippy most of the year. I lost my virginity in Door County on the same night the astronauts landed first on the Moon: I have regained it since then.

Sausalito and Santa Cruz were refuges for the not-rich as recently as the 1980s.

Today and in America these have become havens exclusively for the "successful" in monetary terms alone. These people of course deserve their rewards, but some of them have conducted rather nasty campaigns against people with the bad taste not to be rich. That HK magazine cover, for example, makes mere meanness and crudity hip and fashionable. We saw the result of such fashion on Big Brother House, didn't we. And, of course, we see it in this forum.

Don't we.

The cancer starts when local merchants are replaced by chains, so keep an eye out for a 7-11.

The world fortunately remains wide in my experience.

[Insomniac]

Are we the only main HK island that doesn't have a 7-11 left?

[Foxy]

Insomniac, I wouldn't lose any sleep over it ...

[Insomniac]

I wont. But as a side question (or poll) what would you/readers 'allow' to open on Lamma, between:

7-11 / Circle K
McDonalds
Cafe Coral
KFC
Watsons
PnS / Welcome/ Olivers
Starbucks / Pacific Coffee
WC1

[taihunggao]

[chuckm]

[taihunggao]

[Marc Antony]

And HK Mag will stoop low Indeed, even to plagiarism - a couple of years back they blatantly copied my listings guide (31 Days, RIP) and then refused to stump up compensation when I flourished a lawyer in their direction, though they promptly took their copycat off the press. Even had the gall to deny that they had done the deed, despite the fact that some of my copy was included in their text! Beware the dirty dogs - baseball bats ain't good enough. Ye writers of Lamma be warned!

[Alan]

Even worse, for all their sophistication, they don't know the difference between typewriter and typographic quote marks.

[Fortune Chan]

I think it is worth noting here that the Editor of HK mag, one Tom Hilditch, has been a Lamma resident on numerous occasions. During one tenure, he was stopped by the police in a small inflatable boat just off from Power Station beach. It was in the middle of the night, Tom was naked and he was a tad shaky because the acid was a bit stronger than he had expected. The police let him go but only after laughing at his very small willy.

[Foxy]

What would you/readers 'allow' to open on Lamma, between:

7-11 / Circle K
McDonalds
Cafe Coral
KFC
Watsons
PnS / Welcome/ Olivers
Starbucks / Pacific Coffee
WC1


They'd all be here already, if the population was large enough for them to be viable. Fortunately, it isn't, which partly explains the high attrition rate of various takeaway food places, noodle shops, boxing gyms, etc