Chaz is L...

[desperance]

...or he will be, on Jan 4th next.

L!!

The feeling is abroad that there ought to be a party. This will be Difficult to Manage, what with cats and cramped space and horrid house and so forth, but it might be done. I'm slightly shy of committing, what with the book still not being finished and so forth, but...

Well, it could happen, that's all I'm saying. [I could make rules: you must wear things beginning with L - lace! linen! lamé! latex! - and only bring gifts or food beginning with L and so forth (not wine: we'll have no Lambrusco here...)(tho' Lafite would be most welcome...). I like rules. People would have to stay Late and be Lovely throughout.]

We could hold the party in L-space, and find the secret passage through to the Lit & Phil; then there'd be plenty of room.

But. What I was vaguely thinking, for people who live a long way away, it's a long way to come for a Sunday afternoon/evening, and then they have all the hassle of getting back.

Soooo, if I declared a subsidiary party all weekend long, a houseparty as it were, would anybody actually like to come? The entertainment would probably consist largely in watching me shop, clean and cook, but there could be music and movies, there would be lots of wine and such, there could perhaps be the famous Chazian tour of Newcastle. People would meet people. I 'spect we could find beds, here and there across the city. If people wanted to come...

People? Comment here if you'd be interested, or else e-mail me separately: chaz at chazbrenchley dot co dot uk.

Comments

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

Ah, I've got until 2010.

[euphoricstimuli.livejournal.com]

Have a lovely time.
Of course you could have aged since then, but when I met you I'd have put you somewhere between xxxv & xxxx so I'm moderately surprised. (unless L means something completely different, in which case I appologise.)

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Hee. I like you. (Last year I found myself in a pub with young persons, who just resolutely and entirely refused to believe how old I was. I kept asserting it, and they said "No, Chaz, really, how old are you...?" I even brandished my I-met-Tolkien card and invited them to do the sums, but they wouldn't have it. I liked them, too...)

[lamentables.livejournal.com]

I'd like to come, for lo, I am Lamentables and Lovely and would fit the theme so well.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Excellent. We will see how things progress...

[kateelliott.livejournal.com]

were you born in the year of the dog? I mean, according to the actual Chinese New Year (which is not the turn of our year, if you see what I mean, which you do).

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Oh yes: I am a dog. An Earth Dog, what is more. Which makes me loyal and trustworthy and stoical and stuff. Damn. Where is the romance, the fire, the éclat? Grace under pressure is all very well, but I'd sooner be graceful under exoticism...

[kateelliott.livejournal.com]

Woof!

(I, too, am a dog. I must also be an Earth Dog, because I just turned, you know, L.)

[slovobooks.livejournal.com]

Far too little notice, I'm afraid. Otherwise, I think we'd both have loved to watch you shop, clean and cook.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Mmm, I only thought of it at the weekend. If I give you notice now for my LX celebration, will you book it in?

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Aha! An extra party at LXCon?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Oh, now. Could we fix that? I expect we could...

[fjm.livejournal.com]

poot. I am in Kendal. But keep me informed because one never knows.

Lager and Lime...

[durham-rambler.livejournal.com]

... was, I recall, the drink of the day when you were born.

What's the building in Nun's Moor Park opposite your house? Can one hire it?

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Also, further beddage available here, throughout some other city...

Re: Lager and Lime...

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Agagagag...

The purple thing? It is, um, a community building of some description. I don't know if it's hirable (is that a word? Looks weird...). Nice idea, though. I'll find out...

[silly-swordsman.livejournal.com]

Chaz is L

As this can't be age (I've seen pictures, I have), it's got to be a hint of the impending rebranding. Lars Larsson? Lottie Lewis? Oh, I know! Louis L'Amour! Perfect name for a romance writer such as... Hang on, someone's saying something here...

Really? Gosh, are you sure? Fancy that... So, not that romantic, then? Oh. Well, that walking drum sounds like it could've been written but the author of Outremer. No?

Ahem. Don't mind me, I'll just be over here in the corner, feeling confused.

[pogodragon.livejournal.com]

I suspect jeremy_m and I would love to, but it is a long way and quite short notice - but if it is at all possible we would be there.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Ohhh. I have to be in Chester on that Saturday. Bother, said Pooh.
A propos of nothing, would you care for dvds of Swordsman 1 and Swordsman 3? We have spares looking for a home (S2 is the easy one to find over here -- Amazon do it). They don't begin with L, but 3 stars the lovely Lin Ching-Hsia (also in 2, along with Lee Lian-jie).

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Boo to Chester (what are you doing in Chester?), but if you can spare the Swordsmen, of course I'd love them. Thank you!

And you must come up sometime. There is still a Kenwood Chef waiting on collection... (Note to self: must make sure it works...)

[bookzombie.livejournal.com]

It sounds like a wonderful idea and if we weren't on another continent we would definitely be there!

We'll have to take you out for a celebratory something or other when we get back.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Bizarre, it is, how people decline to fly back for the esteemed favour of my company. It's been happening all my life. *is still baffled*

[samarcand.livejournal.com]

We will have a bed - if we're in the city at the time (we may be in London that weekend, although we may be back, 'cos of Candy and Max starting school.)

[autopope.livejournal.com]

I'm in Edinburgh: assuming we have satnav by then, we might be up to dropping in and not clogging up your floorspace afterwards. Or something.

[anef.livejournal.com]

I see nobody has mentioned Dorothy Dunnett yet, in which case, let me be the first to warn you:

Beshrew Loose Ladies in the Night
OR LANGUISH LOCKED IN L!!!

[maeve-the-red.livejournal.com]

If I weren't going to be in The Village (Portmeirion) then I surely would Love to.