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alexsarllI have no idea how much impact the Lights Out London idea had overall; it's the summer solstice, after all, so it's not as if our streets would ever be plunged into primordial darkness. But to see the Piccadilly Circus lights out for the first time (intentionally?) since the Blitz...well, it was no elephant, but it was still a London novelty. And all the better for being on my natural path from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
atommickbranesbury in St. James's Park to the wrong Blue Posts (bloody non-Londoners) to the right Blue Posts for the launch of the Phonogram collection. (Non-comics-obsessives - this is the music = magic/Britpop comic I've been rattling on about for months. Now you can buy it all in a collected edition. Kindly do so)
But yes, the lights - however many had or hadn't been extinguished, the solstice gloaming across the West End was the way gloamings should be, so the conditions which enabled that are necessarily conditions of which I approve.
Fvcking Manics fans.
Should you ever doubt the veracity of The Wire's Baltimore, just go here and scroll down to 9.45pm; you can almost tell which camera angles that scene would use, can't you?
(Although it must be added that the rest of the article begs a couple of questions. "Of those eight victims [of gunshot death in an average day in the US]...three are black, four white and one Hispanic". And yet "on this day picked at random, another eight children would lose their lives...Eight were black and one was Hispanic". Random it may have been, but unless you have a particular agenda, why not pick again, to find a day closer to the average? As for the hand-wringing in which the article ends...personally I consider it no cause for sorrow if a victim shoots his mugger. Apparently Gary Younge is sufficiently keen to reinforce the stereotype of the liberal sappy to the point of self-destruction that he feels differently)
atommickbranesbury in St. James's Park to the wrong Blue Posts (bloody non-Londoners) to the right Blue Posts for the launch of the Phonogram collection. (Non-comics-obsessives - this is the music = magic/Britpop comic I've been rattling on about for months. Now you can buy it all in a collected edition. Kindly do so)But yes, the lights - however many had or hadn't been extinguished, the solstice gloaming across the West End was the way gloamings should be, so the conditions which enabled that are necessarily conditions of which I approve.
Fvcking Manics fans.
Should you ever doubt the veracity of The Wire's Baltimore, just go here and scroll down to 9.45pm; you can almost tell which camera angles that scene would use, can't you?
(Although it must be added that the rest of the article begs a couple of questions. "Of those eight victims [of gunshot death in an average day in the US]...three are black, four white and one Hispanic". And yet "on this day picked at random, another eight children would lose their lives...Eight were black and one was Hispanic". Random it may have been, but unless you have a particular agenda, why not pick again, to find a day closer to the average? As for the hand-wringing in which the article ends...personally I consider it no cause for sorrow if a victim shoots his mugger. Apparently Gary Younge is sufficiently keen to reinforce the stereotype of the liberal sappy to the point of self-destruction that he feels differently)
