What do Jean Arp...
Peter Falk and...
... Lauren Bacall have in common?
They all brilliantly prefigured Liam's birthday, that's what!
TODAY!
Yay!
You all know how to whistle, don't you?!
Posted by at September 16, 2002 07:23 PM*puts lips together and blows*
It sounds like hell, but I just whistled "Happy Birthday."
Posted by: readymade
on
September 16, 2002 07:28 PM
You must be confusing him with that little turd Hans Arp, ColdChef.
Nay, but Liam mentioned he would be fasting and atoning till sunset today (Yom Kippur) and that later he'd be celebrating his birthday. As sunset has long since passed here (not a sip of water) and we have since consumed two bottles of Taittinger and half a bottle of Bushmills we of course drank Liam's health more than once!
Posted by: Miguel on September 16, 2002 07:48 PMHappy Birthday, Liam!
It's a preasure and a plivelege to know you.
Posted by: kafkaesque on September 16, 2002 07:54 PMHey, miguel's liver - I haven't even started!
"We" includes my wife, my mother, my brother and our two best friends. The champagne and whiskey were soaked up by an old-fashioned fish pie made by my English mother, half a wheel of Brie, peach crumble with custard and lots of olives, roasted almonds and After Eights. That works out at about - what? - half a Miller's Lite per capita?
I'm on the vodka now. After forty years of faithful service, Stolichnaya will no longer be represented in Portugal (Moskosvaya having been cut off six months ago) and I've bought a few cases to give it a decent farewell, as I do enjoy it.
Posted by: Miguel on September 16, 2002 08:08 PMWhat is an oldfashioned fish, as compared to a newfangled one? ;-)
Posted by: b****fire on September 16, 2002 08:10 PMParty at Miguel's house! I'll make up the fliers!
Posted by: eyeballkid on September 16, 2002 08:33 PMHappy Birthday, Liam.
I'm firing up some Os Mutantes and thinking of you, man.
The Jewish wing of the household(Pips) is off breaking fast as we speak. Leaving me hear with just my beer nuts and Coca-Cola with lime for company. She's promised to smuggle out some noodle kugel and nova lox for me.
*crosses fingers*
Posted by: jonmc on September 16, 2002 08:40 PMLiam is such a rugged, manly name. It is heavy with the scent of testosterone. I predict a great future for the bearer of the Liam name. Happy Birthday, Mr President!
Posted by: stavrosthewonderchicken on September 16, 2002 08:42 PMwho gold plated that henry moore?
Miguel, forgive my 'Lashon Hara' concerning the new year greeting i made.
(typical clav dum...thing to say:(
may your fast be easy.
have a drink for liam from me.
Yasher koach.
Posted by: clavdivs on September 16, 2002 08:44 PMLiam is such a rugged, manly name.
True enough. My RD in college was named liam, and he had a way with the ladies and of course was nicknamed "lay-em."
no joke
Posted by: jonmc on September 16, 2002 09:02 PMClavdivs - the reason you're Overlord is that you know everything and what you don't know you approach, through intuitive poetry, as well as knowledge. And all without showing it to anyone who doesn't happen to know too...
Like that old cask of Amontillado you placed in Lisbon - Amontillado is from landlocked Jerez in Spain, but that's just pernickety. Lisbon is the right place for casks of Amontillado, cafés and the right Edgar Allan Poe swagger... :)
P.S. The Frenchies and us (but not Argentinian Borges) love him more than you Murricans but call him Allan Poe, I know not why.
Posted by: Miguel on September 16, 2002 09:02 PMHis name is Liam Sanchez, he's American, lived in Brazil, has a Spanish surname and he's Jewish. And he's read all the books and thinks he's read not 0,1%. That's as near as perfect in my book as feckin' perfect. To be perfect he'd need a little African, Italian and some English or Canadian.
Posted by: Miguel on September 16, 2002 09:08 PM(feels shame)
thank you sir.
(hugs all of Lisbon)
Posted by: clavdivs on September 16, 2002 09:59 PM"ouch, Ok, ok, thats enough of that now"
(staightens tie, places fedora upon head)
(muffled)
Hello?
Lil' help, here...
Posted by: guy from Poe's Cask of Amontillado on September 16, 2002 11:41 PMHey, where is Liam? Probably N.A.T.C.H. - Nursing A Totally Crippling Hangover.
Posted by: Miguel on September 17, 2002 05:23 AMHappy belated birthday liam. Send me your address and receive gift.
Posted by: anathema on September 17, 2002 08:59 AMBirthday wishes were general over Lisbon ...
Happy Birthday, Liam!
Miguel, last night you were celebrating a birthday, eating dinner, drinking champagne and bushmills and stoli and posting to the blue at the same time? Wow.
The European Parliament truly needs your skills ...
Posted by: octobersurprise on September 17, 2002 10:03 AMMiguel, last night you were celebrating a birthday, eating dinner, drinking champagne and bushmills and stoli and posting to the blue at the same time? Wow.
yes, but can he dance on the bar?
happy 4-0, liam.
Posted by: witchstone on September 17, 2002 10:38 AMBy the way Liam we all chipped in on your present, one thread over, hope you like hot asses.....
Posted by: thomcatspike on September 17, 2002 11:29 AMThanks, all. I had to put in a couple more days of sinning to make up for all the atoning.
I'm still happily Brazilian and British, despite living in the Axis of Good. But I do plan on becoming president, and will appoint my brown-nosing superfowl friend Secretary of Wigs and Oddities.
BTW, on birthdays in England small kids would sing:
Happy Birthday to you
Mashed potatos and stew
You look like a monkey
And you smell like one too
(Though I guess Miguel would have replaced "mashed potatos and stew" with "pheasant in a cognac reduction and a 1947 Burgundy").
Posted by: liam on September 18, 2002 03:13 PMWell, he took his time but he did come and he took his bow, anglo-brazilian style!
Posted by: Miguel on September 18, 2002 04:25 PMWait a minute, didn't we exchange CDs a ways back, Liam? You don't live in Brazil, do you?
Posted by: kafkaesque on September 18, 2002 04:38 PMMiguel and I just had a seven martini lunch at the Rennaissance Lounge satellite, somewhere over Constantinople. We bon vivants sometimes get confused by mundane geography.
Brazil is the real Axis of Good, and Brooklyn is the Axis of Good Bars. Unfortunately, I live in Manhattan.
Posted by: liam on September 18, 2002 05:07 PMNo, Brooklyn is the Axis of People Telling You Why Living in Brooklyn is So Much Better Than Living in Manhattan Without You Even Asking.
But, I suppose I might be biased because I live in Manhattan.
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