{"id":557,"date":"2005-12-04T00:02:17","date_gmt":"2005-12-04T00:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/home-alone\/"},"modified":"2005-12-04T00:02:17","modified_gmt":"2005-12-04T00:02:17","slug":"home-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/home-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michele works for a company that is essentially funded by public money, yet somehow she is currently getting pissed up on free champagne in Monte Carlo while I sit at home on my own getting pissed up on Vino Collapso from the local Costcutter. Odd, epecially when you consider that I work for one of the biggest capitalist organs on the face of the earth&#8230;for now. Last day: December the 15th. Same day as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatsquirrel.org\/veghead\/pics\/ball2004\/\" target=\"_new\">Christmas Ball<\/a>. I wasn&#8217;t intending to go &#8211; 90% of the Goldsmiths people that I want to remain in contact with, I remain in contact with. The rest can fuck off really&#8230;and the rest will be there. But Brodie called this week and expressed interest in coming along, together with the other Harvey and Col&#8230;so maybe I will come along.<br \/>\nWhilst Michele was being fed grapes, champage and caviar, by the bell boy I was at home with Humph. I&#8217;d planned to go out, but that little bird is a captivating creature. You can&#8217;t just leave her at home if you have a choice, especially when she&#8217;s such good company. So I did some computery things and watched a couple of films:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0037248\/\" target=\"_new\">The Scarlet Claw<\/a> &#8211; pretty poor but Basil and Nige make it all worthwhile.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0033661\/\" target=\"_new\">The Ghost of St Michaels<\/a>: Still really good. Bought it from Amazon because Will Hay is my main man.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0375912\/\" target=\"_new\">Layer Cake<\/a> &#8211; for the umpteenth time&#8230;but it&#8217;s the only other British Gangster film since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0081070\/\" target=\"_new\">The Long Good Friday<\/a> that&#8217;s not only worth bothering with but really worth going out of your way to see&#8230;and lots of it is shot in Greenwich too. \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Before I forget, Michele and Humph were on the letters page of the Daily Mail on Friday. Picture to follow.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Nice night last night too. Ian, Rach, Mod, Mod&#8217;s new Geezer and I met up in Greenwich. We had a couple of pints in the Kings Arms, which is now a theme pub..the theme being Olde English Pubbes. I like that though, especially now they open late. Then we did the long walk of abut 10 inches to the vietnamese restaurant next door for a stupidly large meal&#8230;.followed by a trek back to the pub \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nTip of the day: if you go into a pub after closing time and the bar staff ask you if you just came in, the answer is &#8220;NO!&#8221;. It seems that some pubs have licences allowing them to serve late <i>only<\/i> to punters who&#8217;ve been in there since before closing time.<br \/>\nMore probably&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michele works for a company that is essentially funded by public money, yet somehow she is currently getting pissed up on free champagne in Monte Carlo while I sit at home on my own getting pissed up on Vino Collapso from the local Costcutter. Odd, epecially when you consider that I work for one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}