Mind Gap
I love the Tube. It’s a great way to get around. It’s easy, convenient and it’s fun to people watch on the train. It does get stuffy on warm days, though. And there’s a good amount of “skreetchy” going on. Ya gatta cover your ears. Funny… the local Londoners don’t seem to be bothered by the noise. They must’ve gone deaf already.
When the train pulls into the station, gotta love the ‘dusty wind’ on stuffy days… Just don’t stand too close to the Gap!
Some of the stations are REALLY far down, too… Lots of stairs and escalators. It’s a kind of a weird, confined feeling… not for the squeemish.
Currently off-topic, but a note posted today at Slash-Dot (http://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=coffee) cites heavy coffee drinking as countering cancer. Unfortunately, checking the details, the study only applies to prostate cancer — sorry Brig.
Bane: It’s great news for coffee goers… of a feller persuasion. It’s hard to take many of these studies seriously… as next week they’ll say that coffee causes glandular myothropisitus or something (I just made that up). Anyhoo… embrace it fellas… until the next study comes out.
Beetles… Yup, good news. Not too far off topic as it was a decisive subject of yesterday. I had mentioned it back then also. What I love is how those Harvard folks found more coffee gave better results. Funny, though, was how both caffeined and decaffed gave the same results.
Getting back to the comic, Yeah, the underground is alot of fun to ride arround on. I spent quite
alot of time using the tube to get arround Paris.
The writer Bill Bryson has a book about traveling in England. In It he states that sometimes
you can be so far down into the earth, that it would not at all be surprising to see a group of
blackened miners with pickaxes coming off a shift. And yet theres always the rumble of a train
on another unknown line still farther beneath you.
Yeah riding arround on the tube is a great way to get arround.
Rye Bread needs to get himself an all-day pass for the Underground, and do the touristy thing, seeing the sights… Or even do an article about writer’s block in the midst of the capital city’s potential inspiration 😉
What a creepy coincidence. I’m suffering ab it of writer’s block too today, though I only have one article to write and it’s just the beginning that’s getting to me.
Thank you, Ryan, for being my synchronistic buddy.
Underground trains creep me out.
Ah, the power of punctuation.
Brig,
Caught your update on FB.
Hope you feel better soon!
brig…
Sorry to read that your feeling down (thanks Joe).
A Rye-style “mind gap” can be recharging, if welcomed.
Astragali: Yah… great idea! Ryan, are you listening?
Meg: glad we could help. (See Astragali’s suggestion)
Joe & Stick… thanks… I’m feeling a little less crummy now than I did earlier… so there’s improvement. Yay!
Ugh, ‘The Gap’ in creativity. It always seems when you want creativity it’s difficult and when you’re not even thinking of it BAM! There’s an idea.
Don’t you know it! I’m struggling with a sunday idea… have been for 2 days now… bu-u-u-t… I think the light bulb just came on! gatta go!