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I'm off now!! - except to quickly say a big thank you to all you wonderful people with whom I have shared my thoughts and musings on these threads over the past few months. You are truly valued. No rambling speeches here cos I ain't got the time, but have a good un y'all and drink to each other's health and security for the coming year ahead. Think we'll all need it somehow.

Must dash - got some door-to-door carol singers to pelt with bricks and eggs....

So Marty's off again? Somehow i think this time he means it, Shug. By the way, I'm off soon - to Norway - it's with the Theatre group i'm doing lights for - they've got a mini-tour of Oslo community thaetres and I've got to tag along with them for a four-night stint startin early in new year. Sounds great. Cant wait. :) Dunno about Marty though - he's been up and down lately, something is pissing him off morw than usual.

Todd

So Marty's going again?

How come the martian always gets to say goodbye so many times....just like...Robert Smith?

or...much better... ...just like...Neil ( the hippy ) always reminding his flatmates he's going until (P)rick gets annoyed......

Just for the record, I caught up with our mate Marty over the Christmas break and shared a drink or two at one of our favourite Liverpool watering holes (the Philharmonic pub- wonderful loos here, not kidding). This was the first time we'd met up properly since the bad/good old days of him and myself running the mad fanzine "Treadmill" together in the early 90's. Anyway , he mentioned something about not wanting to contribute anymore if he wasn't feeling welcome. ...he's paranoid about all sorts of things, sounds a bit daft if you ask me. But I haven't been posting as much here to even begin to understand what has been cooking of late to even offer an opinion on his dissatisfaction with things... except to say that I, too, have noticed faint traces of egomania and random victimisation cropping up here and there - I suppose what he meant was, if it stopped being fun, he'd call it a day - but then he's like that with everything so that doesn't come as a surprise in my opinion. But he then went off on one about how shit and beyond hope everyhting was and he just wanted to "do a Richey Manic" - his words not mine - so I think somethings definitely got him worked up to that state. S'weird because we keep in touch quite a lot (phone, email..) and he's always sending me really crazy stuff he's done on CD just to gauge my reaction. The only sad thing is that neitherof us have the time to do any more of these fanzines we used to keep banging out due to other commitments - his band stuff, and my two kids. Ah - if only for the good old days of innocent fun and self-indulgence......

But then hey! At least we both share one thing in common - we both think Christmas is a over-hyped sack of shite..... so all is not lost then. Hmmmm...... ;)

Same here - I'm having to post more shite to paper over the big gap he has left by not being here !

Well mate, last time I spoke to him, he was once again in the process of booking yet another new year flight to Amsterdam, so your Dutch cronies on this board had better prepare for the worst!!! I mean, seriously>......!!!

You can call Marty "twatface" all you want, [as he'll be back in Holland again soon he'd probably not give a monkeys], but if you so much as try it with me, you can forget about gettin' yer skinny lallies over the Atomics cuz I'll be despatching Nora Batty and Thora Hird to your door pronto instead, piggy.... :evil:

Farewell Martin!!!

CU in Rotterdam then, eh?

DJ