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Friday, 3 October 2008
Friday 03/10/08
And Scott is on the phone and we're talking about the comments that people left to the post yesterday and the emails that they sent me and Scott says: "Yes, the public outpours. London Preppy was the People's Princess and he will be missed". Then the phone goes dead because it's run out of battery. How apt.
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Woooooooooo he's back! Even if its for 5 lines!
I think I want to have sex with Scott now.
See I knew you could not resist! That Scott comment and subsequent battery issue just really needed a post!!!
It's like losing Di all over again... :( Piss.
I will miss you! :)
Can we have an online state funeral somehow?
You saw what ALMOST happened to the Queen for not listening to her people.
One in four wanted to get rid of her.
I feel it is my CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY to advise you on this matter.
Encore?
Well... People's Princess you better get blogging again because Princess Gracie is not impressed. If I have to hear Candle in the Wind there will be words said....
troubled / gav: It's hard to shake the habit. What I certainly can't do again is write endlessly day after day. I think this is the kind of post that I will be doing from now on. When I think of something funny / interesting I want to share, I'll write it
trybaby: I'll let him know
gash: I'd easily volunteer my carcass for that
always: ...as the Prime Minister?
anon: Nah, it's a new show
grace: Don't worry, I've been in touch with Elton John and he didn't think this occasion was important enough for another Candle re-write
As whatever it takes :)
Could you? That would be great. I can't for a response.
call it a comeback?
Well, what do you know, I'm not cold anymore, and you are back, kinda.
Over 100 comments, awesome.
For now on you should update only after 100 comments are made, that way you know that people still want you around.
And, you know, see how desperate we are.
alden / anon: The truth is, I don't know what to do with this blog. I like the interaction and I like writing it, but the extent that I did it left me with no time to do anything else. Maybe I should just write once a week or something so I can do my other writing during the rest of my time.
But would London Preppy Weekly work? Or was the relentless, incessant posting part of the claustrophobic charm?
Just the odd post would keep us happy preppy. And do think of some way to let us know when you are published again.
there's something so purely OCD about checking the blog daily and seeing that you are equally OCD and write daily, which clearly is a big attraction to a lot of people (or maybe only me, who gives a fuck...).
however, i do think that weekly posts would allow you to write something more meaningful and also focus your energies on the rest of your life.
Thank god for that!
Always thought 'Don't cry for me Argentina' would be more your style though...
Once a week or so would work very well I think, although I was already starting to go through withdrawal this morning even though it had only been one day. I think a lot of us would be especially interested in hearing (periodically) about your experiences in Sydney. Of course, Vividblubbery will blast you for not really being dead.
if you could at least do one of those every week even if its a quick one like this i think i can be okay. i think i can make it. at least until i kidnap you, trap you in my basement, give you a laptop, and turn you into my little blogger slave. cause im sure if you were in my position thats what you would do. and yes i would be coming down to the basement for some "alone time" every once in awhile.
p.s. im just joking. dont live in fear. i wont kidnap you. im just not taking this breakup very well. i still dont understand it. was it something i did? was it something i said? have you found someone better?
oldy: Maybe I just won't check then. And let's make a deal that nobody tells me either
dick: Very very good
You really ought to be getting paid for your talent and efforts, so I'm happy about your decision.
This guy (http://waiterrant.net/) turned his blog into a book, so there's no reason you couldn't do the same.
you think thats good? go read my blog. my obsession gets worse. look what you've done to me!!!!!!!!
"It's hard to shake the habit. What I certainly can't do again is write endlessly day after day. I think this is the kind of post that I will be doing from now on. When I think of something funny / interesting I want to share, I'll write it"
I got it in quotes. You can't back out now!!!
Andy
I for one, was happy to see the new post. One can't help but wonder what A Girl would have to say about all this?
Yayyayyy!
Me very much likey the idea of you posting at least once a week.
Or better still, consider this: Keep writing as usual, ok maybe with lower frequency, if you feel strongly about that. But if once in a while you feel that you shouldn't be spending too much time on writing the blog, take a (short) break.
I, and I guess many others, really like you, LP and the writing. So, please come back.
i call shenanigans! what better way to increase the LP idolatry then to fake a death. baby jesus warned about fake idols though... so take care against raining frogs and locusts and shit.
i'm thinking about forming an LPA (london preppy anonymous) group in SF. For other people who log on every day to read as part of our routine. Look... you said you were done and here we are like trained monkeys logging on to read something that isn't there.
There will be 12 steps. Actually only 4 steps repeated 3 times each in honor of OCD.
Just when I was acclimated to the fact you were gone, you go and write another post. Sigh, what am I going to do without your daily insight....but alas, the weekly update shall suffice. Maybe since my reader status is still "trainee" I can take this time to read the older post and remember what it was like to wake up with a new LP post longing to be read....
Mo
Wow. I don't read for a day, and LP is dead? I'm kinda glad I've only been following you recently or it would have been harder to let go. I can't even begin to imagine what some of your readers are going through! Maybe you can be the first blog turned into a movie years later...
jamesr: A Girl stood by my decision, like the good friend that she is
paul: Let me know when/where I can attend these sessions even though that might actually defeat the purpose
Also I had to not publish one comment, because I didn't want to start a slagging match here, but you were spot on [insert wink]
don't tell me you're leaving without comment on 'Womanizer', I feel so cheated
Grace: I can Elton singing it now...
"And it seems to me, you lived your life, like a Preppy in the wind..."
anon: How could I?
Womaniser review: I'm very underwelmed. I'll wait for a performance to be fully disappointed though
You have more class than I do, and you were correct.
What do we call you now? LP is clearly dead and the funeral will take place soon enough and no doubt there'll be pictures, but what do we call this new being, writing these occasional (and appreciated) posts?
Paul, I love the idea. Especially the "counting" part.
LP, if you are planning to attend, let us know, we will take you out for dinner.
;-)
graham: Hmm...George?
I can't do it. It is so unfair.
I shed my tears. I deleted the bookmark (ok, off two of three computers). I stopped peaking at my blackberry two minutes before going to bed just to get a fix. I checked into rehab. It is time to move on. And now. This.
It is like offering gin to a Victorian prostitute.
It is like sticking your foot under the bathroom divider when Larry Craig is in the next stall.
It is like - as j would say - offering cake to a fat kid.
It is irresistible!
Give me the gin. Put the foot under the divider. Damn it, I was a fat 12 year old and I want the fucking cake.
Give it to us London Preppy. Come on. You know you want to you obsessive compulsive, pill popping, manic depressive, espadrille wearing, Anglophile mousakka eating tease!
Ha ha! I'm sorry. But please understand yankee. I'm feeling the same way on the other side. I try to get on with my so called life, but all I can think about on an hourly basis, is "this would make a good London Preppy story".
I keep making notes on my phone about things I need to write about and I pause people to get their quotes right. Notes and quotes that I won't use.
I'm addicted. And I need to kick it.
Meanwhile, I'd be happy to give up all my other activities (including writing aspirations, any career delusions, general "living") if somebody's willing to find me full time to write London Preppy.
For £50,000 I'll write every day for a year, for £200,000 I'll move into your house and write from your living room, for £500,000 I'll buy a house, you can also move in and I'll write from the living room, for £1,000,000 you can completely take me over, kill me and move my dead fingers over a keyboard to write, etc etc
I have enjoyed a number of your posts, and wish you the best of luck. Of course, I thought you were going to Australia on a convict ship or something. Should your writing efforts in fact appear in print, I hope you will alert your ardent fans. Really- Best of Luck to you!
I miss you! What about setting up a LP book club with your reviews and advice?
Because 150 comments is such a nice number, I thought it'd be better to post here. I'm Chinese.
Anyway, if we all behave, can we at least have regular (not super frequent but not few and far apart?) posts, after you've had your time-out?
Virgin LP commenter,
Josh from Malaysia
PS: You and Scott = Ultimate 3some dream.
So, what is the first thing I do this Sunday morning on the PC. Check London Preppy. Damn you LP. Damn you!
I understand this is a symbiotic relationship.
You are the shark, we are the remoras.
We are the bioluminescent bacteria to your anglerfish.
The Amazon fruit bats to your fig tree.
I am so not going to touch the inuendo in that one.
Any, I think someone wrote that LP dying was like the end of Sex and the City. So run with that analogy.
We don't get weekly episdoes, but we do get movies.
So you should be able to make the move from daily posts, to weekly posts and then a book.
It will help you and us off the adiction, until we end up the Egyptian Plovers to your crocodile - not officially a symbiotic relationship, but a nice one nonetheless.
LP, After a few days for the news to sink in I make my first leap into the world of blog commenting, apart from causing me to grapple with the concept of writing to someone who is in reality a complete stranger, part fictional character and from the other side of the world, living a life completely foreign to my own (maybe a little exaggeration there, boring bits likely just the same, all the rest – yes foreign) your supposedly final post has caused me to realise just now that my compulsive viewing of the LP writings is not a problem I suffer alone, therefore my need to write here today can be justified if only to myself and your other readers. I now find, with all the other comments, most of similar sentiment, I have the courage to admit my obsession and commit to writing a few rambling words.
Since coming across your blog not so long ago, I have found myself logging on each day for the sole purpose of reading the next entry and this has on numerous occasions caused me to ask if my internet activities of late are to the outside world considered acceptable? When next time a family member asks me what I have been up to for the last three months or so, can I tell them longing for the next LP entry? musing over what witty comments I might leave in response with the intention of charming LP? Committing my first act of internet stalking (innocent and not very successful) by checking out other readers comments, tracking back on old posts one by one, attempting to find locations where photos exist without the eyes blanked out with the signature red rectangles, even consideration of devoting a day to some google earth tracking, searching for anything that looks like a public swimming pool adjacent to office building and council flats (didn’t follow through – sanity still intact), all due to a person I have never/never likely to meet, a person who wears rubber masks and then posts videos of himself doing the same, a person who despite numerous posts regarding his wardrobe often seems to be lacking a shirt, a person who has a liking for prescription pills second only to my dearly departed grandmother, is this something I can tell them if I am to maintain any dignity at the next family gathering? But I guess in a few weeks time I will no longer have the option to be facing this dilemma, the LP posts and reader comments will have by then ended and I will have to tell them instead that I have found something new, something which fools me into believing I have a life and there is no void needing to be filled. I could find myself a new blog to read religiously, maybe one of the blogs that it now appears you anointed as your successors in one of your very last posts? Do I simply start at the beginning and read all of your entries from beginning to end ignoring the dates and pretending that each post is brand new? The option I am currently leaning towards is scouring all the old posts for the books you have mentioned and or read and after what has been a shamefully long while, force myself to read an actual printed on paper book? At least if I run with the last option, by the time I have completed this task, you will no doubt have that publishing deal and I can recommence the daily read! (the thought of this justifies the exclamation mark, it does, really).
And if all of that doesn’t suffice, I can always attempt interacting with real people again, mmmm, think I’ll still go with the book option.
All the best,
Eamon
What he said.
George,
Very good. Noted.
:)
wow..halfway through the London Preppy funeral the assembled blog addicts hear a knocking from inside the coffin..
Nobody knows if it was the death rattle or someone trying to come out.
It must be hard to stop writing, given how regularly you posted.
I would give the idea of a weekly post some serious thought. It would keep the punters happy and your name in the blogosphere, which isn't such a bad idea if you have ambitions of writing a book.
You don't want the cover to say 'Written by London Preppy who had a really popular blog about 3 years ago.'
But however you play it - your regular blogs will be missed.
x
al: "You don't want the cover to say 'Written by London Preppy who had a really popular blog about 3 years ago"
Yes this is a good point, made by real life friends as well. Noted
so am I to assume you censored my comment?
trybaby: Yes sorry. I take on what you said but I don't want any negative references to others on here
Nahhh.. it's ok. It's your blog right? LOL but I thought it was pretty funny though hah! And you have to admit that I was kinda right tee hee.
It's not quite the same but confessions of a muscler will need to be my new number 1 blog
thanx for being a good morning read and maybe we will meet 1 day
So rumours of your demise were greatly exaggerated? Pah to your attention seeking ways, you have no care or regard for your readers.
*exits melodramatically*
I miss LP
hey - alwaysreadysf -
I'm not sure how to have you drop me a note without getting tons of spam. The first meeting is at Philz coffee. LP - can you facilitate?
LP - you are doing an amazing (best in any blog ever) job of posting & reading comments...
Is this like when David Bowie killed off Ziggy Stardust?
Will London Preppy be reborn as Aladdin Sane?
Or possibly The Thin White Duke?
(I'm not sure how much of a Bowiephile you are, but of course you know 'Dogmanstar' by Suede is basically 'Ziggy Stardust' meets 'Diamond Dogs'?)
Px
Wow. I thought you were kidding. Is there really a meeting? How many people are attending? I hope the requirement is for people to wear a red bar over their eyes....
I think it's time for you to not make a another blog post actually.
Here's a present I found for you on some other blog...
http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll135/amnotblog/lewsey.jpg
always: If such a meeting takes place I need pictures. I NEED PICTURES
bobby: Is this real? It can't be real? IS IT REAL???
HA! YOU need pictures from US?
What has the world come to?
If exclamations mark were allowed, this is where 2 or 3 of them would be very appropriate.
It's is not him, methinks. In fact looks very little like him. Great bod though.
bobby cox - what was on that link? The image had been removed. Sure got LP excited whatever it was.
So there is really an LP support group in San Fran. Wow. Is everything going to have a chest like always ready, cause I just might get on a plane headed to Cali what with all these reedy British boys in London.
LP - can you add an archive section to the site, so if we want to go back and start from the beginning we don't have to click 'older posts' like 800 times.
Done done
um, not to be a bitch, but can you order the 2007 posts, so we can go right back...otherwise we still have to click older posts 400 times (or whatever 223 divided by the number of pages is). Sorry. thanks.
Hope it works now?
nope. all the back ordering is now gone. Oh well.
How dare you leave us like this, now my routine is all jacked up and I have to find something else to fill the void that you have left in my schedule.
I still love you so its okay...don't stay away for too long once a week would satisfy my love of LP
How does it feel to have all these people asking and begging you not to go?
What else can we do or say to get two weekly updates?
Can we expect the james-bond-style pic once you get to Sidney?
Do you like mint ice cream?
All for now, thanks, bye.
haha LP there was a guy at my gym today with a Superman cut shirt. I was very distracted.
Depending on the number of responses I will be glad to host the LP Anonymous meeting at Philz Coffee. A couple of conditions -
- there must be an even number of participants (odd numbers are not acceptable - i will explain later)
- no participant can have over 5 hours of sleep the night before. Extra credit for artificially induced sleep
- I am willing to share responsibility w/ AlwaysReadySF on determining the authenticity of participant
- red bars will be placed on a photo of the group and sent to LP as a show of support
- music will be place... i'm sure you can guess the playlists
- since my bf has only picture tattoos and no word tattoos he will not be invited
- donations will be taken to send LP a gift...showing our appreciation for all the blogging entertainment. Seriously folk, we give to public radio, we give to Obama and we give to the local bars; why not give to LP
- LP, we will ask for words in return, shared first with the SFLPA (San Francisco London Preppy Anonymous)... and then you can give it to others after a 3 day head start. We want to feel special
That's all. I've annoyed myself with this long comment...
anon: I feel very grateful for the comments. Also I feel like I would write something similar if a blog that I read and liked too much suddenly disappeared.
Which James Bond style pic?
Not really for mint ice cream, now chocolate ice cream with some mint as well sure
paul: This all sounds perfect, I couldn't have planned it better myself and I really hope this goes ahead from the bottom of my empty heart
hey what gives??? should i be honoured or was it just a random outburst...???? i did that once....i called him margrat......can you bring scotts dagger when you come to sydney so i can have a chance to steal it from you?.....george
george: Oh sorry, no connection. It's somebody's middle name that I know
Paul, the even number had me sold.
I'm in.
That is two of us, which is an even number but it is still not considered a group, unfortunately.
Who else is in?
I think Anonymous is talking about when Daniel Craig (as Bond) came walking out of the ocean in a rather skimpy suit looking quite fit.
But vanilla is your fav right, perhaps with some chocolate saunce?
Perhaps an LP memorial can be arranged in the D.C. area (DC Cist?).
I constantly check my blog list to see if you've made a weekly update or something :( I miss LP so much!
So LP, when did you start the blog? Because in your archives, it only goes back to March 2007? Because I want to spend my lonely hours alone at home reading all your blog posts and I want to start from the very beginning!
More importantly, when can we expect a sydneypreppy blog?
Home from work late at night, tired, and flipping through my bookmarks... I miss my Preppy! Come back!
oldy: No...chocolate with some chocolate sauce
dl: I started in January 2007 I think. That was on myspace for a bit, but I don't have those posts anymore (or a profile there)
merc: That just doesn't have the same ring, does it?
brian: I'll put a post up later this week. If I do it in a relaxed manner every now and then, I'll have time to do other things that I want too
WOOT 758,080th hit on your blog!!!
Since you are not posting here now, I think you should spend some time on developing your xtube profile...
Bye Bye LP!!! I'll miss your ramblings :0)
Fox
Have you noticed a change in your body now that you don't have your strict diet anymore?
try: I'm the least objective judge of what my body looks like generally, but no, I can't say I've seen any real changes
Wow, there's a guy who works at a sushi place that looks exactly like you.
I was about to jump on him/you but my common sense hit me, and the hunger too, I love sushi.
hey LP. i'd like to think i help get blogging into your system with our first effort way back when.
don't stay a stranger, ya hear.
pete
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