The Shebeen Club Presents:
The True Legend of Gassy Jack
When: 7-9pm, Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Where: upstairs @ The Shebeen, Gaoler’s Mews, Gastown
How: reserve @ lorraine.murphyatgmail.com
How Much: $15 to August 12th, door $20; limited to 25
Dinner and a drink are included in admission
What: A special reading of ‘the true legend of Gassy Jack‘ by Vancouver author and artist Robert Chaplin; he will also discuss his new baby, The Elephant Book
Who: For more info contact: lorraine.murphyatgmail.com
The Shebeen Club is very pleased to present local artist and writer Robert Chaplin. Robert will discuss his newly-launched The Elephant Book, and in keeping with the locale, he will recite his creation “The True Legend of Gassy Jack.” Sean Heather just happens to own the original manuscript, tying things up so neatly an editor would blue pencil “too slick” right alongside!
As usual, we will also feature a fine dinner of bangers & mash or pasta, along with a nice glass of wine, beer or pop. Door prizes, literary community announcements, scuttlebutt, and mingling to rival the Algonquin Round Table to follow.
Meet and Mingle 7-7:30
Reading 7:30-8
Elephantine punning and gassy jacking 8-10 (don’t ask/tell)
raincoaster 
You run a book club? You need to read Animal Farm by George Orwell, a lesson for every well intentioned communist.
Steven, dearie, I’ve almost committed it to memory. What do you want to know about it?
I think I first read it five years before you were born. It’s still within five feet of my desk at the moment.
So are you taking me up on the 500 word essay writing competition? (posted on Boris’s blog) I’m bored, let’s hijack his blog, and when we’re finished we’ll enter Guidos competition for the Edinburgh thingy tickets.
Nope. You have my best wishes for the competition, but as for me it would be too heartbreaking if I had the best essay and then couldn’t take the damn job. Sorry, had some bitter jobhunting experiences lately, to say the least.
Good luck. Why not do the Guido competition at the same time? You’re a Northerner; you can walk to Edinburgh, right?
You wouldn’t want to work in London, or for Boris for that matter. Did you see what he did to that guy for wearing a German football shirt? Imagine what you or I would get for clogging his blog up for the last 6 months! Some mega rich guy I met on a train was kind of offering to think about taking me on in Londonin his company, when I found out he knew Boris I ran a mile.
You reckon Boris would take me on or invite me to the interview and launch into a tirade of abuse?
What are you talking about? You’re the only one supporting his position. He’d probably take you to lunch and get you a girlfriend from the intern central supply.
Oh, and I saw what Boris did to that German. Believe me, when you’re female any man who will put his head there is considered to be solid gold.
And he’d THANK us, of course, for pushing his blog to the top three thousand on Technorati. No comments, no buzz.
What you reckon then should I send him a CV and a covering letter to say ‘hi?’
Yep, that’s what he said on the announcement. Follow the procedure: you know how those Old Etonians are about proper procedures.
It’ll probably be Melissa who’ll get back to you. I expect Boris will be on holiday for a few weeks.
I entered guidos comp – what you think?
11th August 2006 – PRESS RELEASE – THE HOUSE OF CORPORATIONS
Democracy in 21st Century Britain is moving on. The two-chamber system of politics has stagnated, our elected and appointed representatives have become entrenched in silos, unresponsive to the shifting needs of the electorate, who are moving on in the e-world.
In order to restore competitiveness to the legislative process, and consumer confidence in decision making, today we announce a blue-skies-brown-fields urban redevelopment programme that will bring new opportunity to the hardworking families of Britain.
Today we are proud to solicit responses to an open consultation about the future of democracy from all stakeholders of modern Britain. You, the people of Britain, the future of democracy, are invited to respond by no later than the 17th August 2006 and help us decide the most efficient way of moving our record investment in world class public services beyond excellence.
Today we ask you to help us decide which of three options the new House of Corporations follows on a brighter path to the future. Should we:
a) Have a fully appointed chamber to be decided upon by an independent committee.
b) Have a fully independent committee to be appointed by a new Department for Democracy
c) Have a new Department for Democracy to champion the cause of British business throughout the global community?
Responses my be submitted online at http://www.houseofcorporations.gov.uk/consultation.pdf
Ian McDontbother,
Department for Democracy,
House of Corporations,
‘Working together for an excellent New-Britain’
Hey, that’s pretty damn good. What’s your degree in: doublespeak? You’ve got a long future in politics ahead of you.
You think? I wanna win these tickets and flog them on ebay!
I’m sure Guido would approve; he’s very capitalistic.