FT329

[Shady]

I just this second got my mug, had to run out after the delivery driver, couldnt run past ma path as i had no shoes on, luckily the neighbour heard me yelling and she shouted him and he drove back down with it

 

[Loquaciousness]

Tell me about it. I've got some manky old mouse mat.

Who uses mouse mats nowadays?

I have been subscribing that long I didn't even get a mouse mat. I was subscribing before FT was widely available in shops so that probably makes it a lot longer than 15 years.... and yet not even a mouse mat. I may just cancel my subscription and resubscribe, just for a freebie!!! However, I ALWAYS get my mag earlier, so maybe that is my reward.

 

[XEPER_]

The biggest upside to living in Scotland is all the shortbread, tartan, The Krankies, and every single person in the country playing the bagpipes and being steaming drunk all the time.
On top of that I seem to get FT before even the English most months.

 

[XEPER_]

I have been subscribing that long I didn't even get a mouse mat. I was subscribing before FT was widely available in shops so that probably makes it a lot longer than 15 years.... and yet not even a mouse mat. I may just cancel my subscription and resubscribe, just for a freebie!!! However, I ALWAYS get my mag earlier, so maybe that is my reward.

I had a mouse mat. Think the wife threw it in the bin.

Still haven't read the new FT yet - been reading the great book that came in my Bluray set of "The Professionals"!

 

[ramonmercado]

The biggest upside to living in Scotland is all the shortbread, tartan, The Krankies, and every single person in the country playing the bagpipes and being steaming drunk all the time.
On top of that I seem to get FT before even the English most months.

Not to mention the feral Haggis.

 

[Shady]

I love shortbread, but i cant seem to get the Petticoat Tail ones, cause for some reason i find they taste more buttery than the fingered ones

 

[Dinobot]

My copy of FT has just arrived - it sits on my desk until I have finished my work for the day, then I shall feast on the delicious Forteana inside!

 

[XEPER_]

Quite liked the mad gasser and main werewolf pieces although the latter was a tiny bit shallow. Kinda like a watered down Rendlesham Forest tale without the supporting evidence.

 

[Frideswide]

Who uses mouse mats nowadays?

I now realise this is social death though

 

[Frideswide]

it sits on my desk until I have finished my work for the day, then I shall feast on the delicious Forteana inside!

what superb self-discipline Dinobot!

 

[Shady]

I gave mine to the milkman, hes never read it before

 

[ramonmercado]

The Celtic Fringe Piece was interesting but I never heard of MacManus or The Middle Kingdom before. Not in indices of Inventing Ireland by Declan Kiberd* or Ireland 1912 - 85: Politics and Society by Joe Lee**. A rather obscure text. Its worth noting that the Blueshirts came from the counter-revolutionary pro-Treaty nationalist tradition.

* http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674463646

** http://www.irelandhouse.fas.nyu.edu/object/jjlee.html

The Yarri piece was quite good.

As was Naval Gazing. Wonder where Mike Dash got his figure of 200,000 deaths in The Terror from. David Andress: The Terror, Little Brown, 2005; gives a figure of 17, 000 deaths resulting from the Revolutionary Tribunals.

If you took the deaths imposed by the Tribunals, execution of captured rebels in arms, the general horrors of Wr and unchecked disease epidemics and localised famine you might come to a figure of 200,000. But the Royalists were just as responsible for the famines and disease.

200,000 certainly died fighting for The Republic against Monarchist and Catholic inspired uprisings.

 

[Naughty_Felid]

Quite liked the mad gasser and main werewolf pieces although the latter was a tiny bit shallow. Kinda like a watered down Rendlesham Forest tale without the supporting evidence.

Yeah and the first part of the article felt like it was written by a teenager.

 

[Dinobot]

I love shortbread, but i cant seem to get the Petticoat Tail ones, cause for some reason i find they taste more buttery than the fingered ones

Urgh, shortbread! It's just so dry, and the sort of thing eaten by a Lady Pensioner when she wants to feel Cosmopolitan!

 

[Shady]

Thanks a lot lol

 

[Ermintruder]

Has anyone on The Board personally-visited 'The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiousities, Fine Art & Natural History', purported home of 'The Last Tuesday Society'?

This enigmatic emporium (kickstarter funded?) is photoeponymously featured upon the the pages of FT329. The physical address thereof being 11 Mare Street, Hackney, London, was reportedly the home of a Little Shop of Horrors

http://www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org/museum-curiosities/viktor-wynd-museum

"The Last Tuesday Society presents the first all encompassing museum to open in London since the Horniman in 1901. The Museum will present an incoherent vision of the world displayed through wonder enclosed within a tiny space, no attempt is made at classification and comprehensiveness, instead the museum focuses on the pre-enlightenment origins of the museum as Wunderkabinett – a mirror to a world so suffused with miracles and beauty that any attempt at categorization is bound to fail. Where contemporary museumology hides 90% of a collection, attempts to educate and explain, to put the world into neat little labeled drawers dictated by an obscurantist elite establishment that has shown itself in error many time over the centuries & is obsessed with a pedantic overspecialization of so called “knowledge” that means little or nothing to anyone outside it’s narrow little field & oft discredited metanarratives this museum will merely display everything that has glittered & caught the eye of it’s founder – from rare priceless marvels of the natural and scientific worlds like Dodo Bones or speculum to the intriguing beauty of McDonald’s Happy Meal Toys, from old master etchings to prison inmates & mad women’s doodles, occultists paintings and pop art prints, the horrors and wonders of nature, two headed kittens and living coral. By placing the rare and the beautiful on the same plane as the commonplace, banal & amusing this museum seeks not to educate but to subvert, to show the world not in a grain of sand, but in a Hackney basement. The Museum has no overreaching aim beyond the theft of it’s visitors time and the hope that it will provide amusement by return & hopes to fill the vacuum between what the establishment elite believes is worthy of worship & what exists in the world.

- The Museum will include a permanent collection, lectures, parties, exhibitions, cocktails and food. A place for the wraiths and strays of London’s forgotten bohemian world to gather amongst the dead and the beautiful on deep crimson velvet banquettes, sip absinthe & encage in lively and languorous intellectual debate.


The Museum will be divided into two parts – The Upper Galleries with up to two art exhibitions a year and The Wunderkabinett displaying high (& low) lights from the permanent collection in a double vaulted basement, arranged as a gesumskunstwerk in custom built and salvaged museum & jewelry cases. At the end of the final chamber, past the dead babies & butterflies in The Lion Room deep velvet banquettes surround a sarcophagus holding a 19th century human skeleton, surrounded by erotica & overlooked by a caged lion skeleton & a disturbingly powerful Mervyn Peake painting. The Lion Room is available for private hire for dinners and intimate encounters for up to ten people."


Curiosities

Shrunken Head, Asmat Human Trophy Skulls, Tribal Art from New Guinea & The Congo, Tin Toys, Juvenilia, Dolls, a bullet and piece of bone from a boys foot, odd books, two headed calf, kitten & lamb, 8 legged lamb, dead babies, Napoleon’s Death Mask, a casket containing some of the original darkness Moses called down upon earth, hair ball from a cows stomach, kidney stone/bezoar, amber,

Erotica – from the Kama Sutra to Shenga, French 19thCentury water colours & outsider porn, silly books, stone axes, unidentifiable worms…

 

[liveinabin]

All this talk of mugs is making me realise I shouldn't have just continued subscribing continuously for over 15 years, but keep on cancelling and resubscribing .

I have the same complaint. I have had not one free gift in the 15 years since I subscribed.

 

[GNC]

Subscribers even used to receive a free Fortean supplement pamphlet for a while.

 

[XEPER_]

Subscribers even used to receive a free Fortean supplement pamphlet for a while.

Yes but now we get a fabulous special offer mailing every month, of a fantastic cruise for just 20 grand or whatever it is. Sweet.

 

[Swifty]

Has anyone on The Board personally-visited 'The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiousities, Fine Art & Natural History', purported home of 'The Last Tuesday Society'?

This enigmatic emporium (kickstarter funded?) is photoeponymously featured upon the the pages of FT329. The physical address thereof being 11 Mare Street, Hackney, London, was reportedly the home of a Little Shop of Horrors

http://www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org/museum-curiosities/viktor-wynd-museum

"The Last Tuesday Society presents the first all encompassing museum to open in London since the Horniman in 1901. The Museum will present an incoherent vision of the world displayed through wonder enclosed within a tiny space, no attempt is made at classification and comprehensiveness, instead the museum focuses on the pre-enlightenment origins of the museum as Wunderkabinett – a mirror to a world so suffused with miracles and beauty that any attempt at categorization is bound to fail. Where contemporary museumology hides 90% of a collection, attempts to educate and explain, to put the world into neat little labeled drawers dictated by an obscurantist elite establishment that has shown itself in error many time over the centuries & is obsessed with a pedantic overspecialization of so called “knowledge” that means little or nothing to anyone outside it’s narrow little field & oft discredited metanarratives this museum will merely display everything that has glittered & caught the eye of it’s founder – from rare priceless marvels of the natural and scientific worlds like Dodo Bones or speculum to the intriguing beauty of McDonald’s Happy Meal Toys, from old master etchings to prison inmates & mad women’s doodles, occultists paintings and pop art prints, the horrors and wonders of nature, two headed kittens and living coral. By placing the rare and the beautiful on the same plane as the commonplace, banal & amusing this museum seeks not to educate but to subvert, to show the world not in a grain of sand, but in a Hackney basement. The Museum has no overreaching aim beyond the theft of it’s visitors time and the hope that it will provide amusement by return & hopes to fill the vacuum between what the establishment elite believes is worthy of worship & what exists in the world.

- The Museum will include a permanent collection, lectures, parties, exhibitions, cocktails and food. A place for the wraiths and strays of London’s forgotten bohemian world to gather amongst the dead and the beautiful on deep crimson velvet banquettes, sip absinthe & encage in lively and languorous intellectual debate.


The Museum will be divided into two parts – The Upper Galleries with up to two art exhibitions a year and The Wunderkabinett displaying high (& low) lights from the permanent collection in a double vaulted basement, arranged as a gesumskunstwerk in custom built and salvaged museum & jewelry cases. At the end of the final chamber, past the dead babies & butterflies in The Lion Room deep velvet banquettes surround a sarcophagus holding a 19th century human skeleton, surrounded by erotica & overlooked by a caged lion skeleton & a disturbingly powerful Mervyn Peake painting. The Lion Room is available for private hire for dinners and intimate encounters for up to ten people."


Curiosities

Shrunken Head, Asmat Human Trophy Skulls, Tribal Art from New Guinea & The Congo, Tin Toys, Juvenilia, Dolls, a bullet and piece of bone from a boys foot, odd books, two headed calf, kitten & lamb, 8 legged lamb, dead babies, Napoleon’s Death Mask, a casket containing some of the original darkness Moses called down upon earth, hair ball from a cows stomach, kidney stone/bezoar, amber,

Erotica – from the Kama Sutra to Shenga, French 19thCentury water colours & outsider porn, silly books, stone axes, unidentifiable worms…

Ace .. when can I move in ?

 

[GNC]

Yes but now we get a fabulous special offer mailing every month, of a fantastic cruise for just 20 grand or whatever it is. Sweet.

It's not a cruise, it's a trip to Turkey for less than £150! You may never leave! Er, of course I mean, never WANT to leave...

 

[Lodin]

All this talk of mugs is making me realise I shouldn't have just continued subscribing continuously for over 15 years, but keep on cancelling and resubscribing .

You don't need to cancel and resubscribe; most of the special offers are also open to existing subscribers who want to extend their subscriptions. This is how I got most of my Fortean Times mugs, although it did mean, at one point, I was subscribed to the magazine for over two years in advance...

 

[Ermintruder]

..... although it did mean, at one point, I was subscribed to the magazine for over two years in advance...

For reasons of talismanic protection, and as an insurance against potential future insolvency, I'd love to pay for a decade-long subscription to FT. Mind you, the world may be an infinitely-strange place in 2025. Silver suits, hover boards and a War Against Terror (alternative future realities are available, but you just know they all look the same...)