london_others - Profile (original) (raw)

on 5 August 2001 (#292856)

London's Other Population

When a man is tired of London he is tired of life, for there is in London all that life can afford. - Samuel Johnson

london_others is the community for people in London who use the word normal as an epithet.

...to walk alone in London is the greatest rest. - Virginia Woolf

Freaks, geeks, beats, hipsters, trippers, stoners, hippies, crusties, culture jammers, art terrorists, poets, visionaries, explorers, weirdos, oddballs and madmen in the capital and their friends/lovers/conspirators all welcome.

O! her lamps of a night! Her rich goldsmiths, printshops, toyshops, mercers, hardware men, pastrycooks, St. Paul's Churchyard, the Strand, Exeter Change, Charing Cross... All the streets and pavements are pure gold, I warrant you. At least I know an alchemy that turns her mud into that metal - a mind that loves to be at home in crowds. - Charles Lamb

beat generation, beats, britain, choonz, creating situations, crusties, culture jamming, dada, england, explorers, freaks, geeks, hippies, hipsters, kerouac, london, lsd, madmen, poets, stoners, subversion, surrealism, technology, the internet, tripping, uk, visionaries, weed, weirdos