Alex Callinicos/SWP vs Laurie Penny/New Statesman Facebook handbags

[butchersapron]

The comrades have been informed btw.

 

[DotCommunist]

crabapple has to be an assumed name. I'll check. Yes it is. Crabapple

 

[butchersapron]

The shit winds are a blowing. Them shit apples are going to fall.​

 

[articul8]

On the 4th of July, the splendid Ms Molly Crabapple and I are going to Greece to do some reporting, meeting up with activists and community organisers on the ground in Athens and elsewhere. Molly is an artist who lives in a loft full of birdcages

I'm sure the Greeks will be dancing in the fucking streets about this

 

[kavenism]

This thread really is the gift that keeps on giving.

It’s odd she thinks of herself as a fox. To me she’s always been more of a stoat.

 

[butchersapron]

 

[DaveCinzano]

Destination Athens

 

[kavenism]

These last two posts are basically exactly what Penny and Crabapple will be up to, plus a few scatter cushions, scented candles and cheap Ouzo.

 

[JimW]

Well then.
Erk, wrong thread.

 

[love detective]

These last two posts are basically exactly what Penny and Crabapple will be up to, plus a few scatter cushions, scented candles and cheap Ouzo.

just making things happen and shit

 

[rekil]

If she's a "writer" why's she holding a big stubby marker pen?

Maybe it has magic properties. That pic looks like an inadvertently appropriate pre-teen comic fantasy book cover. Laurie And The Magic Marker.


I'm probably doing the pre-teen comic fantasy book cover illustrator community something of a disservice there actually.

 

[butchersapron]

 

[rekil]

 

[DotCommunist]

the red pen is allusion to her 'penny red' name, her gr8 m8 warren ellis (comic book artist) has made reference to it, calls it her pen of justice or something. Goes back to the days when our penny was a humble blogger.

why the fuck do I bother keeping such irrelevant trivia in my head

 

[DaveCinzano]

warren ellis (comic book artist)

He's a Penny not a Crabapple.

 

[Blagsta]

the red pen is allusion to her 'penny red' name, her gr8 m8 warren ellis (comic book artist) has made reference to it, calls it her pen of justice or something. Goes back to the days when our penny was a humble blogger.

why the fuck do I bother keeping such irrelevant trivia in my head

*throws Badseeds and Grinderman CDs away*

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

different Warren Ellis though they both look similar as well as sharing a name

 

[Blagsta]

I know. I was making a joke.

 

[DotCommunist]

indeed he is, my mistake. Loved his work on Freak Angels, and the artist also derves props, post-apocalypse whitechapel was so very well drawn

 

[Bakunin]

Foxy stoat seeks...

 

[DaveCinzano]

I got this via a tweet by a Mother Jones staff writer:

http://mollycrabapple.tumblr.com/post/24985978345

"What is it with bohemian English women and nicknames?"

 

[butchersapron]

I can't stop looking at it.It's so ...shit.

 

[Riklet]

All that is needed is a good old feminised and Pennified version of this fabulous piece of Albanian soviet realism, and then we'll be good to go with the heroic statue building (volunteers wanted now - see latest Workers' Girder)

 

[revol68]

To think I used to laugh at the lack of selfawareness in loyalist murals.

 

[rekil]

Let's look at the facts.

We have:-

• A narcissistic self-styled libertine that espouses a sort of toytown decadence.
• A successful career in spite of possessing no discernible talent.
• And a picture in an attic that gets shitter every time you look at it.

What diabolical hand is at play here?

 

[butchersapron]

Don't go all literary mate.

That reminds me, Penny's book list. Contained Debord. Really.

 

[rekil]

I know I know.

 

[Idris2002]

Let's look at the facts.

We have:-

• A narcissistic self-styled libertine that espouses a sort of toytown decadence.
• A successful career in spite of possessing no discernible talent.
• And a picture in an attic that gets shitter every time you look at it.

What diabolical hand is at play here?

Took me some time to get this one.

 

[DaveCinzano]

What diabolical hand is at play here?

The ghost of Max Gogarty?

 

[love detective]

Took me some time to get this one.

Penny Gray