{"id":584,"date":"2006-04-09T23:37:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-09T23:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=584"},"modified":"2006-04-09T23:37:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-09T23:37:00","slug":"some-weekend-snaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/some-weekend-snaps\/","title":{"rendered":"Some weekend snaps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few low-res pics taken with my new Palm Treo (don&#8217;t worry, I&#8217;ll be boring you guys shitless with all the details soon) <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/apr06-01.jpg\" title=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Friday night: down the Albert and then off for some Smiths\/Motown\/indie boot shaking action on the dance floor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howdoesitfeel.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">How Does It Feel To Be Loved<\/a>, at the no-nonsense Canterbury Arms.<\/p>\n<p>A new <i>aaiee! cover your eyes! the world&#8217;s gone orange!<\/i> paint scheme has sadly seen the disappearance of the old distorting fairground mirrors that used to hang on the wall, but at least the amazing illuminated Manhattan skyline survives.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/apr06-02.jpg\" title=\"Foyles bookstore in Charing Cross Road\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Saturday afternoon we wandered around London and spent hours in Foyles bookstore in Charing Cross Road. There&#8217;s a really good jazz record store and cafe on the first floor. And tons and tons of books.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/apr06-03.jpg\" title=\"Foyles bookstore in Charing Cross Road\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My bookmark! <\/p>\n<p>Years ago I took a, frankly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/london\/lon144.html\" target=\"_blank\">pretty average shot<\/a>  of the Foyles neon sign on my old, super-swivelling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/sony00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sony F55E camera<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, they wrote to me asking to license the image for their range of bookmarks &#8211; and here it is!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/apr06-04.jpg\" title=\"By the campfire at Nu-Urban Towers.\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By the campfire at Nu-Urban Towers. Saturday night was party night in Brixton, and an open fire in the garden gave the evening a mini-festival swing.<\/p>\n<p>I drank lots of Lowenbrau Lager (bought because I liked the blue colour of the cans) and woke up with a hangover (bad) and smelling of wood smoke (nice).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/offline\/images\/albert-15.jpg\" title=\"By the campfire at Nu-Urban Towers.\" border=\"0\" width=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Talking of partying, my birthday celebration\/mini-Offline at the Albert last week was fantastic fun. <br \/>See the drunken evidence <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/offline\/offline-albert-01.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few low-res pics taken with my new Palm Treo (don&#8217;t worry, I&#8217;ll be boring you guys shitless with all the details soon) Friday night: down the Albert and then &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/apr06-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-9q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}