Comments on: Getting On A Bus http://peteashton.com/2006/02/getting_on_a_bus/ June 2000 to June 2010 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:48:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jez http://peteashton.com/2006/02/getting_on_a_bus/comment-page-1/#comment-1612 Jez Thu, 23 Feb 2006 01:31:29 +0000 http://peteashton.com/2006/02/getting_on_a_bus/#comment-1612 Does Hunt still live in Birmingham? Perhaps you ask him to draw the number 11. I feel then we can bring this matter to a close? Does Hunt still live in Birmingham? Perhaps you ask him to draw the number 11. I feel then we can bring this matter to a close?

]]> By: Pete Ashton http://peteashton.com/2006/02/getting_on_a_bus/comment-page-1/#comment-1611 Pete Ashton Wed, 22 Feb 2006 19:59:52 +0000 http://peteashton.com/2006/02/getting_on_a_bus/#comment-1611 Yes, but Emerson's drawn a London bus. They do tear about, but the Number 11 <i>glides</i>. Which is my point. It looks like a whale <i>and</i> it glides, which is a strange thing to see coming up the road. (Sheesh!) Yes, but Emerson’s drawn a London bus. They do tear about, but the Number 11 glides. Which is my point. It looks like a whale and it glides, which is a strange thing to see coming up the road.

(Sheesh!)

]]> By: Jez http://peteashton.com/2006/02/getting_on_a_bus/comment-page-1/#comment-1610 Jez Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:56:33 +0000 http://peteashton.com/2006/02/getting_on_a_bus/#comment-1610 That bus isn't gliding, it's tearing up the place! That bus isn’t gliding, it’s tearing up the place!

]]> By: Pete Ashton http://peteashton.com/2006/02/getting_on_a_bus/comment-page-1/#comment-1609 Pete Ashton Wed, 22 Feb 2006 06:29:18 +0000 http://peteashton.com/2006/02/getting_on_a_bus/#comment-1609 Gliding like a whale: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteashton/102803856/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/38/102803856_755dd81974.jpg" /></a> See where I'm coming from? Gliding like a whale:

See where I’m coming from?

]]> By: Rob http://peteashton.com/2006/02/getting_on_a_bus/comment-page-1/#comment-1608 Rob Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:53:29 +0000 http://peteashton.com/2006/02/getting_on_a_bus/#comment-1608 Exactly my point! Rather than pissing on your cornflakes, I was hoping to inspire with the knowledge that yours is a shared and growing interest. Now get out there and shake that niche. Exactly my point! Rather than pissing on your cornflakes, I was hoping to inspire with the knowledge that yours is a shared and growing interest.

Now get out there and shake that niche.

]]> By: Pete Ashton http://peteashton.com/2006/02/getting_on_a_bus/comment-page-1/#comment-1607 Pete Ashton Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:36:58 +0000 http://peteashton.com/2006/02/getting_on_a_bus/#comment-1607 Bastard! "<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1843541327/" rel="nofollow">Great British Bus Journeys</a> travels to Britain's most unfashionable towns (using the least reliable method of transport) to uncover the nation's secret history." Ah well, at least there's a market... Bastard!

“Great British Bus Journeys travels to Britain’s most unfashionable towns (using the least reliable method of transport) to uncover the nation’s secret history.”

Ah well, at least there’s a market…

]]> By: Rob http://peteashton.com/2006/02/getting_on_a_bus/comment-page-1/#comment-1606 Rob Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:08:49 +0000 http://peteashton.com/2006/02/getting_on_a_bus/#comment-1606 More bus love here: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/transport/Story/0,,1711688,00.html" rel="nofollow">All Aboard!</a> (Guardian). I reckon your bus journey book could have legs. (ahem.) More bus love here: All Aboard! (Guardian). I reckon your bus journey book could have legs. (ahem.)

]]> By: Pete Ashton http://peteashton.com/2006/02/getting_on_a_bus/comment-page-1/#comment-1605 Pete Ashton Fri, 17 Feb 2006 10:05:37 +0000 http://peteashton.com/2006/02/getting_on_a_bus/#comment-1605 Was thinking about the whale thing as the 11 pulled up today. It does glide along the relatively flat roads around here and it is big like a whale, but in all honesty the reference is to a Hunt Emerson cartoon which I'll try and remember to post a copy of. When you see that it'll make sense. In case it's not obvious, this was the equivalent of a sketch. I was just playing about with words. Expect more of this sort of thing over the next month or so. Was thinking about the whale thing as the 11 pulled up today. It does glide along the relatively flat roads around here and it is big like a whale, but in all honesty the reference is to a Hunt Emerson cartoon which I’ll try and remember to post a copy of. When you see that it’ll make sense.

In case it’s not obvious, this was the equivalent of a sketch. I was just playing about with words. Expect more of this sort of thing over the next month or so.

]]> By: Vince http://peteashton.com/2006/02/getting_on_a_bus/comment-page-1/#comment-1604 Vince Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:58:03 +0000 http://peteashton.com/2006/02/getting_on_a_bus/#comment-1604 Thought it might just be me, but I think Dave C is right. It all reads very nicely indeed, except for the whale thing. Thought it might just be me, but I think Dave C is right. It all reads very nicely indeed, except for the whale thing.

]]> By: Anonymous http://peteashton.com/2006/02/getting_on_a_bus/comment-page-1/#comment-1603 Anonymous Wed, 15 Feb 2006 23:53:51 +0000 http://peteashton.com/2006/02/getting_on_a_bus/#comment-1603 Hurrmmm, the screen reminds me of the all too pervasive amount of media forced in to our field of sound and vision. Almost as if the assumption is that people can't cope for more than a second without something cramming an advert at you (and the evilly inventive sods are thinking up more and more ways to do it by the second). Half the reason I stopped commuting on the tube was that even if you tried you couldn't avoid seeing an advert (even if just in your peripheral vision, trust me I tried!!!) for the entire length of any journey. Hurrmmm, the screen reminds me of the all too pervasive amount of media forced in to our field of sound and vision. Almost as if the assumption is that people can’t cope for more than a second without something cramming an advert at you (and the evilly inventive sods are thinking up more and more ways to do it by the second). Half the reason I stopped commuting on the tube was that even if you tried you couldn’t avoid seeing an advert (even if just in your peripheral vision, trust me I tried!!!) for the entire length of any journey.

]]> By: Dave C http://peteashton.com/2006/02/getting_on_a_bus/comment-page-1/#comment-1602 Dave C Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:55:25 +0000 http://peteashton.com/2006/02/getting_on_a_bus/#comment-1602 "gliding like a whale"... not sure about that one Pete :) “gliding like a whale”… not sure about that one Pete :)

]]> By: Anonymous http://peteashton.com/2006/02/getting_on_a_bus/comment-page-1/#comment-1601 Anonymous Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:11:31 +0000 http://peteashton.com/2006/02/getting_on_a_bus/#comment-1601 And they're off! It's Number 11, Ashton, on the first leg to Perry Barr, with the queue-jumping lady downstairs. What was that about extreme sports? On the telly, or in terms of finding a seat? And they’re off! It’s Number 11, Ashton, on the first leg to Perry Barr, with the queue-jumping lady downstairs.

What was that about extreme sports? On the telly, or in terms of finding a seat?

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