Transatlantic journalist and blogger Clive Davis (one of my favorites since he started blogging a year ago) was in California on account of a media fellowship from the Hoover Institution and we had some drinks in San Francisco the other night. It was a great conversation about books, writing, music, art, politics and the Brit/US cultural divide, though I must admit it may have been slightly sloppy on my part toward the end there.
As they say in his native land: what a diamond geezer...
Okay. I give up. Are you going to tell us what a "diamond geezer" is?
Posted by: Emily at October 13, 2005 04:51 PMi have some purple socks that say "diamond geezer" on them.
they're too ugly to wear in public, but totally something a diamond geezer would wear.
Posted by: kendra at October 13, 2005 05:46 PMhere's a good explanation of diamond geezer:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000642.html
Posted by: kendra at October 13, 2005 05:49 PMThat's the good thing about those blokes across the pond, a Yank would've been offended by such a remark.
Posted by: Zaphod at October 14, 2005 02:48 PMWell as they say in the good old US of A
Cold chillin, that sounds like a crunk time. Fosheezee, bitch cousin.
Posted by: josh at October 14, 2005 05:15 PMI hope he throws your book or one of your records up on his sidebar...
Posted by: slickdpdx at October 14, 2005 09:11 PMWhat is this all about?
Posted by: Jonathan Blanton at October 19, 2005 07:35 PMDiamond means awesome and Geezer means a player type dude...
Its all good.
Posted by: Danny at October 19, 2005 10:11 PM