In which FHC starts to hate London ahead of time

My hotel reservation in London collapsed today which was a pretty serious catastrophe on so many levels. Finding a new hotel in the same area proves to be quite difficult as I know nothing about that awful city and have intentionally forgotten to buy a guide (what’s the name of the gay area btw? Not that it interests me in any way but I have been quite unlucky with the pool boys and valet boys on this continent). I have to stay around Islington (talk about a ridiculous name for a neighborhood), can someone tell me which of these hotels is the closest? (I want to stay next to the angel tube station but not at the Hilton). Traveling is so traumatizing at my age.

It was a tough ebay day as I got oubided on a very rare print of "Babar fights mortgage foreclosure"  and bought a tweed jacket which was too cheap to be good.

Is it also embarrassing that I have never read anything by Arthur Miller but that I am now ing the book which preceded the Da Vinci Code. Not as embarrassing as the fact that we heard LL has been watching “Nip/tuck” in our absence. Man that is embarassing.

Comments

[LL]

You're just jealous that I've found a show to replace Lost in your absence.

[Cub]

FHC, those hotel locations aren't close to Islington, but if you want a gay London experience you should stay at the Soho Hotel. It's near all the appropriate bath houses, many of the are-they-eurotrash-or-just-fags? Brits with bad teeth, and that bar on Old Compton Street where someone threw a nail-studded grenade through the window some years ago. You'll love it.

[Max]

Less criticism of London if you please. Although, if you're going to confine your London experience to some gay ghetto, then you may be about to embark upon a self-fulfilling prophecy.

[kevin d.]

yes, please, max. more of your patented righteous comments. i assure you we all love them and take them to heart.
xoxo

[LL]

Dear Max:

While we're discussing grammar, it might be useful to note that typically one does not "embark" on a prophecy, self-fulling or otherwise.

Finally, commenters who prefer the pretentious "although" and "upon" over their informal - and bloggier - cousins "though" and "on" really need to get a life.