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Oct. 31st, 2008

  • 9:15 PM
pepper: Pepperpot (Scone)
Heeheeheeheeheeee! There's a thing called Nightmares and Dreamscapes on at the moment, a Stephen King TV adaptation, and everyone's telling these American honeymooners in London, "Crouch End! No! Don't go there! Arr, 'tis not a place for strangers!"

I'm very familiar with the place. It's urban and busy and literary and has the most fantastic bakery. And where they've gone is TOTALLY not Crouch End, in any way, shape, or form. I mean, it has its spooky aspects - it's fairly near Highgate Cemetery for a start - but this is... not it. *is amused*

*looks it up* Yeah, I can understand Stephen King being inspired by Parkland Walk, though.

(Fun facts: Gillian Anderson lived there when she was a child.)

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[identity profile] holdouttrout.livejournal.com wrote:
Oct. 31st, 2008 10:15 pm (UTC)
Lol. I'm amused--it's the same when people try to write things I actually know something about, and I go, "But that is all wrong!"

(this does not happen often to me)
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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
Oct. 31st, 2008 10:36 pm (UTC)
Hee. It was just... I don't remember there being an H.P. Lovecraft tentacled beastie on Crouch End High Street... I'm sure I'd have noticed, what with the traffic chaos that would have ensued...

(Imagine your childhood neighbourhood, and a film with people hearing the place name and going, "Arr, that place be haunted by the turrible ghosts of the many dead buried beneath! Do not go there!")
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[identity profile] holdouttrout.livejournal.com wrote:
Oct. 31st, 2008 10:44 pm (UTC)
Oh my gosh that would be AWESOME. We used to have the most brilliant field for it, too. It was an old orchard, but really most of the trees were gone and it was just wild, with a blackberry hedge to one side that was mostly but not quite all dead, and it would be the PERFECT spooky space.

You know, if they hadn't built houses on top of it.
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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
Oct. 31st, 2008 11:40 pm (UTC)
Aw - it's always a shame when they do that. Always to the neglected, spooky, wild places, too. But maybe it could have ghosts of the orchard haunting the new development? :D

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