Tope Hall
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Adventures of Slothy and Lord Thrilling
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Tope Hall
@topehall.bsky.social
· Feb 3
It has often been urged by my traducers that Lord Thrilling does not exist. Well, I am happy to report to yore Lordships that the old man is before me now, even as we speak, enjoying a drop of something cheerful [of course] and looking Slothy squarely in the eyes.
Slothy and Thrilling sat up in The Coach and Horses all Tuesday afternoon [and what a grey afternoon it was too] swilling pints and smoking Marlboros Reds at the tables outside.
November 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Slothy and Thrilling sat up in The Coach and Horses all Tuesday afternoon [and what a grey afternoon it was too] swilling pints and smoking Marlboros Reds at the tables outside.
And Slothy he stumble down the stairway to the loo and piss in the pisser and wonder if this was the wary same pisser that Jeffrery Benard pissed in when he was pissed.
November 1, 2025 at 8:01 AM
And Slothy he stumble down the stairway to the loo and piss in the pisser and wonder if this was the wary same pisser that Jeffrery Benard pissed in when he was pissed.
For breakfast, Lord Thrilling and I had Egg Florentine Sandwiches across from Great Portland Street Station. Our hangovers were severe, but nothing a shot of espresso and fifth Smirnoff couldn’t cure. Once we steadied ourselves, we proceeded to Regent’s Park to twitch.
October 18, 2025 at 7:21 AM
For breakfast, Lord Thrilling and I had Egg Florentine Sandwiches across from Great Portland Street Station. Our hangovers were severe, but nothing a shot of espresso and fifth Smirnoff couldn’t cure. Once we steadied ourselves, we proceeded to Regent’s Park to twitch.
The first day we sawyer a Magpie, a Carrion Crow, a Rose-ringed Parakeet, a Common Wood-Pigeon, a Tufted Duck – my favorite, looking so regal with a bluebill and faraway look in his eyes, a Coal Tit, a Long-tailed Tit and a Eurasian Wren.
October 18, 2025 at 7:19 AM
The first day we sawyer a Magpie, a Carrion Crow, a Rose-ringed Parakeet, a Common Wood-Pigeon, a Tufted Duck – my favorite, looking so regal with a bluebill and faraway look in his eyes, a Coal Tit, a Long-tailed Tit and a Eurasian Wren.
These Prose is spray-painted on the side of old beat-up Boxcars. Rolling through the rain on they way to Detroit, Chicago, Miami -- who the fuck knows?
September 23, 2025 at 6:10 AM
These Prose is spray-painted on the side of old beat-up Boxcars. Rolling through the rain on they way to Detroit, Chicago, Miami -- who the fuck knows?
Precisely at 7:01am EST the whole Universe entered the top of Lord Thrilling's skull and exited [out] through his left ankle. The strongest Buzz yet My Lordship had ever been administered.
September 9, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Precisely at 7:01am EST the whole Universe entered the top of Lord Thrilling's skull and exited [out] through his left ankle. The strongest Buzz yet My Lordship had ever been administered.
He heave up and forward and dig his fingernails into the oaken arms of his tormentor. Some of the witnesses looked away, others cried, and some never forgot what they saw for the rest of their lives.
September 9, 2025 at 5:24 AM
He heave up and forward and dig his fingernails into the oaken arms of his tormentor. Some of the witnesses looked away, others cried, and some never forgot what they saw for the rest of their lives.
The doctor put the stethoscope up to Thrilling's rib cage and nodded to the Warden who lowered the shades. Slothy hand Lord Thrilling a fifth of Jack and tell him: "that was the best show yet!"
September 9, 2025 at 5:21 AM
The doctor put the stethoscope up to Thrilling's rib cage and nodded to the Warden who lowered the shades. Slothy hand Lord Thrilling a fifth of Jack and tell him: "that was the best show yet!"
Correctional Officers quickly ushered them out the back door of the Death House where a long black limousine was waiting.
September 9, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Correctional Officers quickly ushered them out the back door of the Death House where a long black limousine was waiting.
The next day all the northern Florida newspapers reported: '...in his final statement, the Condemned extinguished his Marlboro Red upon the arm of the Chair and proceeded to tell the Warden: "Sir, I am ready to get high."'
September 9, 2025 at 5:15 AM
The next day all the northern Florida newspapers reported: '...in his final statement, the Condemned extinguished his Marlboro Red upon the arm of the Chair and proceeded to tell the Warden: "Sir, I am ready to get high."'
I write this for all the failed Poets in Ann Arbor. And surrounding countryside and environs of Detroit City. No comely lass can save me now. They as foreign to us as pubs we once frequented 30years ago. Perhaps a trifle of talent may have lifted this venture off the ground. What?
September 4, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I write this for all the failed Poets in Ann Arbor. And surrounding countryside and environs of Detroit City. No comely lass can save me now. They as foreign to us as pubs we once frequented 30years ago. Perhaps a trifle of talent may have lifted this venture off the ground. What?
Lord Thrilling roll up a thousand beat up boxcars and rusty gondolas into a huge joint and smoke it down greedily--
"Damn, this is some good shit," saith His Lordship, with smoke pouring out of his ears; "Hope I don't wig out."
"Damn, this is some good shit," saith His Lordship, with smoke pouring out of his ears; "Hope I don't wig out."
August 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Lord Thrilling roll up a thousand beat up boxcars and rusty gondolas into a huge joint and smoke it down greedily--
"Damn, this is some good shit," saith His Lordship, with smoke pouring out of his ears; "Hope I don't wig out."
"Damn, this is some good shit," saith His Lordship, with smoke pouring out of his ears; "Hope I don't wig out."
I have read and digested yore Coleridge. In these cheap motel rooms.
August 7, 2025 at 6:21 AM
I have read and digested yore Coleridge. In these cheap motel rooms.
Turkey buzzards gathered over my Manuscript. The stench was overpowering. Only an ole voyageur like me could drink at such a time as this. I tried to reach the Great Spirit but he was holed up in his 800 room pile in the south of England -- Kent I think it was. Indisposed.
July 29, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Turkey buzzards gathered over my Manuscript. The stench was overpowering. Only an ole voyageur like me could drink at such a time as this. I tried to reach the Great Spirit but he was holed up in his 800 room pile in the south of England -- Kent I think it was. Indisposed.
Lonely ole Funnel Cloud drop out of the sky north of Tecumseh and hit a cornfield running. It hum and buzz and dance a jig and throw-up rotten floorboards and cornstalks.
July 15, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Lonely ole Funnel Cloud drop out of the sky north of Tecumseh and hit a cornfield running. It hum and buzz and dance a jig and throw-up rotten floorboards and cornstalks.
"What in tarnation!" saith Lord Thrilling, coming on as a freaky old farmer. Corncob pipe fall right out his mouth.
July 15, 2025 at 5:24 AM
"What in tarnation!" saith Lord Thrilling, coming on as a freaky old farmer. Corncob pipe fall right out his mouth.
Yore Lordships will never dig my Prose till you get a proper set of headphones.
July 10, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Yore Lordships will never dig my Prose till you get a proper set of headphones.
I saw the Rolling Stones once in the bowels of Reverb Stadium. They looked so small. A strange smell come up when Mick and KeeF walk by.
July 1, 2025 at 5:09 AM
I saw the Rolling Stones once in the bowels of Reverb Stadium. They looked so small. A strange smell come up when Mick and KeeF walk by.
Slothy repair to the Pool Hall to squander the last ten dollars and seventy six cents of his pitiful inheritance. Behind the restrooms, out the backdoor, was the skyscrapers blinking -- 1 mile distant.
June 22, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Slothy repair to the Pool Hall to squander the last ten dollars and seventy six cents of his pitiful inheritance. Behind the restrooms, out the backdoor, was the skyscrapers blinking -- 1 mile distant.
The Detroit Chess Scene was just peaking then. What with the advent of the Sicilian Najdorf. And Conrail. We were all writing. Passing ourselves off as Poets at every opportunity.
June 8, 2025 at 6:22 AM
The Detroit Chess Scene was just peaking then. What with the advent of the Sicilian Najdorf. And Conrail. We were all writing. Passing ourselves off as Poets at every opportunity.
The strongest player [I ever seen] in the ward was Ezra Pound. He was cash money. Tactically, the best Poet to grace the cyan halls of Ypsilanti State Hospital since Lord Thrilling furst set down a chess set. In the Establishment. Back in 1978.
June 8, 2025 at 6:17 AM
The strongest player [I ever seen] in the ward was Ezra Pound. He was cash money. Tactically, the best Poet to grace the cyan halls of Ypsilanti State Hospital since Lord Thrilling furst set down a chess set. In the Establishment. Back in 1978.
It's a fine day here. Orange cat on the patio. Lord Thrilling in the back garden peering through the black tulips.
June 1, 2025 at 7:33 AM
It's a fine day here. Orange cat on the patio. Lord Thrilling in the back garden peering through the black tulips.
Rabelais wrote for the Ladies. Could it be any other way? Why even now [toady] I write for my Lady Tawny Bonnie. They ain't an inch of Interstate from Bangor all the way out to Barstow she don't leave desolate.
May 28, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Rabelais wrote for the Ladies. Could it be any other way? Why even now [toady] I write for my Lady Tawny Bonnie. They ain't an inch of Interstate from Bangor all the way out to Barstow she don't leave desolate.
The 20th Century was a motherfucker. Don't let nobody tell you [no] different. I see you up there. In yore graduate classes -- at some frozen midwestern university -- trying to work it all out. Well, let me give you an example, when I was matriculating at Ypsi State,
May 20, 2025 at 4:56 AM
The 20th Century was a motherfucker. Don't let nobody tell you [no] different. I see you up there. In yore graduate classes -- at some frozen midwestern university -- trying to work it all out. Well, let me give you an example, when I was matriculating at Ypsi State,
they was still employing the Electric Chair to great effect down in Starke. I tried to avert my head and stare down at the floor in a [most] profound manner. But it didn't help none.
May 20, 2025 at 4:55 AM
they was still employing the Electric Chair to great effect down in Starke. I tried to avert my head and stare down at the floor in a [most] profound manner. But it didn't help none.