Bistro Bijou

[Angeline]

We got a BUNCHA snow last night. It's gorgeous out today, now that the sun is out. Messy, but gorgeous.

Here's the beginning of the meme. I hope it will go far.


Top Johnny Depp Facts:
(originals generated in some very interesting chick-parties at My Bar.)

1. Johnny Depp is so hot the Sun gets Depp-burns.

2. Every single one of Johnny Depp's sperm is wearing a tuxedo.

3. Girls don't go through puberty. Johnny Depp thinks of them and they instantly blossom into women.

4. Johnny Depp's gaze has caused 85-year old-women to conceive.

5. Johnny Depp is so hot, God has to go to a therapist for self-esteem problems.

6. Johnny Depp turned wearing filth into a style.

7. The only person hot enough to have sex with Johnny Depp is Johnny Depp.

8. Johnny Depp can turn being a barber into a sexy profession.

9. Johnny Depp is so hot he can make Jerry Bruckheimer look like a good director.

10. Johnny Depp is so hot you can light a cigarette off his ass, but you don't have to smoke around Johnny Depp because he is the answer to all addictions.

11. Johnny Depp is perfect but he cannot go to Heaven because all of the chaste angels would fall from grace.

12. Out of respect, Johnny Depp keeps at least 10 miles away from all convents. Otherwise nuns would not be able to keep their vows.

13. The Great Plains were once an inland ocean but Johnny Depp gave it a long, steamy gaze and all the water boiled away.

14. The Fountain of Youth has finally been found. It is Johnny Depp's cock.

15. If Johnny Depp had been there instead of the serpent, Eve would have eaten the entire tree.

16. Johnny Depp's gaze has the power to compel anyone to do anything. But he has never had to use it; he just asks nicely and gets the same result.

17. Women rip off their clothes whenever they get close to Johnny Depp, but they never get cold because his Hotness creates tropical conditions within a 100-mile radius.

so.

your contributions?

bj

Well I was going to copy this and send it to my Johnny Depp-obsessed daughter, but then I read it. Ahem. Maybe not.

Hello dearest Bijou and good to see you out from under the foot of snow. We got a blizzardy storm today, too, but it only lasted long enough to drop around three inches. Yay!

I think you need to explain what a meme is. (Or maybe you already did.) I looked it up and understand it to be a group of hmmm like colloquialisms that together show a facet of a culture. Is that it?

I have to go write a ghost story now. An erotic ghost story set in Maine. Dear God, I promised my story mentor (the amazing Dr. Mabeuse) that I'd have something (not the whole thing, just something) written by tomorrow. Gulp. Anybody got any ideas?

 

[Homburg]

Perhaps the opposing teams have all translations of the Haka................


English Translation:
It is death! It is death!
It is life! It is life!
This is the hairy person
Who caused the sun to shine
Keep abreast! Keep abreast
The rank! Hold fast!
Into the sun that shines!


.....not quite as intimidating.

Is that the English translation for the "Ka Mate"?

 

[Homburg]

I think you need to explain what a meme is. (Or maybe you already did.) I looked it up and understand it to be a group of hmmm like colloquialisms that together show a facet of a culture. Is that it?

Memes are to cultures as genes are to organisms. Much as you and I, scientifically speaking, are biological engines with the primary purpose of passing our genes on, memes are similar. A cultural ideology is a meme, such as captalism, and successful memes are as critical to the prosperity of a culture as successful genes are to a given organism.

There are really brilliant parallels between genes and memes insofar as propogation, corss-breeding, and evolution are concerned. Cool stuff.

These days, meme is used to refer to a variety of things, including meta-ideas, catchy tunes, concepts that spread like wildfire in pop-culture, etc.

 

[Angeline]

Memes are to cultures as genes are to organisms. Much as you and I, scientifically speaking, are biological engines with the primary purpose of passing our genes on, memes are similar. A cultural ideology is a meme, such as captalism, and successful memes are as critical to the prosperity of a culture as successful genes are to a given organism.

There are really brilliant parallels between genes and memes insofar as propogation, corss-breeding, and evolution are concerned. Cool stuff.

These days, meme is used to refer to a variety of things, including meta-ideas, catchy tunes, concepts that spread like wildfire in pop-culture, etc.

I read about the gene connection, but it didn't make sense to me until I read your explanation. Merci.

 

[unpredictablebijou]

Memes are to cultures as genes are to organisms. Much as you and I, scientifically speaking, are biological engines with the primary purpose of passing our genes on, memes are similar. A cultural ideology is a meme, such as captalism, and successful memes are as critical to the prosperity of a culture as successful genes are to a given organism.

There are really brilliant parallels between genes and memes insofar as propogation, corss-breeding, and evolution are concerned. Cool stuff.

These days, meme is used to refer to a variety of things, including meta-ideas, catchy tunes, concepts that spread like wildfire in pop-culture, etc.

Indeed, and thank you. I'm using it more in the pop culture internet aspect than in the more conventional sociological sense.

Here's the usual Wikipedia take.

I think, played right, this could be as big as the Chuck Norris meme.

It's got legs, baby. That's what I said to myself that night in the bar, anyway...

Well, Angel-eyes, I spose you could always just edit a few to send to the underage...

bj

 

[Angeline]

Indeed, and thank you. I'm using it more in the pop culture internet aspect than in the more conventional sociological sense.

Here's the usual Wikipedia take.

I think, played right, this could be as big as the Chuck Norris meme.

It's got legs, baby. That's what I said to myself that night in the bar, anyway...

Well, Angel-eyes, I spose you could always just edit a few to send to the underage...

bj

Yes, I could and I probably will. Any new Johnny-worship materials from me are deeply appreciated by the girl. Usually expressed as "Omigod mom! Omigod!." Lol. She's so cute.

No ideas on the ghost porn, huh?

 

[champagne1982]

Have you read Ann Rice's Mayfair Witches? Gawd, that's a spookily erotic thing... The demon/ghost/incarnation is like an incubus; evil, sexual and driven to fuck.

I think as long as you have a foggy apparition who can solidify through either possession, ecto-plasm or some kind of metaphysical manipulation that has an extraordinary addiction to ecstacy that it refuses to pass out of the realm of the living until it gets the life screwed out of it, you'll be well on the way to a good lit ghost story.

Johnny Depp makes scars look like art.

 

[Homburg]

I read about the gene connection, but it didn't make sense to me until I read your explanation. Merci.

You are quite welcome! Sometimes it's nice to put my useless, but enjoyable, degree to work.

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Johnny Depp makes scars look like art.

Scars can be art very easily.

 

[champagne1982]

You are quite welcome! Sometimes it's nice to put my useless, but enjoyable, degree to work.

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Scars can be art very easily.

Yes, there are cultures who make scars part of their ritual tribal markings. Contemporary instances are more for adornment although rated up there with piercing and tatooing as personal displays of exhibition and meaning. A couple of pages discussing scarification.

I wear my scars proudly since they show the progression of pain and recovery from life saving and life altering surgeries. They are very utilitarian but by no means would I call them art.

 

[Angeline]

Have you read Ann Rice's Mayfair Witches? Gawd, that's a spookily erotic thing... The demon/ghost/incarnation is like an incubus; evil, sexual and driven to fuck.

I think as long as you have a foggy apparition who can solidify through either possession, ecto-plasm or some kind of metaphysical manipulation that has an extraordinary addiction to ecstacy that it refuses to pass out of the realm of the living until it gets the life screwed out of it, you'll be well on the way to a good lit ghost story.

Johnny Depp makes scars look like art.

Thank you.

The Mayfair Witches is my favorite book by Anne Rice. Obessessive sex, evil, minutae-ridden history, an ancient secret society and New Orleans. Yummy! If it had jazz, too, I'd positivey swoon.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Hey I didnt have any posts saying you were in here ..... I thought you were all struck dumn or left home without telling me .......sobbbbb

 

[unpredictablebijou]

I was somehow unable to get into the forum yesterday afternoon and part of today. Very weird - I could get everywhere on Lit except for the forum. Kept getting that the page couldn't be found.

augh! They can't take my crack away from me like that! Okay, yeah, I could just go have a life and get some work done, but with the finger injury I can't build jewelry right now so really doing my job is not possible for at least another week or two. All I have is this place, and my sloooooow left-hand typing.

so augh!

but it seems to be okay now.

free ice cream sundaes all round! I missed this place. Even for 24 hours. Sick, n'est-ce pas?

Now I'm going to go cheat on the 5/5 since I couldn't get in yesterday to put up my piece.

wilkommen.

bj

 

[Homburg]

I'll be at the corner of the bar drinking decaf and grumbling.

Work =

 

[unpredictablebijou]

I'll be at the corner of the bar drinking decaf and grumbling.

Work =

Poor thing! Here's a decaf, some inappropriate thoughts of chicks in rope, and a promise of a beer just as soon as you're off duty.

bj

 

[Homburg]

Poor thing! Here's a decaf, some inappropriate thoughts of chicks in rope, and a promise of a beer just as soon as you're off duty.

bj

I need to make a sign for the wall above my desk.

The Savage Beast is in.
Soothe me,
Or Fuck Off.​

I'm going to try to find my sociability. Or lift some heavy shit. One or both.

's to everyone.

 

[Angeline]

I need to make a sign for the wall above my desk.

The Savage Beast is in.
Soothe me,
Or Fuck Off.​

I'm going to try to find my sociability. Or lift some heavy shit. One or both.

's to everyone.

I know just the thing. Close your eyes and listen to Julian Bream play Bach's Violin Sonata Fugue on guitar. I guarantee you will let out a deep sigh and then smile.

 

[unpredictablebijou]

Or if you're wired like me, try

this

or

this. (definitely fucking music. Might be lifting music too, I dunno. I only lift heavy things when they're on top of me.)
oh yeah or this.

Not that Julian Bream and Mozart doesn't send me...

yum

bj

 

[champagne1982]

Or if you're wired like me, try

this

or

this. (definitely fucking music. Might be lifting music too, I dunno. I only lift heavy things when they're on top of me.)
oh yeah or this.

Not that Julian Bream and Mozart doesn't send me...

yum

bj

I have a vibration feature built into my headphones.. ermm. Yes, it is fucking music.

 

[unpredictablebijou]

I have a vibration feature built into my headphones.. ermm. Yes, it is fucking music.

glad you like it. sorta in a mood tonight...

It's nice that for a change I'm not already gone when you are checking in here, darlin'. Working a bit late, although I'm off soon cause I'm getting pretty ready for dinner.

What'll ya have?

bj

 

[champagne1982]

I need something light and not too intoxicating... I have to drive tomorrow. Sometimes I feel like I should be a courier and get paid for these neverending 400 mile return trips. Sooo, surprise me, and none of that frou frou grenadine stuff ...

 

[unpredictablebijou]

I need something light and not too intoxicating... I have to drive tomorrow. Sometimes I feel like I should be a courier and get paid for these neverending 400 mile return trips. Sooo, surprise me, and none of that frou frou grenadine stuff ...

A nice glass of Merlot for the lady, and a big thick steak to keep your strength up and cut the alcohol.

http://www.vivid.ro/images/87/Johnny_Weismuller.jpg

Nothing too frothy about that.

400 miles!?!? Dear god.

Here's my weird meditation thought for today:

Victor Mature

Did he steal Joan Crawford's eyebrows or did she steal his? Have we ever seen Joan Crawford and Victor Mature's eyebrows in the same room together?

Just something I think about when there's no one around to distract me.

bj

 

[Homburg]

Or if you're wired like me, try

this

or

this. (definitely fucking music. Might be lifting music too, I dunno. I only lift heavy things when they're on top of me.)
oh yeah or this.

Not that Julian Bream and Mozart doesn't send me...

yum

bj

Lifting music

 

[champagne1982]

I need something light and not too intoxicating... I have to drive tomorrow. Sometimes I feel like I should be a courier and get paid for these neverending 400 mile return trips. Sooo, surprise me, and none of that frou frou grenadine stuff ...

I was just reading the selection in the archival review thread of jd4george's poem. It's funny how a simple phrase evokes such strong emotions in me. I wouldn't have thought it so.

Kyrie eleison brings tears to my eyes just through imagining a choir singing it. It's a beautiful mass.

 

[champagne1982]

A nice glass of Merlot for the lady, and a big thick steak to keep your strength up and cut the alcohol.

http://www.vivid.ro/images/87/Johnny_Weismuller.jpg

Nothing too frothy about that.

400 miles!?!? Dear god.

Here's my weird meditation thought for today:

Victor Mature.

Did he steal Joan Crawford's eyebrows or did she steal his? Have we ever seen Joan Crawford and Victor Mature's eyebrows in the same room together?

Just something I think about when there's no one around to distract me.

bj

Thanks, I had salsa'd pork chops, corn fritters and a salad for dinner, already. The merlot is perfect though.

Did you know your Victor link is dead? It's okay, I googled images of them both and I'm still LOL'ing.

 

[unpredictablebijou]

Lifting music

Songs in the key of Uh.

Yeah, I could probably fuck to that. But for angry fucking music I tend to go to the source.

I was just reading the selection in the archival review thread of jd4george's poem. It's funny how a simple phrase evokes such strong emotions in me. I wouldn't have thought it so.

Kyrie eleison brings tears to my eyes just through imagining a choir singing it. It's a beautiful mass.

Mozart's Requiem does that to me. Don't even have to hear it.

bj