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Ah, Ms. A. My sincerest congratulations on this momentous change in your life. May you and Mr. Eyez wander off into a Maxfield Parrish sunset of drenchy love. You both deserve it.

Everyone, of course, deserves it, but it's nice when it actually happens to someone.

Thank you T-man (and all who offered their congrats). I love you, too, I do, and what's wrong with a little moosic between friends, nu? And speaking of moosic, there was an ad I noticed in the classified section of my paper yesterday for "moose horns." Yes, moose horns, but I don't have $500 to spare and eagleyez looked at me like I have moose horns when I suggested we get some and hang them on the dining room wall. :D

I found a great book at the thrift shop yesterday (all books there are 99 cents; I love it) that made me think of you. It's called Sleeping on the Wing and is edited by Kenneth Koch and Kate Farrell. I knew Koch did a lot with children's writing (one of my first book purchases about this was his Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?), but this one is all about poetry. I think it's written for teachers of writing, but it's muy fascinating. They present a selection of poems from modern poets (everyone from Dickenson and Yeats to Ginsberg and Koch) and follow each selection with a short essay that explains that poet's style and suggests way you can adapt it in your own writing. There are some great challenge possibilities in there. :)

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Thank you T-man (and all who offered their congrats). I love you, too, I do, and what's wrong with a little moosic between friends, nu? And speaking of moosic, there was an ad I noticed in the classified section of my paper yesterday for "moose horns." Yes, moose horns, but I don't have $500 to spare and eagleyez looked at me like I have moose horns when I suggested we get some and hang them on the dining room wall. :D


Congrats - again, after all those repeated false alarms. Grab hold of ee and snuggle and cuddle and let those feelings of joy and relief wash over you. Now you can know that the joy is for real!

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Okay bj — I'm rummaging around back in the kitchen looking for the fixings for a big mug of Suisse Mocha. No booze for this puppy this weekend. It started snowing this morning about seven hours ago and it's supposed to keep going for 48 hours. :eek:

This ain't supposed to be happening -- Lake Erie is frozen over so no lake effect snows, just a 'normal' snowstorm has to come our way with promises of 12-18" by the time it ends. Perfect snuggling weather.

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Okay bj — I'm rummaging around back in the kitchen looking for the fixings for a big mug of Suisse Mocha. No booze for this puppy this weekend. It started snowing this morning about seven hours ago and it's supposed to keep going for 48 hours. :eek:

This ain't supposed to be happening -- Lake Erie is frozen over so no lake effect snows, just a 'normal' snowstorm has to come our way with promises of 12-18" by the time it ends. Perfect snuggling weather.

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We've got weird snow here too - it wasn't supposed to do anything at all but it's been steadily dropping big juicy flakes for about 6 hours now. Won't last tho - it'll all melt by this evening or tomorrow, and the roads are all good.

okay, no booze for you. A lovely suisse mocha and possibly some warm chocolate chip cookies, or for the more refined, maybe some pepparkakor or an assortment of tea biscuits?

oy I'm busy and braindead today but I'm here and I'm listening.

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After waking up to -27 Celcius yesterday morning, I cannot begin to tell you how freakin' gorgeous 8 degrees feels right now. That's right ... prairie blue skies and warm sunshine ... mmmmMarch.
 
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You left in a space between and the first word. Delete that extra space and it should work. It should go Blessed are and so on.

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Would've had the windows open today while driving, but the rain was a bit much for that. Not cold though, just wet.
 
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Actually, the problem is with the ending tag ([/size ]). Remove the space between "size" and the close bracket character (]) so that the tag looks like this: [/size]
 
Keep plugging away at it, UYS! You'll get a handle eventually.

A nice big spiked classy cocoa for lovely Dora, and perhaps something to warm Homburg up as well? like this?


Tzara, doll, good to see you. What'll ya have? Besides one of your brilliant ideas for a monthly challenge?


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A fishbowl-sized snifter of the Grand Marnier for the nice poet.

I must skate now but enjoy tonight's floor show

Have a vastly amusing and inspiring friday night, everyone.

bj
 
Tzara, doll, good to see you. What'll ya have? Besides one of your brilliant ideas for a monthly challenge?
Bijou on the rocks?

Um, maybe not. Hard on the knees, I suspect. ;)

How about a glass of Sonoma-Cutrer Russian River Chardonnay, with a side plate of some slices of Beecher's Flagship and a few of Lesley Stowe's original Raincoast Crisps (fabulous cracker, by the way) to just make it approximating perfect.

Now if you could just persuade UYS to recite quietly in the background Billy Yeats' He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, which she has part of in her sig line or get Angie or Tess to spin some silken Billie for me, I'll just sit mild and silent in the corner getting loopy, finishing off Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men.

We all have our own peacefulnesses, do not we?
 
Bijou on the rocks?

Um, maybe not. Hard on the knees, I suspect. ;)

How about a glass of Sonoma-Cutrer Russian River Chardonnay, with a side plate of some slices of Beecher's Flagship and a few of Lesley Stowe's original Raincoast Crisps (fabulous cracker, by the way) to just make it approximating perfect.

Now if you could just persuade UYS to recite quietly in the background Billy Yeats' He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, which she has part of in her sig line or get Angie or Tess to spin some silken Billie for me, I'll just sit mild and silent in the corner getting loopy, finishing off Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men.

We all have our own peacefulnesses, do not we?

Lady Day? Did I hear a request for some Lady? Well, it doesn't get much silkier than Billie callin for her Lover Man. Sigh. Her voice on that song is the essence of romance and desire. My most favorite thing to do is slow dance with ee to this sort of music. He can be Bogart and I'll play Bergman. :D

And then there's my personal Holiday favorite, Don't Explain. Oh that lyric! And listen to it, so dramatic, like there's a whole opera snuck into that blues.

And maybe some people don't like that I drag my jazz with me everywhere I go, but I love it and besides Taint Nobody's Bizness If I Do
 
Oh that Billie makes me sleepy. And Tzara, did I ever tell you that ee's grandparents owned a house on the Russian River? He spent most Christmases and summers there as a boy--he talks about it like it's nirvana. :)

Now, to wake up, some marvelous Lambert, Hendricks and Ross (I'm a big, big fan of theirs), first saying Everyday I Have the Blues in a tribute to (and accompanied by) the impeccable Mr. Suave himself, Count Basie.

Cloudburst

This one'll make you hungry. Home Cookin!

And of course, their own tribute to our lovely, oh so hip and totally magical Bijou. ;)
 
Lady Day? Did I hear a request for some Lady? Well, it doesn't get much silkier than Billie callin for her Lover Man. Sigh. Her voice on that song is the essence of romance and desire. My most favorite thing to do is slow dance with ee to this sort of music. He can be Bogart and I'll play Bergman. :D

And then there's my personal Holiday favorite, Don't Explain. Oh that lyric! And listen to it, so dramatic, like there's a whole opera snuck into that blues.

And maybe some people don't like that I drag my jazz with me everywhere I go, but I love it and besides Taint Nobody's Bizness If I Do
There ain't no how nothin' wrong with bringin' your own music... leastways not to my parties. I love to listen but I hate selectin'. There's so much to choose from that I feel like I'm missing somethin' by not playin' them all.
 
Ok lets see if this works then I have got to try and figure out what Champ said about the rest of it which has gone waaaaaaaaaaay over my head!
Angeline I have a confession to make Jazz always used to leave me cold not so much the singing but the instrumentals which always seem to be going somewhere but never ever getting there and boring me rigid on the trip
 
Whoooo hoo I did it now I think I will get a new avatar I have flashed enough upper chest for now!
 
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Ok lets see if this works then I have got to try and figure out what Champ said about the rest of it which has gone waaaaaaaaaaay over my head!
Angeline I have a confession to make Jazz always used to leave me cold not so much the singing but the instrumentals which always seem to be going somewhere but never ever getting there and boring me rigid on the trip
It's cause the instructions for visualBasics I gave couldn't stop looking at your cleavage :eek:.

As for jazz, you're missing so much. That genre is like erotica with so many sub-genres that calling it all jazz doesn't make sense. There's cool jazz which is the stuff that's kinda off the wall for me. This is music built off subdominant sevenths and as such always carries tension with it. Many of us can't enjoy the fact that it sounds a little dissonant and mostly doesn't resolve as you mention.

However, I love swing, rhythmic blues, honky tonk and warm jazz, the kind when the sax wails and the trumpets mute all over that smoky bar dance floor. mmm.

So, don't think of it as all jazz that you want to avoid, but maybe put listening to the subgenre cool jazz into the same category as reading stories in an erotica subgenre you can't enjoy; something to be avoided.
 
It's cause the instructions for visualBasics I gave couldn't stop looking at your cleavage :eek:.

As for jazz, you're missing so much. That genre is like erotica with so many sub-genres that calling it all jazz doesn't make sense. There's cool jazz which is the stuff that's kinda off the wall for me. This is music built off subdominant sevenths and as such always carries tension with it. Many of us can't enjoy the fact that it sounds a little dissonant and mostly doesn't resolve as you mention.

However, I love swing, rhythmic blues, honky tonk and warm jazz, the kind when the sax wails and the trumpets mute all over that smoky bar dance floor. mmm.

So, don't think of it as all jazz that you want to avoid, but maybe put listening to the subgenre cool jazz into the same category as reading stories in an erotica subgenre you can't enjoy; something to be avoided.

There are a few kinds of music I just can't take listening to: heavy metal head banger music gives me a heachache and sometimes county is toooo sweet for me. I don't like anything too sappy sounding (heavy string arrangements come to mind) come to think of it.

And yeah Champ knows that there's more swinging jazz, there's more symphonic jazz. There are jazz musicians who care most about melody and those who use it as a starting point to wherever it goes.

But differences are beautiful. I love our differences and embrace them.
 
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