Bistro Bijou

[The_Fool]

I'd make you smile and giggle. We could listen to blues together, my dear friend.

Making me smile is not a difficult task for you.


I think that line is the start or the end of a blurt.



Oh shit, I had a brain fart.

I think in a way that should be the definition of a poet. If EVERYTHING you say, do, see, feel has the potential to be the vehicle for a poem, then you must me be a poet. Either that or you need some really good medication.

 

[Angeline]

Making me smile is not a difficult task for you.


I think that line is the start or the end of a blurt.



Oh shit, I had a brain fart.

I think in a way that should be the definition of a poet. If EVERYTHING you say, do, see, feel has the potential to be the vehicle for a poem, then you must me be a poet. Either that or you need some really good medication.

Don't forget the blue pickup truck.

You don't have a copy of that poem, do you? The illustrated one we did together? I lost it when I moved north, thought it was on my hard drive, but no...

 

[Anschul]

... you need some really good medication.

Hey, sorry I'm so late to this party, but can I get some of that really good medication? And maybe something stronger? I just got back from my daughter's football (that's football to you, UYS) practice.

 

[The_Fool]

Don't forget the blue pickup truck.

You don't have a copy of that poem, do you? The illustrated one we did together? I lost it when I moved north, thought it was on my hard drive, but no...

No baby, I went looking for it but haven't found it. Maybe it will turn up in some obscure part of my computer one day. Make us both smile.

 

[Eluard]

I suggest you contact Laurel and Manu and get their take on who we should and shouldn't stop. If you read the forum rules, you'll find the limits of what moderators are expected to watch out for. Aside from those, the board polices itself. Senna is allowed to have his opinions, as are you or me or anyone else here who may say things others find unkind, unappealing, unfair, and so on. Unless it is a personal attack that is threatening physcially or about revealing personal information, it's considered free speech, like anywhere. In the past, I've told people--including you--that they might be happier elsewhere because they seem so angry at the way things work here. If they want to do that, it's an option. If they don't, they have take us as we all are.

If you think this place is "arid" then do something to make it less so. Start a thread, a challenge, whatever you can think of to stimulate good writing here. Make suggestions and go for it. That's everyone's responsibility if they want to be an active participant here.

Moderators don't get paid. Our only incentive for doing this is that we love poetry like you and others here do. None of us signed on to be the poetry police. Occasionally I get involved in brouhahahs here and I always regret it when I do because it doesn't help anything and the rules don't change. And I don't make them.

I hope you don't see this as an attack because that isn't my intent at all. I'm just trying to make clear what the role of the moderator at Lit is supposed to be. I love reading your poems and I love reading Senna's poems. I love reading 1201's poems for that matter and he is forever suggesting that I'm doing something underhanded. I'm just here for the poetry and the friendship and laughs.

Anyway, everyone knows that eagleyez is the best poet here. At least that's what he just told me.

Oh and you know you can put Senna on ignore if he bugs you. And one last thing--what intimidates newbies varies depending on whose opinion it is. You say people like Senna scare them away. My Erotic Trail used to tell me that pointing out typos or other kinds of errors in poems scares them away. There's no way the moderators here can be all things to all people, so we don't even try.

Just spent some time perusing the forum rules and I see that, sadly, you are right: first amendment rules here and there are no prohibitions against obnoxiousness, or even for that matter (Champers take note) racist rants. It's open slather. No one here is required to be decent or polite, or much of anything. I can see the upside to this, but I can also see the considerable downside.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

I'm putting out a spread for your brekkie when you return tomorrow.

Fresh squeezed oj

Greek yogurt and fruit

Honey bran bread (made fresh just for you) with cinnamon butter and blueberry jam.

Oh and for dessert (everyone has dessert with breakfast, right?), a chocolate croissant, lovely lemon curd tart and the poet of your choice.

I'm back I have been poked and prodded, wired up and down, pumped up and scanned and some of it bloody hurt and I have a bruise on my breastbone to prove it! One good thing it was held in our club and we knew that nipping through a certain door led to the bar and hot coffee which no-one else discovered. The firm doing the stuff were American and one told me she loved my accent (told her wasn't me who had the accent lol)
Ooooooh all that lovely grub for me? I don't think I have ever had cinnamon butter before only brandy butter on christmas pud and as for the poet of my choice I think I will settle for the first one I lusted after who will remain nameless to protect the innocent!
Homb you seem to be floating on a cloud and long may it continue

 

[UnderYourSpell]

oh drat I have lost the animation

 

[Angeline]

Just spent some time perusing the forum rules and I see that, sadly, you are right: first amendment rules here and there are no prohibitions against obnoxiousness, or even for that matter (Champers take note) racist rants. It's open slather. No one here is required to be decent or polite, or much of anything. I can see the upside to this, but I can also see the considerable downside.

Hi.

To tell you the truth it doesn't bother me because for the most part, problems take care of themself and I've seen writing forums that are very restrictive as far as what you can say and where you can post, and they're much worse, imo, than here.

 

[The_Fool]

Hi.

To tell you the truth it doesn't bother me because for the most part, problems take care of themself and I've seen writing forums that are very restrictive as far as what you can say and where you can post, and they're much worse, imo, than here.

Thinking about the Mods as the bosses of the thread....

Ange. I could just see her stomping her foot and saying, "Now I am really serious about this..."

Eve. No way, she wants to be tied up and bossed around.

Lauren. My favorite kind of boss. Remote, aloof, and seriously distracted and in love.

I would so get fired...

 

[unpredictablebijou]

I think in a way that should be the definition of a poet. If EVERYTHING you say, do, see, feel has the potential to be the vehicle for a poem, then you must be a poet. Either that or you need some really good medication.

Good point. Can it be both, though?

I'm back I have been poked and prodded, wired up and down, pumped up and scanned and some of it bloody hurt and I have a bruise on my breastbone to prove it!

Sounds like a Saturday night with Homburg.

and as for the poet of my choice I think I will settle for the first one I lusted after who will remain nameless to protect the innocent!

Ain't nobody innocent in here, except maybe you.

Angeline, your breakfast sounds divine. I generally skip the meal part and just have dessert for breakfast.

Someone suggested a while back that I open a "real" version of this Bistro. In the subsequent week, two different people came into the shop for the first time and said, "oh wow, I thought this was a restaurant." That had not happened before.

But I'd need a good cook - someone who would come up with one or two interesting things to do each day. I have visions of EE and Ange in the back, snogging next to the pesto sauce and feeding each other spoonfuls of lemon sorbet.

And o the Friday night shenanigans...

*off to dream*

 

[UnderYourSpell]

I adoreeeeeee pesto sauce ...... let me cover you in it and lick it off (form an orderly queue)

 

[unpredictablebijou]

I adoreeeeeee pesto sauce ...... let me cover you in it and lick it off (form an orderly queue)

Me me me me!

When UYS gets too full, I'll pinch-hit, as it were.

OHAI.

I updated the first bistro post with some more links to various things, and I'm still working on the next fridge; there's been a bunch of good poetry in here and I so haven't kept up on it like I should. But soon...

and OHAI: THERE'S A SUPER DOUBLE SECRET LINK IN MY SIG LINE NOW.

Don't tell anybody. But go vote us a buncha 5's - it will improve Will's self-esteem.

bj

 

[UnderYourSpell]

words that slide off the tongue

sensual omnipotent silken skin
soothing impotent sexual themes
chablis sultry sweetness
spilling trickling into open thighs
nectar for the questing tongue,
clitoris engorging cleansing
~~~~~~~sighs~~~~~

 

[Anschul]

Good point. Can it be both, though?





Sounds like a Saturday night with Homburg.



Ain't nobody innocent in here, except maybe you.

Angeline, your breakfast sounds divine. I generally skip the meal part and just have dessert for breakfast.

Someone suggested a while back that I open a "real" version of this Bistro. In the subsequent week, two different people came into the shop for the first time and said, "oh wow, I thought this was a restaurant." That had not happened before.

But I'd need a good cook - someone who would come up with one or two interesting things to do each day. I have visions of EE and Ange in the back, snogging next to the pesto sauce and feeding each other spoonfuls of lemon sorbet.

And o the Friday night shenanigans...

*off to dream*

Did I mention that I was trained as and worked as a chef for six years?
A

 

[Anschul]

I adoreeeeeee pesto sauce ...... let me cover you in it and lick it off (form an orderly queue)

I've got the basil in my garden.

A

ps Okay folks, someone has to teach me how to do multiple quotes.

 

[unpredictablebijou]

Did I mention that I was trained as and worked as a chef for six years?
A

Did I mention that you need to move to Kansas Right Now?

I've got the basil in my garden.

A

ps Okay folks, someone has to teach me how to do multiple quotes.

Okay. See down there on the right where you hit the QUOTE bar to quote someone? Right next to it is a little face that looks like me when I taste a dill pickle. When you see a post you want, hit that. Then hit more on other posts. Hell, hit all of them. THEN go down to the bottom of the thread and hit REPLY over on the left.

Your reply post will come up with all that stuff in it. Then you just type in between them.

---> look kids, I just helped somebody else with a computer question! *so very pitiably proud*


*off to wolf dinner before class. I'll check in later. *

bj

 

[Homburg]

Sounds like a Saturday night with Homburg.

Yeah, that does sound a little bit like Saturday night. More bruising though.

I was particularly emphatic Saturday night.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Did I mention that you need to move to Kansas Right Now?



Okay. See down there on the right where you hit the QUOTE bar to quote someone? Right next to it is a little face that looks like me when I taste a dill pickle. When you see a post you want, hit that. Then hit more on other posts. Hell, hit all of them. THEN go down to the bottom of the thread and hit REPLY over on the left.

Your reply post will come up with all that stuff in it. Then you just type in between them.

---> look kids, I just helped somebody else with a computer question! *so very pitiably proud*


*off to wolf dinner before class. I'll check in later. *
Wooh hoooooo I can do it
bj

Yeah, that does sound a little bit like Saturday night. More bruising though.

I was particularly emphatic Saturday night.

and again lol tsk no one liked me poem sob

 

[Will_and_Bijou]

you never saw this.

 

[unpredictablebijou]

sensual omnipotent silken skin
soothing impotent sexual themes
chablis sultry sweetness
spilling trickling into open thighs
nectar for the questing tongue,
clitoris engorging cleansing
~~~~~~~sighs~~~~~

and again lol tsk no one liked me poem sob

NOT true. I liked it so much I had to go make a couple of calls on the Princess Phone. Just got back. Now going away again.

Yum. So there.

bj


eta: Homburg, just saw your new sig line.
In here you're Hat-boy, Hommie to some, and that's just how it is. My job is to give nicknames whenever possible.

I'm still working on nicknames for Anschul and UYS. they're tougher. You were easy.

 

[Angeline]

you never saw this.

Nope. Not me.

I have had the most beautiful afternoon/evening. It's actually really springlike here today, enough so that we could go out in shorts! (My legs were cold, but still...). We went to this amazing Italian specialty store that opened not too far from us recently. Real buffalo mozzarella, San Marzano tomatoes, the most wonderful cheeses fresh cut from wheels: parm-reggiano, ricotta salada, grana padano. I got good olive oil and balsemic vinegar, mascarpone cheese, capers and pine nuts. Oh god I'm in heaven. Tomorrow I think I'll make panne cotta with strawberries and a leetle balsemic. Did I mention the imported arborio rice? I feel like I died and went to....Venice? No! New Jersey!

 

[Homburg]

eta: Homburg, just saw your new sig line.
In here you're Hat-boy, Hommie to some, and that's just how it is. My job is to give nicknames whenever possible.

I'm still working on nicknames for Anschul and UYS. they're tougher. You were easy.

You are a very special case, darlin. Special.

 

[Angeline]

I've got the basil in my garden.

A

ps Okay folks, someone has to teach me how to do multiple quotes.

Ok, here's the deal. Look next to the buttons for quote and edit at the bottom of a post and you will see (depending on which skin you're using) a few other icons, one of which should look sorta like a sheaf of papers. And if you rest your cursor under it, it will say "multi-quote." Aight? So when you click that icon it turns red (well that's what it does on the skin I use; yours is no doubt dimilar). When it's activated it will quote that post when you hit reply. You click on that little icon for whichever posts you wish to quote and then when you click on reply, voila multi quotes.

 

[RhymeSmith]

you never saw this.

Did too!

 

[Anschul]

Did I mention that you need to move to Kansas Right Now?

bj

What? Again?

and again lol tsk no one liked me poem sob

I do. Yum. In fact, Yum Yum.

Nope. Not me.

I have had the most beautiful afternoon/evening. It's actually really springlike here today, enough so that we could go out in shorts! (My legs were cold, but still...). We went to this amazing Italian specialty store that opened not too far from us recently. Real buffalo mozzarella, San Marzano tomatoes, the most wonderful cheeses fresh cut from wheels: parm-reggiano, ricotta salada, grana padano. I got good olive oil and balsemic vinegar, mascarpone cheese, capers and pine nuts. Oh god I'm in heaven. Tomorrow I think I'll make panne cotta with strawberries and a leetle balsemic. Did I mention the imported arborio rice? I feel like I died and went to....Venice? No! New Jersey!

When are you serving? Are we all invited?

Ok, here's the deal. Look next to the buttons for quote and edit at the bottom of a post and you will see (depending on which skin you're using) a few other icons, one of which should look sorta like a sheaf of papers. And if you rest your cursor under it, it will say "multi-quote." Aight? So when you click that icon it turns red (well that's what it does on the skin I use; yours is no doubt dimilar). When it's activated it will quote that post when you hit reply. You click on that little icon for whichever posts you wish to quote and then when you click on reply, voila multi quotes.

Success!!! Huzzah!!! And who said you can't teach an old dog new tricks?