Bistro Bijou

[Angeline]

She has that "I'm a cool chick" kind of look.
I love that picture of you, Ange! You look like a poet.

Lol! It's the glare of my specs, isn't it? I think they give me a scholarly look. And I still don't have great cheekbones and playful eyes. Or was it great eyes and playful cheekbones. Great mouth and playful cheekbones?

 

[Angeline]

You say the silliest things sometimes...

(on purpose, too!)

 

[WickedEve]

Lol! It's the glare of my specs, isn't it? I think they give me a scholarly look. And I still don't have great cheekbones and playful eyes. Or was it great eyes and playful cheekbones. Great mouth and playful cheekbones?

I don't know. I'm seeing cheekbones. Great smile!

 

[Angeline]

I don't know. I'm seeing cheekbones. Great smile!

I love you, too.

I've been in a big grammatical argument on the AH. I'm going to hang around here from now on. The poets are better writers, Cheffy has good food, you think I'm cute, and Fooly laughs at my jokes! Even if I don't have playful whatevers....

PS My daughter made honor roll! In the marking period with Algebra II and Chemistry, even, Wotta girl!

 

[WickedEve]

I love you, too.

I've been in a big grammatical argument on the AH. I'm going to hang around here from now on. The poets are better writers, Cheffy has good food, you think I'm cute, and Fooly laughs at my jokes! Even if I don't have playful whatevers....

PS My daughter made honor roll! In the marking period with Algebra II and Chemistry, even, Wotta girl!

Mine was making honor roll until 4th grade geometry. I didn't have geometry in the 4th grade... back in... 1357 or 19something. Whenever!
You are cute! And after all these years, you are the glue that holds the poetry forum together. And I'm kind of like the lube.

 

[Homburg]

Wishing an easy feast to my Jewish friends.

There is some cognitive dissonance to my gentile, non-believing ass having any opinion at all over Passover, and honestly finding myself caring about it, reading into it, and worrying about it. There is just something wrong about caring about someone else's religious observances.

It's a surreal moment, and there might be a poem somewhere in that dadaist oddness, but I'm far too scattered to find it. So I will just smell of poems unwritten, and frustrate any lyricist near enough to catch my scent.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

I love you, too.

I've been in a big grammatical argument on the AH. I'm going to hang around here from now on. The poets are better writers, Cheffy has good food, you think I'm cute, and Fooly laughs at my jokes! Even if I don't have playful whatevers....

PS My daughter made honor roll! In the marking period with Algebra II and Chemistry, even, Wotta girl!

I'm still recovering from Champs dissertation (if that's the right word) over on that part of the forum

 

[UnderYourSpell]

See? You DO understand.
G'mornin' love.

Hi everyone, grillin' steaks tonight! Got a basketful of nice baking potatoes, fresh young South Carolina corn, early green beans from Mississippi, and a load of beautiful aged steaks. See ya' all at about five? What could be better than the first grillin' of the season?
Chef

Just hiding my broken heart ~~~~~ sigh ~~~~~~

 

[Blicero]

A "pipe wench " was the name bj gave to a drink they were all conjuring up for me, since I am pipefitter by trade, or boilermaker, if that is what the job calls for

I work construction

Ahhh! This destroys the image I was conjuring of a pipe wench. Picture a coffee house in London circa 1720 and a group of poets, including Pope and that ne'er do well stutterer Dryden, all sitting around smoking long stemmed meerschaum pipes and arguing about the correct spelling of 'Shake-speare', while doxies and wenches lift their skirts and frolic on their laps, saying such things as 'Ohhh Mr Blicero, sir — your 'ands aren't 'arf warm. Could you place em 'ere, sir, for I fear for what my cunny might become without the soft touch of your warm embrasure.' 'I shall place more than that there m'dear — for its gain and profit shall be mighty under my tutelage.'

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Lors oim a good gal mista oi just fell on the toims tha' bad oi havta keep draggin' meself ta the gin 'ouse now an' agin

 

[Tzara]

Mine was making honor roll until 4th grade geometry. I didn't have geometry in the 4th grade... back in... 1357 or 19something. Whenever!

I had geometry in ninth grade. Thank you, Eve, for making me feel my age.

What do they teach the senior year? Tensor mathematics?

You are cute! And after all these years, you are the glue that holds the poetry forum together. And I'm kind of like the lube.

You are the WD-40 of poetry, darlin'. You make everything slick.

 

[Blicero]

Lors oim a good gal mista oi just fell on the toims tha' bad oi havta keep draggin' meself ta the gin 'ouse now an' agin

LOL!

There, there, m'dear, come rest yourself against the hard leather of my riding boots and be not ashamed of your poor attire, which the servants shall soon relieve you of ere long.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Yer wunt be makin' me take one o' them barves will ya mista oil catch me deff o' cowald its only the toffs 'as barves

 

[normal jean]

Anschul!!!


You got SC corn already????

I LIVE here and have yet to find any...fresh, that is

 

[Angeline]

See? You DO understand.
G'mornin' love.

Hi everyone, grillin' steaks tonight! Got a basketful of nice baking potatoes, fresh young South Carolina corn, early green beans from Mississippi, and a load of beautiful aged steaks. See ya' all at about five? What could be better than the first grillin' of the season?
Chef

Yum. EE's boys (aged 12 and 18) are coming for dinner. We're doing our first grilling (bbq chicken) of the season today. It's in the low 50s and for Mainers, that's spring darnit! Mr. Eyez picked up some fresh corn, I put up some homemade baked beans in the slow cooker last night, did a lovely batch of yeast rolls this morning and just put the base for cinnamon ice cream in the fridge. Phew. It'll be lovely, specially if it warms up a bit more and we can sit outside.

 

[Anschul]

Anschul!!!


You got SC corn already????

I LIVE here and have yet to find any...fresh, that is

We know a guy not too far from Beaufort that has rows of covered hothouses (like greenhouses, but way longer--rows and rows of round-top transparent tents) who starts early to get corn out to some of the gourmet markets in the south. As far as I know, he only sells off a flatbed trailer locally, but trucks daily to South Florida, where I am, and it's completely organic, and really expensive, but if you "Jones" for corn the way I do, you'll pay almost anything for good local corn.. It's only as fresh as a day or two off the stalk. That's not really fresh by your local standards, (we don't grow much corn down here, only coconuts, pineapples, sugar, citrus fruits, and marijuana) but it's still way better than anything else around this time of year.

And hey, it's Soup Sunday, y'all (the y'all is for you, Jean). That means today I've whipped up a big batch of an incredible African Peanut soup. To die for. Served with fresh-baked flatbreads and some cooked-up greens and garlic. First seating at five-thirty. BJ, what's on tap?
Cheftain

 

[Anschul]

Yum. EE's boys (aged 12 and 18) are coming for dinner. We're doing our first grilling (bbq chicken) of the season today. It's in the low 50s and for Mainers, that's spring darnit! Mr. Eyez picked up some fresh corn, I put up some homemade baked beans in the slow cooker last night, did a lovely batch of yeast rolls this morning and just put the base for cinnamon ice cream in the fridge. Phew. It'll be lovely, specially if it warms up a bit more and we can sit outside.

I'll trade you recipes for cinnamon ice cream (what kind of forum is this, anyway? Is Martha Stewart moderating?). I just made some last week, and it made the fabulous A delirious, but I think it was a bit too fatty (is that possible for ice cream?) The butter fat stuck to the tongue for an hour after. Maybe it was the quart of heavy whipping cream.
And if Jean can't find fresh corn in South Carolina (we got some shipped in), where'd you find it in Maine?
Chef

 

[unpredictablebijou]

Oh MAN did I miss this place.

When I was awake, that is. In the 72-ish hours I've been away from here, I've spent over half the time asleep. Apparently my body needed me to get the hell out of its way so it could heal.

Honestly, it was merely a minor head cold. But I haven't been sick at all for years and so I'm a complete drama queen about something like that. Loststar can testify - she saw me for a bit on Friday while I was playing at being Jude the Obscure all afternoon.

I'm mostly better - well enough to be back at the shop again anyway, though I'm still taking it easy. I'm inconsolably distraught that I missed Guinness night on Friday, that being my nearly exclusive alcoholic vice, with the exception of the occasional single malt.

A very warm welcome, speaking of single malt, to our latest convert Blicero, who is obviously going to fit quite perfectly in this rowdy and debauched little venue. Blicero, doll, you're certainly doing everything right so far - flirting with the girls, ordering Llagavulin, talking literary obscurities with the hoi polloi.

My immense gratitude to everyone who kept this place hoppin while I was gone. And I'm damn sad to have missed a rare visit from NJ - I hope you kept her to a reasonable amount of tequila, Cheffalove. We need to take good care of our little pipe wench.

Now I'm off to catch up on all the other threads. I agree with Ange - I've hung on the AH. I like it better here. I'm reminded of one of my favorite lines from Harvey:

In this world you can be oh-so-smart or oh-so-pleasant.
I've tried smart. I prefer pleasant.

Bienvenue! My adoration for this place and its population knows no bounds today.

and I think I have a way cool new challenge that will be particularly appreciated by the form poem folks among us. If the shop calms down a bit I'll get that set up.

bj

 

[Angeline]

I'll trade you recipes for cinnamon ice cream (what kind of forum is this, anyway? Is Martha Stewart moderating?). I just made some last week, and it made the fabulous A delirious, but I think it was a bit too fatty (is that possible for ice cream?) The butter fat stuck to the tongue for an hour after. Maybe it was the quart of heavy whipping cream.
And if Jean can't find fresh corn in South Carolina (we got some shipped in), where'd you find it in Maine?
Chef

He got the corn at the supermarket. It's fresh corn...from I don't know where. But it smells great! The cini ice cream has a quart of half and half and just a pint of heavy cream. But it does have 8 egg yolks.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Glad to see you back Bijou as Blicero seems to have the place overrun with Cockney wenches .. you know Cockney I hope if only from the way Dick Van Dyke murdered it in Mary Poppins

 

[Blicero]

Yer wunt be makin' me take one o' them barves will ya mista oil catch me deff o' cowald its only the toffs 'as barves

God's Teeth, m'dear, don't go on so! You shan't have a barve, um bath, but we do need to get those cow pats out of your hair — such lovely golden hair, it's a shame that we can't see it under all that ordure. Just bend over this basin and we shall give that hair a good wash — oops, my hand just slipped up your dress. Well, never mind that and it's up there now so there's nothing that can be done about it. Wash! Wash!

 

[Blicero]

A very warm welcome, speaking of single malt, to our latest convert Blicero, who is obviously going to fit quite perfectly in this rowdy and debauched little venue. Blicero, doll, you're certainly doing everything right so far - flirting with the girls, ordering Llagavulin, talking literary obscurities with the hoi polloi.

Thank you esteemed hostess — I certainly feel right at home!

 

[Blicero]

Glad to see you back Bijou as Blicero seems to have the place overrun with Cockney wenches .. you know Cockney I hope if only from the way Dick Van Dyke murdered it in Mary Poppins

There more than one! *Rubs hands together with glee* Bring on the multitudes!

 

[The_Fool]

rowdy and debauched could never be applied to me. I am so innocent.

 

[unpredictablebijou]

Like this one?

I keep practicing, cause someday I'm going to be able to do that "Aaaaaaooooooowwww" just like she does. I've always loved that particular accent.

You two are turnin' me on with your Cockney selves. And I'll confess, hit me with some rhyming slang and I'm likely to swoon and fall right down me apples and pears.

gads, how embarassingly american I am.
bj