Bistro Bijou

[Anschul]

Please. PLEASE! Don't say that 'Sestina' word. You'll get everyone all fired up. I have actually woke up in the night worrying over my weak and now trashed attempt. Never again. I'm having enough trouble trying to do a vachel Lindsay poem. Again.

Anschul- I went to read your stories last night and loved the whole page. Left an inane comment on the Warrior one, but when I tried to edit it, or leave a new one it wouldn't let me. I want a copy of that to stick in a book of stuff I have for My Boys. I't wonderfully thought provoking.

I had a similar experience about a daughter I gave up for adoption. If you're interested I'll share. But I don't want to bore anyone. Maybe on the Blog thread.

Of course I'm interested. Blog is probably best (did you see my interaction with NormalJean?) Interaction is why I'm here. An old guy like me getting to have conversations with smart women? What could be better in life? If you feel it's too personal, PM works, too, but there's nothing much that is too personal for me. At my age, I'm just trying to remember stuff (61, by the way).

And, I'm not sure which thing you're referring to (the Warrior one?). Can you give me a title?

And one more thing. Keep saying Publix stuff. I'm moving away from Publix land in about six weeks, never to return, and I'll miss it terribly. Publix is the best grocery store chain I've ever seen, and I grew up in a grocery biz family.

 

[BooMerengue]

Of course I'm interested. Blog is probably best (did you see my interaction with NormalJean?) Interaction is why I'm here. An old guy like me getting to have conversations with smart women? What could be better in life? If you feel it's too personal, PM works, too, but there's nothing much that is too personal for me. At my age, I'm just trying to remember stuff (61, by the way).

And, I'm not sure which thing you're referring to (the Warrior one?). Can you give me a title?

And one more thing. Keep saying Publix stuff. I'm moving away from Publix land in about six weeks, never to return, and I'll miss it terribly. Publix is the best grocery store chain I've ever seen, and I grew up in a grocery biz family.

Publix is too expensive for me.
Publix is too expensive for me.
Publix is too expensive for me.
Publix is too expensive for me.
Publix is too expensive for me.
Publix is too expensive for me.
Publix is too expensive for me.

Enough?

My Uncle, Jimmy Vogts, was VERY involved in groceries. Ring a bell? He lived in Silver Springs, MD and worked in Baltimore. Ooops! Ballmer Owned a distributorship, I believe.

The Warriors Prayer? Where the ghostly guy stepped up to the pulpit and told the truth about war?

I get bogged down doin PM's. Blog it is.

You only got 2 yrs on me DollFace. And since Women mature mature faster than men, Yer still a mere babe.

And btw- did you know mere is NOT a derogatory? I merely means 'pure' as in I am a mere Yankee.

Which reminds me. I now know one of Ange's problems. She's a Red Sox fan. Even when common sense tells her better every time they play.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Inviting all who need it to come an unwind in my garden where the honeysuckle is running riot

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn276/itsannier/honeysuckle1b.jpg

 

[PandoraGlitters]

The Warriors Prayer? Where the ghostly guy stepped up to the pulpit and told the truth about war?

Oh I love a good Warriors reference. Those were the days when being in a gang was romantic.
Unless you meant something utterly different which is very likely.

Either way . . .

Nice to meet you, BooMerengue.

 

[Homburg]

Oh I love a good Warriors reference. Those were the days when being in a gang was romantic.
Unless you meant something utterly different which is very likely.

Either way . . .

Nice to meet you, BooMerengue.

"WAAAAAARRRRRIOOORRRSSS! Come out and PLLLLAAAAAAAYYY!"

 

[Shankara20]

"WAAAAAARRRRRIOOORRRSSS! Come out and PLLLLAAAAAAAYYY!"

didn't we do that once, you and I?


now - where the hell did I put that long sharp pointy thing I used the last time???

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g38/nbright1969/smile%20w%20pets/20.gif

 

[BooMerengue]

Oh I love a good Warriors reference. Those were the days when being in a gang was romantic.
Unless you meant something utterly different which is very likely.

Either way . . .

Nice to meet you, BooMerengue.

Thanks, Pandora! You too.

The Warriors I was talking about were men going off to fight in the Civil War. I can't put a link in but it's on Anschul's Vox page. Just keep scrolling down. It's either Whitman or Twain- I forget.

Sheeeesh....

 

[RhymeSmith]

Inviting all who need it to come an unwind in my garden where the honeysuckle is running riot

Very pretty... I also like your new anime AV!

 

[Homburg]

didn't we do that once, you and I?


now - where the hell did I put that long sharp pointy thing I used the last time???

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g38/nbright1969/smile%20w%20pets/20.gif

Duels should be reinstated. Property dispute? Duel. Guy stole your girlfriend? Duel. Hostile corporate takeover? Duel. Just think of how bad-ass corporate champions would be. Man, you could televise that shit and make a mint.

 

[Anschul]

Publix is too expensive for me.
Publix is too expensive for me.
Publix is too expensive for me.
Publix is too expensive for me.
Publix is too expensive for me.
Publix is too expensive for me.
Publix is too expensive for me.

Enough?

My Uncle, Jimmy Vogts, was VERY involved in groceries. Ring a bell? He lived in Silver Springs, MD and worked in Baltimore. Ooops! Ballmer Owned a distributorship, I believe.

The Warriors Prayer? Where the ghostly guy stepped up to the pulpit and told the truth about war?

I get bogged down doin PM's. Blog it is.

You only got 2 yrs on me DollFace. And since Women mature mature faster than men, Yer still a mere babe.

And btw- did you know mere is NOT a derogatory? I merely means 'pure' as in I am a mere Yankee.

Which reminds me. I now know one of Ange's problems. She's a Red Sox fan. Even when common sense tells her better every time they play.

Okay, I got it...you checked out Fredd's Journey...got it. The story is Mark Twain. It's one of my favorite Twain pieces--I read it in church last year. It was published in a collection of stories called "Letters From the Earth," which catalogue Twain's career in seven stories at seven points in his life, and you can see him getting more and more bitter about life in general and God specifically. It was originally written as an op-ed piece for a newspaper. It is, to me, one of the greatest anti-war stories (that and The Bridge at San Luis Rey).

About Publix, yeah, there is that...

And about Ange's Red Sox thing, I forgive her because I love her. But I can't think of another single Sawcks fan that I like.

Sawcks, right, Ange?

Inviting all who need it to come an unwind in my garden where the honeysuckle is running riot

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn276/itsannier/honeysuckle1b.jpg

Okay, we finally got an actual picture of Annie. It's about time.

 

[unpredictablebijou]

I'd suckle that honey.

ohai Homburg, yer link is bust. I wanna see what it was *slight whine*.

I'll echo Hommie's litblog sentiment in here. This is an astounding little village, particularly the lack of snark and ego and the high level of skill and legitimate cred.

I get all snarky and egotistical just thinking about how cool it is to hang with you people.

Ange, how did you know about my Drama Queen Outfit? You must be psychic.

I've been rearranging both the shop and my head all day, but this is such a lovely place to take a break. and of course, now I'm thinking a lot about swordfights.

If Shanka-sama and Homburg ever go there, I'll be in the front row. lolz.

bj

 

[Homburg]

I'd suckle that honey.

ohai Homburg, yer link is bust. I wanna see what it was *slight whine*.

I'll echo Hommie's litblog sentiment in here. This is an astounding little village, particularly the lack of snark and ego and the high level of skill and legitimate cred.

I get all snarky and egotistical just thinking about how cool it is to hang with you people.

Ange, how did you know about my Drama Queen Outfit? You must be psychic.

I've been rearranging both the shop and my head all day, but this is such a lovely place to take a break. and of course, now I'm thinking a lot about swordfights.

If Shanka-sama and Homburg ever go there, I'll be in the front row. lolz.

bj

I can't make it work now either. It was one of those motivational posters, black border, with a pic of a lady bug looking into the camera, and the text said:

Oh.
Hi.​

It made me think of you.

And all of my cred is entirely illegitimate. Bastard cred, it is, bemoaning a cruel fate that left it sans a surname to attach itself too. [Father] was a regiment in town for an hour, to misquote Aldonza. Some day I may adopt some cred to give it a proper name....

 

[Angeline]

I'd suckle that honey.

ohai Homburg, yer link is bust. I wanna see what it was *slight whine*.

I'll echo Hommie's litblog sentiment in here. This is an astounding little village, particularly the lack of snark and ego and the high level of skill and legitimate cred.

I get all snarky and egotistical just thinking about how cool it is to hang with you people.

Ange, how did you know about my Drama Queen Outfit? You must be psychic.

I've been rearranging both the shop and my head all day, but this is such a lovely place to take a break. and of course, now I'm thinking a lot about swordfights.

If Shanka-sama and Homburg ever go there, I'll be in the front row. lolz.

bj

Hehe. Too bad you can't see the pic. It was Myrna Loy even. Lemme try again. You can be Harlow this time, all drama queen fabu.

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/MMPH/168309~Jean-Harlow-Posters.jpg

Even though it's hot I am making stuffed shells with ricotta and rosemary filling and a tomato cream sauce with porcini mushrooms. And a proper chopped Italian salad with oil, vinegar, s&p. Should be ready in an hour or so.

 

[unpredictablebijou]

Hehe. Too bad you can't see the pic. It was Myrna Loy even. Lemme try again. You can be Harlow this time, all drama queen fabu.

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/MMPH/168309~Jean-Harlow-Posters.jpg

Even though it's hot I am making stuffed shells with ricotta and rosemary filling and a tomato cream sauce with porcini mushrooms. And a proper chopped Italian salad with oil, vinegar, s&p. Should be ready in an hour or so.

Damn, YUM! *getting on bus, will be there in 16 hours. Save me some*

Actually I saw your pic; it was Hommie's that was snagged somewhere.

HARLOW!

*off to find that Harlow AV I had a while back* It was either going to be Harlow or Bette Davis from All About Eve next, and I think I can leave off channeling Bette for a while; the Drama is lessening significantly now.

Did I ever tell you I did a combination jewish wedding and pagan handfasting for a pair of young lesbians several years ago? It was heartbreakingly adorable. One of the gals' dads was there; actually they both had lots of family there, which was really gorgeous. And one partner was jewish, but both were also pagan, so we designed a ceremony with a bit of each. When little Rebeccah raised the glass and recited the blessing on it in Hebrew, it was so damn beautiful her dad just lost it, and he wasn't the only one. I was too choked up to speak for a few minutes and had to vamp while my throat came unstuck.

just something I've been thinking about lately... hmmm...

bj

 

[hmmnmm]

Inviting all who need it to come an unwind in my garden where the honeysuckle is running riot

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn276/itsannier/honeysuckle1b.jpg

Ah! Thank you

we had snow - yes, snow - this morning. snow. crazy.

 

[Angeline]

Okay, I got it...you checked out Fredd's Journey...got it. The story is Mark Twain. It's one of my favorite Twain pieces--I read it in church last year. It was published in a collection of stories called "Letters From the Earth," which catalogue Twain's career in seven stories at seven points in his life, and you can see him getting more and more bitter about life in general and God specifically. It was originally written as an op-ed piece for a newspaper. It is, to me, one of the greatest anti-war stories (that and The Bridge at San Luis Rey).

About Publix, yeah, there is that...

And about Ange's Red Sox thing, I forgive her because I love her. But I can't think of another single Sawcks fan that I like.

Sawcks, right, Ange?



Okay, we finally got an actual picture of Annie. It's about time.

Red Sox Nation is the best. I suppose you're a Rays fan. Just don't tell me you're a Yankees fan. Cause yknow Yankees Suck.

I say it with a Jersey accent. I don't have much of a Maine-ah accent, but boy do I hear it every day!

 

[BooMerengue]

Red Sox Nation is the best. I suppose you're a Rays fan. Just don't tell me you're a Yankees fan. Cause yknow Yankees Suck.

I say it with a Jersey accent. I don't have much of a Maine-ah accent, but boy do I hear it every day!

I actually just gasped when I read that. Yankees suck? Oh how I wish I was a really true fan so I could kick your bottom with all the great info about the Yanks thats out there.

Well, at least I wasn't so crass!

*sticking out my tongue.

 

[unpredictablebijou]

*pokes head in door*

sestina.

muahahaha

*runs away*

bj

 

[Tzara]

I actually just gasped when I read that. Yankees suck?

"Yankees suck" is a truism about Major League Baseball that also functions as a simple and quick litmus test for unsuckliness. The test, in one of its more common forms, is presented as a simple True/False question:

The statement "Yankees suck" is

• True.
• False.

​

Generally accepted scoring of this test is to mark "a" responses as correct, or "unsuckly," and "b" responses as Yankee fans.

More recent versions of the test recognize that some cultures have not been exposed to American Major League Baseball and may not have had to confront the major philosophical question about whether the Yankees suck or not. In an attempt to make the test culturally neutral, the question has been modified to a multiple choice question:

The statement "Yankees suck" is

• True.
• False.
• I'm not sure who or what 'Yankees' are, but they certainly sound like they suck.

​

In this revised version of the test, "a" responses are correct, "b" responses are Yankee fans, and "c" responses are from people who refer to soccer as "football."

 

[Tzara]

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The stick doll that was Martha Graham:
A fist strikes head, a foot kicks sky.
Swathed in Phoenician drapery,
Medea angstifying, nigh.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

*pokes head in door*

sestina.

muahahaha

*runs away*

bj

I did a sestina once which is enough in anybodies lifetime I quite enjoyed it as a once off even though Leon said it didn't make sense at the end (it made sense to me!!) *drags Leon into the back room to explain the niceties of English sestinas*

"Yankees suck" is a truism about Major League Baseball that also functions as a simple and quick litmus test for unsuckliness. The test, in one of its more common forms, is presented as a simple True/False question:

The statement "Yankees suck" is

• True.
• False.

​

Generally accepted scoring of this test is to mark "a" responses as correct, or "unsuckly," and "b" responses as Yankee fans.

More recent versions of the test recognize that some cultures have not been exposed to American Major League Baseball and may not have had to confront the major philosophical question about whether the Yankees suck or not. In an attempt to make the test culturally neutral, the question has been modified to a multiple choice question:

The statement "Yankees suck" is

• True.
• False.
• I'm not sure who or what 'Yankees' are, but they certainly sound like they suck.

​

In this revised version of the test, "a" responses are correct, "b" responses are Yankee fans, and "c" responses are from people who refer to soccer as "football."

I don't do soccer of football but I am glad it keeps Ron glued to the box thus freeing me to be on here .. am all for the sucking part tho
I appear to have stretched the messageboard oops sorry n all that just think youselves lucky I haven't used a little trick I know that makes the words shoot across the page sideways, I did it on another messageboard and mucked up the board for ages lol

 

[UnderYourSpell]

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The stick doll that was Martha Graham:
A fist strikes head, a foot kicks sky.
Swathed in Phoenician drapery,
Medea angstifying, nigh.

would split my difference if I tried that at my age!

 

[midwestyankee]

Red Sox Nation is the best. I suppose you're a Rays fan. Just don't tell me you're a Yankees fan. Cause yknow Yankees Suck.

I say it with a Jersey accent. I don't have much of a Maine-ah accent, but boy do I hear it every day!

If ever there were hope for a united world, its model will be in Red Sox Nation. I say "Yankees suck" with a pure downeast accent that has been periodically and somewhat rhythmically dormant and dominant.

Right about now, since the BoSox have the second-best record (that's "rekahd" to anyone living east of the Connecticut R.), ouah boys at Fenway ahh playin' wicked good. Ayuh!

 

[Homburg]

If ever there were hope for a united world, its model will be in Red Sox Nation. I say "Yankees suck" with a pure downeast accent that has been periodically and somewhat rhythmically dormant and dominant.

Right about now, since the BoSox have the second-best record (that's "rekahd" to anyone living east of the Connecticut R.), ouah boys at Fenway ahh playin' wicked good. Ayuh!

Cripes, It's a kinky invasion.

 

[unpredictablebijou]

Cripes, It's a kinky invasion.

Fer sure! And that's a happy fact.

I think the more the merrier. I just saw a comment over on the BDSM board that that bunch over there is "the nicest group on Lit" - this from a woman who came to be comforted after a breakup. She's right. Buncha mostly excellent people over there. A few do indeed deserve engraved invitations to wander into the poetry area every once in a while.

And I find it not so much ironic as very, very telling that a bunch of people who are into beatings and pain and crazed, over the top kinkiness of all sorts is also a very mellow, generally kind and highly conscious group.

i mean, look how well it worked out to tempt you over here...

What's that old math riff - if a cat is in the room with ten mice, then each mouse is ten percent cat and the cat is 90% mouse? Is that right?

So I dunno, that would make you about 75% poet, and each of us at least 15% kinkier, or however you want to do that admixture calculation.

Greetings, Mr. Yankee. Nice to see you here. What'll ya have?

bj