From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=795">muryan</a><BR>
Date: 3 September 2002<P>

Kirk~ The carousel is wonderful. I haven't read even half of it, and I'm touched that you are sharing that part of your life with us. I have a few guy friends with whom I have "silent conversations" with and they seem somehow quite personal. I am moved that you would share your conversations with "R" with us. Way to go.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=893">Foolish</a><BR>
Date: 3 September 2002<P>

Thank you all for your compliments.  I've been away from the blender for a while, please accept my apologies : )<BR>
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Kirk, thanks for the front page pick, I didn't think anyone even noticed I was here, much appreciated.<BR>
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Prezioso~<BR>
Your last entry....I am at a loss for words, it's just incredible!!!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=911">Inflatable Sushi</a><BR>
Date: 3 September 2002<P>

To the greatest predator I have ever known...<BR>
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After much laughter and amusement, I posted my response.  You have nothing of me (nothing of mine), particularly not anything that would remotely be construed as "the best of me."  Zip.  Zilch.  Nada...<BR>
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No love, no caring, no children, no commitment, no bond, no future AND nothing special.  You already have plenty of "nothing special" in your life, you operate in an environment where nothing is allowed or permitted to be special...and that which you deem "special" is simply a trick of the terminally sick mind.  Physically and metaphysically impossible to be anything else.  That, at least, should now give you the freedom to be every bit as bad as you'd ever hoped to be.<BR>
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And to all your readers...thank ME.  Without me, you would have never even known about this site.<BR>
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Find someone else's life to torment and demean and degrade.  You mean nothing to me. You ARE nothing...(and boring and unoriginal, I might add)<BR>
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: )
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1">Kirk, Blender-Keeper</a><BR>
Date: 3 September 2002<P>

Uh, Sushi? I think your agenda is showing.<BR>
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Consider taking this to e-mail, or at last keeping this in poetry form.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=925">whisper</a><BR>
Date: 3 September 2002<P>

im out of town for a week so ill be unable to read any of the wonderful work on this site.. i read the intro to the carousel and im thouroghly intrigued, but i fear that i will return to late to read the rest of it. lost chances and missed opportunities oh sorrow. <BR>
thank you to everyone who has commented on my work, and i will see you all (in pixilated form) in half a fortnight.<BR>
farewell
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 3 September 2002<P>

Hey Jack,<BR>
    Happy Birthday To YOU!! Hope you are having a poetic birthday to remember.<BR>
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bk
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=929">indefatigable sushi</a><BR>
Date: 3 September 2002<P>

Uh...HELLO people! Isn't it obvious that I'm One-Nut Jim, Caravan of Dreams, Derelict Daisy, etc., et al.??? Yes, things are terribly stultifying again in academe, I'm afraid. The place is lousy with acedia and failed dreams. And my novel is SO not going well. Hasn't anyone also noticed that just as I make my truimphal return to this august forum, just some girl also has begun posting again? Mere coincidence? I think not. It's a damn good thing ya'll aren't homicide detectives or arson investigators. The buildings would keep burning down and the killers running free. Not that I'm a killer or a firebug, mind you, but, as James Dickey told me once on a cruise to Greenland, "Son, we're all a little of Cain and a little of Abel. Never trust a man who's all one or the other." Of course by this time Dickey had begun his long descent into alcoholic oblivion, so any aphoristic remarks of his were highly suspect by that point. The Southern Comfort on his breath was so strong that one spark and the whole cruise ship would have went up. Anywho... I post this strictly for your edification. I was waiting for someone to catch on, and no one did. So I decided to take the initiative. I always do.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 3 September 2002<P>

jack~~ dementia setting in, not you, ya old fart (tho you have officially joined the ranks of repeating birthdays (not advancing ones, if you wish) .. no, my dementia for almost forgetting yer birthday. HAPPY HAPPY BUFFDAY, jack! Congrats, I see you are doing well at Pen, etc. with the fantasy and she. More please ..... Rennie
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=900">RennieLorca</a><BR>
Date: 3 September 2002<P>

Sushi~~ sorry, my "Fuck It" key isn't working right now. Sorry, I have been away from Blender for awhile and easily forgot about you ... gonna do that again on my last months posts to you. Insults, even when you are talking to yourself? I guessed you at being a woman, sick one, and worried about the poor kids. Other than that, seems you are practicing your (ha, ha) skills on us. Okay, I understand that game. You need attention. But playing with emotions of unsuspecting community used to get a trial in Salem, a trip out the plank, a few extra phrases on a rejection slip. (Somebody please warn me when the games start again on this board. Back to the attic to watch the scroll) .. oh, and, Sushi, "Do submit again" -- you twist a good line in any pen name (or personality) and I'll even compliment you ..... Rennie
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1">Kirk, Blender-Keeper</a><BR>
Date: 3 September 2002<P>

In general I am not happy when the Blender Board is used as a forum for personal vendettas and illwill towards other blender board members. For some mysterious reason, (ex-)lover's quarrels tend to get very venemous when moved online, with one or both sides trying to "warn" the general population about the misfeasance of the other, and that gets ugly, and I don't want it here.  <BR>
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And yes, frankly, I am generally too god damned lazy to work through people's multiple-online-identities. Usually I'm content to take people's stated personae at face value without working out who they *really* are...except in the case of recurring nuisances.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=16">kevin urenda</a><BR>
Date: 3 September 2002<P>

Happy Birthday Jack...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=5">jackryhme</a><BR>
Date: 3 September 2002<P>

ah thanks everyone lol almost caught me misty eyed but i do thank and appreciate it all <BR>
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congrats to the front page picks all very fine work<BR>
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and oneneuter misti did have you pegged i do believe and i do wish you weren't so damn boring and repetitious<BR>
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jack
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=872">cryingshame58</a><BR>
Date: 3 September 2002<P>

wordley,<BR>
<a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.09.02.12.23.9076">Shell I ?</a> certainly gained my attention...then i read some of your other works...you have a unique way of writing that touches me...<BR>
cryingshame
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