Rhet, my work is inspired more by EW's body that hubby's photography, but the two go hand in hand I guess. I met the two of them for dinner one night while I was in the USA, they are great people, both if them very very interesting... and funny.... EW and I giggled and giggled... all about the Brit vs the American of course. dee
umm for two cents... i think the board here is one of the most wonderfull out there, we argue, disagree and generaly enjoy life here. its truly like a family. there are plenty out there jim for the type of comments you wish for ... umm try the pffa "poetry free for all" its all you want and more umm for the more sensible out there please forget this recomendation for that site, it will leave you dry and lifeless... one thing this site never is. jack
One Nut Jim: Hey man... I sure wish you'd just...shut up.
OneBrainCellJimbo~ John and George had something to contribute. You're the one in need of an enema/psychotherapist/editor. I have yet to be awed or shocked or amused by anything you've contributed to this community. You loathe the Blender and its regular contributors...so why are you splashing around in waters you deem so mediocre and mindless, to employ a weak metaphor? Your oh so rebellious/enlightening/intellectually superior/ironic comments and submissions aren't having whatever effect you're hoping to achieve. You aren't scaring anyone away and you aren't molding the Blender to fit your vision of literary utopia. My suggestion? Find another site, go to some poetry slams, grudge fuck a Playmate and get the poison outta your system. Just a random opinion from a shallow mind.
One Nut Jim, BlondeVampireVictim, et al.... I really enjoy getting into a good debate. I've found that it isn't very satifying to do it on-line, so I don't (very often). I LOVE intelligent, somewhat eccentric conversation too. You are very obviously an intelligent man. I really wonder what you are like in real life. I'm guessing Rhet knows. She mentioned something about seeing/hearing you speak publicly. I wonder, too, if you are not as full of pathos in real time. That you maybe just unleash on sites like the Blender. We all gotta get the freak out somewhere. I have my places. And above all, you're brave enough to say things that are exceptionally controversial. (though very inflammatory) Hmmmmm.......... Wanna be my boytoy?....I'm not blonde! LOL!!! Seriously, the Board isn't going anywhere...not with the use it gets. But you're definately entitled to your (obviously obnoxious) opinion. I agree with Kirk. I wish we could critique the poems without fear of offending here. I would love some feedback that didn't involve smoke getting blown up my ass!! LOL! -Teej
Teej~ "Brave"? Ha! Not much bravery involved when it comes to the Internet. Sorry. And he might be intelligent, but he sure as hell isn't fascinating. Intelligence without charisma is nada in my book.
Oh Misti darling, I soooooooo agree. Me being fascitious (or how ever the hell you spell it) doesn't work well on the net. One Nut Jim is far from healthy...and I am far from dysfunctional. But hey, I am not truly involved in the lives of people on the net and I can handle them saying whatever they'd like. Oooh! I'm all stars and rainbows!!
Hey One Nut; Jack is right, Poetry Free For All would be your cup of tea. Just right for head up the ass types that think they can walk on water. They will show you not only that you can't they will enjoy watching you drown. Lots more ego's like your own. We prefer a more gentle human touch where everyones words are welcome. If thats not rough enough for you, I hear they do have those awful places where for $600 they will hang you up and beat you for an hour. bk
Deevaa – The EW is an amazing figure to behold. She has the perfect curves for the style in which you paint. How cool that you got to meet them. Did you meet them as a result of your art or were they acquaintances before the website? Have they purchased any of your paintings and have you gotten any of his photos? TJ, Misti, & BK - Actually, I have never formally met Jim/Victim/Daisy, et al. I know him more through his role in my community (of which he IS well respected), mutual associations, and from many of his interns. My only issue with him here (I have more serious at home) is the constant defamation he insists spilling onto this site. I am just confused why he keeps coming here, only to be “disappointed” by our little poetry site. I, too, was fascinated by his intelligent wit and his ability to spark some funny shoot-off conversations here. Now, he is just out of line. He has been asked by the Blender-Keeper to chill and he refuses. He is a self-centered eccentric who thinks his words are golden. It is a shame to allow such brilliant potential in a man twist into a venomous freak (trapped in his own mind). I hate that I am not mature enough to simply ignore him. However, his words are meant to hurt people I care for – and that keeps me in this futile state of wanting to lash out and call him on his attacks. The funniest of all is that in this situation, he doesn’t have the power. He hates that he can’t turn it all off and come back only when he wants! I hate that I am even allowing myself to be sparked by him. Secretly, I think it is SO funny that he doesn’t stop – and I am saddened by his lack of judgment. Rhet
Teej~ I apologize. That was hasty of me. You're right...the Board can be a lacking medium. I love...PEZ dispensers and Mexican beer. 'Specially Tecate. With salt and lime. Rhet~ That's funny. I'm constantly being surprised by people...how they are on the Internet and how they are in the "real" world. From his contributions to the Blender, I would guess that OneNutDude is a slacker who still lives at home with his parents and hangs out in chat rooms on Saturday nights harassing teenyboppers. To hear that he is a successful little American citizen is a true shocker. But it shouldn't be. The world is full of sick fucks. People who are all bright and shiny before the waking world but something else altogether in the privacy of their home. Ah, well. Que sera sera. "Heathers" is Christian Slater's best movie ever, btw. :)
nothing ~ casting reflections for... is definately SOMETHING! Wow.
You know Rhett, I was thinking (I do that as seldom as possible ha) I had him pegged wrong. I remember seeing a Bergman movie (for the life of me I can't remember the title unless it was Hour of the Wolf) Anyway there was this great scene that has always stuck in my mind of all these people sitting around at a fancy dinner party and suddenly one of them is walking accross the ceiling. The line thats next is something to the effect of OH, Don't mind me it's only my jealousy showing. And I thought Thats IT! He's obviously been hurt somehow and is showing his jealousy in very obnoxious ways (which is no excuse) but might explain it. He needs to put it to work in clever dis poems or something creative instead of sounding like a drunken stooge. One last comment and I will stop. It is a full moon also which does tend to pull the waters of all our brains pretty hard. (But some worse than others) bk
One Nut N Honey, The therapy is free, now put your hands on the screen and Chant very loudly HEAL! HEAL! Then send Oral Roberts one million dollars as he is still holding god for ransom or maybe thats Osama now which in that case face east. Oh Well! I swear I am leaving now. ha ha Back to the grindstone. bk
Teej; Well obviously I am stil here and don't know when to shut up. ha I was reading what you said about criticism. Ok so this is not the hard line bunch. But I don't think we blow smoke up each others bums. I for one don't feel qualifed to critiqe anyones poetry as I just picked up a pen to write and am learning as I go along. I sorta think poetry is like religion, personal and private and has to be done by the author. When they get ready to publish you then maybe you can fight it out with the editors..ha ha but the emotion and the raw words are what distinguish us all from one another and god forbid that we all come out sounding like soemone elses idea of how poetry should be. I get pretty passionate about my work here, ha ha. You toucha my poems I breaka your arms..ha ha I guess I for one am not looking to be famous. Just to use the words in how I feel. Cheaper than therapy and no drugs to take for the rest of your life, nor anyone to put a label on you to follow you around either. Just the wonderful power of words. But in the mean time and I mean this nicely as some people can handle the place, try Poetry Free For All, see how fast they make you mad enough to spit..HA (sorry, just another one of those thin skinned eccentric southern writers) Now I am leaving I hope..ha bk
Oh Lord, she's howling again... :-)
Greetings Fans and Failures! Y'all a bunch of uptight wannabees, and young (no doubt)... oh well, lemme tell you 'bout the time ol' Uncle Bill Burroughs and I hogtied Ellie Dykewoman and taught her the meaning of semantics while Susan Sontag squatted over E. D's head and passed hellacious winds... You think you are writers? Then stop all this pissy childish bullshite and WRITE (and KIRK, you oughta be ashamed - you teach up to th' Junior College?). Bunch of freaking pussy ass wimps pretending you have some significance. Hey - don't get me wrong, kids ...I've had my ass whipped so many times I can't even see straight, by writers you could only hope to emulate. And then Larry Ferlingetti and a couple of bull dykes named Mary (both of 'em) finally kicked me in the nuts one too too many, and I knew I'd become a writer. I've had Charles Bukowski explain in most poetic terms the value in NOT going down on bad pussy, just before he vomited a BLT and Tanqueray in my lap. So, don't go off all high and mighty on me. I'll whip your proverbial cyber-ass! Interesting how a simple suggestion to REST the space 'til New Years ellicits such a vehement reaction (not a thoughtful writer's response, rather an addictive RE-ACTION) ...like the last time I asked a friend to quit drinking...JUST FOR TWO MONTHS. Just give it, your body, your temple ...a REST. F*ck no, buddy! Too ingrained in the addiction that LIFE is. Writing is no different. You'll larn ya that lesson when life rips your heart out and shits into your chestal cavity one 2 many 2 many 2 many... Get the hell outta your parent's houses and breathe some fresh air, write dazzling works and READ THEM to your friends and family or the freakin 7-11 clerk - LIVE (that'll give you all the feedback you'll need, you actually get to face another human reacting badly or laughing or weeping or calling the cops...but whatever you do, take a fucking risk). Get real and out in life, and off this sterile futile CHAT ROOM..submit away to your heart's content! But don't burdon potentially millions of readers with the severe disconnects between your good works and your dissonant mental cyber rantings and ratings. See that? See what I just did there? See, I used to love Edna St. Vincent Millay. ABsolutely loved her works, and from what I read I formed my own images and thoughts and impressions. And then when I met her on a cruise to Borneo, I sadly discovered that she was simply an evil, wicked bitch with a hair lip and a one-eyed transsexual poodle named Frederick. See? See the disconnect? This should be renamed the MilliVannilliBlender, cause most of y'alls lips ain't matchin ya wurds ...like a bad Haiku Action Picture Now, I'll admit a few exceptions. This Rhet seems a feisty well-read lass (I think) who has been fed some serious misinformation by a Virus Carrying Web Attachment entangled in her floppy port. But I really have NO clue who she might be, no face recognition (as she assumes). And this Teej in TX (?) can be my muse any day of the week ending in DAY Oh whatever, you bore me. I gotta head over to Hooters for some real PROSE... Best writing tip I was ever given - "Stop writing for a month." KIRK: "Well, golly...if everyone voluntarily sorta decides in a kinda of communistical democratic way, I dunno, maybe we could even have class OUTSIDE today?" Jeez, Kirk. Take a risk, shut the BORED down - make everyone go away and write a love poem to me, and share them online on New Years Day. Start all over renewed. And I promise I will never return here again. Scouts honor. I'm willing to think the highest thought here, I think it will make a difference. Thank you all for the glorious postings! I'm collecting them to use in a performance piece I'm producing, and since you are stupid enough to give away your words to every plagiarist that bumps into this website, I'll gladly use them (ie. every third line of every post "i love my dada cause my dada been good to me"). Oh yeah, and there is no Santa Claus and this site is really run by the Psych Dept at Cornell University - tracking each posting, flows of consciousness, noting which of us play about with multi-names, cyber dating habits of the cyber wordsmith)...it'll probably get censored and deleted anyways... Man, Kirk - you oughta charge a posting fee! Oh gosh, gotta run see you later girls! la dee dah-haaaaa! Jim
I think what he is trying to say is best summed up by a cat name of Ludie Wittgenstein (a little riff from a scat offa Prototractatus, the follow-up to his crazy Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus)... "My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: Anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used them - as steps - to climb up beyond them. (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.) He must surmount these propositions; then he sees the world rightly. Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." Toodles! PS - RHETORIC he is right! You really wet my whistle too!
Well Nut N Honey, looks like you woke up on the wrong side of the bed again as usual. Did you chug the rest of the bottle when you did. Bet you have a flaming asshole and a headache to go with it. First of all not all of us are young, not all of us live with our parents and not all of us have no life experience. Writing experience well maybe not, but enough material to get way past go. For all your famous writers, I can match you with famous songwriters and musicains of enough caliber to make your head spin. Seems like you are the one that needs to get a life cause you keep coming here to harass children and steal material...pretty sad when you can't come up with anything origingal of your own. Who's the wannabee here??? Give US a break. Let see you put your sorry ass on the front page here and quit puking all over the boards. bk
One Nut Jim I fail to see why one as intellligent as you presume yourself to be would cloud your mind with what you consider garbage. Why bother coming to the site at all if you hold such disdain for it's inhabitants? Seems to me those who post here and read the board are happy enough, for the most part. Exercise your "intelligence" your free will and just saunter away, see if you can find a site full of obnoxious, pretentious people who hate everything as much as you do! I'm sure you'll be miserably happy together! And as I think someone else said, nothing you have written has dazzled or sparked a huge interest in me, many other postings here have. What makes you think you are sso much better than everyone else? A true artist values art of any sort. A frustrated, talentless person rails against what others create, because in a sense he is jealous. And your use of vulgarity proves that you have a very small mind and a limited vocabulary. Everyone else: I think November was one of the best months yet, we all did a great job!
...although, gals, I will admit old Uno MacaJamesia appears to have a high testosterone level...I'll bet he is a real Blowfly in the sack! Jim, why won't you realize that you are a special fella and let some people inside your heart? What damage could "she" has inflicted on you? Was she a golddigger? Was she a dirty girl? I bet you felt like Jim Carrey's character in ME MYSELF & IRENE when he sees that his triplet baby boys are all Afrocentric? That disappointing? Awww...poor baby! Get a life mo fo! Leave us good Christian writers alone! This is a site for saved writers, not a bunch of whiney conflicted, addicted, and prescripted ho's and lesbos! That is where YOU need to be, Mister One Nut Tango! In a hoorhouse, vomiting with your Mister Bukowski! Evil man! I rebuke you, Jim! Daisy
I am new at posting messages here, but I could not resist signing up so that I could say that some of these postings are the funniest things I've read in a long while. I read but am not ready to actually participate in this forum (I know! "Just Do It") but I do find myself coming here more often and your Blender Board reads like a soap opera (no offense). But a funny one. I figured everything here is sort of made up and I think the One Nut Jim writer is, well, funny as (poop) actually. Have you ever read one of his postings out loud or in a character voice? I think you are peppering your site with some ringers. Well, I did not mean to go on so. But I for one cast my vote for True Love to One Nut Jim! You go guy! What a romantic, like somebody's drunken uncle busting in on a wedding reception and pissing in the punchbowl while he pinches granny's titty. "Who needs a DRINK?" And wasn't Blowfly a Black gentleman?
Since english, daisy,and one nut are all the same egotistical Jim Carey wannabees. I think maybe they should meet harem and her crew. Seems like a real match to me. And no nut, put something you wrote on front page, not a famous persons words. bk
I wake up to this? granny's titty. "Who needs a DRINK?" I'm going back to bed. Er having a drink myself. Yikes.
scqueen~ What are ya drinking? I think I'll join you...Hehe... Love and light, Ali
Everyone! EVERYONE! PLEASE! There is no fear in love but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment and he who fears is not perfected in love. If one says I love God and hates his brother he is a liar. I John 4 Leave Jim alone! He carries a burden far greater than ours - Penis Envy! But he makes a good point...
Okay Mr. multiple-name university academic.... You do make some good & essential points. The part about reading poetry before live audiences, about getting out into the real world and taking chances and LIVING--all true. But you make a fatal assumption, which is this: how do you know participants at this site (or any other "sterile chat room") aren't already doing all that? I actually met my wife through the Blender. Was I a sterile chat room regular? No. Was I looking for love and romance on the Internet because the "real" world scared me? Uh, not exactly. I wasn't looking for anything. I just read some kick-ass poetry and wanted to know more about the person behind it. We'll be married for one year this December. If anything, your incessant referencing of intellectual big guns makes me think it is YOU who lives largely inside your head. Your words remind me of nothing so much as professorial lectures recast in an anything-goes setting. Don't you have students you should be speaking to? Imparting your wisdom to? Because you do speak some wisdom--but so does my Uncle Charlie the Brooklyn taxi driver. (Hey...how's the book coming? Now's the time to start that next chapter!) Wisdom is cheap. Erudition proves nothing. So you've read Wittgenstein. Wow. So what. Tell us all--please!--what Derrida and Barthes and Gibbon and Celine would have said about all this. We need to know. Just like we'd like to know how many years you've been in therapy, and what exactly is behind the obvious grudge you have toward women. I'll bet THAT'S a juicy story. One last thing. You rail against the anonymous nature of Net communication and yet you don't use your real name. It seems to me you prove the adage that there is no positive correlation between IQ points and courage. Hemingway had your type pegged seventy years ago--and Lucretius a little before that. In a strange way you have sparked an interesting debate here. But you name-drop like a puppy that hasn't been housebroken pisses on the floor. Come to think of it, that's a apt analogy all around... Cheers, my man, cheers.
Derelict Blonde Nut, That is a clever one, huh? I can tell you are having fun with this. I know it seems like a hardy-har-har time, but is this how you want to be perceived? Why don't you really post something of your own writing? You are clearly well versed - although I have seen you and you are not old enough to have sailed the high seas with Edna. I am curious how YOU would express love. All I have ever heard you say of loved ones is that they are drunken whores - all post-coital, of course. So if can but down the Book of Quotable Quotes long enough, write us a little ditty. And if you are curious (I seriously doubt you are) about lil ole me...lets meet at our favorite local bookstore for some over-priced coffee and scones. Rhetty Darling Someone with as expansive a film background as you quoting Me, Myself and Irene? What is coming next?
Chris, YOU ROCK. Bravo. You have captured the moment. And ONJ/DD/BVV - you must conceed that he is in the know.
Rhetoxic - Are you sure you know who you are addressing? Maybe I'm just the friend of a pal who suffered an UNneccessary shocking loss? Maybe I'm his newer brighter more protective woman. Or maybe I am HER - the Beast Incarnate! See what a tangled web predators weave? Are you one too? Or are you one of her "nice" friends? You clearly are not hillbilly edumacated, move here from PA or MD? None of this would have occurred were it not for her using this site to send what unrestrained messages she could. I do want you to know how sorry that I am for my first rant inspired by your Blonde Vampire - assuming it was the beast herself in some new guise. I would never issue such bile at a stranger (like the thin skinners fling at my bogus postings) - that was simply an appropriately understated level of outrage and sheer blissful handled anger to try and match the sheer level of pathological nymphomania one beast could possibly rationalize as healthy, mature sane adult behavior. But I'm probably just preaching to the damned, if you purport to know her so well, well bad company draws flies faster'n hogshit. She knows what she's about. It is easier for her to see the books on the shelf, than it is for her to see herself. She made her choice and she gets to live with it. How I could have ever thought of having a child with that, with what she is capable of. Do you have any clue what she has done? And the audacity to boast about it to me, using sex to hook me, defrauding me with with massive misrepresentation (via the internet, sequestering me from the rest of her life..the other lies)- trying to maintain far too many compartments. You want me to send you a ream or two of data she provided me, pics and flicks...journalized notes from every corner of the Valley, after the fact "good god man, what were you thinking?" Who wants to discover they have been so deceived and betrayed? So lookie baby, I am the one holding "the pictures with the goat." I'm just tired be being f*cked over by such a dimwitted party ghoul (you want this week's list?). All I can do is defend and protect myself. This used to be a special site for me. Now all wanna do is buy it and shut it down permanently. Like a certain hoorhouse I know over near where my pappy growed up... And I mean this in the most romantic way possible. PS – Ali, I loved Rhythm of Your Breathing …especially the way you use poet Jaqui Gleason’s “baby” image. I love it when girls say “baby!” WATCH ME DISAPPEAR EVERYBODY! eL hOMBRE iNVISIBLE
We're a watchin'...
One Nut, you write ok rants. They have a lot of energy. That said, making up new accounts (english_23) just to kiss your own ass? Please. No wonder the best writing tip you got was to stop writing for a month... For the record, I don't think I'm a particulary good writer, so I don't very often. I just wrote to impress chicks anyway. (On the other hand, I'm think I'm a pretty good collector, which is why I publish http://kisrael.com every day.) Anyway, you don't make a strong enough case for suspend the Board, so I won't. (And calling the "bored"? That's as cool and convincing as people who rant about President Klinton or Micro$loth) Chris, wow, I hadn't quite fully realized you met Misti on the Blender. That's pretty amazing, actually.
Tanq~ 'These Closed Blinds' took my breath away...Beautiful writing... Love and warmed freedom, Ali
one nut you are a bore zzzzzzz
I am new here and though I write infrequently, a friend of mine has been reading works here for over a year and she told me to check it out. Other than that, I would love feedback on what I do write and I will respond to every email I receive.
To whom it might concern, I have been browsing the recent board entries only to come to this conclusive question: Why all the useless blather? Sure, it is a free board... but c'mon. Are we poets supposed to talk discuss poetry on a poetry website or not? Please help me understand this. I came to this site because I love poetry and still do. It just happens to get unnerving when a majority of the conversation consists of kindergarten-type such as, "Who stole my crayons?" I just think some people should act their age(maybe a few years more for a few of us) instead of, and please excuse this cliche' ,their shoe size! I thought that poets were people that gave a rats behind (at least) about how they represented themselves publically or otherwise. I hope that my heart will always stay true to poetry as I wish for you all also. Just make this a fun place to visit. Not, as many have so aptly put, a soap-operish thing. Sincerely, ~Max~ ;)
Echo ~ Love Arkansas Night (Winter)!!! "Full moon tips the blowing leaves with silver, Turning the red wine to black Even as it edges our glasses with white fire" Strange and wonderful how everything looks and feels beneath moonlight, isn't it? Ali ~ Thanx. Rhet ~ Home's that place where they HAVE to take you back, right? Beyond ~ Welcome. Like your stuff. I like the style... not overly concerned about rhyme or meter, just phrases and thoughts in pleasing cadence. Nice. ~tc
Tanq Honey... Ghost...and Reprise...why does the cold weather seem to heat up your stuff? Sighing...liking it... Lisa
Hey Gang... Jesus.......I missed a little Jihad I guess. Anyway, I have been about six levels beyond swamped...family crap, the holidays---and setting up a new site to replace the Garden. I'm trying to keep it simple...but will have it ready for art soon (you listening dee?). If you have any poetry that is NOT love related, please feel free to come and post...there is a registration process, but you signed up for ez board, and have a global account, you're already eligible. I also want to ask the blenderites who posted to the garden to PLEASE move their posts to the Respite... I have no control whatever over the old board...but I still want your stuff. Our crew is vert diverse, and dynamic...including Ali, Kev...and Misti. So give it a whirl...http://pub97.ezboard.com/bgaladrialsrespite the natives are friendly...and we've gotten them out of the habit of eating the tourists...mostly! BTW...Kev and Misti's forums ROCK. Thanks to everyone...including the Big Kahuna... Gala/Lisa
Echo...your newest, Incognito, is so lyric. Look behind the words Lure it out, persuade it to show itself in all its naked beauty WONDERFUL. Bob - Kristin's Quote is so funny. Thanks for sharing it. TC - Reprise..Wow. And no, home is where you want to be - we don't have to take you back!! ;o) nothing - a light for... is tender and soft. You have a very recognizable style already. I like the titles and how they play off your name. a light for... is my favorite so far. Beyond Different - Welcome to the Jungle! Happy Sunday Blenderites, Rhetoric
Blue Denim ~ Your posts are very refreshing and I'm glad you've joined us. By the way, I saw a car in AG last night with plates that read "EPOETIC". Wondered if it could've been you?
December Digest is here: http://www.loveblender.com/2001december/
Congrat's to all the front pagers...*smile* Excellent work everybody!! Love and sparkling eyes, Ali
scqueen: Thank you. And I like the plate, but I would not have thought of it. Thanks for thinking it might've been me. ~Bob
Echolocation: Incognito andErinyes blew me away.... both are just beautiful..... Tanqueray Cowboy: Ghost Reprise (Hello Stranger) you have a gift for saying so much with the minimum of words. I loved this one, and These Closed Blinds . Glad to see the December Digest!
sweetness - thanks for the kind words - so glad you made the Front Page Picks because it brought Tonight to my attention. You've beautifully captured a longing with which too many of us, I'm sure, are familiar. "The way you touched me and left me untouched" is especially sharp. Tanq - glad you liked the AK post (moonlight is indeed a Good Thing). I see you're starting December off well - These Closed Blinds is lovely - perhaps 'poignant' would be a better word? So many of your pieces evoke intense visual as well as emotional imagery... BlueDenim - Kristin's Quote had me laughing out loud - too too true! Max-Rom - Re your remark about "useless blather": I see your point and I think part of the reason there isn't much formal and/or detailed critique is that at bottom this isn't a Writer's-Circle-type site (maybe that's what Nutty Jim needs to understand!). It's a Romantic Luv site, and as such the emphasis is not so much on the technical skill of the writing as it is on sharing emotions -- which, on the Board, often expands to include sharing personal details of one's life. It has gone to extremes on occasion, making a lot of us unwilling witnesses to flamings we neither understand nor care about; but it generally recovers if you stick it out! I note a lot of people lately are specifically asking for feedback, though. Kirk's idea about workshopping particular poem(s) may be An Idea Whose Time Has Come, especially if there were guidelines for the comments such as not being allowed to just say "Gee I like it", but instead having to provide some sort of concrete reason(s) -- for example, "Unusual imagery" or "That analogy doesn't really work, does it?" or "Did you think about using the word 'wombat' here instead?", that sort of thing. Maybe Kirk would like to float some ideas on how the workshop-thing might work (hint hint)?
Realizing I never, and never will be the blue sky to 'his' clouds, I'm changing my name. It's too hard for me to type that anymore. So now I'm going to post as; where is your heaven. Perhaps it will help me heal. :) xoxo Elaina
thanks for the pick, kirk. as always, i'm so pleased to know that someone out there LIKES my work. :) i added a new one.. it's not finished, but i kinda like the ending.. oh well. :)
Elaina, go for it. The hurt will pass. And so must this guy. You know, kind of like a big healthy fart!!!!! And it will will feel soooooooo good when you blow him out of your guts. (It takes about a year.) Stay away from those old familiar places. Get some new prairie to romp in. Don't give him the satisfaction of knowing that you still care. Sounds like his ego is big enough already. Randy1
Yeah to all the Front Pagers. Very eclectic grouping Kirk. Beyond Different - John Mayer...oh, I love his voice. His songwriting is strong and he can sing - very cool dude from The ATL. He reminds me of the possible Love Child if Dave Matthews and David Grey were to spawn a musical son. Blue sky...Whats in a name anyway? Your words will still be sweet with the new label. nothing...who are you? I must know. Tell me something about yourself. Rhet
Rhet & Randy~ Thanks a bunch. BTW nice analogy Randy. What would I do without the blender? xoxo Elaina
devOn~I love melting, I mean LOOOVVVEEE it! Nice work! xoxo Elaina
Finally someone else who knows his work. I'm the only person I know who even has a clue as to who he is or what he sings. Its so good to know I'm not alone.
I just wanted to sincerely thank you Kirk for the front page pick. It means so much!! I'm okay. Really. Noone call an ambulance please. If I might be so bold(and I am), what exactly did you like about 'Secrets'? I just wanna make each new poem better. Thanks, Max :D P.S.--- May I please repost my winter poem, 'Snowflake Splendor'? I fear that it might have been overlooked being that last month was November...just wondering.
Beyond Different-- Canned Lima Beans struck me...yes, it STRUCK me. I liked the way you 'highlighted' the words. And hey, if anyone objects to your style of writing, just laugh and say, "I've got great imagery, so there!" I look forward to reading more. ~Max~
wow...new day, new war you can't blame people for being morons, but you can blame them for showing off about it one nut jim, if that is your real name, that was directed at you...you fill a much needed void here i've taken to writing poetry in c code format now...nobody gets it, and it doesn't work, but at least i'm trying someday i'll get back in tune with romantic turmoil "everybody's making love or else expecting rain"---dylan "invest in umbrellas"---the guppy
guppy - Since you're writing c-code poetry, you might appreciate this. It thoroughly exposes my own computer geek-dom (not to mention the fact that I started out on UNIX machines), and it's not romantic (at least I don't THINK it is...) so it's slightly off-topic...but it does rhyme! <>!*''# ^"`$$- !*=@$_ %*<>~#4 &[]../ |{},,SYSTEM HALTED It only works, of course, if you read it out loud. A poll by a computer magazine established "waka waka" as the correct pronunciation for <> (though some readers insisted it should be "norkies"), hence: waka waka bang splat tick tick hash Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash Bang splat equal at dollar underscore Percent splat waka waka tilde number four Amerpsand bracket bracket dot dot slash Pipe curly braces comma comma CRASH
Max-Rom, keep in mind that more likely to be liked by Kirk doesn't neccesarily equal a better poem, though I hope there's some relation... [actually after I wrote it I realized this next paragraph is the kind of thing I'd do in a workshop, like in that poetry class at school, and might be a rough model for the kind of workshopping it would be nice for the board to get more into] That said, it's hard to pin down what I thought worked in "Secrets". Other poems I can name a particular line or idea. But Secrets is itself a bit mysterious and secretive, and its nice when the poem represents its title on several levels like that. The rhythm of the first two lines, the pause, works well. And that sense of time askew is kept up in the third line, "already keeping secrets", which covers past, present, and future in a single line. I liked 'i need you' as opposed to, say, 'i love you'; it adds a poignancy an effect that the latter wouldn't have had, especially in light of the last two lines that cast doubt on the whole thing. It's also an interesting dramatic situation, if you read it too quickly you might think that it's "sting"ing the narrator that she's saying 'i need you' (to the narrator?)without the validation, but then you realized that it's stinging "her" herself. So for some reason that the poem suggest but doesn't explain, she's probably lying (or exageratting) to herself as well as to the narrator or other person. That's a lot of drama to pack into 8 lines, 26 words. There's always the chance I'm reading too much into it (possibly even more that I'm looking at it than when I was assembling the front page picks) but the fact that your poem does evoke so much says a lot for it. It works because it doesn't say too much, it's a bit enigmatic without being too general and unachored, and implies rather than explains. That said, few poems (even ones as compact and functional) as this one are beyond the ability to give constructive criticism. In this case, I'd say I don't like the word "validate" that much, it seems a bit technical, but I'm at a loss to suggest a replacement that would improve it. The idea of her eyes "supporting the truth" of her statement is crucial to the poem, so it needs to be a good word. And "validate" is ok. Better than "endorse" and "substantiate", the best of the synonyms my thesaurus suggests.
Yeesh, 432 words to describe 26. Ah well. In college for a literature class (not the poetry class) I think I once discussed a 8 word poem in like 8-10 pages. I should verify what the numbers were. One thing about poetry is that it can be that succint and content rich relative to prose.
Another keyboard poem that I like better, since it actually tells a story: Called ^<@< or "hatless atlas" ^<@<.@* }"_# | -@$&/_% !( @|=> ;`+$?^? ,#"~|)^G hat less at less point at star backbrace double base pound space bar dash at cash and slash base rate wow open tab at bar is great semi backquote plus cash huh DEL comma pound double tilde bar close BEL
Kirk- Thank you for epitomizing what this Board's true function and purpose always has been (at least since I first visited in July 1998). I realize I haven't been around a lot to partake of the tempest in the teapot (egregious self-aggrandizement is nothing new here or several other places I have frequented over the years). The keyboard poetry is cute! But nutshelling (so to speak) what attracted you to Max's poem (congrats, btw, Max) is priceless. That is more the kind of attitude we need around here, and what better serves the younger poets. Everyone needs to sharpen their focus on what is important (starting with me, yes I know). And by that I mean collective focus... Thanks for inculcating that, Kirk. k
Wow Max, I really liked "Secrets" too. Thinking about what Kirk said - “validate the words” works for me, but . . . (and I'm not sure you asked cause I didn't read far enough back on the comments page & probably should have before I wrote this) if I had to look for other choices: “verify the words” works on the same level as “validate” (meaning and syllable length) Another choice might be "strengthen the words” which keeps the S alliteration thing going on (but might leave the narrator a bit too needy compared to the lead-in) I think I might like “prove the words” because it's simple and because it pulls unexpected tension between strength and vulnerability. (Thank you Kirk)
Madison, yeah, "prove" might be a very good choice for Secrets, though it does change the rhythm a bit. Interesting to see the positive response my semi-in-depth analysis has received so far (though we haven't heard from the author himself.) Actually I'm wondering if we added a specific poem workshopping feature, should I set up a secondary 'board for that? Actually it would be pretty straight forward to create something that's kind of like a blend between what we have for the Blender Board and what we have for the Survey Questions, like a miniboard for each workshopped piece, and perhaps then an index if someone wanted to see past workshops.
Guppy ~ That was an AWESOME line! Congrats to the front pagers.. Misti ~ I loved "song with a catchy chorus". There are many more people who deserve more of my attention and praise, but as I am netless at home now I don't have the online time to do more than take occasional snapshots.
tanqueray cowboy: Draw in your head, alone and too tall here. Your eyes already in the slant of drifting foam...
*winks at the guppy* hey you. Everyone, I've just had my very first hardcopy published cover *grin* I'm so proud.... <A HREF="http://home.att.net/~prometheussoul/index.htm" target=_new>The Breast Man ... and other writings, by Mr Andy Glasser</A> Go check it out, then pre-order a copy! (oh yeah, I designed the website too.) take care of your hearts, dee
oh hell, I guess I didn't need that code in there... deevaa = ditz.
Seems like I've missed a lot of shit in the past few days that I haven't posted/read comments here. :-P Sheesh! This is ridiculous. *Cellie*
Fib~ What an unusual post. Expecting a reply? Very well then, I'll play along for a short while...
tanqueray cowboy: ...It is the unbetrayable reply Whose accent no farewell can know. farewell--
Kirk, Madison, all... I am still here... just thinking about your suggestions. It really amazes and brightens my heart to think that so much discussion came from that poem. I thought long and hard of a suitable word to take the place of 'validate'. I decided to rewrite the poem. I will submit it soon. Don't worry, I am just changing a word. Thanks from the bottom of hy heart for all your insight. Sincerely, ~Max~
Max-Rom Thank you...I appreciate any comments I receive. I seem to have written more poetry in the last few days, since I logged on here, than I had in the past few years. Misti, I like the writer's challenge it stimulates my brain to come up with something new and unique that fits into those words...or is it the other way around. Thank you from beyond.
Truelies - Winter Wonderland I liked this one. It was sad, but cute and clever. Jon's Saint Nick was appealing...
Max-rom...glad you liked the feedback. Please label your poem as a resubmit though. (Who knows, with my limited memory, maybe in a month I'll have forgotten this workshopping and selection and pick it again...)
Leaving so soon, mysterious stranger? ("Golly, who was that masked man?")
I am a college student and one of my professors asks us each week what new and interesting web content have we found that has inspired us to do something creative with ourselves. Of course I brought up this site and then explained to him about the "writer's challenge" and how I'm almost positive that since I found this site, that I've written almost twice the amount of poetry in 3 days than I had in the last 2 1/2 years. It is not an English class or even anything remotely artistic in any way...its a psychology class. He decided that since we really are just killing off the last two weeks, that he'd do a spin off on the writer's challenge from here and gave us a much longer set of words to incorporate into something either poetic, a story or even artwork. So I thought I'd give you our list of words and see if anyone would like to give his list a shot.. Creative Spark List: Bubbles dragonfly rubber pain garden miniature evergreen wings spirit remember free harness kinetic oval shimmering thorns tears sea reckless deception smile fell dream telephone
erin...your writers challenge attempt rocked! I love the bittersweet tone. beyond different, I am on my way out of town on business, but I will give those words a shot when I get home.. I really do like the challenges. I may not be happy with the result, last challenge is a good example, but I do love the opportunity to play with words. As for the workshopping...I would love it if we could do that. I am game at any time to put my words on the chopping block. I write for me, but it is a craft I would like to practice and improve upon. Just let me know Kirk if you want to pull and strech my Blender boundaries. Rhet
Missed you Riggs! Your poems always touch me in one way or another, right from the first time I read your stuff, almost 2 years ago, and got tears in my eyes. Glad you decided to post again. (I know you popped in here in October after MONTHS of absence, but you didn't stay long!) Smiles to ya, sweet thang! -Teej
Echo, Kirk...ha, very nice off to figure out what's wrong with my pipes... gup
Just wanted to put in my two cents...speaking as Kirk (not from my curiously-kitchen-chair-shaped throne of "Kirk, Blender-Keeper") I'm surpised people are enthralled with "writer's challenges" as much as they are. While I see how intermitently being forced to cover a bunch of random stuff could be a creativity kick in the pants, it seems like the results too often show the marks where the piece was bent to fit in a buzzword. It would be more interesting to me if there were fewer things to work in a piece, and maybe if some of the things were more conceptual, like "a sense of loss" or "a search for justice" rather than the more concrete things the lists are usually made up as. But, what do I know...I haven't written anything standalone for a long whileish.
I have to agree with Kirk. Anyone can put a word list into a poem. And if the "train" thing from the last one proves anything, it's that most of us are going to think along the same general lines as well. Further, since this is a Romantic Poetry board, it further reduces the variance. Another board I sometimes visit, used to have challenges, but instead of giving a word list, there was just a phrase or topic. And you could use that phrase in the poem or just use the phrase to give you a frame work. For instance, the line might be, "When she left me" or "Rainy Day Thoughts". Obviously, you still have people ending up with similar thoughts, but you avoid everyone saying the same thing with the same 8 words. Anyway, that's my thoughts on it. Rogue
Here's a little added thought that just occurred to me. Perhaps a tougher challenge would be to have everyone write a poem under a certain topic and then include a list of words that they could NOT use in the poem. Rogue
Come to think of it, I find "bumps" to be more interesting reads than "challenges". Many past front page picks have come from bumps of other works, since the contraint is more thematic that hitting a laundry list of items. Looking back at my previous entry...man, I'm having a Bad Hair Day of Grammar...
Rogue - your A Two Cent Rhyme was absolutely BRILLIANT !!! It reminded me of Alice in Wonderland.... You have become a modern day Lewis Carroll... So much fun to read - and a playground for the imagination !!! BRAVO ! Please sir, stand up and take a bow !! .
Rogue -- A Two Cent Rhyme is splendidly mad -- practically jumps about on the page, giggling and wriggling and tickling your tongue...
I know I am a bit late commenting on this issue, but I just wanted voice an opinion about the One Nut person who writes the rants about...well, I have not quite figured out what his point is yet. Some at the Blender seem to get so outraged and passionate in responding to his deragatory comments. Obviously, this is a brilliant person who wields a keyboard like a lethal sabre, but why even respond? The bullies and attention seekers of the playground always will give up and go away to harass someone else if they are ignored. The best way to handle people who are blatantly offensive and destructive is to simply let them have at it until they run out of gas. One Nut Jim obviously gets something out of his periodic outbursts AND the ensuing havoc. Take away his fun by ignoring it, and he will...leave. Just my thoughts on the matter-not judging, lecturing, or chastising. No offense meant to anyone, including One Nut!
hey what do i or my professor know..neither of us are english majors...you may ignore or delete my list if you so choose.
I'm addicted to the writer's challenge. It works for me. I like reading all the creative variations inspired from a list of ten random words. The bump is a good idea, but I'm not much of a bumper. Or bumpee.
Beyond Different; I like the lists too but I like bumps or just some idea you get from something others write. It's fun and what-ever gets you writing anything is wonderful! Rogue; I loved your poem and had to bump it, nothing like the original but my way..ha Congratulations To Decembers Front Pagers! Way To GO! Hey Riggs; Glad to see you on page. Different for you I like it! Thanks Kirk for my pick. Jubal; I know I have promised myself that next full moon I will lock the door to the computer room and hide the key from me..ha! bk
Echo~ 'Spelling Lesson' was equisite...Beautifully composed...=) Love and sparkling eyes, Ali
Kirk ~ You're so very right about the writer's challenge... I find it to be a bit like an ice skating program, when the skater absolutely has to meet the elements (Or jumps) in a certain competition. To to me it stifles creativity snd I feel like I'm just stuffing words where they don't belong. (Shut the hell up, Urenda. I happen to LOVE ice skating and I see you laughing :-)
Riggs, are you Rogue? Hmmm..........
scqueen - Speaking for myself, I'm pretty sure I'm not Riggs, so I find it doubtful that Riggs is Rogue. Rogue of course, now I have to wonder if it's a good thing for a Rogue to be confused for a Riggs.
Misti Girl... You are impossible to BUMP! You cover every nuance...but Bumping is fun... Gala
thank you TJ and BK
Well, everyone I thought that I would give you all a phrase and see what comes up, it sounded interesting, and perhaps someone will say how I feel better than I can right now. "I know you better now." Xoxox elaina
sc- who, me? laughing? I actually got more of a chuckle from Kirk's "bad hair day of grammar" than anything else in the program (short, long, or compulsory ;-) ).
Gala~ It gets lonely, though...never being bumped. Someone bump me, please! I'll try to submit a bumpworthy poem later on. This morning I dreamed I was stranded in the middle of this muddy river and there was a broken, rusty bridge and there was no road but somehow this Mexican man wearing a cowboy hat showed up in his pickup truck to rescue me. I said,"I'm waiting on my husband to notice me" but he insisted that I get in his truck. He was very fatherly. He had a wife and a daughter holding her baby sitting inside. While I was dreaming I was thinking,"this would make a good poem." But I don't feel up to it.
WOW! holly, misti, ali, and sweetness. I love them all. I can relate to every one! great! xoxo elaina
Thank's Elaina!
Elaina~ *smile* Glad you liked, girlie! Love and sparkling eyes, Ali
B.K. - I just loved Today I Just Want YOU ! It made me giggle, it made me laugh, it made me want to go home and attack him!!! Thank's for sharing! -Holly
Wow, I finally got bumped! Thanks, Rogue.
No problem.
Rogue ~ Trust me, to be a Riggs is a very good thing. Kind of like being a Tigger :-) He's an excellent writer and your style reminded me of his, so my compliments to you both!
Godhiva - I really liked this line from your latest: "I will enjoy the memories, still flying around and coming as summer winds, in warm waves of pleasure." great description!
New survey question is up! k
Michael T: I enjoyed "Won't Write You Poetry." For some reason, perhaps it's the connection with words to skin,it reminds me of the movie, "Pillow Book." Did you ever see it?
Michael T~ *Won't Write You Poetry* is kick ass. Two thumbs up. Five stars. I like the words you chose and the rhythm and the gist.
Misti~ 'Hug Me' was absolutely great...The imagery was superb, my dear...*smile* Love and unbreakable promises, Ali ps....((HUGS)) =)
Misti ~ Thanks! Poetry is all about fine assonance and deep, thoughtful diction. ;-) Just some Girl ~ never seen it. I'll rent it with a lady sometime. :-) I need to fix the last food choice -- Chianti is an italian drink. It should be Sangria. (I can't do the Nyea sigh in i.e.)
Thank you, Ali! You have maintained such a bright, positive presence at the Blender. I respect you tremendously for that. (((((Hugs)))))) back atcha!
Sorry about some of hte errors in my last piece...when I hit back to correct them my work was gone and it wouldn't cut and paste...I would have re-written, but if I think about it any more I think I'll go crazy. xoxo elaina
Ooh, such excellent postings lately! holly - A poet - Good one! Half the great art and 90% of country-western songs in this world wouldn't exist without a poet's pain. Somehow it seems to be a necessary component of the human condition. Those who turn their pain into a form we can use for our own relief have a lonely job; this reminds us they may deserve our sympathy as well as our admiration. krisalys - pessimist in love… - the last line made me laugh -- captures that can't-think, can't-sit-still, god-i-need-something-to-take-my-mind-off-it feeling! courtney - I keep expecting you - lots of good connotations in the elastic thread image (old, forgotten, limp, just hanging there unnoticed, etc). And the last line ("it just happens to be/my lovely bones/this time") was a good twist -- I was thinking in terms of sucking the marrow out of life in general, but this points out that every bone belongs to someone, somewhere. Nicely done!
Okay.....this is a plea for help from the men on the board... Usually I am pretty good at this dating thing. I like my independence, so I'm not usually too worried about whether a guy is gaga over me or not. And most times it's me who is hard to figure out and somewhat distant. BUT!! my time has come, payback is bitching me out, the tables have turned, the shoe is on the other foot, bla, bla, bla...... I met this guy. He's smart, funny, thinks just left of center, owns his own business, is stable, AND is gorgeous! I met him about a month ago. Since then we've talked on the phone a few times and gone out twice. Then talked more. Whenever we make contact, all signals from him are good. He'll stroke my face and tell me I'm beautiful, he's said he thinks about me at work, when I try to get off the phone he says 'No! Just a few minutes more!' We clicked! Problem: Last Friday (a week ago) was our last phone call. I called him (it had been 3 days since our last call) It was good. No bad things. He mentioned his phone was dying, so I said, "okay, I'll let you go" He said "No, let's just talk till it dies." So we did. After 10 minutes or so the phone died. And THAT'S IT! He hasn't called since. I don't know what to make of it. I don't want to be THAT GIRL, who calls and calls when it's not wanted. And I figure since it was his phone that died, he'd be the one to call next, and since he hasn't, I figure he's not interested anymore.......thing is, I'm also thinking maybe he's waiting for me to call him, because he knows I hate when guys get gaga and clingy. AND he's the ONLY guy I've dated in a long time that interests me at all. I think about him every day (though less and less now) and I have to FORCE myself not to call him! I am finding all kinds of reasons that we'd never work out (all shallow and trivial things) and I haven't ever told him how I feel about him (Ya, I'm afraid of commitment AND rejection...besides, infatuations are just that, and shouldn't be expressed until one moves out of infatuation into something more substantial) aside from telling him that I enjoy him and am really impressed with certain character traits of his (oh, and kissing him in a way that says 'wow, I'm into you!). So, I've played things cool, yet not icy.....and I'm confused. What DO I do? Do I call him and risk seeming clingy or too stupid to 'get the message', or do I just forget about him and if he ever calls again just play it off as cool? What's going through his head? Is he waiting to see how interested I am, or is he done? Any suggestions guys? Anything would help me figure this out... -Teej
lol i think you have put plenty of thought already into this ...probably far too much .. jus call him and yell at him fer not callin jack
I agree with Jackrhyme. In some ways, this part of romance reminds me of looking for a house to buy. Both can be some of the biggest landmarks on your emotional landscape, both can be very rewarding, but the resources both demand make it a bit of a gamble. There's a certain balance trick in finding something you really like with not being so infatuated with it that you'll be shattered if you don't get it. (And, just like houses, you try not to display the full depth of your interest.) But anyway, give him and his schedule the benefit of the doubt and give him a call.
I concur. Call him. 5cott
TJ: I know you aren't soliciting the advice of the ladies...but I have to say that I think you should NOT call. He has your number. If he is really interested, he WILL call. Believe me, I have seen friends who are in your EXACT predicament who DO call. And I see them struggle just as you are struggling because it then becomes a vicious cycle. And then I have asked THE VERY GUYS WHO DON'T CALL why they act the way they do; interested one minutes then doing the disappearing act...and most of the time they say because they just aren't that interested, but that they don't want to hurt the girl's feelings. I may be off base and your situation may be different. BUT...I think you should not call.
JustSomeGirl has some point; you have to brace yourself for the possibility that his attention has drifted, and if you do call to face what he says with a realistic appraisal of whether or not things still have potential. If you don't call, you risk losing something that has potential but got sidetracked by something in his life. If you do call, you risk being hung up on a guy who isn't as interested as he seemed. I think the latter is a more interesting risk to take.
call him, yell at him, and then let him make it up to ya k?
B.K., hope you don't mind, I don't usually point out typos but this one -- the mental picture was just too hilarious not to pass on. From But We Survived: Then these crazy Indians who think We look like George Custer's cousin come Along and bury us up to our Noses in aunt hills Now, my aunt weighs in at about 250 pounds, so that would be some hill. Of course, given the nutty nature of some of us here, maybe it's not a typo at all and that's exactly what you MEANT, though just how the Indians would acquire your mother's sisters is hard to imagine...
Elaina - "So Alone" - I feel your pain, babe. Who knows when we'll be able to love again? I just hope it's soon...or not? Feel better, good work-- TaintedOne
Jackrhyme: at the risk of sounding like a TOTAL net geek... (well, I was deeply into Star Trek in middle school, but kind of lost interest to a certain extent later)-- your note *really* reminded me of this line from one episode of Star Trek, "Mirror Mirror" where the Trek crew get sent to the "evil" mirror universe, and good Lt. Uhura works on seducing evil Mr. Sulu: "You aren't very persistent Mr. Sulu. The game has rules. You're ignoring them. I protest and you ... come ... back. You didn't ... come ... back." She's really sexy with those lines, actually. http://www.elysiumgates.com/theater/1/startrek/ep-39.htm has a detailed episode retelling, with lots of pictures (including Uhura in her "bad girl" outfit w/ bare midriff)
TJ ~ Call him! You're taking a small risk but like you said -- he's the only guy you've met in a while you think is worth your time. Be prepared to leave a message. Two calls in a row is not clingy. And yell at him for not calling. That will clue him in about your interest as well as tell him he needs to up his ante or get the hell out of dodge.
I gotta thank you guys (and gal) for the advice! Oh thankyouthankyouthankyouverymuch. Here's what happened (All I can do is laugh and cringe!!)...I called his cell phone and he answered. There was this really loud beeping (the back up signal in of a frontend loader) and he says, "Hello?" I say, "Hi!" *things get staticky and garbled* He says, "Oh, hi. How are you?" *can't tell if he's enthused, pleased, bothered, bored, or neutral* To which I reply, "Are you in your big machine?" And I hear him say something that sounds like "Kchchc...my....zttkk...ya ...mmmktkttbig...machinertrtrtrkkktchchch..." Then there's me, "Hello?....Helloooo?...okay, bye!" A couple minutes later I call back and get the voice mail. I leave a message that says, "Hey you, I just got a cell phone and thought I'd give you my number just incase you decided to call, which you never do....well, okay I can't say NEVER, but hey, if you ever DO call again, call 521-****. Take care!" So, that's it. I took the advice of the majority (again, thank you!) and called. And yes MichaelT(?) I had to leave a message. I'm thinking that was a good thing, because he didn't have to talk on the phone trying not to be rude (if he's not interested, but being nice) and now the ball is really in his court. This way, if he never calls back, I'll know what I need to know. I'm laughing my ass off thinking maybe he faked the whole disconnect thing to get out of talking to me! Did a good job, if that's the case! LOL!! What do you all think about this? Now I'm gonna go on with my life and forget about him till he fades or resurfaces...either way, I'll be fine! (going out for paintball and dinner on Saturday with some other guy, that'll help take my mind off him) Luv Ya All! -Teej
So, Kirk....I guess I let the realtor know I am somewhat interested, but a bit peeved at not being able to reach them when I need to. If the realtor wants to sell the house, they'll call, huh? Meantime, I'm looking at other houses. Heeheee!!
TJ;Ok so get him off your chest, call him one last time and if he doesn't take the hook, fish elsewhere. But only once more. You know you could wait a few days more before you call, that way you don't sound too eager. Echolocation; This is funny, no likness there, just my wicked imagination and my apology to your aunt. ha ha ha who would have thunk ha. Holly; Thanks for your earlier comments on Today I Just Want You. I need to catch up on my reading and come back and make comments. Right now I am fighting with a 7ft Spruce tree and so far it's winning. Ha I got it in the stand and it smells so good. Lighting comes next, thats the part I hate, I need a lighting engineer..ha ha Decorating is pure pleasure after that. bk
fer Lt. Uhura? in her prime? umm heh i wouldnt have left... lol protest to me baby and ill dine ya with fine wine
TJ ~ Drop him. He would've already called if he wanted to. Believe me. Don't waste another thought. And don't put up with some bullshit excuse when he realizes what he lost, and calls back in a few weeks, trying to smooth things over.
Kirk -- yay for the Star Trek quote! Uhura was a great chick. She always shone on the rare occasions when she got better lines than "Hailing frequencies open, sir." Personally I think that scene you mentioned is one of the best in the whole series, second only to the world's first televised interracial kiss :P
**Hey Everybody** I have a huge favor to ask of everyone. If you wouldn't mind would you all answer this question. "If you had one line to promise one thing to a person that you were going to spend forever with, what would your one line be?" Du'Doll
Du'Doll umm something like this? i cant promise you happiness, cause this is something we both have to work for, but i can promise you will never be alone.
Good one Jack! (re:Du'Doll's inquiry) Or how 'bout these: "Infinity, baby...that's what I can promise you." "Roads will take us into our future where there will be mountain tops we shall climb to, and valleys where we may cry, and I promise to take this journey beside you the whole way." "I'm not gonna leave you, so you might wanna make plans for that." or revising a quote from elsewhere..."It may not always be easy, but it WILL be worth it." Bah....this is HARD!
Hey guys!! B.K. -- But We Survived was so good!! I especially liked these lines: "Only the tightrope breaks While we are twisting and turning Thinking hum maybe this would Be a great new dance We just keep falling and falling" You rock out!! MichaelT -- Great analysis on "Drops of Jupiter"... you nailed it, man!! Du'Doll -- Anything Else? had so much drama...you are truly talented to document such feelings. I'll just keep trying I guess...thanks for sharing. Good stuff people!! Adrenalin rushes attack me when I visit the Blender(hey, that's kinda poetic in and of itself)!! Thanks for inspiring me guys. Later, ~Max~ (brimming with smiles)
Just got this from projectgreenlight. It's called the "doublespeak" writer's challenge: wine whine bored board here hear one won see sea ...eh. Doesn't inspire me at the moment.
Mr. Michael T: I loved your analysis of Drops of Jupiter!!! I must admit that I do love that song. Meet Virginia by Train is also a very Pop-ish, but quite lyrical and smooth tune. I NEVER heard it like you are explaining it. I was unaware of the Jupiter reference. Wow, I will now listen a bit closer to hear certain voice inflections at each place in the story. Very cool, sir. Misti - yeah, I am kinda drained from my 2 week vacation/business trip. I think I might have to pass on the challenge too. The Blender is so calm finally. I can't really say that all that interpersonal mud slinging and catching wasn't an amusing sidebar to the real world crap we all have to deal with at times. I am however, ready to spead some holiday joy! Christmas in Texas...I did that for many years. Somehow, I find myself wishing for the childhood tunes of Feliz Navidad every once and a while! You guys should go to The Riverwalk in San Antonio at night around the holidays...I loved it there. Rhetoric
Rhet~ Yeah, I've always wanted to do that. It's funny...I've done a lot of holiday shopping in San Antonio (when I lived in Kerrville)but I've never been to the Riverwalk at Christmastime. They really go all out. I love gaudy lights...and luminarias...and "Feliz Navidad." San Antonio is awesome. But we've decided on Albuquerque because we want to get into hiking and camping and I'm kinda burned out on the great Lone Star state. I apologize for posting that challenge. It's really weak!!! (p.s. watched the first thirty minutes of "The Searchers" last night...that's where Buddy Holly got "That'll Be the Day" from! ha!)
For One Nut Jim (1947-2001) * *** * * ABC OF ANARCHISM by Alexander Berkman [DELETION OF OVERLY LONG OFFTOPIC ARTICLE-- if you want to see it go to http://www.ecn.org/freedom/berkman.html -- and remember kids, don't post something long when you can just link to the damn thing.] (now go and buy or steal the book)
...and READ it. By the way gals, let me toss a query out to y'all...I'm on my period and have a date tonight (yuck - and he LOVES oral, I hear). Should I let my boyfriend go down on me on this first date, even if I'm all bloody? Just checking...after all THIS IS A POETRY SITE, ISN'T IT??? dd
DD; I hear you can get Hoof and Mouth and Mad Cow not to mention Hook Worm that way. Better stay home and read Ms Manners newest book called Manners For The Misogynist Mind instead. bk
Good Lordy, BK! You must be on the rag too! lol xxxoooxxx ;)
(**I KNEW when I read someone's comment about things being peacefull here, it would jinx it!**) Derelict, (what the hell......this can be fun.....and I'm all full of adrenaline from playing paintball all day!!) I get the impression you're a ~bit~ of a slut. What with your question not being, "Should we get sexual, girls?" But rather, "Should we get oral?". Ah, but what does that matter anyway, seeing as how your 'boyfriend' will be soooo surprised when you get all naked and he's sees your equipment. Perhaps you can cut and paste your diatribe about anarchy into a cheesy greeting card and give it to your 'date' over your cheap chips and salsa appetizers and Red Dog beer, seeing as how you don't know the difference between concerns of the heart and anarchism or which of the two should be posted to this board. Now, remember Derelict...the best way to NOT get beat with a baseball bat powered by a heterosexual's fury is to let your 'male friends' know that you're a man BEFORE you kiss them.
Damn!! That was FUN! (Derelict ~ how's the water in the Brazos? I know you didn't come to swim, but you sure looked funny when I pushed you in!!)
DD; No, I just dislike Bumbling, Boorish, Badmouth, Board Bully Bumkins who either need their medication or should stop drinking the hard stuff and go for Bottled Beet Broth instead. Bk
Teej and B.K Beene ~ Sorry Doll, I did speak those fatal words - silent and peaceful. However, it is kinda fun waiting to see what he will give us next, though. I must admit that in DD/ONJ/BVV's weird style of cruel communication - he can be rather funny. I told ya...he is good at what he does 'round here. I am NOT trying to give him props - because I do disagree with the mean and bitter tone he uses here. I just find that on dreary and rainy West Virgina days, he gives me a chuckle. Oh, but it must be my cycle - seems to be going around now! I missed you DD while I was out of town. Too bad you don't know me to miss me. You are most certainly a twisted motherf*#$er - but you are so damned funny! Be Good. Rhet
oook so... one nut post's a diatribe about anarchy then goes on to show how easy it is with a sickening comment posing as a woman umm jim you still bore me
I deleted the article, but went out of my way to find an equivalent link for it. And actually jackrhyme, it's not from the One Nut Jim personae per se, in fact it seems to be somehow announcing the death of One Nut Jim. I was surprised by what seemed to be the given birthdate of 1947, give ol' One Nut the ripe old age of 53.
Derelict Daisy/One Nut Jim, You might know a thing or two about anarchy, but you don't know Texas geography. The Brazos goes through Waco. The Colorado goes through Austin. And if you think the Driskill Hotel is a good date idea, you are more wacked out than I thought.
Laugh Out Freakin' Loud! Really. I gotta hand it to ya all, you have given me a real shitter of a good time tonight. First off, the Berkman stuff was really just some random recent study and it seemed an appropriately pointless way to waste space (as do so many others here...perhaps without realizing it) and signal the retirement (ne, demise) of everybody's favorite fictious character, "One Nut Jim." The thoughts and opinions expressed by this oddball CHARACTER do not (necessarily) represent the views of the writer (who is simply out for a metatarsalic stroll across the Weird World Web waiting for the eggs to hard boil). After I submitted the Berkman shit, I realized an appropriate "punch line" would be to submit a commentary one the past week's BROAD antics...like asking relationship advice from a bunch of pitiful poetics (SELF most certainly included) wasting valuable cyberspace. Anywho, just go back to the "...and READ it" entry and try it again..with gusto. Some of the finest comic writing I've done all night, if I do say so myself (which I do). "...after all , THIS IS A POETRY SITE ISN'T IT??" I crack me up. And then to see the inevitable responses. Sheer heaven. You guys be some funny muthafukkahs. And the mysogynst comments some of you made? Another total hysterical shitter. If you knew me, you be shitting snickers, too! Oh, I suppose some here actually feel they "know" me down here in Murfreesboro Tennessee (via lies from, oh, I imagine some little chippie who pursued me via email - a star f*cker - that conned me into a marriage proposal, screwed my best buddy while I was away, and was dumb enough to f*ck with me in MY town...the morning I showed up at the Domestic Hearing WITH AN ATTORNEY...well, it was the first time I've ever seen someone actually shit themselves...another attorney pal (who has worked with the beast) actually told ME even MORE awful stories that sent me to the doc for HIV and VD tests...oh, how I shall treasure my inital misconceptions about her!...well hell, I've gotten off topic. Suffice it to say, those of you who would call these "characters" mysogynistic really haven't a clue about the writer and make the whole cabal that much more hilarious. It would be like you interpret something written by an unknown and decide some aspect of it is racist. So, had you called these "characters" racist, I would respond the same way...Kiss My Ass (the writer is colorblind). From the tone of a couple of those responses above, I'd say some of you ladies are the mysogynists. Go figure that one out, clowns. Self-hating women are my FAVES!!! So to all the lost and lovelorn, pitiful poetics and self-hating Shelias...THE NEXT TIME YOU NEED RELATIONSHIP ADVICE, JUST STOP A STRANGER ON THE STREET OR ASK THE DRIVE-THRU ATTENDANT. It is virtually the same thing as posting it anonymously on the Web for all the world to realize things are just THAT MUCH MORE FUCKED UP THAN WE'D ORIGINALLY THOUGHT. Amen. Again, excellent writing vs. banal Board-dumb. Fascinating. Really, thank you again for all the grins. ONJ disappeared last week, and now it is MY turn. Watch me disappear!!! dd PS - Hollymccormick...excellent Sorely Kierckenfart quote. So apropos... (!)
Oh, and I can't resist this one.. To Misti, You clearly are either a twelve year old goth chick or just plain stupid. http://www.driskillhotel.com/ dd PS - wanna know how weird this place is? Maybe I AM Rhett, and Kevin, and even TJ...look, seriously, watch...I shall call forth another of my characters...JustSomeGirl! (POOF!) . . . .
. . . (ZAP!!) Hey! What tha...? What the heck is happening around here? JustSomeGirl (pretty creepy, huh?)
DD: Good point on "real world" vs. net persona. True enough. You're still one obnoxious character, though. Of course you're funny (truly intelligent wackos are always the most interesting--far better than the usual garden-variety neurotics who talk too much), but if you come across at all like this in "real life", well, that would explain your, uh, difficulties. Disappear if you must. I personally subscribe to the big tent school of thought. The theater of the absurd is almost always preferable to what's usually playing.
Blue Angel And one last little trickie, before I sign off...I will leave one of myselves a poem for one another...yet another time STILL! Dedicated to myself, and my self yet again! Bibbity bobbity BOO!
Great Googly-Moogly! I'm getting outta here too! ??????? JSG/LLS
Ha! Actually, Misti's my wife. And you once again provide a highly interesting example of the dissonance between online intellectual ball-swinging and, for lack of a better word, reality--'cause in "real-life" I'd just kick your overeducated ass. But keep on keepin' on, and remember: mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of. Caught early it CAN be treated. (By the way, the Brazos is nowhere near Austin, and your Driskell link doesn't work.) Then again, I might be YOU... Ever think of that? Really. You can't prove I'm not. Barthes said that no author ever has strict ownership of a text. Hell, it's like tryin' to pin the tail on a moving donkey. Buy or steal "From Work to Text." I highly recommend it. Good beach reading.
Awwwwwww.......Derelict, did my messages send you into that last tizzy? You poor, poor man...er...I mean...whatever....you poor person. Come now, stop with the freakyfussing and get on with life. Here, take my hand and close your eyes. I promise it won't hurt, much. Just a little pin prick. There...... Now, here's to your objection to asking advice of cyber strangers...don't you think that if you wanted pure unbiased opinions, JUST to see what other people think, (because a person doesn't see things from EVERY angle) then the best people to ask are people who don't know you or care WHO you end up dating? And wouldn't you allow that if you don't want the people you DO know in REAL life to know what's going on in yours, you just MIGHT consider getting a little feedback from outerspace? And perhaps it's not so unreal as to admit that most likely I would (or anyone would) just read the responses and do what I would have done anyway, neverminding WHAT anyone else suggested? Of course, I realize that the reason you flipped out publicly AGAIN is because you were so incensed at the thought of me being interested in a guy other than you, and you were so devastatingly stunned by jealousy that you lost your head. It's alright, Derelict, I can forgive you for that. Afterall, how can one NOT forgive a man...person...so charming as yourself? I'm sure you'll hunt and peck on your keyboard to send of some super intelligently scathing rebuttal to this, but we will all just kindly nod our heads and look discretely away from your fit, knowing the poor guy is only being nasty to cover his undying love for TJ. *sigh* Such is my lot in life...to spurn the affections of those not wholly healed, and perchance to further delay their healing....LOL!! -Teej (feeling alive and refreshed...ahhhhhhh!!)
ah pulleeze one nutter first the ..yawn..anarchy ploy and now the feel sorry for because i hate myself one ..........you really bore me zzzzzzzzz
Ah! Zibba zibba zabba, zibba zibba ZAPP-A! Uh, reety teety, bobba reety! And now I become "Chris!" and whip MY OWN ASS! Abba cheebie, nobba geekie! Chris versus Daisy versus Rheetie Bobba reety! One Nut Misti, Just Some Sweetie, Kirk IsreilammadamadingdongDeeDee! I bend reality before your very eyes! All hail the Ghost in the Machine! Ah, Romance! Ah, Poetry! Art is a hammer no art is a mirror wait damn art is a hammer yeah art is a mirror art is a dirty biness but some bunny gotta do it Bese mi asno Embrassez mon âne Küssen Sie meinen Esel Baci il mio asino Beije meu burro Kyss mitt esel Zoen mijn reet Kys mig æsel Suudelma minun aasi Pog mo thoin Koss minn rass Iscjelivati moj magarac Csókol az én -m csacsi Polibek má osel Poljubac moj zadnjca Poljub svoj norec Isskay ymay assyay Soen my esel Puth im gomar Chumu gAdha Suudlema minu eesel Honi ko'u 'elemu üngutu taku käihe sarut magar busu changu kitako kysst min åsna cusanu fy asen KUSCHN MEIN EISL! Dee Dee (Ooops!) I mean *chris* "Misti's Misogynecologist" cc: n/a
Hey all you Chrissies, and Misties, and TeeJee's! Ya ever hear of a CAR? Like, to drive to the boat ride on the Brazos? After all the Driskill Film Festival drill...jee-sus christ! I have clearly lapped you exponentially in the mental arena, leaving you limp and distressed, able to only utter some moronic jibe about geography...and this Misti-fied gal in Texas cain't stop thinkin' 'bout dis mystic on da cybersexysuperfragilistic...yo *Chis* I jus' bitch slapped yo wrist! An once again once again my ass kiss! (In the most romantic way possible) Too bad about Dee Dee...RIPP (1968-2001)
ah nutter if you weren't so pathetic in a dweeb sort of way you would almost make it to useless ........very bored now zzzzzzzzzz
HEY...seriously all you Austin Blenderites! I did two summers at Esther's Follies in the 80s. We might even know each other in the real world, and then you'd REALLY have a big laugh when you make your discovery! G'nite! chis/juanknotgym/misti/justsomegurl/rhatt/derelictdaisy/etc/et al
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DD, take your mitts off my ID... I did not make those previous entries under JustSomeGirl... notice the lack of spaces between the words... Jeez. I've seen everything now!! ID theft!
E Gads DD; Boy am I glad I went to bed early. HA! Dunkin Donut are you missing your hole point here? You obviously need attention in the worst way. Did Mommy give you too much attention or was your wet nurse some demon with a voo doo accent, honey call your shrink she will be glad to take your money and give you more pills. We can't help it if you are bored out of the hole in your gourd. This is not Maury Povich spew your dews one shot show We may not be Rembrants but obviously you aren't Tarzan or Jane would be in your arms. What witness protection program are you in or are you Osama hiding out in your cave? I am sure there must be a site for raving spewing maniacs. Call a priest to do an exorcist, call roto rooter, better yet EAT PRUNES cause Darlin, and I mean this in the most romantic way. YOU ARE FULL OF CRAP! (Put that in your Pip and Squeak it!) bk
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ID-theft and "near" ID-theft is not acceptable and will be stopped as soon as I am made aware of it. I am reasonably tolerant of multiple identities and a certain amount of offtopic rambling, but in a virtual community, consistency of identity is extremely important. That's why I installed the login system in the first place. "*chris*" (the newly created, and now disabled, account...this marks the first time I've shutdown an account): I noticed you put up your URL as negativland. I'm aware of some of their older work; the U2 piece, some of the Pepsi stuff, and in general respect it as a kind of conceptual art. I don't know what your actual association with them is, though I find big companies and people who use generic terms (or the name of an aircraft) more worthy and interesting targets than this little homebrew board.
Kirk -- Well done, thank you. Madison -- cameo appearances -- 4th section ("evil barks like dogs in a car" et seq), very fresh image, engenders a whole host of vivd mental associations Tanq -- The Sounding -- Nice! Another original metaphor (or is it a simile? I could never keep those two straight...) I like it that it's left open at the end, no easy answers
TC - Sir, you are back and just in the nick of time. All three recent posts are too sweet a therapy for me. Summer Dream , The Sounding , and Adrift are great reads. Miss September - Newlyweds struck me. I have never been married, but as a live-in, I want to feel that first everything that you describe. Your post makes me both sad and excited about those emotions. jack - your writers buzz rocked!! Very clever quips. madi - cameo appearances ...Bravo. I am taken aback by your metaphors and references. How do you get italics? That was a great break in the stream of thought!!!I like your style sister! Max- I really like Love Blinds... . Merits, shmertits - only you know its true greatness. Rheety/Rhetty/Ruby-June
Kirk, can you also disable the phony "JustSomeGirl" account?
Thanks, Kirk!
Thank you Echolocation and Rhetoric. I'd wondered if some of the images were too ghoulish for here, but it was intended for entertainment after all (ha) oh! which reminds me, the 'after all' in that poem is a double intendre to be interpreted not as sassy/quippy but as "after all in life, after all of what we expected but were handed and reshaped or rewrote to create our lives nonetheless" Not that anyone had asked for explanatory verbage, but I hear from some people (okay, one person, teehee) that until I've 'splained it some of the stuff I do is a little out there. Rhet, I sent an HTML Lesson No. 1 for Italics formatting to your email :) Try it out! Luckily the submission has a try before you buy option. Madi
This overly-educated, arrogant, name-dropping, name-stealing, successful American citizen with interns and hardboiled eggs and winning date ideas has actually done me a tremendous service. I've been tossing around my third screenplay idea for the past year. Very loosely based on the life of Nicole Brown, it involves the whole Saved By the Handsome Prince myth (not that O.J. Simpson is handsome...it isn't going to be a biography by any means). I want to create a woman who has no real identity of her own, who doesn't make much money and is swept off her feet by a successful, well-dressed, erudite kinda guy who everyone worships. Then the skeletons will come tumbling outta the closet. He'll beat her and murder her because no one heeded her cries for help. I want to write this screenplay for several reasons, mainly because the whole O.J. Simpson enrages me. I can't let it go. No woman in America should "let it go." Anyway, judging soley by his bile spewed all over this Board and his incessant bragging, LoneTesticleJames brings to mind the exact kind of Alpha Male archetype I plan to portray in my screenplay. P.S. I think it's pathetic and sleazy and empty, the way some men (mostly attorneys and CPAs, I would guess)go to great lengths just to get laid. Shelling out big bucks for an extravagant gourmet meal and a boat ride down a river. The kind of idiots who give women jewelry on a first date. I've known a couple of men like that. The irony and beauty of a hot dog in the park is totally lost on 'em. Poor bastards.
Du Doll~ heres what I will promise the person i will spend forever with, "I promise that when you get to the point that you cannot wipe your own ass, i will do it for you. And if we both cannot wipe our own asses, then at least we will both be shitty togehter..."
Damn, Misti! You said a mouth-full, sister! You hit the nail on the head..squarely.
Alrighty, alrighty.... That was a bit much last night, I admit. Booze and empty stomachs do not mix. And the crack I smoked didn't help any, either. Mein Gott! All and all I did have a shitter of a good time. I crack me up. ...in other words. But now in the cold light of day I am beginning, I hope, to face up to some of my own problems. And they are many. For one thing, all those other folks are gone. Dead. Buried. Well, not EXACTLY. That vampire chick's in the trunk of my car. I think she's still kickin'. She got on my nerves. But she's gone, so REST EASY! I am now who I am and nobody else. And I want to get serious for a moment. I don't expect anyone to believe me after all I've pulled, but I feel there is literally nothing left to say. I've had my share of trauma. Getting the heave ho by that pathetic chippie was the least of it. Suffice it to say, I do treasure my inital misconceptions about her, but I have since come to realize that it would never have worked out over the long term between us. I am brilliant. I AM misunderstood. Women feel threatened by me. Self-hating Shelias see me coming from many miles distant. But I'm getting offtopic. Point is, she was just the latest indignity in a series of many. Some WOULD say that I have "problems" with certain "substances". Some WOULD say that I've never gotten over my early childhood sexual experiences (a little TOO early, if you ask me!). But, like Solzhenitsyn's German translator told me once over espressos in Tosca, "Zee dogs zay bark and zey caravan moves on." So I will herewith move on. Or not. Depends, actually. You guys be some funny muthafukkahs. I'm not sure I can go on without you all in my life. "Dieu me pardonerra. C'est son metier." dd (NOT that other DD) (!!) cc: n/a
Dear Friends and readers (on the site that is one of my top seven all time faves - Kirk, I do love ya girl! In spite of myownbadself), Thank you for all your hard work and time. I was certain the phoney-baloney IDs would expire post haste! Thanks Kirk! (whoever you REALLY are...perhaps, SATAN? Hmmm?) You know, if I had some safe secure location to mail you goodies for all your troubles, I would) but I understand what with all the troubles in the world and such... Really, quite a splendid effort and we'll be getting back to all of you one way or the other. Please don't call us. Make sure we have your headshot, stat sheet, and correct number and have a safe drive home. Remember, this will be a non-union gratis shoot...be sure to bring a chair! There are some doughnuts left, back by the employees lounge. Really, really nice work today gang! My term has nearly expired here as well...watch out for the men in black. www.themothmanlives.com nothing is true everything is permitted * )#(* *)POOF!(* *. .
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We tried to go to the Outback Steak House when I was in the USA, the car broke down on the motorway in the snow - we never made it. I'm going to send off the emails, then print of my $25 voucher right now. *rolls her eyes* right I am. Now go away already.
DaraDaisy - That post was so sweet...and I do hope you are sincere. If I can assume (you know what they say about assume) that those words were (how old...who knows) for OUR favorite Blenderite? How can you be so tender in those few lines, yet these past weeks trash her and call her (and ME) a whore? How can you call any woman you have ever loved a disease-ridden whore? WHY DO MEN DO THAT? I have spent many a moment wondering what actually goes on in your head. I know how deep the love shared went...however badly it ended. Do you really think she is self-loathing and fucked up? Is anyone more normal than you? or I? I want so badly to believe that you are just trying to grasp at her in any way...that is why you post such horrible things. Am I wrong? PLEASE say no. I wish I could just use your real name and stop all this poo-pooing around. You are too bright and enigmatic to show your ass in such childish ways. And yes, I do know more about you than what comes from her. This is a small town and I knew of you before a couple summers ago. Please just be nice...play like a grown up. I want you to be kind for a change. I am not your mother and I have no right making such bold requests...but I know there is a sensitive soul in there somewhere. Jennifer
Come one! Come all! To the freakiest show in the world! Under the Big Top sits a man who will display his pathos for all to see!! Nevermind that we all have it....this man makes us seem angelic. And for all those who study the human mind.....here is THE epitome of confusion!! Step right up!! (Beware the sleeping dog. His growls and jerking legs may fool you, and his innocent silence will lure you, till your throat is exposed and he tears it out.) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.... onenutderelictvampire, on the other hand, leads a life of deafening desperation. we. can. help. you. Thanks for the entertainment Derelict, et al.
Teej - I totally agree with the sleeping dog analogy. I, however, am so hell bent on seeing the good in others that I can't let this one go. I am foolish for even caring...it is not my battle. I just don't want to give up hope that I was wrong on my first impression. Maybe my words will make a mockery of my mind. Am I total dumbass - maybe...probably. Rhet
Girls; Call the net police, call the vaudville guys with the hook, call the zoo, somethings got to be missing (missing link). I think we all need to take out restraining orders now before its too late. Call the FBI, I bet his picture is on some poster in the post office. Call your mother and tell her you repent that you finally saw the devil and he is real. This man needs to darted, tagged and tracked, Sensitive...Horse Feathers! You gotta like quick sand pits cause you are already up to your elbows and sinking if you believe him. bk
Dear Friends and readers (on the site that is one of my top seven all time faves - Kirk, I do love ya girl! In spite of myownbadself), Thank you for all your hard work and time. I was certain the phoney-baloney IDs would expire post haste! Thanks Kirk! (whoever you REALLY are...perhaps, SATAN? Hmmm?) You know, if I had some... ...HEY! WAIT! I'M DEAD! I'M LOCKED IN SOME SICKO'S CAR TRUNK! (so sehr niedersank, konnte ich nicht verstehen. Noch weniger aber, daá die christlich-soziale Partei in dieser gleichen Zeit zu so ungeheurer Macht zu gelangen vermochte. Sie war damals gerade am Gipfel ihres Ruhmes angelangt)
Do excuse the last few postings. I wasn't quite myself. I'm fine now. Just whacked myself on the noggin with a sledge hammer. No pain so I must be insane. If you're reading this, sweet Meredith, I don't really think you're a whore. If I'm boorish it is only because I love you madly. I gnash my teeth when I see you with HIM. Did you know he has a lover in Rhode Island? She's one of his best kept secrets. Now you know. She could be your doppleganger. She even smells like you. Please accept my olive branch. It will have to do until you let me send you tulips again. You will let me back in when you find out for yourself that HE, not I, is the IMPOSTOR.
Wow. What a fascinating web site! I finally just turned off the "X-Files" and watched this evening's fun unravel on the Blender Board! Usually a cool place to hang, but lately...well, you have some heavy shroom action going or otherwise language IS a virus... This place makes me horny. I want to watch all of you guys act out this drama on a stage...this is better than the Wooster Group! Or their orchestra! I will suggest this to my Transcendental Writing Workshop at the next est seminar I go to. But...vas es das shitr? Pere Ubu? Ubu Roi? Merdre... Does anyone know where I can find information about sensory deprivation tanks or extrasensual perspiration (ESP)? Time to pinch the pimples on my man's hairy backside. I love George W. Bush! PS - my 80 yr young mother fell in church a week ago and has been in the hospital, probably another week to go. Your prayers would be appreciated. Tammi Yale Lit Chair english_23@hotmail.com www.helpless.com Go USA! Right On!
All ~ Uh..yeah.. And I to think, at one time I thought *I* was crazy. Rhet ~ "Self Pity" was very cutting. Nice pick! Shawna ~ Love Poems Suck. Very nice. I agree. Misti ~ You've been bumped. Or rather I ricocheted off "Hug me" in the direction of my latest flame.
Jesus H. Christ On A Crutch... Oh we have lots and lots of people listening to the voices lately, don't we? Hang in there Kirk....and good job. When I am in the city, there is a rule of thumb...don't converse with the mutants. Tanq, Madi, all---I'm gonna go read some poetry... Take care people...
Oh, Rhatt... Expose me? Eh? You don't have the cojones. Hey! Come to think of it, you DON'T! Well, if you DID, you WOULDN'T. (Have 'em, that is.) Anyway I dare ya double dog dare ya triple dog dare ya... If there was good in me it left a long time ago. Took the last train for the coast. Last seen in a Munich bookshop paging through the latest Clancy novel. Etc. "Whores can't help it, Scott. That's why they're whores." -Hemingway ddetal
MIEN KAMPF! I’m a whore. No wait YOU’RE THE WHORE. Come to think of it, Mary Magdalene was a whore, too. WHAT WAS MY POINT? Oh yes, Cose Fan tutte. What I’m saying to you dear hearts, YOU smashing young poet and poetesses (ah, if only I could remember which one I was,) is that I’m totally OUTTA MY FREAKIN’ GOURD. I like really, really – quite overly, actually – tight cut-off denim shorts… BUT ENOUGH ABOUT ME! How about Hegel, huh? Speaking of which, I’m very mysterious in my madness, aren’t I? I do so Love this Site. “Insanity is just a state of mind.” - Hawkeye Pierce
I find it sad that the board can so quickly become about one person and their "agenda", and when the same person posts multiple poems regarding this agenda, it becomes very boring. I do try to skip over "his" rants and poems, but he does monopolize the board, and detract us from what this is supposed to be about. He obviously is an attention seeker, and I think the greatest thing we could do would be to ignore him, and focus on the works. Happy Monday, everyone!
*laughs* .. f'in really sad people out there these days... Kirk.. Think you should start bannin' ip's, or start automatically deletin' any messages over a half of a page long. Maybe even track message board entry and delete any over 2 a day... just some suggestions... sick of seein' so much poo flung by one silly ahole monkey
oh and, yea Sweetness.. got it dead on right there with that last comment.. sad how much people want attention.. should of joined drama as an actor pal.... maybe then you wont get reactions from just text... of course, you're probably the type of person who hangs around in a trendy trechcoat out infront of starbucks bugging people trying to look strange. or you're just.. all.... alone... .....poor you.. ;-) you need a hug? lets give em a nice hug! . . <insert large psycho rambling response from hermaphrodite lonely nut here>
To Derelect Daisy, One Nut Jim, Etc. - As a spectator to your pain, I have read your torments. Assuming that you are one person using various names, but all sharing the same agony - I wrote this poem as a form of comfort and understanding for what you are going through and what others have and will go through in the future, when they lose someone that they loved. I understand. I have been there. Although I did not react like you - inside I felt almost crazy at times. The burning pain of rejection and loss and reality and foolishness, was almost more than I could endure. I know what it is like to not be able to eat or sleep, and to feel that you were going to die. I know the ache and burning feeling in your skin.... I hope this poem will offer you some comfort. Sometimes there is nothing that anyone can do or say to help you.... but just to listen. Healing is often slow.... and painful. Please read, if you will.... The Torments of Rejected Love ...
All~ I usually sit these flame wars out, but our unwelcome visitor has displayed such a keen memory (or uncanny ability to cut and paste) that I thought I would chime in. Our dark, brooding and ever-boorish guest asks -- by way of the title of its latest contribution to this site -- “ What's In a Name Anyway? ” Plenty, if you’re discussing German composer Richard Wagner, and even more if you’re referring to fascist despot Adolf Hitler. Our mysterious contributor has submitted “Name” as a poem, without any indication that the thoughts expressed within are other than its own. Actually what has been submitted is, not surprisingly, an assortment of quotes from two other writers. Wagner and, more alarmingly, Hitler, from “Mien Kampf.” I wonder if it would be erroneous to believe that our resident demented jester is not only a hermaphroditic sociopath, but also a plain, old-fashioned white supremacist? It just gets more and more freaky. I submit, then, my opinion to the community… our gnomic visitor is just a couple of kittens away from being a serial killer. Enough said. And, for what it’s worth, the Tanqueray Cowboy strongly believes that Hart Crane was a no-talent hack. Apologies for the rant. I now return you to the regularly scheduled theatre of the absurd, now in progress. -tc
Tanq, my guess is that it's someone who's better at yanking chains than a died-in-the-wool hatemonger. Stephen, perusing some logs, it looks like simplistic IP banning won't work. The multiple personalities are posting from different IPs, so either it's a group of merry little pranksters, or just a very few individuals who are good at spoofing. As a very rough rule of thumb, put your mouse over the link on the From: line, the status bar will show you of the type http://loveblender.com/blend/av.cgi?id=### -- that # is the person's id, and ids are assigned numerically (this acct is #1, some regulars who jumped on the system early have two digit numbers, etc). Now I'm a little reluctant to say this, because some people think the Board et al is elitest enough as it is, and I do NOT want people to start becoming kneejerk suspicous of newcomers, but for the time being, be a little distrustful of idiot posters with ids in the 500s, which correspond to these new ids that are being created left and right.
Again, here is my take on the Big Blender Bang Theory! People who wreak mayhem only have the power that is given to them by their targets. IGNORE IT AND IT WILL GO AWAY. There is obviously a great deal of pain and bitterness in the words of One Nut Jim, but the Blender is hardly the place for psychotherapy. And even the best therapists can only do good if the person who needs it wants it! We can't fix Jim. Jim can fix Jim when he is good and darn ready, no matter what the story is (and believe you me, I don't even have a clue). Things had calmed down and it was looking like the board was about business again...lets get back to it, shall we?
I apologize for posting my comment twice! Don't know how I managed that. I do not have one egotistical bone in my body! Please excuse!
tricia TTX, are you in Malaysia now? i like your poems.
Madi ~ cameo appearances Very nice as always. Hope you're doing well! When things get crazy around here, I always need to read a poem from Mirabeau... I'm calling for you........ :-)
t'was night on an evening eve snow fell as stars burning bits so bright music of memories small touched the soul while cinnamon spices catch the heart as i was carried to hallways vast of time held in abeyance of eternity's thrall snow drifted floors piled in corner chance age felt far more than sight can hold and windows... from across the age trees with candles vie with those of electric make trains runnin on tracks of every shape canes of colors, swirls, sweetness and light and the rosy faced children all sharing this night carried was i on memories for this little stroll and i find myself a wonder how can memories skip, smile and laugh as mine are doing now? merry Xmass one and all jack
and the news for the day..... I resigned from my job today, and will be moving to Melbourne Jan 14th.... big step. Big big step, scared, elated... all of that. take care of your hearts, dee
Ultra-muy-fantastico scqueen, y tu? We were merely seconds (seriously) ago *burning your ears* Hope it was pleasant? ha. Last night, my sister and I were in Romeo's on Barton Springs. I remembered you'd asked about the club/cantina's locale where I'd pulled visuals from for andalusian dancing? I looked up and there they were: grapes, lattice, and I KNEW scqueen had been here! Are you coming to Tx for (T)Xmas?
Hello all, If anyone is interested in reading some of my non romance poetry and prose, let me know and I'll be more than happy to email some to you. Also if anyone is interested or cares I've written a few follow up poems to my own Canned Lima Beans. Which I'll be glad to post.
Deevaa~ Oh how exciting! *smile* Congrats on taking that step...=) Love and silver starlight, Ali
This is a message for Jon: Read a couple of your works. If they're autobiographical, then - kendras@hotmail.com ... Write me.
Gala~ I'm lovin' *Love Junkie*...been there myself more than a few times. Hang in there! Otis Redding and Billie Holiday cds help. Not really, but they make the ache sweeter.
Gala! love junkie was great to read. Wonderful introspection and stark (that word fit perfect in your poem) look at what makes us _____. Multiple choice or fill in the blank; whatever makes us whatever we are today. Bravo woman. The last two lines made the whole thing zing. Hats off from one CB to another (NOT that you were talking about yourself in the piece!) ahem.
broken angel - afraid is such a pouring...I love it. In my own private hell Of my own making Love Sucks!! You captured the stress (maybe not the right word) of accepting love. Just Some Girl - Great way of expressing a feeling. I no longer recognize you... Calculated and perfectly executed sentiment - it creates an entirely different emotional release. You aren't rejecting...just not seeing it/him/etc as you did before. I like it. I like the simplicity of your works...but I have told you that before a million times! Gala - love junkie - very intense!! The tone makes me feel as if I am right there too. Maybe 'cause I am a needy bitch! Michael T - Hold on Tight you swoon me. With this you strip off the sarcasm that I read in so many of your works and just speak. Wow. Stephen - Ferry You too - swoon me, that is! The tug boat - great idea. in turmoil they crawl, in puddles they join Well Done Rhet
Man, some people can't read...ROMANTIC POETRY ONLY!
And thank you, Rhet! We're about due for another gem from you...too bad you went and got yourself a "real" job!
Elaina~ Oh...my...god...I love 'Three Little Words'...Well done, girl...Well done...*smile* Love and pale rain, Ali
Madi ~ I SO wish I were coming to Austin for Christmas, but maybe I'll shoot for Jan or Feb. My nephew will be a year old in Feb! I'll keep you posted. Seems that the Jesus poetry has appeared again. Come to save One Nut?
SCQueen; Ha, I was thinking maybe one nut and duball were both the same person. Maybe, they could save each other. bk
Misti~ 'The Romance of Religion'...I loved this poem, girl...It was simply great...*smile* It brought to mind this T-Shirt I'm thinking about buying...On the front of it is a basket, sorta like a picnic basket...And then there is the words: "Where am I going and why am I in this handbasket?" Hehe... Anyway, I liked your poem...*smile* Love and soft rain, Ali
B.K. ~ Me too. I thought Dubal was DD/ONJ/BVV/etc. That is funny that we were thinking the same thing...although the controlled language made me wonder if it was him. He didn't once call anyone a whore OR tell Kirk that his site sucked. Oh well, maybe it is another personality coming out. I am trying to perfect my newest personality...introverted, salesperson with slight lisp. I can't wait to give her a dry-run this holiday! Rhet...er, uh...Maggie, yeah that's right
Ali~ Thank you, I'm beginning to regret saying those three little words. I honestly think I'm going crazy. thank you! xoxo Elaina
Sweet "B.K." Beene~ Very happy post this morning. And no, you didn't tell me you loved me today...yet ;o) Misti~ Rock on!! Both your latest gave me the giggles! Erin... I love your untitled. tripped...GREAT verb. Elaina and Ali ~ You two also deserve ample kudos - Three Little Words and Intentions are both quite telling and personal.
Misti -- The Romance of Religion -- excellent!! I continue to be amazed at the way you sort of free-associate ideas and phrases, and it always comes together so well -- reminds me of those photo-mosaics: lots of little pieces that make one larger picture... Gala -- it's been said already but I have to add my own kudos for love junkie. I especially like the last few lines: I don't know/if the love drug made me whole---/or just made me not care/that I was empty. Tanq -- Beta Test Nice bump -- and how lovely that you should be my first ;) I feel I have really arrived now!
Rhet~ Thank you very much...*smile* Now I'm off to find some more coffee...I'm not addicted, I swear! LOL...=) Love and unexpected dreams, Ali
slug, consider yourself good at it now :) If there is a woman waiting to read this one, I hope it reaches her soon. [ re: Second Chance ]
Hey...Ali, Rhet and Echolocation~ Thanks for the compliments! I found this cool pseudo poetry bash thing at http://www.poetry.com. It's largely a joke, but I'm addicted all the same. You call in and get forty seconds to read your poem over the phone. Then you pick a "movie" to go with your reading and people can vote on it at the website. They say it's free but I haven't received my phone bill yet. Cheesy as hell, but I love all things cheesy. This weekend I want to go to the mall and record a song. One song for nine bucks. And tonight I'm going to see an Elvis impersonator in concert. That should be enough information for OneTesticleJames to poke fun at me with. Hahahahaha. Ha.
Slug- I abso-freakin-lutely loved "Second Chance." It was beautiful. I, too, do not consider myself adept at happiness writing: When I'm happy, there is no need!! It's the other emotions that make words flow for me.
Echolocation~ "don't listen to Air Supply when you've been drinking"...I laughed out loud at this one! "Here I am, the one that you love, asking for another day..." That song always tears me up, no lie. I love the entire poem, but that line and the one about the backrubs really stood out. It's damn hard, rubbing your own back. My husband is always asking me how I managed for so long without him. I'm a backrub addict.
Thank you Rhet. xoxo Elaina
One more thing...it's funny how I changed my name to try and rid myself of him, and now he's every where I turn filling my head with nonsense. At least I think it's nonsense. Maybe I'll have to find a new name and leave these two for postings about him. What do you all think? xoxo Elaina
Some great work being written and I am slow to comment. Here are just a few of the great month going so far. Slug; Great to see you on the page. I love anything you write. Second Chance is wonderful. Bravo! Misti; When I first read I thought it was Jim Morrisons writing. But it's you and that makes it more cool! Just Some Girl; The first line just sucked me right down-stream..ha Nice One. Gala; love junkie Brutal woman, brutal. I love it! Been missing you here. Tanqueray Cowboy; Your writing is wonderful this month and glad to see it always, Beta Test Crack the code and this versions yours to keep. Love that line! Michael T; Your words have been exceptional this month and last as well. This one is really romantic, Hold on tight Trisha; Are you new to the blender? This poem is very well done. Write more for us please. Fire Walker dev0n; Hope all is going well for you! I love your work. very nice, but I agree with Deevaa. Your writing is wonderful deevaa: Just Jump and Go For It! It's the adventure of a lifetime. Congratulatins! Jack; Thanks for the lovely xmas greetings. You should put it on the page. It's lovely Everyone keep up the great work. Hey Kev write something for us. Riggs, Gup, give us some xmas goodies bk (hope all these codes work) Yikes!
Misti; The Romance of Religion Just Some Girl; Stream dev0n; lets try this again..ha Darlin Rhett; Thanks for your comments. You always make me smile. You need to put something on the page for us too. bk
Just Some Girl, Madison, and B.K.: you three gals make me blush. love it! i haven't been posting a lot, but i've been silently reading. very inspirational - and fun :-)
OMG Misti posted a song by a NZ-er!! *does a proud to be a kiwi dance* The Finn brothers are kiwi icons!
B.K. -- Don't mean to be a spoiled sport, but I was wondering...does my writing not deserve mention under your favorite poems for this month thus far? I guess it comes easily writing such poetry that epitomizes greatness(well, maybe not easyily, but certainly as a gift). Yours more than adequately accomplishes this. I guess I wasn't meant for name-dropping lists. Love all the previous posts lately, by the way. A few of my faves were: Slug -- Second Chance was quite the artistic post. I admire your courage and talent whenever you post. Echolocation -- I thought The Game was interesting because it gave the reader a "fly on the wall" sense. Thanks for the great stuff. Oh, and B.K. -- Thanks for posting such a "timeless" song!! I can always reminisce listening to that one. :) and last on my few favorites...(drum roll, anyone?) Ali! -- Intentions was a very mind-jogging read. I especially like the imagery in the last lines. "But it isn't these tears to be counted It is the rainbows that come after the rain..." To All -- Keep it up the great work, please! I Remain(Humbly), Max ;)
Max; Forgive me Max, I just did not go back far enough or I would have made comment on your . I enjoyed it very much. And Max I loved Secrets just the way it was, no changes. But I make changes in mine all the time, funny how that works a word here a word there. Rogue missing your words and Musicalduck, I really like your work as well Heart Shaped Lips; Dumping BubbleBath in the Ocean this was a fun poem to read. Thanks for sharing. I hate writing codes in the dark ha ha hope they work. bk
Max~ *big smile* Thank you very much...I am happy that you liked...*smile* Love and twinkling starlight, Ali
Hey, BK...Thanks! I'm glad you were sucked in! Those first lines can be a doosey!! (Dosi?? How the heck do you spell it?) Dusi?? :o)
BK - Thanks for the comment !!! .
Max, thank you :-) i clicked on your link and checked out a few of yours - good stuff, that. secrets is lilting sadness...i like it :-)
heart shaped lips: i like Let it Flow...nice, if not messy, imagery :-)
JSGirl ~ I'd vote for "doozey." I really dig the way you use the page, er um, screen when you write. Misti~ Love First Crush! (Guess I'm just a fool for good haiku.) Slug~ Enjoyed Second Chance. You're right about Dallas winters. Very depressing... never cold enough for a proper Winter, just cold enough (and damp, and windy) to be miserable. Echo~ Got a wordplay thing going on, huh? Really enjoyed both Bits and Pieces and Alpha Male. The Game -- Pity that living alone, or living in general, does't come with an instruction manual, but: (don't bring home strangers) (call your mother once a week because she worries) (do have a life outside of work) (don't listen to Air Supply when you've been drinking) are all very good tips! When you're young you never think that such lessons will need to be learned... but they do. Better to learn them now and later not need them than to later in life need them but not have learned. Gala~ Haven't seen much from you of late but apparently you've been saving up to pour everything into love junkie. Love the dark passion in this one, as well as in... Madi's ~ cameo appearances. Excellent both. BK~ I dunno how you stay upbeat all the time, but your stuff always shines for it. Cheers to all... -tc
Tanq- (I hope you don't mind me being forward and using your "nickname" since we haven't been formally introduced) Thank you for your comment! The ascetics of a thing are part of the draw, don't you think?
sorry all, am a day late with the new question. Exigencies from 3-D life and all... Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men and Women.
Quick Comment - I have more to add, but I need to get busy on some work - something gold for.. from our unknown poet, nothing, is greatness on html. I SO enjoy your words. I do wish you would come out of the shell and speak of your motivations and thoughts. tear in motion caught in gravity's hold a spiral dance a single hair of gold need I say more? Misti - 10 of Cups is brazen and raw at first, yet it culminates into joy! I hate to ALWAYS speak about your work...but I do enjoy your streams of verse. Laurel Ahlfeld ~ I like when you post. However..it is too far between gifts. Violet? Arwen? You two better get back here. Jen
Thanks, Tanq. I've become a haiku/poetry-in-motion/poetry bash junkie, thanks to http://www.poetry.com. It has gotten out of control! Dee~ no way! Well, good on me (I think that's Aussie)for having excellent taste in eighties songs! Congratulations and best wishes, btw.
Misti -- i loved 10 of cups!!! ~erin
Thanks, Rhet! Ten of Cups is my favorite tarot card.
erin~ glad you like it! thank you.
~*~Rhetoric~*~ Ya know those days when you just need something to go right? You're that something! Thank you soooo much! It means a ton to me! love always, Laurel
Misti: I loved 'Dewy'. It was just so simple and beautiful and very metaphoric :) ~Bob
<tips hat to 10 of Cups >
Misti- ;o) I knew the 10 of cups was a tarot card...but I didn't want to unleash my grand psychic knowledge on the unsuspecting Blenderites. Me and Cleo go WAY back!!! Rhetty-Rhet the Magnifico!
Dear B.K. Thank you for your comments on "Fire Walker". I am relatively new (this year) to the Blender. I feel like the prodigal daughter returning after a long time gone. The Love Blender has been my salvation through many tearful nights alone, and my collaborator during months of passion and joy. You are all such excellent writers,I stand completely in awe every time I return to the new submissions. Thank you for adding beauty and interest to my days. Seriously, I wish I could have a one-on-one conversation with each of you. I know the conversation would be awesome based on the quick-witted comments I read on the board. Laurel- "I am From" was lovely and reminiscent. We must be from the same times <sigh>. Misti- you can come to dinner any time! "10 of Cups" was great. Loved "Romance of Religion". Come on down to Houston for some fresh shrimp and a Corona with lime. Nothing- "Hold on To" was very well written. Echolocation- "The Game" I can identify with this so well. My husband travels internationally, and I'm single far too many nights. Loved the poem,though. Tricia T.
Why, Just Some Girl, That could be YOU in that green sports car!!!
B.K. - you asked for it, so here's two older works. The second is a little off because the ALLCAPS is meant to be in italics, but I think it still works. Rogue
YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH THAT WORK, DEAR RHET??? Wow! I am impressed that someone so young is so knowledgeable!
Well, as you know JSG, I live with a car (and art deco) buff. I actually saw a print of that piece at a Bugatti exhibit in Cleveland a couple years ago. AND many thanks for teh young comment. Feb. 5th will be 27!!! Oh, how swift the milestones whiz by my blurred eyes! Rhet
Touche', Rhet! And I also love that black and white piece to which you referred. It's actually my very favorite photograph! ;O)
Misti~ I read what you wrote for the survey...I love that picture of Dali's...Except I can't remember the name either! LOL... *smile* Love and lavender stardust, Ali
Misti and Ali ~ Are you both talking about "Female Figure With Head of Flowers" by Dali? That is an amazing piece. Also, his "Honey is Sweeter than Blood" tears through me. Jennifer
Tricia TTX; I know exactly how you feel, this place has been wonderful for me as well. It's a great group and we don't bite too hard..ha ha. Glad you are here, can't wait to read more of your work. Rogue; Both poems are excellent Delicious made me taste the apple just reading it..ha and Knight in Green Tennies was wonderful to read. More please? Misti; 10 of Cups was excellent. Funny, I was thinking how hard it would be to get me to cook for anyone..ha bk
Yep, 10 of Cups would be my front page pick for January. You captured me in that poem.
Hey SCQueen; Write something for us would you?? Missing your works around here too. bk
Thanks for the compliments on Ten of Cups! I appreciate it. Tricia~ I'll have to take ya up on that invite. I can't turn down shrimp and Corona with lime! Rhet and Ali~ Just spent an hour researching Dali paintings...my favorite is entitled *The Bleeding Roses* and it was painted in 1930. I went to the Google search engine and typed in "bleeding roses" and it came up, to my surprise. I had been typing "Dali galleries" into all these different search engines and couldn't find it. Simplicity works!
~*~nothing~*~ All three of your latest works...wow!! The imagery and emotion...it really blew me away in all of them!! It made waking up this early worthwhile. love always, Laurel
Laurel; Midnight is lovely and well written. Glad to see you back on the page lately. nothing; Your writing always speaks for itself. Pure pleasure sir, may we have more please? Rhet Darlin; Are you trying to conjure up the Devil, in a wooden state? HA bk
B.K ` That is so funny that you asked if I am trying to conjure up the Devil. I got the exact same words in an email this morning. No, I just had a grouping of words that wanted to escape last night. I am innocent, honest. I also was under the influence of that wine, B.K!!! Rhet nothing...WOW Rogue...WOW Laurel A...WOW
Rhet~ I like the Dali painting that you spoke of also...I like most of his work...*smile* Misti~ So that is the title!! Hehe...*smile* Thanks for finding out the exact title...=) Love and honey colored eyes, Ali
Rhet; You must be like me, more than two glasses of wine and you dance naked on table tops...ha try to beat people up, or say the most outrageous things. Fire water is not us..ha bk
Rhet; See what happens when you conjure up the Devil..ha He starts with all those history lessons again..ha ha Bondservant; Mosey on over to the Jesus Loves Me page honey, you are gumming up the works here. Religion is a private issue, between us and our own god. We don't need no education. Go do a serious good deed and show your true nature, that is your own true godspeed. Maybe you need to go hunt for Osama, god told me thats what he wants you to do. Go lead those poor Afghani women out of hell, like Abraham, go part the water, speak to burning bushes, slay the evil dragons of the world ELSEWHERE. It must be a new moon?? I'm getting out of here I promise! ha bk
For some reason, BK, I don't think the wine is necessary :-)
Just Some Girl ~ As I pat the perspiration that has gathered on my quivering lip, I say, " Gosh, what a message you send! " Oooh my, such words from a delicate Lady as yourself!Lullaby has me seeing your face! Hee hee, Rhet B.K - I am drunk, therefore, bondservant has no powers over me!!! My two drinks qualify me as a 10 Step candidate! Jennifer, the Pinot Noir Abuser
classic scratchy *the latest writer's challenge* café *what can i say* brandy *i love lists* crunchy *this morning I read Bukowski poems aloud* imbroglio *to my husband in bed* hammer *lovely Saturday* situation *sometimes it feels so good* candor *being alive* festive *amen and thank you, Jesus/Mary/Santa*
Interesting study result -- http://www.apa.org/journals/psp/1201ab.html#6 -- in short, if you want to know about the future of a heterosexual romantic relationship, ask her friends, not his, and not the couple themselves. <plug target="homepage" blatancy="50%">Maybe I'll post this on http://kisrael.com tomorrow.</plug>
I submitted a new work today, that I'll be honest, and apologize for leaving tears on the monitor. I couldn't help it. I miss him so much. If anyone here knows someone who is in the military, call them up, tell them thank you for their service. It'll make their holiday's a little brighter. If anyone wants to know the story behind my submission just ask, I'd love to tell.
Misti, I read your Manifesto. I loved it. Other than the parts about Texas...it sounded like I often felt growing up.
Huh?? Where am I? December!?! I'm in DECEMBER ALREADY???!!!
Some really nice work lately to make comments on Sage;The Tar Oiled Sky The first verse is wonderful and I love the title. This made me go back and read all your earlier works. I like your writing a lot, please write more for us. Stevr; Gentle Rain Are you British perhaps? I detect an accent here. I love this poem and went back and read your work too. Very nice. More please. Ramdy1; Well you know I am a sucker for anything that has to to do with my honey. HA Thank you so much for your poem Fountain of Love it made me cry. tears of an angel; you painted a real picture with your i drive many hours.... Jon; From your heart you just can't hide. Thanks for sharing Ali; Glows in the Dark Ali, I was almost right there with you in this one. You made it seem so real. Very nice one. nothing; you have to many to list and all those codes at 5am drive me insane anyway..ha (I never get them right, forgive me you all) You drag my heart around all over the place with your poems, and now you got me leaping into the sun.. OUCH..ha ha ha. I love it! Misti; For certain woman, I vote you most original. The Utterly Pretentious and Ridiculous But Heartfelt eBuLLieNce Manifesto was quite a picture. Beyond Different; They are our Hero's, our true blue Hero's and it amazes me every day how much we take for granted. is a wonderful remembrance. Courtney; He would this one was short and worked very well. Thanks for sharing. bk
B.K.~ *smile* Thanks! I'm glad that you liked...it was a fun poem to write...*smile* Love and honey colored eyes, Ali
MADI ~ YOU ROCK!! Thaks SO much for the html lesson #1. It worked...I have italics and I think it really says what I wanted it to. Jennifer
~*~TriciaTTX, B.K., and Rhetoric~*~ Thank you all for your kind words. They are very encouraging! It's good to be back... Happy Holidays! love always, Laurel
BK~Thanks for the compliment, haven't been able to write too much, it's all in my head, but won't come to my hand. I've been reading your stuff ever since I've come here, my favorite yet was "Take My Hand" back in July. Good stuff babes! Courtney
Laurel ~ A Different Man very nice!
Nice one, B.K., every line. "Awake or in dreams / Again and again" is especially nice.
Laurel~ 'A Different Man' was great...I love the coffee analogy... Great writing...*smile* Love and honey colored eyes, Ali
BK I really am glad you liked it. I really feel fr you and all of the others in your situation. Randy1
Rhetoric's Something Wicked, This Way I really loved this! The entire piece was so well written and enjoyable to read. My favorite parts are : "grab and cup the head of hair twist and tilt so lips meet square" - I liked the wording as it is vividly descriptive in a new way. Also liked : "sink and swim in words meant to disarm thoughts carve lust, stemmed from charm" Very Creative... Randy1's Fountain of Love The style and form is unique and witty. A very descriptive story-like poem. It inspires me to write something as a bump to this piece. Beyond Different's To "Jughead" at Christmas, 15 Years Later is Beautifully Nostalgic.... Reminds me of how the Holidays can be difficult for those who are missing someone... Galadrial's tinybits has managed to capture a difficult concept so well. The internet has become fertile ground for words to be misconstrued into intense feelings that are often not reciprocated when two people finally meet. It is ripe with opportunities to fall deeply for emotionally charged phrases. bp's eternity Nice Contemplation. Fortunately there are some religions that espouse the teachings that eternal paradise will be on the earth rather than in heaven... under such circumstances, your concerns here would be realized for eternity. .
Michael T ~ Sometimes there ain't nuthin in the world better'n a country song to soothe yer soul. Don't ya'll boys in WA n OR drive them F150's too? No matter where we go, the Southern in us is always just below the surface :-) Thanks for Lonestar State made me happy today.
To B.K. - Thanks for your comment.
Merci to you, Hedvig!! What a great compliment. I was actually thinking of offering that piece up to the workshopping Gods if they deem it fit for judgement. I have been playing with those words for a while and I am not sure the tone is strong enough. Whatta Think, ya'll? I am open for criticism.. Rhetty-Rhet Ricardo
Rhet, m' lady, you are brave!! You've opened the gates (wide) for just about anything!! Speaking of romance, I saw "Vanilla Sky" and thought it was the saddest love story!! Has anyone else seen it??
Sage~ *smile* I love your bump...Thanks!! Love and careml eyes, Ali
Just Some Girl ~ And I say: Bravo, dear girl. Devoted Disciple to The Blender of Love Prophets, Jennifer (I am TOO young to read such words) wink...wink
~*~Sage~*~ Wow!! The Tar Oiled Sky was amazing. You have such a gift with words. I was completely caught up in the mood. ~*~Ali~*~ Thanks so much! I simply loved Glows in the Dark!! For the first time in days I giggled and felt giddy when I read that. Great work! ~*~scqueen~*~ Thank you as well!! Get Your Flu Shots was soooo cute! It made even the ickies sound fun! And the imagery in Lounging was so vivid! Bravo! ~*~B.K.~*~ After reading To Love, something happened that is quite unusual. I was left speechless... love always, Laurel
Rhet~ I love Fiona Apple...*smile* Great song you picked, too! =) Love and carmel colored eyes, Ali
Laurel~ *big smile* Thank you so much! I'm glad that you liked...=) Love and carmel colored eyes, Ali
Ali ~ Don't know if anyone has ever told you this...but I happen to love the things you think of for your signatures each day. It's like an extra ooomph in my day to see what you've come up with and how it relates to the immediate season. So never stop with your 'Love and.....' Ok?
scqueen~ *smile* Thank you...I will never stop doing the Love and *blank*...they're just fun! =) Thanks!! Love and quiet beauty, Ali
Madison and Laurel; Thank you both, It needs a bit of tweaking but it's one of my favs that I have written lately. Mark; Thanks for sharing "A Poet's Advice" musicalduck; likewise the Incubus poem is great! Echo Rhet Darlin, You and 'Just Some Girl,' need one of the xmas signs that I have that says "Be Naughty, Save Santa The Trip." SCQueen; Glad to see you back again. Hope you are feeling better and I loved 'lounging' and 'Get Your Flu Shots.' Ugh I hate needles..HA! bk
Chris... How freakish that you posted Tribe TONIGHT of all nights. We just finished watching Bamboozled (A Spike Lee Joint) and are feeling quite humble with ou societal fuck-ups held to the mirror. Good song, good group. Jen
Michael T~ Whew, boy, you done good! translation: I love your latest. Chris and I watched "Pure Country" on Friday night. George Strait can get away with quite a lot. I don't care if he doesn't write his own songs. I'll always love "Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind?" and all his other hits. But the George Strait reference is not the only reason I love your Lone Star poem. Your sense of humor is stellar. And you choose your words carefully. I like that in a writer.
"To be nobody-but-yourself (in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else) means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting." ee cummings - posted by Mark Damn, isn't THAT the truth? Life would be so much easier if being nobody-but-yourself wasn't so hard! Reminds me to be humble. Jen
Michael T (scootin' a boot) ~ Don't worry about that F150, son. Just let us know 'fore you go buying a 350 dualie diesel long-bed crew-cab with ranch bumper and a toolbox in back...
Tanq ~ have you ever seen the movie Blazing Saddles (I think everyone has seen that gem)? There is a part in the church when the Town of Rock Ridge is trying to figure out what to do about the new Sheriff. Well, everyone in that town is named Johnson. So, the dialogue is like this: Howard Johnson is right; we should all listen to Amos Johnson; and I agree with Andy Johnson; etc. Well, Misti Lake is right! You do have a wonderful sense of humor (among OTHER talents, I'm sure). That Misti has some fancy ideas, but she is a Texan, so she ain't too bad. Ok...I am really done for the night. I feel as if I have hogged the board these past hours. Rhetty-Rhet Raccoon
Now lookee here, Missy... Whadda ya mean, fancy ideas? I bet I can drink you under the table any day of the week! And the best western ever made is "High Noon," starrin' Gary Cooper. "The Searchers" starrin' John Wayne is a close second. And I'm a sharp shooter! I got myself a sharp shooter medal when I was target shootin' with my M16 at Fort Jackson! And I look good in Levis! And I know how to bargain shop! And I make a mean bowl of chili! Uh huh. Oooh yeah. :)Misti Moo Moo (an old moniker)
Misti.....I was thrilled to see "Does Fort Worth..." George Strait is the man! I saw him this summer, and he didn't sing Ft. Worth, but he did "Amarillo By Morning", another favorite. You have excellent taste...are you from Texas?
To Laurel Ahfeld - Thanks for the comment !!!
Well, Misti "I'm a gun toting, chili cooking, movie watching, tequila drinking hussy" Lake - you ain't seen nothing yet!!! Did you ever own a pair of red roper boots that you wore to every rodeo within a 100 mile radius? No - well I did! Did you ever own pigs your brother raised for Ag. Projects in high school? Do you go tubing down the river at New Braunfels? You already admitted to never going to Old San Antonio for Feliz Navidad. And as far as westerns go, the best will ALWAYS be The Outlaw Josie Wales! So...you better watch it! You are cityfied if I ever seen it! I may have to come down to Tejas and show YOU my stuff! ;o) Jennifer "the WACKO Kid"
forsaken~ yep, I'm a native of the Lone Star state. Born in Bridgeport in '73. I've lived all over North Central, Central and West Texas. I'm currently stuck in East Texas but not for long. I'm leavin' Texas for New Mexico in March. My mom is a George Strait fanatic. My first taste of George was my mom's album that had "The Chair" on it. I remember telling her that I thought it was a goofy song. I said,"It doesn't even rhyme!" She said,"George doesn't have to rhyme!" I've grown to love the guy. "Amarillo By Morning" is my anthem. "I'll be lookin' for eight when they pull that gate." Ha! Rhet~ I'll tell you what, girly girl: Hell yeah, I've tubed the river in New Braunfels! I've RAFTED it, too! I fell in love on that river! And no, I've never done the rodeo 'cause I'm allergic to livestock but I've been to a few, anyway, and I rode a mechanical bull at a rodeo in Bridgeport when I was eight! And I was Miss Wise County when I was eight! And I've lived through more than one tornado! And I was in Wichita Falls the day after the Big One hit in April of '79! And I've taken road trips from Midland to Bridgeport, Kerrville to Fort Worth, San Marcos to Galveston, Monahans to El Paso! Have you ever sunbathed and pretended to study while checkin' out the volleyball players at Sewell Park in San Marcos? Have you ever seen the Texas play in Palo Duro Canyon? Have you ever hiked McKittrick Canyon? Have you ever pissed on the Alamo? No, that was Ozzie Osbourne. Okay, I need to get ready for work. My eyes are almost mistin' over. ~Lone Star Lolita
"The Outlaw Josey Wales" is by far the greatest Western work of cinematic wonderfulness ever created - I used to watch that with my Dad (it was HIS favorite too, along with a tub of hot popcorn and a bowl of Hershey's Kisses). And I used to date a dead ringer for Sondra Locke, probably just 'cause of the movie. Four Stars and Three Thumbs UP!
Misti - I didn't take my Lithium today...so tread softly. HA! I used to LOVE New Braunfels as a kid. We always called it Stinky Falls. Why, I dunno. I lived in Corpus, Victoria and San Antonio - so much of my Texan memories take place in the southeastern part of the state. Yes, you have done quite a bit more Texas traveling than I have, so I will relinquish my challenge. However, that don’t mean I can’t still kick your ass!! You are so fun Mrs. Lake! I bet you look like Sandra Locke when she was in Any Which Way But Loose! Rhetty the Raucous Cowgirl
hey everyone! i've been on a hiatus for a while, i guess. haven't been writing much lately, but hopefully i'll do more now. kind of missed my visits to the blender. if i don't visit again soon, i want to wish everyone a merry christmas, kwaanza, hannuka, whatever. happy holidays and happy new year!!! Kat;)
Michael T: Your latest would make an excellent country song!! Do you think all this Texas/Western talk has affected you??!! "It's Alright" is mighty catchy!!
Rhet~ I'm sure you can kick my ass! I'm a wimp! No, I don't look like Sandra Locke did in "Any Which Way But Loose" or in "Rat Boy," for that matter. I have the coloring of Courteney Cox-Arquette (black hair, blue eyes, pale skin) but I'm not skinny anymore. I've been compared to Liz Taylor (the way she was in "A Place in the Sun"...not the way she is in the perfume ads! ha!)and Vivien Leigh. I'm not bragging. But I'm pretty scrumptious...for a Texan. Ha!
-angie ~ wet rag is a great metaphor. I specifically like /Used, Dirty, wrung out/. Quite sad. -to my little nothing ~ Moonlight... is another prize. -holly ~ Body Language is a great conversation. -B.K ~ your dream was hot! Stunt Driving Dreams is more like a night well spent than a fleeting dream. -South Carolina Queen ~ Lounging is a perfect way to describe a day (Sunday) which I loathe. I wish my Sunday's were more like yours, maybe I wouldn't fear them so. -Courtney ~ He would is amazing. poison lightening Wow. -Misti Lake, I, to quote MJ, am a lover not a fighter. I wouldn't kick your butt. You sound too cute to wipe the asphalt with. What a waste of talent that would be. You wouldn't write anymore funnies and I would be sad. I just want to rekindle some old Tejas dreams. You helped me with that. I still think that Josie Wales is better than High Noon - but what do I know? I ain't no Siskel OR Ebert. Good Night, Sweet Blenderites
ummm The Good The Bad and The Ugly ... yes a spageti western but i bet we can all whistle the theme jack
You guys don't know a good cowboy movie when you see one. The best of all time of course is "SHANE" with Alan Ladd. bk (getting out her six guns to see if she can hit the broad side of a barn.ha)
ah my lady B.K. but can thee whistle shane's theme?
Rhetoric~ Thanks for commenting on my writing! =)
Rhet - Thank's for the compliment! Holly
Ali- I really liked The Very Idea It was very well written. holly
~*~Everyone~*~ Please forgive the spelling errors in my last work. Insanity and grammar can very seldom coexist! love always, Laurel
Rhet~thanks for the comment. You're stuff is amazing. Always look for new writings from you when I come on. Keep it, you inspire me
Holly~ Thank you kindly! *smile* I'm glad that you liked...=) Love and whispering glances, Ali
Just Some Girl ~ I LOVE Dreams . You always spark my brain with verbage, but I like this'un. It may be (dare I say) my favorite of yours yet. Even more favorite than all the others written about me! I mean, really, isn't it about time all these good people know that each and every piece you submit is about me? Let's be honest, Darling. He..he..ha Rhetorical one wrapped in Christmas Weary!
Ali~ Can I just say WOW! The Very Idea...exactly descrbes me perfectly! Thank you for bringing some light upon my un-discovered soul!! xoxo Elaina
My apologies for being a day late with the new questions... Have been totally overwhelmed with a world of s#!t here. And it is going to get worse before it gets any better.) Anyway, the question is appropriate to the season. My Christmas wish is that all of you have the best Christmas ever.
sinneD~ speechless was excellent...I know that feeling...*sigh* Great poem... Love and whispering glances, Ali
Thank ye, Rhet!!! Are you flirtin' with me?? I felt pretty good about Dreams, as well. But it isn't my favorite...
Elaina~ You are way too sweet...*smile* Thank you girl...I am glad that you liked, and that I could be of some assistance... And I've read your latest works...And all I can say is this...(((HUGS)))...I figured you could use that...*smile* Keep writing girl... Love and whispering glances, Ali
Viciousv: I can't help commenting on your submission. I thought it was beautifully written, and I must say that certain things in our lives cannot be healed. There are certain loves affairs that can never be erased. But I feel that you can love again!! You just haven't met the right girl...I wish you luck!
Oh boy... Gotta come clean...and since this is where she was born...I'm also Mirabeau Chapin...but I have no need of her anymore...and I liked the stuff I posted under that name. My apologies to Kirk, and the blenderites...suffice to say, at the time, it seemed like a dmaned good idea... Gala
Gala ~ I'm sure going to miss her :-(
So why are we confessing today??? Darn it then, OK, I was and have no use for anymore..ha Wildflower, Neon Screams, Untamed Bird and Blue Today. I think they were just to try different writing styles. None of them ever spoke to the other ha ha or complimented it's own work HA! Darn, I guess confession is good for the soul huh? Do I need to light a candle and chant now or spin around three times, click my heels and say "There's No Place Like Home?" But I'm not sorry, it was kinda neat when no one else knew. bk
BK ~ Damn you!! I practically pledged undying love to Wildflower one day and I got no response!!! I was crushed that I communicated such a respect (admiration) and love of this total strangers posts and she never replied!! Oh...I will get you for this one. And Neon Screams too!! Well, I don't have another name...but I am so transparently me on the board that if I got a new persona here, I would never be able to comment on any questions if asked! Rhetoric is enough of a deviation from me to last a while. Brave for you two to come clean. I am sure it wasn't necessary, though. As long as the intent harbors no malice - whats the harm? This entire website is my secret pleasure. Only 3 other people who know me in my "daily life" know I am Rhetoric and I post here. I haven't lied about my name being Jennifer or living in West Virginia, but I don't tell my friends about this site. (Sorry Kirk - not too many plugs from me) I made the mistake of telling someone and they tried to read into my posts and questioned me forever! Oh well, have a wonderful holiday all. Jennifer
Rhet~ The Darkest Night was excellent...I can feel your pain...Great writing...=) Love and whispering glances, Ali
umm does this mean i have to admit to my newest?
viciousv and ali -- loved your new works ~erin
Please, Please, Please read it would you. Ryan It My Not Be What Your Used To. Let Me Have Your Impute, Don't Hold Back.... Thank You, Hugs & Kisses
VelvetGoldMine.. I read "Ryan" and I couldn't stop reading it. Great work it really captivated me, I really don't know what else to say other than I think it was wonderfully written.
Jack; Darlin, unless someone asks I would not confess this one, it's just too delicious. Rhet; Sometimes things are going on in your life that make you unable to answer things the way you would like. My favorite Uncle just passed away. He was putting up xmas lights in his holly bushes and fell back and hit his head. Stubborn man that he was he was having headaches and would not go to the doctor, after two weeks, it caught up with him. Sort of like Humpty Dumpty in rhyme. He cracked the egg and there's no putting it back together again. He went pretty fast, and if you have to go, the faster the better I feel. I'll be back in a day or two. bk
faithful ~ that R Kelly song used to get me every time I heard it. In fact, that entire cd used to be my "sit and cry when he was being an asshole" music. The lyrics alone do it no justice - you need to here him beg in the song. Hedvig ~ I really like Heliac Giant . A blanch dwarf star is all that remains of a heliac giant destroyed by pain My former Astronomy professor would love this! heartshapedlips ~ Impale Me is powerful. It reads like a command - I like it. Holly - Wow, Your Love is another great post from you. the wreckage that was my heart holly, that is a great line. angie, holly, courtney, ali ~ Thank you berry, berry much for the warm fuzzies. Jen
BK... I am so sorry. Please accept my deepest respect and sadness for your loss. I certainly was not trying to badger you about Wildflower. I was just poking you in the side. I hope that your family can gather strength from the love of this man and let that bond lessen your pain. Jennifer
Rhet - Thank's again for your comment. You always have the sweetest things to say! B.K. - I am so sorry for your loss. Merry Christmas everyone, see you all after the holidays! Holly
Erin~ Thank you kindly...I'm very glad that you liked...=) Love and starlit eyes, Ali
Thought I'd pop my head in to say hey to all my Blenderite friends:) Time has a way of getting away from ya when your hours are lacking minutes and your mind and body are lacking the cosmic balance to handle all that you are attempting to handle, though you think you are superwoman you find you are really only super dumb to think that you could possibly do everything and do it well at that...some things just haffta goooo ....SAY WHAT? Hell, I have just been busy but I miss you guys...that's all:) Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, prosperous New year to you all.
Laurel ~ I absolutely love Ivory Winter!!!
By the way, Kirk ~ had a blast at work with the Smurf name site. We were giggling like little girls and trying to keep quiet so my boss wouldn't hear us. I was 'Lemon-fresh Smurf' which wasn't nearly as funny as when my co-worker got 'Chicken-fried Smurf'. Ah, so easily amused these days :-)
Elaina~ Wait was so amazing...I loved it, girl...But, I don't think that there is too much decoding to be done...You speak of things unanswered, you speak of confusion...And you don't know where exactly he's coming from, or what he wants...Does that sound right? Love and silver thunder, Ali
Laurel~ The Next Best Thing was utterly beautiful and utterly heartbreaking...It made me cry...It was almost as if you peeked inside my heart and wrote down what I had hidden there...Thank you kindly for posting this...You have touched my heart...*smile* Love and silver thunder, Ali
scqueen~ Did you say smurfs? *big smile* Gotta love those little blue, three apples high, azrael(sp?)fleeing cuties...I love the smurfs...The used to be one of my favorite cartoons back when I was a tiny tot...*smile* OK, I'm most certainly babbling now...lol... Love and silver thunder, Ali
Courtney, I just read your postings, and I love them! You have a way with words, you use just enough to paint a picture and not too many to cloud it! A rare gift.
To Rhetoric, Thank you for reading and commenting on my "Heliac Giant" poem. H.C.M. .
Sweetness~Wow. I just read "He Is", totally related to it. I really liked "I Am" one of my favorites by you yet. Have you been in my head??? Seems like you have a way of writing, that feels that way. Thanks for the post, feels good to know you're writings make other people feel something.
SCQueen, Tanq, Misti, Just some Girl ~ Thanks for the compliment of reading my latest ramblings... All the western/southern/Texas talking does get to me.. All ~ Merry Christmas (in advance). I'm hitting the Lone Star State. :-)
~*~ Ali and scqueen~*~ You guys are so awesome! Your encouragement really keeps me goin! Especially since you guys are such amazing writers yourselves. I hope you two have the best of holidays!! love always, Laurel
Its Christmas Eve here in NZ..... I'm in at work, Argyle has taken TK to see Monsters inc, and life is good. Merry Christmas everyone, may 2002 be blessed with love and laughter. take care of your hearts, dee
Ali~ That's exactly it. He tells me he can talk to me more than anyone else...I pity him. He doesn't really tell me any thing. I suppose it's a good thing I know how to read between the lines. Or else I'd be crazy by now. xoxo Elaina
Merry Christmas, everyone! And a Happy New Year! As Dee said, "Love and Laughter" to all. ~tc
Hey you all, Hope Santa is good to you and that you drive safe and you don't eat too much (like me) this Holiday Season. Merry Xmas Everybody!! bk
To Rhetoric, Thank you for reading my "Impale Me" poem. And yes it was a little bossy. I tried to show the progression of love making Thanks for your comment. .
HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!!!!! *smile* I wish you all happiness...and, of course, love...=) Love and mistletoe, Ali
To nothing ~ I wish you peace. of spirit for... ~ very sentimental. Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas everyone. Give yourself the gift of love this holiday season... and always.
BK??? Is he there?
Kevin Urenda~Wow. Universe, pt.II, was absolutely amazing
It has been a long time since I have been here last... and the works are very beautiful..... I hope everyone likes the one i submitted... Happy Holidays and Such hugs
and oh... Kevin...I see your works are just as lovely as ever:)
SCQueen; No not yet, when he does I will be Corgi dancing all over the page. Rhet & Holly; Thanks for the comments about my Uncle. It was sad to watch the two strongest women in my life (my mother and my aunt) fall apart and have to be the adult for them. Tough gig. Angel; Welcome back, you have been missed TJ; Where you been woman come and write for us again Kev; Sigh, your latest two are just wonderful as usual. Good to see you on the page. I have reading to do and will comment on work in the next day or two. Behind as usual. (sigh) Keep up the good work everyone. bk
New survey question is up. Courtney, Elek, B.K. - thank you... Someday I hope to understand why words are such a blessing and yet a curse to me.
Madison: Mid-winter was lovely!! So graphic were your descriptions!! Nice comparison of the cold sky and the color of your loss. I always enjoy your submissions!!
Thank you, Just Some Very Nice Girl.
Kevin, I love your writing, and "Particle Physics" was no exception. I feel that way too, but not as eloquently. ~Bob
Max; Your Xmas Story All I Want For Christmas... is simply lovely. Thanks for sharing. bk
BK ~ Ask and ye shall receive. Here's Counted All The Way To Ten. Not that it's any good, really, but it means a lot. After she read my stuff here (some of it about her husband -he's my co-worker and was a good friend of mine) and my reproach for what he was doing, Angel asked me to write a poem about her. I was at work at job #2 tonight and put it together. This was the result, but I guess I just couldn't NOT write about him too. Arg! It was interesting that you summoned me the very day I came here to post after a bit of an absence! Some good work here again! Ali, Madison...nice stuff as usual. To the others, I haven't had time to read much more, but I'll try! -Teej
TJ~ Counted All The Way To Ten was heartbreaking, but beautifully written... Taintedone~ In A Day I read this and went, "Whoa." It woke me up, for some reason...It said so much, in so few words...Great writing...*smile* Elaina~ I just read Deny You and all I can say is oh, boy...It reminds me of that old saying, "Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em." ((HUGS)), girl...I hope that you find your way (or rather that he starts being consistant)...And that everything works out for you...=) Love and fairy dust, Ali
I really wish I could be more consistent. I really do. It's just so hard sometimes... but why?
Cloudy(Aaron, right?)~ The problem with consistancy is it's tough...First off, you've got to make a choice of loving or not loving... You've got to decide whether or not you're willing, or able, or ready--whatever...But, either way, you've got to make a decision and stick with it...Still, as I said previously, before you can stick with it, you've got to pick a choice...That is where your problem seems to lie...You never really commit fully, one way or another...Or so it seems to me, being a third party...Am I right, or close, or way off base? Love and fairy dust, Ali
Thank you for your warm welcome back, BK...I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas.
Cloudy~ I know that my input is probably the last thing you want, but that's ok. I don't really think it's so much the consistant, I think you give some words way more credit than they deserve. Like girlfriend. Yeah that may be a commiting word, but it doesn't mean forever. You of all people should know that not even fiance or marriage is forever these days. I've never expected forever from you...(although sometimes I don't think I'd mind). All I ever wanted was you...completely...for a time in my life...because, well you know the rest. xoxo Elaina
Who knows maybe I'm wrong...see I am also trying to find reason. love always elaina
...........to whom I've given gifts to. ??!!?? What the hell kind of bad grammar is THAT?! Rather...to whom I've given gifts. !! (can't believe I wrote that on the survey question...gak!)
We will forgive you for that, TJ, but I dont know about , "What the hell kind of grammar...etc..... ". :)
Angel! Welcome back, oh fellow 'old-timer!' Max- I really adored your poignant Christmas story... Well done!
Stephen's - What Shes aToastin' is outrageously witty, and so fun to read... Well written with lots of thought provoking ideas... My favorite part is "all of it". But seriously - I couldn't pick just one part.... .
Question: Who wrote this one poem about a person being compared to the stars.. I think it went like: "The stars in the night sky, cannot compare to your beautiful eyes.... and your face could disgrace any given sunset in the evening sky.. Two swams performing at their greatest of grace, dare not compare to the beauty on your face..." etc etc.. who the heck wrote that lol?? :-P
http://www.loveblender.com/2000november/heart/perfection.html
Looks like when there's a break behind the url in text, it doesn't work as a direct link. Stephen, the poem you were looking for is probably by James Gabriel Holley - sent to the Blender October 2000: http://www.loveblender.com/2000november/heart/perfection.html If this doesn't work just look carefully at the url in your address line and remove the <BR> at the end before you hit enter.
Kevin~"OLD TIMER?" Aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh not the exact words i wanted to hear :< but thanks for the welcome back.
~*~Jon~*~ WOW! Reading More than jealousy felt like someone was reaching inside of me, ripping out what I feel, and putting it out in front of me in the most articulate ways possible. It was a GREAT read. ~*~Sati~*~ I loved Numb. You certainly have a great talent. ~*~kevin urenda~*~ I can't find words to tell you how much I enjoy your works. They continually amaze me. ~*~B.K.~*~ Oh my goodness! Goosebumps Please was awesome! It sent my senses into overdrive! ~*~Angel~*~ I finished up reading your Indentations today. Not because I ran out of time, but because I was so caught offgaurd by the simple beauty of the words. I was really touched by it love always, Laurel
~*~Random comment for anyone who cares~*~ I was watching "Moulin Rouge" last night for probably the hundredth time...and I decided that everyone deserves blue sparklies and a singing moon when they fall in love. Don't you think? love always, Laurel
Sati~ Numb...wow...All I can say is that I've been there...and (((HUGS)))... Love and sparkling shadows, Ali
JON's More than jealousy Very Nice ! You've captured the concept of appreciating what someone else throws away. "One man's junk is another man's treasure." .
Madison : mid-winteris grogeous...you nailed winter perfectly. I liked the line "vapor of my own regrets." I think it has been pointed out previously today but it is evocatove, stunning.....worth repeating. Where is your heaven: I loved Deny YouSometimes it feels like you are inside MY head, we seem to be going through a lot of the same feelings... Courtney: loved Disturbancejust perfect! Also The strength it takesI am running for the light right now....
Aw Angel, you know I didn't mean ~OLD~... ;-) I just mean there weren't many of us (Dee, Misti...) around this place three years ago who still come by today. I really do miss Heart and Isolde and Shady (and their words)... And thanks Laurel for the kind words you left for me here! k
Ali.. where are you. could you be like me? Oil to my wounds? I am reaching.. but if you are my angel, write to me. I need an anonomous friend.
Kev!! I was here three years ago too. I found this site while I was living in Seattle with my (then) new husband (now 'ex'). I had been looking for something to inspire me (I wanted to express my love for him). So I did a search and came up here. Glad I made it! And you're right, there are some who are 'no longer with us'. LOL!! But hey, it IS amazing how relationships have changed here...for the BETTER. I remember some people couldn't get along at all, and now they work so well together! And we get the pleasure of seeing new people come. Some will stay, just as we did. *sigh* nice nice nice nice! Warms my heart! -Teej (PS: Welcome AngelCharlebois!)
Hedvig and Laura... Thank you for your comments, I wasn't expecting anyone to like it at all actually, but I'm glad that the both of you did. Thanks again. Take care and all that sweet stuff. -Jon
TJ- All apologies... Certainly I realize that there are people who have been READING this site for a long long time. I had no idea you were here than too (I am always just wandering around in my own little world)... As for the rest, you are absolutely right. Love does some amazing things for people, doesn't it? k
Angel~ Take Me In and yeah just blew me away...I don't really think I have the words...Ahem...Let me just say that the writing was excellent...And (((HUG)))... Love and forgotten freedoms, Ali
AngelCharlebois~ I live in New Jersey...And I would gladly help you, if I can...What is your email address?Mine is windy357@aol.com... Love and forgotten freedoms, Ali
Kevin~I know what you meant...just pickin'. HEY guess what? Melissa, aka Heartsong called me Thanksgiving and sent pics of her, Matthew, Jessica and the new baby, Benjamin Wyatt ...He is Adorable:) She is in Tennesse. I hope to get up there to see her this summer. I really miss her poetry too and Shady and Isolde. I saw a summission from SinneD, which was wonderful as usual does anyone know if him and Cosette are still together? I really loved her work as well...and ZOE? I see some of my favorites, BK, Madison, Laurel here...Great work guys (BK, You crack me up:)...I really do not understand how to link to the poems I am referring to yet, but I will comment later. Kevin, I enjoyed your Universe pt11...great last line! I also see we have Blenderwear, but no order form. How do I get me a T and a mug? Is Jack still around? Hello Misti and Chris:) I guess I missed Kirk's wedding...CONGRATS you 2;) Where is Dee? I see we have a lot of new people as well as another Angel...welcome all. Oh and how do I get all of my submissions for 3 years under my name?
Laurel~thank you for you comment on "Identations"...but I posted in haste...'most gentle breeze' would be more appropriate :<
Angel, you would have to do a google search to get ALL of your submissions. Kirk did not set up the new system until a few months ago...
Sweetness~He's out there was great. Thanks for the compliment, hope your not running too fast! :)
Ali~ Oh my! Unclean...absolutly amazing...it brought tears to my eyes. Wonderful. Keep up the good work! xoxo Elaina
Elaina~ *blush* Thank you, girl...I'm glad that you liked...*smile* Love and forgotten freedoms, Ali
HeartShapedLips ~ Thanks for the GREAT bump. I like it. There has been some mighty fine writing these past few days. Too many to name...but I will surely comment on each of your works in the future (so count this as foreshadowing to 'not yet scripted' praise). I have been so busy lately. I heard Tom Green is divorcing Drew Barrymore and I must drop everything here in West Virginia to go and make her mine. I am flying out to LA in the morning to find her and show her what a great wife I would be! Happy New Year, Blender Mixers Rhetoric
Not to sound to uneducated :) what is a bump? is it an insult?
ah courtney, far from it ... it is meant far more as a matter of respect, if someone writes something that touches you and creates in your mind a new poem you simply give credit by announcing a "bump" to that persons poem. this is special to the blender and lady gala was the first to bring this to us... like i say its out of respect and i hope no one will ever use it as anything less jack hey angel glad to see you back with us hey Angel glad to see you back with us
lol oops talk about fubar but truly Angel glad to have you back jack
Oh Tanq! I adore The Cowboy Junkies. They are truly in a class by themselves. I have almost every cd...and I know another huge fan...Kevin Urenda. 'Angel Mine' is a wonderful tune.
Jack~thanks for clearing that up. In that case, thanks heart shaped lips ;)
TJ -- Although I liked the whole piece, my favorite part of This You, This I, This We is the title -- I like the way it emphasizes both the separate and the together. Tanq -- Cowboy Junkies! Yay!! Rhet -- Really liked Depreciation. Oh, and good luck with Drew :) Kevin -- Kudos for particle physics "changed the very essence of who I am" -- some people just do that to you, don't they? And you can never go back to what you were... All -- hope everyone had a happy holiday!!
This being my 200th (I was shocked at my chatty tendencies too) comment here on the blender, I thought it fitting to use it to catch up on my comments to our dubious poets. sweetness: I laughed out loud at Celebrity Booty Call . Very clever. kevin, the question master: my mirror held much introspection for me. If they only knew what they gave us, love would be so boring. T.C.: GREAT choice with Margo. I have seen the Junkies several times here in West Virginia on Mountain Stage. Have you heard of the show? It is a live radio broadcast that features nearly every great singer-songwriter or emsemble still breathing air. B.K.: I am sure it will be a while before your life comes back to normal. However, tragedy too often brings out the hidden strength in us. I know your Mom and Aunt are just glad you could be there for them. My thoughts are with you. Madi, Laurel, Stephen, and Teej: Great additions to the holiday line-up. I count most of you as "the constants" - those that, however infrequent the posts, always deliver with wonderful text and great passion. Ok...Have a safe and Happy New Year all of you freaks with PC's. I hope 2002 is overwhelmingly beautiful and blessed with lots of hot sex (that is if you are old enought to actually know what "hot" really is! I must get started on Drew before the iron cools. Jennifer
Echo - thanks...for both the comment AND the thumbs up withg Drew! he he Rhet
Echo~ That quote made me laugh! I love it...*smile* Love and forgotten freedoms, Ali
Yeah, I forgot to add the link to my message to echo...Dang it....Alternate Favorite Quote There we go...There's the link to the quote...*smile* Love and forgotten freedoms, Ali
Ali's - Unclean I liked these parts : "But he simply tosses those unvoiced questions aside Brushes them off of himself, as if he feels unclean As if he just walked through a spiders web" "For he sins in spades, but preaches in purity" "He sits next to her, avoiding her eyes For her eyes speak to him, but he just refuses to listen..." I enjoyed your use of words. `
Hedvig~ *big smile* Thank you...Thank you very much...I am glad that you liked...*smile* Love and jaded thunder, Ali
I have been getting tremendous inspiration for writing on here. Fascinating minds !!!! .
Misti~ Cords was excellent...I loved it... "You need a nice girl a normal girl" I happen to believe that there is no such thing as normal...It's just a myth...lol...Anywho, this was a great poem, girl...It packed a punch... Love and jaded thunder, Ali
Rhet Darlin; Thanks for the wishes and hope your New Years is just wonderful. Angel; Likewise woman, stick around and write for us please. Your work is wonderful. Arwen; Honey, where you been, you just turned the heat up about 100% around here..ha with your "Idaho in repose," and I just read the rest of your work. WOW, how have I missed this? May we have more please? Misti; It's full moon time again woman, better watch out with them fightin words. HA! Everyone: "Happy New Year," to you all! In 2002, May our Incredible Fighting Forces get Osama, and put a "Big Chill" in the heart of terrorism! Cheers You All! bk
Ali~ I happen to agree! Normalcy is a big fat lie. Even if it existed, it would scare me. Thanks for the compliment, chica. BK~ Arooooooooooo!!!