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Yeah, I'm bored, sorry Lon, and trying my best to put off actual work until I absolutley have to get it done. Which was sometime yesterday. Ask away, I have no secrets. I am also a self serving attention whore.

KB.;634008 wrote: Yeah, I'm bored, sorry Lon, and trying my best to put off actual work until I absolutley have to get it done. Which was sometime yesterday. Ask away, I have no secrets. I am also a self serving attention whore.


Where was your profile pic taken? Do you remember me from high school?

NotToday;634010 wrote: Where was your profile pic taken? Do you remember me from high school?




state pen mug shot :wah:





oops sorry



er buddy you are sooo talented why oh why are you not rich and famous



oh yeah i have patented yada yada yada ok so no breaches my lawyers are watching

NotToday;634010 wrote: Where was your profile pic taken? Do you remember me from high school?


It was taken on my back porch in St. Louis, was the first I had taken in four or five years. I took it for a friend who hadn't seen me since I recently lost the last, oh 60 pounds.

I didn't remember you at first, but when I saw the picture in your profile I did. I was probably out of high school by then though. When AF told me you had went out with James, I put the picture and you together.

Well done with the weight loss :-6

If anyone, who inspires you?

jimbo;634018 wrote: state pen mug shot :wah:





oops sorry



er buddy you are sooo talented why oh why are you not rich and famous



oh yeah i have patented yada yada yada ok so no breaches my lawyers are watching


Thanks for the laugh, and the compliment. I have never been to the State Pen, in any state. I have been a resident of a few county jails though. I don't find myself nearly as talented as some people say, and I have to crawl a but before I run. Just posting stories on a forum, myspace, where ever is a big step for me. Actually sending something in to be published is going to take a bit more, rejection letters suck. Also, it was the time frame of it all. I wasn't ready to tell the stories I had, and still need more. I find that everyday people, average folk, are far more interesting than any fiction someone can conjure up. I got to me some more every day people.

KB.;634024 wrote: It was taken on my back porch in St. Louis, was the first I had taken in four or five years. I took it for a friend who hadn't seen me since I recently lost the last, oh 60 pounds.

I didn't remember you at first, but when I saw the picture in your profile I did. I was probably out of high school by then though. When AF told me you had went out with James, I put the picture and you together.


Ohhhhhh yea, James! LOL, you know he's married now with a few kids I hear.

And yea, I guess you were out of school.

Did we go to church together too?

Pinky;634025 wrote: Do you have a fave band or song?


Changes every day. I love Dylan, and Zeppelin. I love old blues, and slow, mellow jazz. I enjoy Johnny cash and Willie Nelson. I like Bird York, and Diana Krall. I like my singers and bands to tell stories, I like stories if you didn't know.

Song wise I'll list a few in no particular order.

Marshall Tucker Band - Can't you see

Jack Johnson - Banana Pancakes

Coltrane - In a sentimental mood

Johnny Cash - God's gonna cut you down

Diana Krall - Temptation

Bird York - Wicked little high

Shawn Colvin - Crazy

Norah Jones and Bob Dylan - Heart of mine

Cyrtis Mayfield- Here, but I'm gone

a million more

SuzyB;634033 wrote: Well done with the weight loss :-6

If anyone, who inspires you?


It wasn't intentional, and wil probably reverse once I figure out why it happened. I didn't look bad at 200 pounds regardless, just was a little more of me. I am a hundred pounds lighter than I was seven years ago, and it did look bad then.

I get inspired by lots of different poeple. I have my Muse, you read about her, I have my Kate's (Tombstone reference) I have the one that knows me better than any one else, and figured it was a crime to allow me to stifle myself, and to keep me from my rambling. Women is a commen theme there. Music inspires me as well, I love writing stories about songs, and love bringing them into my stories. Life needs a sountrack. Every day, random folks inspire me. I think everyone, wheter they know it or not has a story they want told.

NotToday;634038 wrote: Ohhhhhh yea, James! LOL, you know he's married now with a few kids I hear.

And yea, I guess you were out of school.

Did we go to church together too?


I think just one kid, almost three. That was what I got from Craig. I went to the Methodist Church when I went, the old one. Didn't go much there after high school, and I have been here and over there, or down there, and back since High School.

KB.;634051 wrote: I think just one kid, almost three. That was what I got from Craig. I went to the Methodist Church when I went, the old one. Didn't go much there after high school, and I have been here and over there, or down there, and back since High School.


I went to the methodist church too.

Hmm...

Ok, back to the thread that is all about you!

Do you like brick or wood better?

koan;634068 wrote: Do you like brick or wood better?


I like them both, I like wood on my floors, and exposed brick for the walls. I was recently looking at a place on Craigslist, a place in Boise, ID. It was commercial or residential. Huge open areas, wood floors, brick walls. I love the open spaces, huge free space. I like brick on the outside as well, or stone.

are you left handed?

koan;634078 wrote: are you left handed?


Righty, I do okay with my left; but I prefer the path of least resistance (that's funny).

What is your other favorite web site?

along-for-the-ride;634166 wrote: What is your other favorite web site?


Don't have a favorite, I have some stories, and old friends I keep up with by way of Myspace though.

Have any good stories about AF?

Sheryl;634298 wrote: Have any good stories about AF?


I am sure I could tell a few, but I won't. I will say she has always been a nice person, but like most folks I like she will claw your eyes out if you mess with her too much, or people she cares about. She used to live down the road from a good friend of mine and an ex-girl friend who lived on the same street. Funny enough two of the folks that lived on that street work at the new place I transfered to from St. Louis.

I've known her since I could drive, which was a long time ago, we have always had friends, or folks we hung out with in common. She was one of the first to start reading my stories when I started writing at Myspace, she introduced me to this forum. We've probably talked about more in the last month than we ever did in the years before, not more, but different (understand?). I'm glad she is aorund in some capacity for me to bitch too. She is very observant, smart person. Even if she has an attention span like an ant.

I'll tease a bit, I like to do that, tiny bits of information and all. She was one of the last people to see me shirtless in public, it was harmless I said public, not private.

Good woman all around, glad I know her.

so you don't know when she started playing spoons.

all kidding aside, AF is a sweet girl :-4

Sheryl;634305 wrote: so you don't know when she started playing spoons.

all kidding aside, AF is a sweet girl :-4


May 4th, 1998

Ugh my grammar and spelling in that is horrendous. It used to not bother me; now it makes my head ache. Yes it was in the letter. The one I got this morning. It isn't a direct quote, as much as I want an audience, I need to try and respect her desire of an empty ampitheatre. It was implied, I paraphrased. I'm writing another story or two right now, and I need my distractions while I do so, you are in charge of keeping me entertained. Delegate if needed.

I don't believe in ordeals, and yeah it was random. I don't do youtube, don't waste your time with that.

almostfamous;634325 wrote: Do you have a favorite comic strip?





Why isn't there anything to watch on HBO besides porn :rolleyes: ??


Dilbert always makes me laugh, it is so close to the truth it can't help but be funny. My favorite ever was Far Side. I like reading For Better or Worse as well, that man has been telling a story for a long, long time. I am so pissed at HBO for canceling Deadwood I don't even want to talk about it, and that ain't porn.

almostfamous;634336 wrote: What's the prettiest state you've visited?



If you cold move to another country, where would it be?



Have you ever done charity/volunteer work?


Damn that sausage and biscuit, they were closed. The prettiest state would have to be California, but I was lucky. Spent my time there in Monterey, Big Sur, and Carmel. If I could move to another country it would be somewhere they take siestas still, I would live in Vernazza in a heart beat. I have done some charity work, I used to read to the blind, I have taught some adult literacy, well not taught, just helped some folks that wanted to learn, I used to do adopt a highway in high school, I every other year or so try to find some folks in a nursing home and get them a Christmas card, some socks, bathroom things, etc. It gets expensive though, and I can't afford it. I put a woman through rehab once, that was a lot of wasted money. I volunteered at St Judes a few times, but the place breaks my heart. I couldn't do it anymore.

almostfamous;634341 wrote: Which do you like better, yahtzee or backgammon?


I didn't miss anything, you did. Yahtzee.

I apologize I did miss one, Monet.

almostfamous;634345 wrote: :yh_eyerol


I apologized and ammended.

almostfamous;634348 wrote: I know



Did you find anything to eat?


There is a nice big turtle sitting on the back porch, he has been keeping me company when I smoke. He's a good listener, never interrupts. I told him to get gone, or I was having soup soon.

Thanks for giving me a paragraph in this wacked out story I am writing.

"I went to go get something to eat about an hour ago, nothing was open, at least nothing with a sausage and biscuit and hash brown available. I am hungry and there is a big turtle that has been sitting on the back porch, keeping me company when I smoke. He is a good listener, never interrupts. I told him to get gone, or I was having soup soon. He listened because the last time I was out there fork in hand, he was no where to be seen. Damned smart turtle."

almostfamous;634354 wrote: Need a song?


Nah it is already four pages long, and about to be wrapped up, I think.

how long before some one moans about my sig being too big





and when they do will i take any notice what so ever :wah: :wah:

oh does this ring a bell











Yada yada yada ... stupid

1.Yada yada yada:void(0)">102 up, 14 down:void(0)">Conversation glosser-over, similar to blah, blah, blah

Yeah. I met this lawyer, we went out to dinner, I had the lobster bisque, we went back to my place, yada yada yada, I never heard from him again.

by Genku Jul 29, 2003 :void(0)">email it

permalink: :void(0)">del.icio.usSend to a friendyour email:their email: send me the word of the day (it's free)





2.yada yada yada:void(0)">53 up, 10 down:void(0)">skipping a part of a story that you dont want to tell.

I met this lawyer, we went out to dinner (i had the lopster bisk) we went up to his place, yada yada yada i never heard from him again.

by ken Nov 16, 2004 :void(0)">email it



3.Yada yada yada:void(0)">36 up, 14 down:void(0)">And so on and so forth. etc...

We played ball, swam in the river, shelled oysters, yada yada yada, and then went home.



by Hawk73 Sep 25, 2003 :void(0)">email it



4.Yada yada yada:void(0)">10 up, 31 down:void(0)">I was told in true yiddish that it means **** you (yada)

To dissagree and or get upset with someone. Tired of listening to thier crap. You say yada yada yada or flip them off.

tags stupid real pissed agravated perturbed

by almostpurple minnesota Oct 5, 2006 :void(0)">email it

Thats a big fing sig, and yeah it rings a bell. I never was a Seinfield fan.

almostfamous;634377 wrote: so it can be an insult? sweeeeet.




exactly yada yada :wah: :wah:

Who is your favorite artist?

What do you like for sports?

Who is your favorite team in football?

He was a cowboy, mister, and he loved the land. He loved it so much he made a woman out of dirt and married her. But when he kissed her, she disintegrated. Later, at the funeral, when the preacher said, "Dust to dust," some people laughed, and the cowboy shot them. At his hanging, he told the others, "I'll be waiting for you in heaven--with a gun."

What would you have done ?

jimbo;634370 wrote: how long before some one moans about my sig being too big





and when they do will i take any notice what so ever :wah: :wah:


geez jimbo, why is your signature so big.

geez.

NotToday;634446 wrote: geez jimbo, why is your signature so big.



geez.






i'm not taking any notice :p :p

Tater Tazz;634409 wrote: Who is your favorite artist?

What do you like for sports?

Who is your favorite team in football?


Monet, but I like Dali as well, I only really keep up with Baseball now, but do enjoy college football, Da Bears.

Nomad;634437 wrote: He was a cowboy, mister, and he loved the land. He loved it so much he made a woman out of dirt and married her. But when he kissed her, she disintegrated. Later, at the funeral, when the preacher said, "Dust to dust," some people laughed, and the cowboy shot them. At his hanging, he told the others, "I'll be waiting for you in heaven--with a gun."

What would you have done ?


I would have told the cowboy the story of Ovid's Pygmalion.

almostfamous;634708 wrote: Can you explain that story?


Can you google?

Just kidding, let me actually do a little work around here, and I will. In my words, which won't be so much as what Ovid wrote. I just found out work is going to let me have a four day week, yay more time to do something that counts, and because of that I have tomorrow off as well. By the way that poem from your Nana is wonderful.

almostfamous;634714 wrote: I did smartas5:p





thank you


Okay, I did five minutes of busy work. I'll see how badly I can paraphrase Ovid. Give me thirty or so.

almostfamous;634708 wrote: Can you explain that story?


Pygmalion has been done literally hundreds of times, by as many different people. Even Ovid’s version was a knock off of someone else. It has been done enough that I suppose you can take whatever meaning you want from it. The classical interpretation is of a man, a sculptor, who after seeing women of the night from a city famed for them; decided to carve his “perfect woman in ivory. I am recounting Ovid’s version here. Venus felt such sorrow for a man who had never really loved, and who had little interest in women up until then, that she made the statue come to life. The now flesh and blood ivory beauty and Pygmalion married and had at least one child.

Now, forget all of that for a minute. I think the story tells us to be wary of a few things. One is the habit we have of either building someone up to such a degree that when we figure out there is a blemish or two in the work of art, we find ourselves feeling hopeless and lied to. It is a dangerous game to look at someone as though they are an inanimate object, that may only need to be polished once in awhile. I think it speaks to us about doing the opposite as well. Finding ourselves so caught up in the “artistry of it all, the movie kind of life, the romance novel lover, the music inspired feelings, that we lose interest in the real things. We find ourselves gazing into lifeless ivory eyes, and that no matter how hard we dream, they will never be able to look back at us. Dust to dust. If you start with something made of dirt, in the end that is all that is going to be left. I mean that in a literary way. We all have our spots and blemishes, that is what makes us worth knowing and loving. How easy it would be to love a statue, one that never talks back, never disagrees, never shows a side you hadn’t discovered yet. An object that never grows old, never gets a wrinkle, never has a bad hair day. Stays supple, firm, and long legged for all of eternity, or at least until you kiss it.

You have to be careful when you let what you know is truth pass into and swirl around that which you have imagined is the way things should be. You have to even be more careful when you never let the two meet.



Yada yada

Let me ammend a little. I also think it is telling us that a blemish is a blemish, and can be overlooked, but when the object contains so many cracks and fissures that it is just waiting to fall apart; get out of the way. Imperfection is beauty, ugly is just damn ugly.

Hi KB!

Do you believe in other dimensions of existence?

What are some of your favorite books and who are some of your favorite authors?

What qualities do you look for in your friends?

RedGlitter;635474 wrote: Hi KB!

Do you believe in other dimensions of existence?

What are some of your favorite books and who are some of your favorite authors?

What qualities do you look for in your friends?


No, except for purgatory, but that is only the romantic in me that believes in that.

I don't have a favorite book, it is just like music for me. I'll list a few though:

Kerouac - On the Road

Gibran - The Madman: His Parables and Poems

Rick Bragg - All Over but the Shoutin'

Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea

Cervantes - Don Quixote (holds a dear, dear spot in my heart)

Penthouse - dirty letters collection

I don't look for qualities, I have friends who have robbed and murdered, I have friends who have been preachers and backslid, I have friends who are liars and backbiters. Just look me in the eye when you tell me a lie, and I'll follow you into hell and back out again.

##Edit##

I stopped making demands of people a long time ago. If I like you it is because you are who you are, not because you are what I want you to be.

almostfamous;635487 wrote: For some reason that statement made me start humming this --> :-2



And scared me a little I think :-3 :p





So what have you been doin today punk?



Have you seen Miller yet?


It isn't my usual genre, but I like Mr. Zombie.

Not sh!t

Nope, can't wait.