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EDIT: I deleted all my testimonials. Sorry to all you very kind people who left one for me, but I was forever being distracted by them, always wondering whether what was said about me was true or not. Better without them, I think. Ta.

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Domestick.


The hoose ah bocht
wi the wee wumman,
the wife,
ah caught up
wi baith haunds
tae...
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huck:
oh you big lameass. it took me ages to think up "a beard with a hero hanging off it". suit yerself.

have you heard of Jay Munly?
huck:
p.s. to elaborate on my disapproval of your testi-purge - "true"? they're true to us, and we're your friends, so just grin and bear it, ok? :p
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1stxer:
Me too smile
triptick:
One of these days, when I get a chance to read this stuff before midnight, I'm going to sit down and compose poems based soley on the images presented to me here, in this blog. You never cease to fascinate me with what you come up with.
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memorandom:
incidentally, i love that turner piece. mostly, i really dislike the 'popular' stuff by the likes of turner and constable, but turner did some great work regardless, and i respect anyone who can work in a medium like watercolors that i'm. . . bloody useless with. just totally useless. i was better with those crappy round blocks they had in high school, back in the day - paintings my mother loves to haul out now and again. she loves that crappy old stuff, hates my work NOW, but loves. . . still lifes of skulls and onions. ugh.

berlin is awesome. i have kind of been chilling out the last two days though, reading hemingwayand some bukowski (what else?), cooked dinner for my hosts and have really just been catching up on lost time with yvonne and. . . entertaining the baby, which. . . is kind of cool.

the 'seeing art til my brain aches' starts tomorrow.

and t'will be good, so it will smile
remuemenage:
apologize for the willy waving - it wasn't meant for your eyes

I hope you weren't permanently scarred

I forget that this interface collects and broadcasts attachments (however private)

have a better one
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zak:
i seeee...


where are you headed, mr. rabbit?
huck:
dude, seriously, if you look into it you'll see the "flat rate" is a block of ten. i would imagine the ISBN Agency would argue that selling in multiples encourages a healthy rate of publication, but the truth is probably that they just make more money this way. whatever

i was going to send you a free copy of my book without thinking twice; after all, you are providing the cover image. but if you really wanna buy it, i can't stop you. biggrin

Bouville - yeah, i get ya. wink it's true i'm not exactly reliable. and to be honest i would have courted yourself and the others for more pictures these past months if i hadn't been so wrapped up in my pretensions of authorship. anyway, the Summer/2nd Birthday edition will be badass, and you should anticipate my bothering you some time in June. smile for now, have a look at paltry Spring. not much to read, but we've been doing some Spring cleaning of the previous posts, which includes the introduction of a new image rendering system i think you'll like. "it's all gravy", as they say.
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triptick:
Here it is. Who is the artist? What's the Rapunzel reference?

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

Melancholy thou art my friend.
How many the hours spent in
The fog of lost thought?
Old hurts, modern fears and
My tenuous future happiness
Have all descended on me.
Welcome me now, old comrade,
At the approach of sadness and
See me content to
The far side of sorrow
Even chirping birds and
The thick sighs of moving cedars
Cannot pierce the darkness
Unless you are with me.
When you are, though sunken,
My heart is glad.
Melancholy you have shared
My worst heartaches.
Together we have explored
Dark places.
When I was weak you came under me.
You enveloped me and
Protected me from myself.
You supported me through times
When even my life was forfeit
And I no longer cared to live.
When you were with me
I was not lost but searching.
You taught me to brood and to forget
Rather than regret.
Together we have swept from despair
Into high thin air, exhilarated
By some new discovery of the soul.
Walk with me today old friend and
Let us carry this new sorrow together.

zak:
you're welcome.... for what?
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kid_hideous:
alright WittyJack, I'll pick up the gauntlet. Tell me something about St. Patty that'll make me hate the bastard a little less.
LOL
And yes, please send me a print of that woodcut!
fred:

try some gingko biloba. I take that and tends to make my dreams more vivid.
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triptick:
And sometimes that touch just fills you with relief because it's been so long since someone touched you and really, that's all you needed. ;-) Love your thoughts JackW.
markbousfield:
Nothing historical, just the weird turnings of a mind under lots of stress and sleep deprivation. I took a fancy to the word Marquis and ran with it smile
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huck:
wow! just...wow! love i salute you, Cecily. thanks for posting these, dude.
vasilisa:
not siberian I'm afraid, just something that I call people when I insult them but don't really want to insult them....

teenage boys are hardly predatory...theyre lost little bunnies who watch too much porn and believe that theyre top of the foodchain, bless.

I don't know, like I said, democracy and christanity have really fucked up civilisation in quite a few ways, despite their obvious merits.

so tired...........................................................
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vasilisa:
I have seen pigs in trousers, and it is far more difficult to manufacture socks for trotters. Whatsmore you do have a tail, its called a coccyx, some are born with it protruding. there are infact no holes in my argument.

its wednesday so it's been slightly stressful...essays and I missed a lecture that I really wanted to go to, but I have a marxism/religion talk to look forward to and lots and lots of vodka.

CORSETS! Well it depends, they look damn good and I'm into the body modification aspect of it - I love the fact that my fave one gets my waist to 22 inches smile basically theyre pretty and I was born in the wrong era so I should technically have worn one every day from the age of 12...I think its just the fact that theyre so feminine and look back to a time when women were women, not the body of a ten year old boy with grapefruits strapped on and a neurotic complex about being single.

ah biscuits...well my fridge is v small so I can either buy milk or benecol and since I live off benecol it isnt much of a choice. But when tea is available I happily dunk my biscuits, unless they have a topping or filling. I only dip plain biscuits (don't tell anyone!) wink

so grotesque acts of perversion and paedophilia aside, how was your day?
zak:
ha!
trying to break that school marm picture eh?
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"Above the altar is the picture of the face of Christ. In him the countenance of man and the countenance of God are one. In looking up to him, we experience the consecration of man.

"In Christ the divine entered fully into the human. By revealing true humanity, he revealed true Godhead. He did not, like a prophet, point ecstatically to One beyond him, 'Thus...
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huck:
"So it's not a question of Christ destroying Ahriman or Lucifer, but only of balancing their influence on us." - i like this system a lot; it just seems so much more rational than the black-and-white fire-and-brimstone mainstream bollocks.

this is fucking retarded. whatever

your Chet CD - yes, i need to get that done and mailed off asap. i'll burn it tonight. i have your snailmail address in my SG inbox don't i?

what are you sending me?! biggrin

the photograph of the delightful bosoms is by Piotr Walski; i think you'll really dig his other stuff, too. smile

...any thoughts on those eighteen poems?

p.s. from the same site as Piotr Walski - Manfred Baumann love
fred:

I read your previous entry.
So theosophists believe in reincarnation? Interesting.

There is something to be said for rituals.
I'm not a church going kind of person but if any that's the kind of church I'd go to.
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bucolic:
Sir, I want to add you on myspace.
zak:
what have i done? eeek
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silveronthetree:
The Steiner book arrived smile

Looks really intresting.

Sooo much reading to do, still have your gift to read as well.

Gosh, maybe lock me up for a few weeks and I`ll be a happy man.smile
memorandom:
feeling better, yes, apart from the fractured ASS. ah the many cons of living in a place with sheet ice everywhere. . . yeah, so this year is off to as grand a start as last year - not even a month in and i've already been ill, and injured myself. i should really just become a shut-in, a hermit, avoid going out entirely, but i'd miss people-watching too much. aye. . .

yeah, i like the road being there, to be honest, it reminds me we are a little closer to civilization than we were in the old apartment, plus i can always see when sof's bus gets in as well as anybody else who happens to be coming over- mostly it's just nice to have the sound of the occasional volvo going by in the night.

anyway, yes, pedantic work is. . . not great to do, good for other people especially if they're the type who'll appreciate any kind of effort, but not something you'd wnat to do all the time - got to be messy and expressive and not have everything paint-by-numbers. doesn't really explain why i did an illustration degree, but oh well.

more snow on the way, and temperatures of -20. good stuff.

how's tricks?