All things happenOn its balcony and are resumed within,But the action is the cold, syrupy flowOf a pageant. One feels too confined,Sifting the April sunlight for clues,In the mere stillness of the ease of itsParameter. The hand holds no chalkAnd each part of the whole falls offAnd cannot know it knew, exceptHere and there, in cold pocketsOf remembrance, whispers out of time.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 6 June 2019 01:16 (four years ago) link
it's amazing how each time you read a poem like that you come away with something different
― Dan S, Thursday, 6 June 2019 01:23 (four years ago) link
that's an interesting read there
― surm, Thursday, 6 June 2019 14:37 (four years ago) link
I'm in the library and the sun's out!
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 6 June 2019 14:41 (four years ago) link
do we need a spring/summer thread?
Do you need spring/summer head?
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Thursday, 6 June 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link
my favorite Rosanne Cash couplet.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 6 June 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link
i just got some but i need more i've been on a bit of a STREAK
― surm, Thursday, 6 June 2019 15:11 (four years ago) link
Ashbery was really important to me as a young queer poet, but I haven't read him in years because at a certain point, he started kind of doing the same thing over and over and over and over again.
Not trying to shit on himโ his first books and the somewhat later "Flow Chart" really shaped me. (To drive this point home, I've read "Flow Chart" three times, and wrote approximately 35+ pages on Ashbery as an undergrad and grad student lol).
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Friday, 7 June 2019 21:41 (four years ago) link
"at a certain point" = 1976, essentially
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 8 June 2019 00:13 (four years ago) link
(i'd put it a little later, but yes)
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Saturday, 8 June 2019 01:53 (four years ago) link
Sooooo something super weird happened to me this weekend. I had a zoloft induced dissociative fugue. It was so weird I called my friend screaming I have no idea who I am. Scary!!!!!
― surm, Monday, 10 June 2019 04:57 (four years ago) link
I hate all of the SSRIs I've tried. some of the weird side effects occurred almost immediately upon starting (tight jaw, grinding teeth, strange dream architecture) and some took weeks to appear (most disturbingly a complete sexual numbing), and I never felt any therapeutic effect.
― Dan S, Monday, 10 June 2019 05:20 (four years ago) link
Was crazy scary but in other ways I do feel it is helpingMedicines are weird man
― surm, Monday, 10 June 2019 06:02 (four years ago) link
i went off Lexapro many years ago after a careful titration down. best decision i ever made, but that was for me.
until this whole cancer bullshit i'm dealing with now, i hadn't taken any pharmaceuticals regularly in more than nine years (!!!). to say i have a wicked distrust of the medical industrial complex would be an understatement.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Monday, 10 June 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
I never felt any therapeutic effect.
my experience too. i'm also wary of pharma -- i'm putting off starting an antibiotic i was recently prescribed at my first doctor's visit in about two years.
i guess i'm going to be a resident of salt lake city for a while.
― cheese canopy (map), Monday, 10 June 2019 23:00 (four years ago) link
i'm going broke from i.v. drug use for my cancer, thx Obamacare
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 June 2019 23:47 (four years ago) link
How's it all going Morbs, health-wise? What's the prognosis, if it's not too difficult or upsetting to talk about.
― Shite New Answers (jed_), Tuesday, 11 June 2019 00:20 (four years ago) link
Yeah, Morbz, how's it going?
I have my final radiation treatment tomorrow! Surgery later this summer.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Tuesday, 11 June 2019 01:20 (four years ago) link
I'm on a new regimen post-radiation, too new to evaluate yet. I feel OK except I'm still way damn tired. So my primary concern is my finances.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 June 2019 03:58 (four years ago) link
<3 Morbs
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 04:03 (four years ago) link
(ie I need a staff job, not a gig, that'll pay for more of this)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 June 2019 04:15 (four years ago) link
I may hook up with a guy who wrote, "I love kissing in tents."
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 01:57 (four years ago) link
that sounds kind of hot
― Dan S, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 02:02 (four years ago) link
Florida in June? Yes.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 02:06 (four years ago) link
lol
― Dan S, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 02:07 (four years ago) link
I should've known my date with a hot Montrealian would go awry when, after texting for a few minutes last night, this world traveler according to OkCupid and high school English teacher wondered if we couldn't eat at PF Chang's because he'd read they serve "good Asian cuisine."
At 6 p.m. tonight he tells me that he doesn't drive. The P.F. Chang's is 30 miles northeast of me.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 14 June 2019 00:36 (four years ago) link
oof. yeah, missed a bullet there. a hot bullet, sure, but a bullet none the less.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Friday, 14 June 2019 00:46 (four years ago) link
job interview on Monday that might rescue me from ruin
no pressure, though
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 June 2019 01:01 (four years ago) link
good luck, morbz!
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Friday, 14 June 2019 01:08 (four years ago) link
same!
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 14 June 2019 01:10 (four years ago) link
Get the job Morbs rooting for you
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 14 June 2019 01:22 (four years ago) link
yes
― Dan S, Friday, 14 June 2019 01:28 (four years ago) link
thanks all
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 June 2019 10:40 (four years ago) link
gl morbs
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 14 June 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
What's the job? Best of luck, skill and moxie!
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Friday, 14 June 2019 20:57 (four years ago) link
Any update M?I've p much recovered from the mini death of my life that was zoloft and as a way to cope I've had sex with like twenty people in the past five daysHappy summer!
― surm, Sunday, 16 June 2019 07:08 (four years ago) link
I like reading that
― Dan S, Sunday, 16 June 2019 07:28 (four years ago) link
โก
― surm, Sunday, 16 June 2019 07:34 (four years ago) link
Just checking in to say I've had really hot passionate sex with two French daddies while on holiday and I could get used to this French kissing business. Hi y'all! Also table I really enjoyed reading your update and have missed you on here. Quite a wild and adventurous life you lead and it makes me kind of envious except for the run ins with crazies and morans
― vanjie wail (qiqing), Sunday, 16 June 2019 10:25 (four years ago) link
Very generous of you, surm. :)
It's an assistant production ed at an academic-affiliated publisher, ie gold compared to hourly wage slavery for the world's most famous children's books.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 16 June 2019 11:27 (four years ago) link
let's have a qiqing.
I've probably posted that 100 times. Apols.
― Shite New Answers (jed_), Sunday, 16 June 2019 13:51 (four years ago) link
That sounds interesting for sure doc.
Always feel like I should be tough and shit on Father's Day. In truth it kinda blows.
― surm, Sunday, 16 June 2019 16:25 (four years ago) link
I just had this guy over. We had fun. Then he started talking about music because he noticed my portrait of Britney (Girl With A Grey Hoodie). He then proceeded to give me three fascinating observations. He was like, I appreciate Britney but she's not a good singer, she's not a good dancer, and I hate Mariah Carey. I was like, hi! Please stop talking because I have 3 things to say. 1) Britney Spears is a great vocalist. 2) Britney Spears is a wonderful dancer. And 3) Mariah Carey is my favorite artist of all time. And then I asked him to leave. ๐๐๐๐งก๐๐ค
― surm, Sunday, 16 June 2019 16:48 (four years ago) link
"where is the loooove...."
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 16 June 2019 16:52 (four years ago) link
Hehehe standards man it's real
― surm, Sunday, 16 June 2019 18:39 (four years ago) link
discussions I will never have
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 16 June 2019 18:57 (four years ago) link
Do we talk about tmi here or only in tmi thread? I have a dr ruth q
― surm, Sunday, 16 June 2019 20:42 (four years ago) link
Take it to TMI. I'm on tenterhooks
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 17 June 2019 04:35 (four years ago) link
No idea where that thread is!Whatever I'll figure it out lol
― surm, Monday, 17 June 2019 12:04 (four years ago) link