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I had in mind to place it on a wall of my room.
But the dampness of the drawer damaged it.
I won’t put this photograph in a frame.
I ought to have looked after it more carefully.

Those lips, that face—
ah if only for a day, only for an
hour their past would return.

I won’t put this photograph in a frame.
I’ll endure looking at it, damaged as it is.

Besides, even if it weren't damaged,
it would be annoying to be on guard lest some
word, some tone of voice betrayed—
if they ever questioned me about it.

(From the Drawer by C.P. Cavafy, circa 1923), translated by Daniel Mendelsohn)​

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What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum?

The barbarians are due here today.


Why isn’t anything happening in the senate?
Why do the senators sit there without legislating?

Because the barbarians are coming today.
What laws can the senators make now?
Once the barbarians are here, they’ll do the legislating.


Why did our emperor get up so early,
and why is he sitting at the city’s main gate
on his throne, in state, wearing the crown?

Because the barbarians are coming today
and the emperor is waiting to receive their leader.
He has even prepared a scroll to give him,
replete with titles, with imposing names.


Why have our two consuls and praetors come out today
wearing their embroidered, their scarlet togas?
Why have they put on bracelets with so many amethysts,
and rings sparkling with magnificent emeralds?
Why are they carrying elegant canes
beautifully worked in silver and gold?

Because the barbarians are coming today
and things like that dazzle the barbarians.


Why don’t our distinguished orators come forward as usual
to make their speeches, say what they have to say?

Because the barbarians are coming today
and they’re bored by rhetoric and public speaking.


Why this sudden restlessness, this confusion?
(How serious people’s faces have become.)
Why are the streets and squares emptying so rapidly,
everyone going home so lost in thought?

Because night has fallen and the barbarians have not come.
And some who have just returned from the border say
there are no barbarians any longer.


And now, what’s going to happen to us without barbarians?
They were, those people, a kind of solution.


(C.P. Cavafy, Collected Poems. Translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Edited by George Savidis. Revised Edition. Princeton University Press, 1992)​

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So I went looking for Cavafy porn ... knowing per Rule 34, it's out there. My Google search skills, though, weren't up to the task.
 
Shades of George Orwell's 1984. In China, they have 24/7 video surveillance set up in most big-city public locations. I thought that was a totalitarian type thing. But truthfully, is privacy an outdated concept everywhere? I don't know if I even care that I'm being spied on. Am I safer, because they have this kind of surveillance? I don't believe it's a liberal or conservative thing. Those in government just assumed the power after 9/11 and step by step, they are now gathering more and more information on everyone and pushing whatever zone of privacy once existed into an increasingly smaller space. Big brother, since you're listening, please! All I ask is don't send any information to my parents.

Americans’ Cellphones Targeted in Secret U.S. Spy Program: "The Justice Department is scooping up data from thousands of cellphones through fake communications towers deployed on airplanes, a high-tech hunt for criminal suspects that is snagging a large number of innocent Americans, according to people familiar with the operations."
 
Only if 100,000 signatures support this petition within thirty days will the White House address the need endured by millions due to the current hardship. As you see, some have signed already, but not nearly enough.


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In case you don't understand the significance of this petition, just know that Warlord's of Draenor is the latest expansion of the World of Warcraft game. Millions of Americans currently experience significant discomfort due to the struggles Blizzard Entertainment is having with their servers. The US government is asked to lend aid to Blizzard Entertainment so that it can adequately handle this stressful situation.

While this petition has far more signatures than other, lesser petitions, the number is still not nearly enough. It's a matter of prioritizing the nation's resources so that they go where they are most needed.
 
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You have a machine that can take us back in time? I'll pass.
 
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Ono No Komachi
This inn
on the road to Iwanoue
is a cold place to sleep ...
Oh monk,
would you please lend me your robes?

His reply,
Those who have given up the world
wear only a single layer
of moss-rough cloth,
yet not to offer it would be heartless.
Let us sleep together, then.

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Oh god, the government petition thing- There was one about Justin Bieber being denied entry into the U.S, and it got 100,000 signatures. The government did address it. It was pretty funny, haha!
 
Ariamella said:
Oh god, the government petition thing- There was one about Justin Bieber being denied entry into the U.S, and it got 100,000 signatures. The government did address it. It was pretty funny, haha!

Oh God yes, I remember the effort to expel Justin Bieber. What amused me this time was the fact that the World of Warcraft petition has more then ten times the signatures of the one below it, Save the West African Children. I can imagine the internal struggle people went through deciding which to sign.

"World of Warcraft? Or Save the Children? Wow or the children? God, the lag has been so bad recently. It's hard to log on at times. But the children? I could sign both? I mean it's free. It doesn't cost me anything. But really, can the government do anything about West African Children? Isn't that a little presumptuous of the United States? I mean, we aren't colonials anymore. Is it our place to acts as policemen of the world? And Blizzard is an American Company! Certainly within the US sphere of influence. Do I really want to sign multiple petitions and split the attention of the government when they could be addressing the server lag? Yeah, yeah, I'll sign the WoW one. But I'll send good thoughts the children's way. Wait, wait, wait! What's this about alien documents?

Well geez, I want to see those. I'll throw a signature on that one too.


On a different note, I apologize for slow posts. I saw a play last night with a friend. I've known this girl for a long time. We actually met back when we both went to the same church. We're both lapsed churchgoers now, but still enjoy getting together. She has a crazy number of tattoos as does her husband and she brought me a bottle of Kahlua as a gift last night.

Now if you'll focus closely you'll learn something about me.


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Okay, yes, yes, I have weird bird art in my apartment. But specifically, I'm talking about the fact that this is Pumpkin Spice flavored Kahlua (a truly vile concoction). I have a crazy affection for anything "Pumpkin Spice" flavored this time of year and when October/November roles around, I tend to get "Pumpkin Spice" flavored everything. Mind you, I haven't been given these ... yet (Would Pumpkin Spice flavored birth-control be covered by my new Obamacare policy? Hmmm.),


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I was given some of these ... I'm not going to say the flavor was anything to write home about, but they aren't going to waste either,


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I throw them out when I have friends over and they're like evil magnets, people can't help reaching over and munching on them. Oh and I should mention. I got my new glasses Friday. It's mixed reviews from my friends ranging from "they look cute on you" to "you look different and I hate everything different." The oddest comment was "you look more aggressive, kind of like a small yuppie lawyer." I wasn't quite sure what to make of this, but decided to take it positively. I asked if that's short hand for saying I look like a piranha. At which point they backed off and said they meant I look sexy, I guess meaning they find small aggressive lawyers sexy. So I asked if they also find women dressed in leather holding whips sexy at which point the conversation went down hill. On the upside, I know what costume I'm wearing next Halloween.
 
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Read a political article today and learned a new word,

Caudillismo, a system of political-social domination, based on the leadership of a strongman, that arose after the wars of independence from Spain in 19th-century Latin America. The Spanish word caudillo (“leader,” from the Latin capitellum [“small head”]) was used to describe the head of irregular forces who ruled a politically distinct territory. These forces were governed through an informal system of sustained obedience based on a paternalistic relationship between the subordinates and the leader, who attained his position as a result of his forceful personality and charisma.

The article in which I learned the word was basically bullshit. But I do so enjoy new words. Speaking of bullshit, I also stumbled on a essay by a Princeton Philosophy Professor titled "On Bullshit." His essay begins,

One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it. So the phenomenon has not aroused much deliberate concern, or attracted much sustained inquiry. In consequence, we have no clear understanding of what bullshit is, why there is so much of it, or what functions it serves. And we lack a conscientiously developed appreciation of what it means to us. In other words, we have no theory. I propose to begin the development of a theoretical understanding of bullshit, mainly by providing some tentative and exploratory philosophical analysis.

Now that's my kind of philosophy professor.


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Tossed that old cup today,
the one you gave to me.
All Chipped and stained, it read
"The World's Greatest Girlfriend,"
what a joke that turned out.
Not sure why I kept it,
we broke up long ago.
Guess I was used to it,
still have you on speed dial.

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I barely had time to think today. I'm finally at that point between having stuff to do and going to bed. I hope to do a wee bit of writing in the between time. But the truth is I have posts and threads galore to respond to and they'll probably all end up waiting 'till tomorrow.


Let's see. I listened to a nice rant by Stephen Fry directed at Grammar Nazis.

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Been listening to a lot of swing today, mostly electric, but also this and that. Enjoyed this number,

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It was kind of cool; this band did a Kickstarter Campaign to raise the money to do this music video 671 or so pounds as I recall, a true labor of love. They're an English group out of Brighton. They haven't done much since February this year. I think one of the girls had a baby. But hopefully, they'll be active again later. I'm not sure who did the first version of this song. I know Ella Fitzgerald sang it, but I don't know if someone else did it before her. Anyway, fun song. I used to love Swing Dancing a few years back, but I seem to have given it up. Not sure why =)

Let's see, let's see. Not much happening in my life right now. I'm reading a couple of romance novels. One is about a nun that gets kidnapped by a drug-cartel and ends up involved with an undercover DEA agent. I also bought a very dark three book series ... very dark. Oh and a book about a female secret service agent who goes undercover in an ICE detention facility to protect the daughter of some South Korean VIP and gets involved with a prison guard. You have to love self-published books where you get these raw, fun plots to plow through.

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And the above is a photograph of a vintage embroidered postcard from Spain of which I have a collection.
 
Jolie said:
I also bought a very dark three book series ... very dark.

That's not fair. You can't just tease us with..."I also bought a very dark three book series ... very dark.", and not tell us what it is! It already sounds like my sort of thing.
 
Mr Quixotic said:
That's not fair. You can't just tease us with..."I also bought a very dark three book series ... very dark.", and not tell us what it is! It already sounds like my sort of thing.

But ... but ... that's the point! Dropping a hint, a tease, a few words that leave a person curious, , it's all part of the art of seduction, in the case of a writer, seducing her reader into wanting more. Sadly, I haven't read the three books entirely yet, but I can hint at what I believe may be found in this trilogy from the description and reviews.

Although at this point, I can't even say how well-written the trilogy is or how it's plot hangs together. So what I write may be wrong. Plus, I tend to be more forgiving of self-published fiction and readily skim over errors in writing or plot holes. I think the very act of writing a novel and putting it up for sale is very brave. But you want details!

Book I

So the dark plot of this novel involves a smaller, think Son's of Anarchy Style Motorcycle club. They live on the criminal edge, but have a clear code of honor. The characters who will go forward on this particular story are the daughter of the club leader, the son of its sergeant of arms, main enforcer, and an older consigliere type. The boy is away when the consigliere betrays this smaller MC to a much larger, much more vicious MC. Everyone is wiped out, except the girl who's no longer living with her dad, but rather working as a waitress in a club.

For some reason, the consigliere doesn't tell the Big Bad MC about the son of the enforcer, which allows him to start life afresh when he finds out everyone in the club was murdered. But he does track down the daughter of the club leader. She trusts him totally. He was a friend of her father and is sort of a benevolent uncle figure to her.

This is a mistake. She ends up sold to one of the chapter presidents of the Big Bad MC and is forced into a grim life ... very grim. Now, at this point, we're introduced to a number of other characters, but the one I'm more interested in is this young new patch to the MC. He's one of the guards of the girl and he starts developing a relationship with her and plans to rescue her.

But they suspect what's going on and he's forced to do bad things to the girl and has his own soul crushed. So a couple of years pass and we move to Book II.

BOOK II

I haven't read book two or book three. But what I understand is that Book II focused on the one surviving male members of the smaller MC, the son. He knows everyone was killed, but didn't know about the betrayal. When he finds out, he starts tracking down the consigliore character. He finds out about the girl and vows to rescue her. But there's a lot of these MC chapters, a lot of clubs, and a lot of girls. So it's kind of a John Wayne Searchers theme as he hunts for this girl.

He finds her. He rescues her.

BOOK III

As I understand it, this is the vengeance chapter. Death and destruction with the two surviving (boy and girl) members of the smaller wiped out MC trying to get vengeance. But then the young guy who's now a few years older and a full member of the Big Bad MC, the guy who had fallen in love with the girl, but ended up raping and hurting her when forced to, is trying to seek his own forgiveness. Well, as I understand it, the girl tells him some things can't be forgiven through words.

So he nods and after saving the girl and guy from the club somehow and goes on his own suicide mission where he ends up killing the top level leadership of the club and probably dying.

There are very little true D/S elements in this story, because I don't really consider non-consensual stuff D/S. But there are themes of betrayal and forgiveness which I enjoy exploring. Is it worth the read? Not sure yet, but it's a big, epic three part story so at the very worst, I'm going to skim it.

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Let's see I also have three other more traditional books on my list. The Garden of Eden by Hemingway. It was an incomplete novel by him published in 1986. The blurb says, "Set on the Cote d'Azur, it is the story of a young American writer and his glamorous wife and the dangerous erotic-game they play when they fall in love with the same woman. As I understand it, the wife, Catherine, is a cross-dresser. Then I have William Gibson's Neuromancer. And something called Death of an Evangelista, which I found in a box of books. Oh and I have another book called "Once Bitten, Twice Shy" about a female CIA assassin whose vampire boss was born in Romania in 1744.

Can't say I'll get through these books anytime soon in particular as I have a dozen or so PMs in my inbox that need to be addressed. And my week is looking grim for free time.
 
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Odd true fact, I was banned from the library in the fifth grade (school and public). It wasn't that I was stealing books or just plain naughty. My mother and teacher decided that I "read too much."

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I did read a lot. I did fine in school, but once I knocked out homework, tests, or chores, I would be reading. The teacher would take away a book, I'd have another squirreled away. I barely ate and didn't consider food or sleep of primary importance. Books now! Those were my thing.

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By the time I hit seventh grade, I had completely refocused my priorities from books and stories to becoming a social butterfly. So maybe the great library ban did have an impact. Or maybe it was just puberty.
 
Chris Knight, Hard Candy

Her hair was as black as pike county coal
and her lips were as red as blood on the snow.
She wore short vinyl skirts and them boots to her knees
and she lived in the holler across the mountain from me.

Hard Candy so sweet
and I could never get enough.
Hard Candy so easy
for me to love.

Wild horses couldn't keep her old man outta jail.
From bootlegging whiskey his sons helped him sell
and growing up in that holler wasn't nothing but hard.
Fighting roosters and cur dogs tied up in the yard.

Hard Candy so sweet
and I could never get enough.
Hard Candy so easy
for me to love.

One night on the mountain back in the pine trees,
Candy let down her guard, she said she loved me.
We left the holler when her old man got put back in jail
and she told all her brothers to go straight to Hell.

Hard Candy so sweet
and I could never get enough.
Hard Candy so easy
for me to love.
 
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Inspired inspired in part by Sir Isaac of Clarke who has an interesting idea regarding a Cain based role play and by my thoughts on the theme of forgiveness,


You're sorry. You beg for one more chance.
"Be a Christian," you say, "it won't happen again."

When Cain slew his brother, the Lord set him to wandering.
A hated vagrant, the earth denied him its bounty.
He felt driven from the face of the earth and cried out,
"Lord! My punishment is greater than I can bear."

I grant the same forgiveness.
Now get the fuck out of my life.

I guess you could say, I'm not one-hundred percent sure I favor forgiveness before punishment especially when one of my cheeks already stings. Wait! That makes me think about being spanked, which makes me feel kind of hot, which puts me back in a forgiving mood. I'm so conflicted. Okay new rule! No flirtatious spanking when I'm in a pissed off mood. You drank the last of the milk and so you have to replace it. I'm not backing down! And don't get the 2% kind, I want the flavored water non-fat variety.
 
Tough being an old Testament wife,

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Leaving aside wives, the Bible certainly paints a vivid scene,


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Out of curiosity, do horses emit more than donkeys?




Did I mention that I like books? Probably why I'm often broke,


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I've read that putting your eject button next to your rockets is asking for trouble. The trunk monkey on the other hand is supah useful.



A few quotes from the sixth (admittedly not nearly as funny) Marx brother, Karl (after Groucho, Gummo, Zeppo, Chico, and Harpo),

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He isn't nearly as funny.
 
I didn't know they were related, but now I look, the resemblance is striking! I haven't seen one of their movies in such a long time either. A few years ago, on late night cable, I think.

Oh, and I meant to ask earlier. The 'Evil Housewife'. Is that you?

Also, you have carte blanche permission to clutter up my page. I trust your judgement :)
 
Mr Quixotic said:
I didn't know they were related, but now I look, the resemblance is striking! I haven't seen one of their movies in such a long time either. A few years ago, on late night cable, I think.

Oh, and I meant to ask earlier. The 'Evil Housewife'. Is that you?

Also, you have carte blanche permission to clutter up my page. I trust your judgement :)

With absolute certainty, I state that Karl and Groucho Marx are unrelated in every way that matters. As for the Evil Housewife, in spirit and with tongue firmly in cheek, yes. I got the idea from my mom. She used to come up with absurd thing that she could do if she chose.

When her friend was in the hospital with breast cancer, she wrote this recipe book about a series of six very bland recipes using six seasons and six ingredients. Slowly, you serve your family blander and blander food using less and less seasoning with the idea that they'll eat less and less over time as they grow sick of your cooking. My dad has always been totally biased in favor of women to the point we tease him that he'll believe anything a woman says and always takes the side of women over common sense, lol. He used to tell my mom that if she got tired of him, she had permission to take him out. We kind of had a dark sense of humor in our family and we're all very verbal. Anyway, the evil housewife idea was inspired a bit by this background.

A few Groucho Marx Quotes, some you may have already done,

A man's only as old as the woman he feels.

Women should be obscene and not heard.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

I never forget a face, but with yours I’ll make an exception.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.

There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, "Yes," you know he is a crook.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Room service? Send up a larger room.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Why, I'd horse-whip you if I had a horse.
 
Advertising always seeks to spin gold out of dross. Thus

Used becomes pre-owned;
cheap becomes economical;
rerun becomes encore presentation;
Porn becomes adult entertainment;
Trailer becomes manufactured home;
Fat becomes full figured; and
Old becomes classic.


So I decided to help the sex-toy marketing people come up with truthful, yet more appealing descriptions of their products based on my reading of a few bad reviews




Poor Review,

Cheaply made, poorly manufactured. Difficult to clean, weak sucking stimulation.


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Rewritten Marketing Material,

Reasonably priced and you won't believe the manufacturing quality! Can be cleaned and gives an indescribable, ultra-gentle sucking stimulation.




Poor Review,

The battery was hard to put in, and the device would not turn off all the way. When we tried it out, it shocked the hell out of my husband's hand. When he placed it on my thigh to see how high he needed to put the setting, it was great. But he slightly turned (rolled) the probe (for a more comfortable position)...not any switches...and it felt like my skin was on fire! It hurt bad.


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Rewritten Marketing Material,

Replaceable battaries, once you get it started, it keeps going and going. Not for posers! Our products is the real deal and you will be left feeling ultra-stimulated. When Linda Rodstadt said, "it hurt so bad," this might have been the product making her sing.




Poor Review,

I found that the product had little to no redeeming virtues except perhaps looking pretty, and seeming like the design and material would be great if it only worked-- and by worked I don't mean that it didn't turn on, it just didn't seem able to accomplish it's intended goal.


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Rewritten Marketing Material,

If you're looking for virtuous, good-clean fun, this may not be the product for you. We're definitely not marketing a product full of redeeming virtues. But if the idea of naughty, wicked fun intrigues you, we promise you that those reviewing our products talk about how it works and "turn on" usually comes up in their descriptions, if you know what we mean. So if you're a goal oriented girl who wants to be left panting for more, then this is the product for you! Oh and by the way, girls can't stop talking about how pretty it looks.
 
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