| Re: a comment on Dear M Foucault, or, How I knew our relationship was doomed by zodiac |
15-Apr-04/6:36 AM |
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Anyway, I'd have to re-do it with a six-word line, which would be ridiculous. Solution: It's a SEPTINA.
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| Re: a comment on Dear M Foucault, or, How I knew our relationship was doomed by zodiac |
15-Apr-04/6:34 AM |
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I have no idea what you mean.
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| Re: Dear M Foucault, or, How I knew our relationship was doomed by zodiac |
15-Apr-04/4:42 AM |
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I would just like to say that it hadn't occured to me until this moment that a sestina has only 6 lines per stanza, not 7, and so the whole idea is shot. But then, for me, the question "What were you on when you wrote this?" wouldn't be strictly rhetorical.
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| Re: Anthem of the Anachronists by coffeespoons |
14-Apr-04/8:44 PM |
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O What whimsickal Britishy talk! Makes me want to say DO and IS with special emphasis with all the other chaps in my level. It's too bad all the real Brits on this site talk like deranged EastEnders wot bin nipped cushty inna Norff an Souff wivva Lord Lovell. But then I found out you're not British, just American, and I gave you a -5-.
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| Re: a comment on Dear M Foucault, or, How I knew our relationship was doomed by zodiac |
14-Apr-04/8:26 PM |
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If each word were its own line and each line a stanza... it still wouldn't really be a sestina.
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| Re: a comment on China, Silver, and an Emerald Lipstick by Enkidu |
14-Apr-04/8:38 AM |
Hey, excellent useless mastery of a dead language!
But do you know QBasic?
I do.
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| Re: being human by ggawrysi |
14-Apr-04/3:59 AM |
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Stanzas 3-4 are copped from Doug Adams. To wit: "Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars, etc... and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish, and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons."
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| Re: a comment on Easter Wouldn't Be Complete Without Choking Someone Out by horus8 |
13-Apr-04/7:57 PM |
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| Re: a comment on Easter Wouldn't Be Complete Without Choking Someone Out by horus8 |
13-Apr-04/7:31 PM |
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| Re: a comment on Easter Wouldn't Be Complete Without Choking Someone Out by horus8 |
13-Apr-04/1:56 PM |
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Damn! I forgot 20% wacky Oliver-Twist-meets-Jack-Kerouac biography! What am I up to now, like 120%?
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| Re: a comment on Easter Wouldn't Be Complete Without Choking Someone Out by horus8 |
13-Apr-04/1:40 PM |
50% gay,
15% brow,
10% superman hair,
8% Rufus Wainwright,
7% white chinos,
5% white negro,
2% gay again.
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| Re: Diary entry (edit) by richa |
13-Apr-04/7:12 AM |
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Much better. But with the new, longer footnote you need to find another way to set it apart, methinks.
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| Re: a comment on Easter Wouldn't Be Complete Without Choking Someone Out by horus8 |
12-Apr-04/8:07 PM |
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Spoken like a true defender of gay Hollywood Greeks. Maybe you can get John to give you a guest shot in "Cabaret" and you'll, you know, get some of the old Athenian groove on. I mean that in the most positive possible sense. He'd be lucky to have you for his Uncle Joey.
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| Re: Easter Wouldn't Be Complete Without Choking Someone Out by horus8 |
12-Apr-04/6:13 PM |
JOHN STAMOS AND REBECCA ROMIJN-STAMOS SEPARATE
Mon Apr 12, 4:08 PM ET
LOS ANGELES - Married life is over for "Full House" actor John Stamos (news) and "X-Men" actress Rebecca Romijn-Stamos (news), the former Victoria's Secret model. The couple has separated after five years of marriage, publicist Lewis Kay said Monday.
"The split is amicable and they have asked that the media please respect their privacy regarding this situation during this difficult time," Kay said.
The spokesman said the couple had no further comment.
Stamos, 40, and Romijn, 31, met in 1994 at a Victoria's Secret fashion show and began dating two months later. They married in September 1998.
The actress appeared in "X-Men," "X2: X-Men United," "Femme Fatale (news - web sites)" and "Rollerball" and she appears in the upcoming films "The Punisher" and "Godsend."
Stamos, best-known for his role as Jesse in "Full House" from 1987 to 1995, played John Sears in last year's cable TV movie "The Reagans." In recent years, he's played on the Broadway stage.
In October, Stamos replaced Antonio Banderas (news) as the film director obsessed with women in the Tony Award-winning revival of "Nine" at New York's Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
He had also replaced Matthew Broderick (news) in the revival of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" and starred as the master of ceremonies in the long-running Roundabout Theatre Company production of "Cabaret" at Studio 54.
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| Re: a comment on On the Theme of Melted Pianos by embersandenvelopes |
11-Apr-04/6:25 AM |
Don't listen to him, violetsuede. He likes to win the trust of young ladies with his smooth talk, and then when he gets them alone... WHAM!
PS-What do you mean by Greek mythology, Shuushin?
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| Re: a comment on Creation of all Things by KnightofMidkemia |
11-Apr-04/6:20 AM |
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Dang, gang, gangbang, harangue, slang, tang, [Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles villain] Krang. www.rhymezone.com
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| Re: a comment on Rough draft of a poetry manifesto by zodiac |
10-Apr-04/7:38 PM |
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| Re: a comment on The Kings of Paradise by Spindle |
10-Apr-04/12:50 PM |
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Of course all poetry is guff. But it's guff you can make a comfortable living from if you learn to do it right, and I find it slightly more respectable than developing new extra-destructive explosives or some strain of supercholera or predicting stock futures or buying bankrupt people's houses for massively profitable resale - all of which are also guff to the max. And literature (and the requirement that it be taught to children) has a net liberalizing effect on the world, which I think is supremely useful and non-guff. -10-
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| Re: a comment on The Kings of Paradise by Spindle |
10-Apr-04/9:42 AM |
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I'm not trying to imply that I'm supremely knowledgeable in all things drug- or drinking-related. But I do have enough experience with the subject to know not to categorize and typify it in some bullshit tidy moralized dross. I can almost guarantee you that at least a half of your teachers or co-workers smoke/smoked marijuana - and probably not the rat-like ones, either. Does this poem frown upon them all with 'that same knowing stare' of unknowing sanctimony? YES! At least, inasmuch as it's about drug-users, which I still doubt, then, yes, it does. In the meantime, considering that you're a human being living in America/Europe, you likely have dozens of bad habits and ill-conceived notions of your own that are worth looking at, many of them more dangerous than occasional drug use. Why don't you take a crack at one of those next time you post? Does it make you feel better that at least you're not a junkie? Screw that. We all get our various fixes in our own ways.
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| Re: a comment on The Kings of Paradise by Spindle |
10-Apr-04/9:29 AM |
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If you weren't, how could you possibly consider yourself qualified to talk about them like this? As it happens, the dope (ie, the drugs or the marijuana) isn't mostly consumed by blank-staring uncommunicative drones in dark rat-holes, meaning that this entire poem is a humungous nothing. What's more, if I were to ask you here whether poetry should veil or disguise its subject/meaning with ambiguous images and wordplay, you would undoubtedly say yes, which is a triple-word-scoring 'dunce' with an extra, ungrammatical 'Qu'.
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