What made you smile today?

Yes, moving on is the smart thing with thread provocateurs. Not that I'm innocent of provocateuring, but even I applaud the tactic at some times.

I smile, seeing the combo of johnboy, dys, and jlnobody interact.

I'm also smiling that I had a brainstorm re my own garden's design, at no cost - re what to do re the area with the old juniper stump - build it up with my extra landscape ties, pile rocks, of which I have an excess sitting in ugly buckets, over the stump area, add a half wine barrel on top, plant barrel with a mix of perennials, some of which lally over the barrel.)

So, tomorrow to the barracades.. of stumps and clumps of exotic horrid grass, and moving and sawing of landscape ties, not that easy re the hand sawing.
Well, this'll take me more than an a day, but the idea seems good right now.

He may be referring to the christ. I'd move along from that.

She still says that, but we don't agree on everything.

ya know JLN I still find that odd in that I've never read any of Nietzsche and have no actual knowledge his philosophy. actually I've never read any philosophy other than pogo. Your wife is very kind I guess but a bit silly.

I don't know what either of you have read and at what age.
I know what I haven't read, to some extent.
This is appalling, but I don't care.

It is appalling, I deal myself with how little matters, every day.

Whatever, dust to dust, and so forth - I smile when I read connections or make them myself.

"If it hurts me, but doesn't kill me, it has made a serious strategic blunder." That's all I recall of Nietzsche.

tips in the cook's jar after a long hot night...

Dys, you overlook that fact that you both went crazy about the same age.

Sunday Morning. Early. Little traffic on Rt 29. A group of perhaps 15 motorcyclists heading north. 10 minutes later, a 2nd group, and then a 3rd.
All heading north towards D.C. The annual ritual over this Memorial Day weekend. Rolling Thunder.

No socialist heaven here, I'm afraid. And as for the Hungarian Socialist Party, as I told you before, good riddance to them.


I get paid in euros, don't worry about me.

As for what made me smile today - well, eh, I havent really woken up yet. But the party my photographer friend took me to last night was pretty awesome. Her ex is a music producer, and the party at his place had a bunch of really cool people.

The kids in their early twenties were so earnest, so sincere, so idealistic about their music - quite endearingly wonderful. Though it may have been the booze or E talking. They did some cool on-the-spot minimal techno mixing too, with all the stuff that had dials and buttons and knobs. Quite cool.

Also, my friend and I are planning a follow-up photo project to the last one which should be, uh, interesting. She'll be the one taking the pictures ...

You would do well osso to consider the matter.

Like in the word association game it is bad taste to question what someone says made them smile. I did not question what made rjb smile. I simply said what made me smile. It was rjb, presumably due to a sensitivity unbecoming in a grown man, who questioned my contribution, which was genuine. It was rjb who ought to have moved on rather than not moved on by questioning what made me smile. I am entitled to smile at what I wish and to share it on this thread. If I'm not you have an exclusive little club. He starts the spat by not moving on and then seeks the high ground by suggesting moving on when things have turned unexpectedly sour. And you join the pack of biting dogs.

What made me smile in the small hours of today was a bunch of fat ugly women in the pub singing along with a hopeless Elvis impersonator lines such as --"Come on over to my house baby" and "Get into that kitchen and rattle them pots and pans."

spendi, You fit right in! Similar people have similar "taste."

The theologians of the past drew their conclusions from their observations of the docklands of Naples and the stews of Alexandria.

What one might learn of use from the soft furnishings departments of Walmart and bargain lower middle class cruises has been derided to dust by Grace Metallious, Ivan Pavlov, Bill Burroughs and David Lynch to name a thumb short of a handful.

Henry James regretted not having "gone to town" all his life.

I found my glasses after 4 hours of searching. How come when you find something that's gone missing, its always in the last place you look?

yes, it's just the price pay for being a socialist.

A socialist? Yesterday I was St Theresa's poodle.

You've been promoted.