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1871. anomie - 3/3/2007 7:58:10 AM Dubai, why is it so high on your list?
Without actually admitting that I ever did it... It would be nice if the we could get the good effects without the bad. The bad being the paranoia Judith mentions, and other strange thoughts, like a sort of de-personalization, or seeing yourself at a distance with the awareness that you might be in both places. The best thing was ( I would assume), the change in perceptions of sight and sound. I mean even w/o hallucinating, the sight of leaves on trees seemed to flow into the eyes as if the light blended with the tree to form a substance of some kind. And a pluck of a sngle guitar string sounded like a symphony of overtones.
But what an odd to think about at this stage in my life.
1872. Ulgine Barrows - 3/3/2007 10:17:47 AM "Full Metal Jacket" is on HBO tonight, playing in the background, and I thought of all you lovely folks.
I'm sorry. That is just a sick movie. And I've been in a sick mental state when I've made most of my posts here. That's my connection.
That scene where he shoots the drill instructor, and then blow his own brains out....sick.
But now they're shooting gooks in the jungle, and that's OK. 1873. Ulgine Barrows - 3/3/2007 12:05:43 PM I remember taking some LSD when I was 14 and staring at my eyes in the mirror; it was horrible. 1874. Ulgine Barrows - 3/3/2007 12:30:12 PM My big brother gave me that LSD, and he can sit and rot in his jail for all I care. I have been getting bills in his pseudo name for months, bill collectors calling weekly, if not daily. He is older than me, and he should be ashamed to put me through this ordeal.
Eh. I'm done with his nonsense.
Signed, not taking any collect calls from jails 1875. Ulgine Barrows - 3/6/2007 9:14:27 AM Great, more hospital and ambulance bills arrive daily, for a brother who's older than me.
I am so angry. If I don't get to slap that older brother of mine before he dies, I'll be angrier, still. 1876. judithathome - 3/6/2007 4:04:25 PM Does he live near enough to you so that is an option? 1877. jexster - 5/15/2007 8:51:23 PM Happy Juneteenth for Wonkerstein and the Deetroit PC Polees
 1878. jexster - 5/15/2007 8:52:21 PM Someone mention LSD?
I've taken so much I CAN't remember 1879. wonkers2 - 5/15/2007 8:53:03 PM Cap'n Dirty sez, "Jexter, BITE MY ASS!" 1880. Ulgine Barrows - 8/15/2007 9:50:09 AM Peace Frog, a record of the delightful piece they're going t0 blo0w up this evening. Can it be true? Everyone is staring in one direction. Who's going to be our future? Oh, you're devine! 1881. Ulgine Barrows - 8/15/2007 9:51:47 AM I am so angry at all of you. Blind angry. 1882. Ulgine Barrows - 8/15/2007 9:52:39 AM Stuffing angry. 1883. judithathome - 8/15/2007 5:32:09 PM Really? Why not tell us what we've done? 1884. thoughtful - 10/16/2007 2:52:00 AM My apologies, wabbit, for all the ugliness in the poetry thread. Feel free to move the posts as you see fit. 1885. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 10/16/2007 3:04:07 AM I wasn't being ugly, tful, I was being sincere and honest. I felt insulted and called you on it.Besides, poetry can be vitriolic and angry. 1886. wabbit - 10/16/2007 4:04:09 PM No apologies necessary from either of you. *Honestly*, I don't understand what got this going to begin with. I'm obviously not reading t'ful the same way WoW does.
And just because I'm in the mood, I'm going to do a bit of bitching.
Just because we don't all react to a given set of circumstances the same way doesn't mean we aren't each being honest. As you pointed out, WoW, context is everything, and each of us brings our own background and experience to this particular table. It also doesn't automatically mean we are trying to insult the person with whom we may not agree (lord knows the insults can fly thick and fast around here). What is true for one person may not be true for the next. I look at my siblings sometimes and wonder how we all came from the same household, we are all so vastly different.
Perhaps we could all be a little less quick to take offense as well. I was rejected for jury duty yesterday, for a case I would dearly loved to have been a juror (forcible child rape). Now, was it because I corrected my name with the court officer, since I am no longer hyphenated? Was it because I have an uncle who is fighting extradition on a similar case? Was it because I am taller than either attorney? Why take everything personally? If someone doesn't like a painting I've made, why should I get defensive? They are entitled to their opinion, and whether or not I think it's an educated or knowledgeable opinion doesn't make one whit of difference.
We should be able to agree to disagree, to put forth our points of view without resorting to name-calling and put-downs. What really pisses me off may not bother someone else one bit. Who's right and who's wrong? Who gets to make that call? All we can do is our best and try to be a little more tolerant of people we don't agree with or understand.
But for those occasions when name-calling cannot be avoided, this is the place, and in keeping with that...
everyone can bite me! 1887. Ms. No - 10/16/2007 5:02:02 PM I'm right, of course. Always.
So bite ME!! 1888. wabbit - 10/16/2007 5:19:56 PM Hey you, you're only right when you agree 100% with ME!! So go have a martini, m'kay? 1889. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 10/16/2007 6:48:22 PM One point, wabb, this skirmish had absolutely nothing to do with my artwork. 1890. wabbit - 10/16/2007 7:11:52 PM I never said it was about your artwork, and I used my own just an example, WoW. I can't think of a single person who has seen your artwork that hasn't thought it was nothing short of gorgeous. And as beautiful as it is on a computer screen, it is far better in person. Mine, otoh...
I had a roommate who got to decide which of my drawings/paintings could be hung in the public areas of the apartment, and which were unsuitable for public display. Nothing to do with what she liked, mind you, but she could see what would scare people better than I could. I had one guy tell me I should never show anyone that group of paintings, because I would be a suspect in every grisly crime for miles around. A couple teachers couldn't believe they were even mine, because they thought I was "so cheerful", and they worried that I might be seriously depressed and suicidal.
When you say "the secret of painting is to forget one's "self" via the process and to NOT identify with your marks on the canvas", it reminds me why nobody sees my paintings. While I'm never attached to the marks on the canvas, the work is, in the end, all about me. The only time I'm able to forget myself via the process is when I'm learning something new, or doing something specifically requested. Even then, I can still see myself intruding. I don't think it's ego, it's just expression, but I guess it makes me an unsuccessful painter. So if I'm a mere dilettante, ok.
Or perhaps I'm misunderstanding your meaning, much as you might have misunderstood t'ful.
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