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25760. webfeet - 11/20/2009 6:01:46 PM So blasé...a season ahead of New York. Yet I didn't see the dirty allusions. I think I was too blown away by the light. I got up so close, even the security guard looked at me as if I were an art terrorist, a lunatic, pencil in hand, about to puncture the canvas.
Belle-mere just left NY by the way. Ta-ta and she came for ten days and planned an intrepid program of sight-seeing, visiting everything from the Whitman House in LI near my parents' to crossing the Brooklyn Bridge, which I believe, figured prominently in one of your erotic vampire orgies. They even did the Roosevelt Island tramway (their second time, ohhh those French ladies!) crossing over from Queens to First Avenue like homing pigeons. It may surprise you to hear that BM, as I once called her, actually loves me now. A long period of diplomacy has resulted in an accord; I seduced them with artful dinners, including a seasonal pumpkin pie, and they came bearing fig confiture, lavendar honey, chocolates and Calissons, and my favorite fragrance, Allure. It was a little bit like the Indians trading wampum with the first settlers, in a weird way, only we have yet to bond over a bong. And if anyone is going to get skinned, its not going to be me.
25761. wabbit - 11/20/2009 6:27:46 PM Webfeet, I envy you, living in NYC. I will always think of you chasing after a cab that has just gone off with your faux leopard hat - but that thought has room to incorporate the autumn season! When is your book coming out?
I will likely miss the Vermeer, having too little unscheduled time over the next week to get there to see her. Honestly, I don't understand why these museum curators don't check with me beforehand (ha!). On the up side, it makes a good excuse to visit her at home. I do plan to get to NY in the not too distant future - I'll email you beforehand and if you can manage it, I'd love to see you! 25762. wabbit - 11/20/2009 6:28:35 PM I just noticed that we are out of sync with NZ time again. 25763. alistairconnor - 11/20/2009 10:38:12 PM Yet I didn't see the dirty allusions.
There aren't any. Just that everything reminds me of sex.
No, I think that the subtext (intertextuality?) of that remark is the French expression about wanting the butter, the money of the butter, and the milkmaid's arse too. Well that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Gentlepersons of the jury, consider your verdict.
25764. webfeet - 11/21/2009 1:35:46 AM Wabbit
That would be wonderful! And I will shout from a bullhorn my good news--when I have it. I have been engaged in a courtship that, I am happy to say is not entirely one way, with various agents, but the fish hasn't bit yet. I have had my share of disappointments (an agent who jumped on me but my novel wasn't ready but then subsequently turned into the Vampire Lestat when it was) and unrequited love; but I also have some suitors. Otherwise, I am mum. What I will say is that I probably have worked harder this year than I ever have in my entire life. It's the business side of writing, of selling your work that is, without question, the hardest part.
Alistair, the most important advice I can impart is 1) join a writer's forum 2) to truly immerse yourself wholeheartedly and with genuine love toward your work 3) and to exfoliate scaley negative emotions as you would slough away dead skin.
It's really not productive. And boring. Self pity is really boring. And I am highly selective of my time--I only do what I love...like look at dirty paintings by Vermeer.
What is the expression in French?
25765. wabbit - 11/26/2009 6:23:33 PM Happy Thanksgiving, folks! 25766. alistairConnor - 11/26/2009 10:18:01 PM um yeah gobble gobble gobble!
The expression I am thinking of, Bibiche, is the one which refers to a greedy person in any transaction :
"Il veut le beurre et l'argent du beurre"
to which is frequently appended
"et les joues (or whatever) de la cremière" 25767. arkymalarky - 11/27/2009 2:48:09 AM Stuffed, as usual! Happy Thanksgiving everybody! 25768. Ms. No - 11/27/2009 7:07:14 AM My brother and I were on our own for Thanksgiving this year --- well, it was my brother, myself and the chirrun. For the first time in our lives we cooked a turkey and all of the sides with no help or intervention from the older generation.
It was awesome!
And then we made gingerbread houses. We are currently forcing ourselves to stay up until 10 o'clock rather than sacking out with the kids at 8.
Here are a couple of pics. The kids are so big now! Strange, I don't have any pictures of P from today. They're all in my brother's camera. I do have one of him at the San Diego Zoo for his birthday last month, though.
I'll get busy in the next couple of days and show you our awesom Gingerbread Planned Community. Ha!
Damn, I can't remember the code to post a pic. I'll have to go look it up.
brb
25769. Ms. No - 11/27/2009 7:15:47 AM Daddy's Little Girl
Industrial-strength Tin-Foil Hats
Last Spring
 25770. alistairconnor - 11/27/2009 5:32:11 PM !!! excellent. 25771. wabbit - 11/27/2009 6:05:26 PM They are adorable! 25772. arkymalarky - 11/27/2009 7:04:01 PM Ooooh, great! What cuties! 25773. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 11/27/2009 9:29:03 PM Happy TD!
25774. judithathome - 11/29/2009 9:36:11 PM MsNo...I can't believe one of those adorable cherubs was in a baby bucket the last time we saw you! (baby bucket: carrier) 25775. Ms. No - 12/3/2009 7:36:34 AM Yep --- and not even the youngest one. I think it was the middle boy who was still in swaddling last time we met up.
They grow so fast!! 25776. judithathome - 12/9/2009 3:38:31 PM I really expected someone to come over here and leave at least one post since World Crossing has been down the past three days...
I guess the Mote is in a dormant stage for sure. 25777. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 12/9/2009 9:32:55 PM It's beyond dormant . . . I'd call it gangrenous!
You need some new blood . . .
25778. iiibbb - 12/9/2009 11:09:16 PM I'd be here but I'm preoccupied. I'd mostly be lamenting if I were here and you guys don't need to hear it.
Excited to meet this person in P's belly. 2-6 more weeks. 25779. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 12/9/2009 11:23:46 PM "Embedding disabled by request"????
This place!!!
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