CLOSED CASKET--no flowers........

Guests at the Wake | 2-27-2003 | Nemesis Funeral Home

[LaBelleDameSansMerci]

...How is the rabbit to be pulled out of THAT hat?!...

No rabbits. No hats..

The Second Coming -- W. B. Yeats

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all convictions, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

[LaBelleDameSansMerci]

Now what's all this about "voices in your head", young lady? This is an enlightened world, you know, and we don't allow any hank-panky around here. What sort of contraception did you say you used?

[Chancellor Palpatine]

ROFLMAO - Are you Joan of Arc today? Haldol can addres those delusional sorts of thoughts.

[LaBelleDameSansMerci]

Above all we don't cotton to political discussions about the sacred words that fall from the lips of Our Heavenly Mole.

[HairOfTheDog]

Loopy

Don't try to understand Loopy's messages - they will forever remain opaque to all but himself. Loopy is easily aroused and exuberant in battle and fearlessly flings himself at any Warrior - even Kung-Fu Master. Loopy's main weapons consist of a disarming array of nonsequiturs, tautologies, and bizarre metaphors, which can often gain him an advantage in the initial stages of an attack. Combatants very quickly realize, however, that Loopy is a certifiable nut case and generally avoid further engagement, although Jerk and Evil Clown sometimes egg Loopy on for their own amusement. CAUTION: Loopy cannot be defeated with conventional weapons. Any response to his attacks will often provoke a fusillade of incoherent messages. HINT: If ignored, Loopy will continue to clatter and foam until Nanny removes him from the discussion forum.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

The problem with you folks is that you think that the pseudointelectual blatherings of Harry Browne, or the "deeply felt" channelings of the founders by the sartorially and hygienically challenged Howard Phillips are somehow relevant or matter to real people.

In reality, they're not relevant to anyone but the embittered and pathos laden denizens of the far right.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

By jove, I think you found her.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Ping to #45

[LaBelleDameSansMerci]

The bigger the graphics the smaller the.......

Oh, excuse me. This is a solemn occassion. I forgot myself for a moment.

Thank you for signing the guest book. It will mean so much to the family in the years to come when the long knives are out and heads are displayed on the battlements....

[Experiment 6-2-6]

At first I thought dat stuff posted by LBDSM was the nonsensical ravings of a lunatic. But once Chancellor Palpatine showed up and started firing for effect, I decided you were right.

Makes for interesting reading.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

LBDSM self-abuse ping!

[Catspaw]

Quoting Yeats, huh? He liked hashish & other opiates. Yeah, baby, everybody must get stoned....

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Like a true Libertarian.

[Howlin]

This is all Geraldo Rivero fault. If he had never done that expose on those "institutions" in New York, all these people would still be locked up where they should be and we wouldn't be subjected to these types of fantasies.

[ricpic]

The Second Coming? Surely you don't equate economic hard times with The Second Coming!

[LaBelleDameSansMerci]

Now, now, now. Don't be squeamish. The lid is closed. There will be no tarted-up corpse to blight the view. All is pastel. All is soothing. The Four Seasonssoftly in the background......

Shine, Perishing Republic

While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily thickening
to empire,
And protest, only a bubble in the molten mass, pops and sighs out, and the
mass hardens,

I sadly smiling remember that the flower fades to make fruit, the fruit rots
to make earth.
Out of the mother; and through the spring exultances, ripeness and decadence;
and home to the mother.

You making haste, haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it
stubbornly long or suddenly
A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains:
shine, perishing republic.

But for my children, I would have them keep their distance from the
thickening center; corruption
Never has been compulsory, when the cities lie at the monster's feet there
are left the mountains.

And boys, be in nothing so moderate as in love of man, a clever servant,
insufferable master.
There is the trap that catches noblest spirits, that caught -- they say --
God, when he walked on earth.

-- Robinson Jeffers

(Okay, Okay I'll admit that Jeffers is not always palatable. But at this poignant moment in history can we not be as large in our poetic tastes as in our tastes in booze?)

[LaBelleDameSansMerci]

...Surely you don't equate economic hard times with The Second Coming!...

It's not my equations you need to worry about. It's the calculations by that mysterious 60% of the human population that the Davos People are always scratching their bald spots over. The 60% for whom there seems to be nothing to do in the glorious global economy....

[LaBelleDameSansMerci]

...Quoting Yeats, huh? He liked hashish & other opiates. ...

Oh, well then by all means we must burn everything he ever wrote. We must do it for the children.

Knees together, hands folded and smiling milk mustaches on all the happy faces?

[Catspaw]

Do you emulate Yeats? Do you have a little recreational hash before you write your fevered missives?

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Yup. Shallow pseudointellectual garbage would be more recognized for what it really is, as opposed to being mistaken for cogent, organized thought.