The Dino-Aspie Cafe (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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That's funny. Afganistan Banana Stand. I like that.

On the same show...they showed Alex and the logo for WP.There was nothing subtle about the juxtaposition and it really offended me that they used Alex(who was not talking about this shooter at all)It was very sleezy and misleading.


I like the shirt quote Zanne....it happens to be true of me and my poetry,which pretty much sucked anyway,but was only written when I was suicidal....not a great loss,but....one of my lines about this....

some say prozac cures bad poetry,like mine
but what does poetry cure?

Oscar Wild was a one liner marvel....I would have loved to see him and Mark Twain have a conversation.

Well what does it say about me that a woman who worked for me gave me that t-shirt! LOL

Come to think of it, she also bought me a voodoo doll in New Orleans. That thing was powerful. I had to get rid of it.

Im off to scoop doggy poo and hug me some furry critters...peace all.Glad I barged in tonnight...I didnt piss anyone off ,did I?

Is any of your art work on WP? I'd love to see it. We now have an art gallery type thread, don't we? I'm going to go check it out.

No Krex. Good to see you!

indeed it did, Chuck, it looks like we are not being kept as the batty old aunt up in the attic any more!!




We have become community!




there you are - still safe in the ol' Spam and Kipper again. I like this whole section because now we have our Dino Cafe back!!

love,

Merle


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"Nemo dat quod non habet"
(No one gives what he doesn't have.)

No, not at all, and I have a low threshold for piss.

Who knew...I sign up five days ago and I'd start a revolution. I'm so glad to find a venue where people appreciate what's in my head. I love sardonic humor. I am off to work. Peace Out.

Be safe Susie.

Which puts me in mind (as so much does) of a little bit of Rush, in this instance from "Scars"

All of us get lost in the darkness
Dreamers learn to steer by the stars
All of us do time in the gutter
Dreamers turn to look at the cars...

I'm settling into the new place. By coincidence, I've been listening to the audiobook of Spider Robinson's "Callahan's Key" detailing the move of the Callahan's gang to Key West (following the demise of their second Long Island bar, Mary's Place, at the hands of New York State, Suffolk County, and Township of Smithtown bureacracy). At the point I've reached, they're settling into the bar they've just bought there, and named "The Place" (and being told by Nikola Tesla that they have five months to save all of reality from an accidental destruction brought about by the Feds completing work on Tesla's Death Ray...) On the plus side, this site isn't also occupied by a parrot that used to live in a bordello, and is given to screaming colorful quotes from their old clients at random - on the downside, we also don't have Erin Stonebender, or Ralph von Wau Wau...

You lost me. Never heard of Stonebender or Wau Wau.

good night everyone. I'm going to watch Jeremia Johnson, for the umpteenth time. A cult film in our family.

I know you're not kidding, but I'd have loved to have started this line out with, "You've got to be kidding". That sob would be looking at a major law suit. Not having seen the thing, I can't say how the guilt by assocation was done. One thing I've learned about going after the system is, get the lawyer that you can piss off the fastest and goes for your throat, he's/she's the one you want.

The very little O. Wild I've read has come from other soursces i'm sorry to say. Twain is buried not far from my home, and his study is still in the area. Been to his farm on the hill, while excavations were being done on it. the farm is in fine condtion, but some students were "practicing". The historical museum in town, I had the run of the back rooms, what marvels I found. I think I'd like to visit his grave when the weather is warmed, sit and have a cigar and relax. I've never visited it, never seen it, I think I'd like to do a graveyard field trip. I kind of like graveyards. I think I'd like to move to one, some day.

I like the idea of a repeating animal in here, pull string or not.

Ralph von Wau Wau is a surgically modified German shepherd, work done by a nutjob who wanted to teach a dog to talk so he could exhibit the "freak" for money. Unfortunately for his plans, Ralph was also a mutant, with human-level intelligence. He escaped, and eventually found his way to Callahan's Place (in the company of a mute man - they'd developed a "talking dog" routine to win bar bets, and the folks at the Place were the first to twig to the fact that the dog was the ventriloquist).

Erin Stonebender is the daughter of Jake and Zoey Stonebender. Jake was one of the regulars at Callahan's, and after the original Place was destroyed by a pony nuke (to defend Earth against invasion from a particularly vicious three-foot-long intelligent cockroach from outer space), the barkeep at their second attempt, Mary's Place (named for Callahan's daughter). During the last days of Mary's, when the group had to create a telepathic link to save Earth from invasion by the cockroach's last surviving servant, a cyborged alien lizardoid, Erin was born in the middle of the hubbub, and linked to Solace, an artifical intelligence that grew on the Internet. During the fight, Solace downloaded as much knowledge and wisdom into baby Erin's brain as possible, then infiltrated the lizard's computer parts and self-destructed. Erin, at the point I've reached in the story, is fourteen months old, astoundingly intelligent, and very well-spoken. (Also bulletproof, a little gift another alien cyborg gave the gang after they rescued him from the cockroach.)

If you're interested, the relevant books are Callahan's Crosstime Saloon, Time Travelers Strictly Cash, Callahan's Secret, The Callahan Touch, Callahan's Legacy, Callahan's Key, and Callahan's Con (the last of which I haven't gotten to yet). The first three books are also published in an omnibus edition entitled The Callahan Chronicals (no, that's not a typo).