User:	mysteryal
	Date:	2008-10-11 11:10
	Subject:	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Hokku-haiku Japan-Yamato Poetry.
	Security:	Public
	Music:	http://www.realmusic.ru/deljesu/

The spinning dance
fairy fabric of soul
the ardent heart...

	User:	mseuphrates
	Date:	2008-10-10 09:38
	Subject:	Made of win! Your Friday Morning Funny!
	Security:	Public
	Mood:	naughty
	Music:	So Hott - Kid Rock

You can thank triple_xfor this one. :)
Yeah - I'm TOTALLY there. *grin*

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	User:	mseuphrates
	Date:	2008-10-10 05:20
	Subject:	Whangst...
	Security:	Public
	Mood:	gloomy
	Music:	We're Gonna Pull Through -OTR

Okay, I admit it. I'm spoiled.
But after living the same schedule with my mate for the last 14 months (after years of never living the same schedule as *anyone*)...I am *not* coping well with his current work schedule.( Details behind a cut to spare the give-a-fuck-impaired... )

	User:	mseuphrates
	Date:	2008-10-10 02:48
	Subject:	Hmmmmm...I must be more artistic than I thought
	Security:	Public
	Mood:	amused
	Music:	Living On The Edge - Aerosmith

Take Which Vampire the Masquerade Clan Are You? at HelloQuizzy

	User:	mysteryal
	Date:	2008-10-10 10:14
	Subject:	Alexander. Tribute poetry
	Security:	Public
	Music:	http://www.realmusic.ru/deljesu/

I see the moonlight gate,
I see the face of Time
Future that God creates
Heights that the spirits climb
I'm the horizon knight,
My memories unfold,
Sinking so deep in light,
Darkness one must behold
Of what I used to be,
Evil that I had seen
My path is healing me,
Turning me free and clean
Free from the bounds of steel,
Free from the desperate sighs,
Far from the storms unreal,
Far from the souls of ice
Enter the silver gate,
Kneel 'fore the holy Throne,
Greeting your smiling fate,
Feel what remain'd unknown

	User:	knutzythebunny
	Date:	2008-10-09 18:45
	Subject:	Foodstuffs
	Security:	Public

Last night's dinner.
Chicken coconut Thai congee-thing:
Brown 1lb cubed chicken breast in olive oil and splash of fish sauce.
Add
1 medium yellow onion, coarsely chopped,
3 green onions, chopped,
garlic powder, crushed ginger, powdered shallot and lemon grass to taste.
when carmelized add 1 can coconut cream, 1 small can crushed pineapple and 3 tablespoons tamarind sauce.
simmer 15 minutes on low heat.
Add 1 cup sliced mushrooms and simmer additional 5 minutes.
Add 2 cups precooked white rice and contiue to simmer until rice is the same temperature as everything else.
Add more fish sauce to taste.
and serve!

	User:	knutzythebunny
	Date:	2008-10-09 14:19
	Subject:	Maybe I'm just a nerd
	Security:	Public
	Music:	3.14159265358

But for some reason this always makes me smile.

http://pi.ytmnd.com/

	User:	mysteryal
	Date:	2008-10-09 11:15
	Subject:	Empire of the Sun... Poetry.
	Security:	Public
	Music:	http://files.realmusic.ru/real/495262/deljesu_-_Maxim_Ustinov._Simfoni_1.mp3

King Sun marching in the dance
is haloed by planets in the Milky Way.
Helios! Your benevolent gesture
is sent down to nymphs of Ceres.
They are contemplating your face
in silence. Dispassion is your virtue,
Phaeto! Heraclites would gain
enlightenment from this music of light
which unveiled your path to the far-lands
the dwelling of the Night. O, Hesperia!
Your dance is wild like the Ocean calling.
A virgin once heard the same motive
near the walls of Carthago,
entered the flames of the eternal Sun’s bed.
Don’t cry from love even at your death-time, Dido.
The rainbow goes down to you from Lato,
Who gave birth to Apollo.

	User:	mseuphrates
	Date:	2008-10-09 03:11
	Subject:	And for the locals - Barack Obama in town today!
	Security:	Public
	Mood:	hopeful
	Music:	We're Gonna Pull Through -OTR

Got this in my e-mail from the Obama campaign today, and it's not likely I'll be able to go (between an early morning meeting at my son's school and the craziness that is our current schedule it just ain't happening), but I wanted to spread the word to the rest of you!

From Barack Obama:

I wanted to make sure you've heard that I'll be in Cincinnati tomorrow, Thursday, October 9th. I promise it will be a good time.

See the details below and RSVP for the event here:

http://oh.barackobama.com/CincinnatiJobs

Hope to see you there,

Barack

P.S. -- Here is the invitation for the event:

This Thursday, October 9th, please join Barack Obama for a rally in Cincinnati, where he will talk about his vision for creating the kind of change we need.

http://oh.barackobama.com/CincinnatiJobs

	User:	mseuphrates
	Date:	2008-10-09 02:54
	Subject:	Heads Up to my Bay Area Peeps...
	Security:	Public
	Mood:	impressed

E-mail I received from former classmate and friend Ann Randolph today:

Hi Everybody,

Squeeze Box has been EXTENDED in San Francisco as well as the writing
workshop.  This is great news and it could not have happened without your
help.  I am so grateful for you spreading the word about the show. The
audiences have been full and the shows have been a blast.  Thank you.  I'm
enclosing details about the show and information about the writing
workshop.  The show opens on Oct. 25th and the class begins the same day.
Thank you so much San Francisco! Info for the writing workshop is at the
bottom of the email.
xoxo
Ann

( Details on the show and the workshop behind the cut... )

	User:	mysteryal
	Date:	2008-10-08 14:56
	Subject:	Deum magnum defensorem. Poetry.
	Security:	Public
	Music:	http://files.realmusic.ru/real/504245/deljesu_-_Maxim_Ustinov._Canticum_canticorum.mp3

o requ`iem m`eam meridi`anam
et salutem f`amae
mirab`ilem `et perfectum in t`oto
regale nob`ilem
et asc`enso P`atris nomin`ante
nomen Tuum et c`ordem
nunti`antem verit`atem o D`eum
magnum defens`orem

	User:	mseuphrates
	Date:	2008-10-08 05:09
	Subject:	Even in Cincinnati...
	Security:	Public
	Mood:	amused
	Music:	CNN

Found thanks to syreene(who if you haven't friended yet, you should - she does *terrific* political and current events posts - srsly) 

And I totally agree with her commentary:
"you knew it was only a matter of time: "Nailin Paylin": Hustler's Palin Porn

LOL... Gods love you, Larry Flynt."

	User:	ratpackslim
	Date:	2008-10-08 00:55
	Subject:	right in the throat, sir.
	Security:	Public
	Mood:	unhinged

So my halfling sorceror character in the D&D game I'm currently involved with can't wield a lot of fun weapons, as he's a spellcasting fella.  When he DOES get his stab on, he favors the punch dagger, pictured here.  It's all about getting in close and working it all out, if ya know what I mean.

Blake and I just finished regaling each other with our evening's tales of customer service horror, and the decision was made that we need to get a FEW of these things.  You know, just for work.  If we use 'em or if we don't, it's a win-win situation, really.

PUNCH DAGGER!!!

	User:	jbradley
	Date:	2008-10-08 00:32
	Subject:	Y'all are batshit insane
	Security:	Public

Obama and McCain blew chunks at this debate.  It makes me miss McCain version 2000 and really really miss Hillary.  Based on their general evasiveness in answering the questions, going over the time limit that both parties agreed to adhere to, we are merely electing who is going to fuck us in the ass next.  We get the leadership we deserve.

	User:	knutzythebunny
	Date:	2008-10-07 18:51
	Subject:	What I think
	Security:	Public

I was so painfully reminded on this listening to McCain talk tonight, I felt the need to share. Up to 1:11 I kept expecting McCain to yell,"What the hell is wrong with you people?!"

	User:	mseuphrates
	Date:	2008-10-07 03:07
	Subject:	And the winner of the "Best Quote of the Day"...
	Security:	Public
	Mood:	still giggling
	Music:	Cocky - Kid Rock

goes to shaharazad, who...in posting up his favorite things that begin with the letter "S" (courtesy of my meme) had this to say -

Spiders. Small furry predators. Just think of them as kittens with more legs.

	User:	mysteryal
	Date:	2008-10-07 10:30
	Subject:	The Time Machine. Hokku-haiku Japan-Yamato Poetry.
	Security:	Public
	Music:	http://files.realmusic.ru/real/504287/deljesu_-_Maxim_Ustinov._PATER_NOSTER___OUR_FATnER.mp3

Time passes by...
...streams of the wind – sky
tears and sun...

	User:	mseuphrates
	Date:	2008-10-06 05:58
	Subject:	Dear Enablers Anonymous
	Security:	Public
	Mood:	lonely
	Music:	Long Lost Brother - OTR

Is there a chapter near Cincinnati, OH? If so, how do I join?

Because, you see...my name is Euphrates, and I am an Enabler.

 

	User:	ratpackslim
	Date:	2008-10-06 00:59
	Subject:	And thus goes the weekend
	Security:	Public

Had my first real full weekend off since starting the new job.  A whole Saturday and Sunday to do with what I wished.  And that included:

A) A trip to the mercado for supplies like potatoes and tortillas and cilantro and cheese and stuff.  The things that will keep me bound together during the work week...

B) A revisiting of the PS2 game Kingdom Hearts, an RPG that combines characters from the Final Fantasy series with Disney characters (weird, I know, but oddly compelling).  Thus far I have trounced through Wonderland, and am currently saving gorillas with Disney Tarzan.

C) An EPIC session of Dungeons and Dragons.  Yes, THAT Dungeons and Dragons.    Been playing with a cool group of folks for about a month of Saturdays now.  Haven't been anywhere near this game since, oh, I dunno, 1983 or so.   Now that I'm all grown up, I get to drink beer and eat fun snacks whilst blinding goblins.    I am a halfling chaotic neutral sorceror with a viper familiar and a +1 staff.  BOOYAKA.

D) Sleeping in, which these days is about 9:30 or 10 (Thank you, body clock.  Kind of).

E)  An intense work session with my performer friends who I am helping craft a sitcom pilot for.  Lots of arguments about narrative structure and logic, and how to solve narrative problems in a 23 minute structure.  And create two sympathetic leads.  While all the while keeping the funny.  If this gets picked up, best BUH-LEEVE I'm getting a producer credit on this mug.

F) Shaving my head...with a #2 clippers, so there's still a nice peach-fuzz shine to it.

G)  Read Kyle Baker's Nat Turner, a graphic novel about the titular character.  Very moving and extremely powerful.  It's a part of our history that shouldn't be brushed aside.

H)  Tried to watch Ironic Iconic America on Bravo, but my TiVo went on the fritz.  RIVES BROKE MY TIVO, DAMMIT.

	User:	mysteryal
	Date:	2008-10-06 11:47
	Subject:	Paladin. Hokku-haiku Japan-Yamato Poetry.
	Security:	Public
	Music:	http://files.realmusic.ru/real/480216/deljesu_-_Ryuichi_Sakamoto._Babilon.mp3

Shield of heart
the silver cross
casts no shade