Agreed, that is pretty bad, probably the worst. 5W is nearly equally awfull, almost nothing worth playing (the same goes for 5U). Hell, if it had even one MORE W you can do silly enduring renewal tricks.
I don't necessarily HATE the 2WW, but it is fairly useless.
Besides that, most costs are fairly playable. Red is absolutely BEASTLY!
My fave has to be 1UR. Frenetic Efreet/Sliver and Wee Dragonauts (the best creatures evar!)
Speaking of mental magic, me and some friends did some mental 2HG the other day, LOADS of fun (Deathgrip+Laces/Spectral Shift et al ftw!)
The benefit of that is that you don't see the cost very often since it's not on any non-rares. That cost might exist one to a stack but something like 5W might show up a lot based on commonality. It does draw a card with Gempalm Avenger but other than that it's a bunch of creatures (usually with big butts)
One of my favorite things to do now is to dredge most of the deck into the graveyard, let the opponent build up a lot of spells when he thinks he's about to win, then cast Reaping the Graves and counter his win condition.
We play a lot of different versions of mental magic. The most fast paced is the "DC10 Mental Magic" where you have infinite mana. You can only pay 5 mana into X or one activation (aka with Fireball the most you can deal is 5. With Mobilization you can only make one creature per turn, but it is every turn. And Stonewood Invoker can only be used once per turn even though it's over 5 mana)
You can concede the game at any time your opponent has drawn a 3rd card in a turn past the initial card draw of the draw step, if a player concedes to a card draw spell then the player that played the card draw spell still adds the excess cards to his stock. (This means if someone casts Careful Study then you can't concede, but if on that turn they also cast something like Moonlight Bargain you CAN concede. However they get to add the 5 cards to their stock.)
By stock I mean, whenever you win a game you get all the cards your opponent played, in his yard, and in his hand as well as the ones you played, in your yard, and in your hand. You don't get cards that were removed from the game. You play off the same deck of about 400 cards (or less doesn't matter. Just more than 100). The person with the biggest stockpile whenever you run out of deck to play with wins.
You can also concede to a tutor if it puts it in your hand. They still get the appropriate amount of cards from the top of the deck though. (Such as, if the opponent plays Demonic Tutor or Diabolic Tutor you can concede and they only get one card. The advantage of conceding here is if they tutor for a card draw spell that ends the game for you and they just end up with more cards. Better to concede to the tutor. It also helps stop the opponent from trying to tutor for the win and makes you focus on what cards you actually draw.)
Neither person starts with a card in their hand. The first person to go draws his card for the turn.
There's many different tactics in the game. A lot of times people will concede to an Ancestrall Recall as they probably should. But if you're good at the game and you know they're not, you can keep playing and everything they do can just increase the number of cards you win. It's rare, but if you win with damage you get to take 3 cards off the top of the deck and put them into your stock pile. Used to be just 1 but that turned out to not be enough of an advantage. Really 3 isn't either but it's better than 1!
Tricky players will draw just enough cards so that the opponent can't concede but you still have an advantage. Such as 1U for Train of Thought Some people will Replicate twice and draw three cards (since you can only spend 5 mana on its replicate ability you can't do it more than two times) but a smart player will just draw 2 cards and say go. The opponent' can't concede and you can flash back Think Twice on their turn staying under the card draw radar.
You can wish for cards in your stock pile too.
You could also play this version but instead change the rule to "You can't draw more than 3 cards in a turn including your draw step." So Train of thought infinite would still only let you draw 2 cards. Ancient Craving becomes a more expensive Night Whispers
Another way we play is to use the scoring system from DC10 Mental Magic. But the rules are changed slightly:
1. No flashback or other graveyard manipulation effects including cards like Anger, Eternal Dragon, Shambling Shell, or Doomed Necromancer. You can still play those cards, but none of their graveyard effects would work. The only graveyard effect you can use is Threshhold.
2. No card draw or tutor effects. This includes cards like Reality Anchor and Auratouched Mage. You can still play the cards but they do not have their tutor or card draw effect.
3. Smaller deck size. It's a lot longer a game when you can't draw cards or dredge. Best to start small. :-D
Some cards are perfect for mental magic. I mentioned Fireball but a little known one that is just fantastic is Illuminate. Can't wait to spring that one on someone when all they're worried about is Fireball or demonfire.
I came into Magic during Mirrodin and don't know too many old cards. I know plenty of iconic cards but those get played pretty quickly in Mental Magic. I'll just have to settle for getting back into casual Extended. I just made a BW Spirit deck with some Yosei's and a Ghost Council I got the other day. Rav has an unbelievable amount of Spirits and TS block has a few too. Revered Dead is t3h buttsecks! I wish I had Kokusho. I miss the old Kok smoker. *sigh* I don't care what people say about Kami. It was an awesome block and had the best Block Constructed I've played so far.
I have never heard of mental magic. I do know, though, the last time I played physical, paper magic was the first quarter of my senior year of high school. Against my friend Peter, and I somehow whooped his ass. Don't ask about decks or anything, I honestly don't remember crap about them except they were green. My deck was blue/green, and his was green/black.
But he had some ****ing old cards....they used to be his brother's. [his brother is 30, Peter is 19]
I went to colleges that didn't require me to leave home. I know it sounds weird but I just wasn't ready to leave my mom and brother(who was just 3 when I graduated High School). My college experience will forever be...different from everyone else. Wanna know what day "the first day of the rest of my life" was? September 11, 2001. My freshman class came into school with 9/11 hanging over us and the fact that we'd all been to young to keep George Bush out of the White House. What am I going to tell my kids if they ask about my 1st day of college? I asked my mom and grandma about theirs so I think it will probably come up.
Really? My boyfriend's brother was almost 3 when we graduated high school. I feel really old, and I'm not very good with little kids, but he's kind of like my little-little brother. He calls me his sister, which makes me really happy.
9/11...Oh yeah. I was in 8th grade at the time...and all the teachers were acting a little different than normal that day...but no one would tell us why. About 3 in the afternoon, they made an announcement over the PA system. You know what they told us? I'm directly quoting here, as best I can remember it.
"Attention students. A terrible accident has happened on the east coast today, involving airplanes. Please do not panic, you are completely safe. When you get home, please discuss what happened with your parents, they will give you more information. Again, please don't panic, and have a good afternoon."
Yeahh....my best friend at the time's dad was a pilot, and he was flying that day, so we both were freaking out. But of course, the high school kids got to watch stuff about it on tv. Quite honestly, I didn't know that the twin towers existed...i knew what the pentagon was, though. I was strangely fascinated by it all...then again, i'd never seen a plane actually crash INTO something. just into the ocean, or crash land in a field, on tv.
Anyway...they have a commercial on right now for "Get Smart"....it looks entertaining, actually. I turned the tv on to watch reruns of the WSOP from last year. 'cause I'm a loser like that.
In other news, it's two weeks until I get to see my boyfriend. SO EXCITED.
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I drafted last night. I actually did good this time! I got 4 Cradle to Grave, 5 Shaper Parasite, 1 Erratic Mutation, and 2 Ovinize and just killed lots of things. I won 3 out of 4 rounds. Ok...I had a bye and one of my opponents gave me the win without playing me. *lol* I played him later on and obliterated him. The guy who beat me had burn and evasion. One guy was such a n00b that I felt bad about beating him. He had Jedit, Intet, Wurmcalling, and like 3 other rares and he probably believed they assured his victory. I got Lim-Dul and Akroma, Angel of Fury and only used the Lim-Dul. I was going to do Slivers...I'm happy I didn't.
I got an LG Chocolate phone yesterday/today (the European/non-American version, for those in the know)! w00t! Much better than my old brick of a phone.
The North American version is better But congrats, I love my Chocolate.
Maybe taking a term off wasn't such a good idea after all.
Or rather, not so much the term off -- but instead of a usual 12+ unit course list, I only signed up for roughly 4 units -- two separate classes, respectively. The problem, though, is that they're both online courses (trying to teach myself discipline at the computer!). In addition, neither have started yet... they both start on April 2nd? Oy? ... and on top of all this, I'm not clear on how "not paid for yet" reads to the college...
'Cause I didn't drop out! I just kinda crashed last term. @_@
Help has come in the form of a bit of basic algebra. I feel that it'll shed some light on your problem here.
Basically:
S + T = W
...S in this case stands for 'spam' and the T stands for 'light trolling'. And the W? That stands for 'Warning'. I love math. -- {mikeyG}
And now, another very special edition of Hot Guy of the Week. Surprisingly special. In fact, in honor of National Women's History month (who knew? Seriously I was just looking for an excuse to do this and boom, there it was) as well as our lesbian, bisexual, and straight-boy friends, I present the first-ever:
Chick I'd Totally Do
I can't imagine a more fitting woman to lead off this feature than the hottie many of us have already expressed our undying deovtion to, Miss Eliza Dushku. This is a woman who really has it all. She's a surprisingly talented actress and fairly successful by today's standards. What I like most about her is how mutifacteted she is. She's:
And....I don't even know what to call this but check out the accessories. Elegant hair, dress and jewelry, topped off with handcuffs for a purse strap. I love this woman!
To top it all off, she even dresses down wonderfully and totally pulls off a girl next door persona.
A few things I did not know about her:
She was raised Mormon. Well, we all need something to laugh at ourselves about, I guess.
She was discovered as an adolescent in 1992 to play opposite Juliette Lewis in That Night.
Beyond her more famous roles, she also played Arnold Schwartzeneggar and Jamie Lee Curtis' daughter in True Lies as well as noteworthy films This Boy's Life, City by the Sea, and Wrong Turn.
She has always wanted to meet me. OK, that part's a fantasy. Leave me my dreams, goddamnit! You can go away now.
For future installments of "Chick I'd Totally Do", may I suggest Kristin Chenoweth?
She's adorable and very talented, and doesn't look her age at all.
Here, look, I've attached pictures:
She's a broadway star, and despite her small(4'11") stature, she has an incredible voice. She won a Tony for Sally in "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown", a role which she created, and was nominated for G(a)linda in Wicked. She's also been in several movies and had a recurring role on the West Wing as Annabeth Schott, a PR consultant. Abd she's frickin' adorable, considering she's just shy of forty.
I love Eliza Dusku! I met her a few years ago at a Buffy con. She's a teeny leprechaun. Everyone is much shorter in person than they appear on TV. I almost wept at how short James Marsters really is. He's only like 3 inches taller than me(I'm 5"5'). Back to Eliza...I love her name. Its so Eastern European. There are alot of huge, very hot Eastern European guys in my area. I know one guy from Hungary who works at the shop I go to. He has this beard that makes him look like one of the Russian terrorists from the 1980's Cold War movies. Sadly, we could never be together. He loves Blue and I'll always be a Black girl in my heart(and in actual skin tone). Why must he like Wizards and countermagic? I'm insane...:P
Was she really? I haven't kept track of her guest appearances, I'm afraid. Just her recurring roles/movie parts. And Eliza Dushku is really really pretty, by the way.
I was on Yahoo! Answers yesterday and when I went to my profile I saw I had a badge that labeled me a "Top Contributor". While I was honored to be super special awesome on Y! Answers I know that I'll be getting more hate than ever before. The badge is big and orange and so its hard to miss. I answer Yu-Gi-Oh and Magic questions in the Card Game section almost exclusively and so the questioners and the answerers all know me. In the past I've had trolls try to snipe my answers with thumbs downs, which didn't work btw, and even go so far as to diss me in their answers or questions. One guy posted a question entitled "Why does Cynthia think she's so smart?". He was jealous because my answers to Magic questions usually get Best Answer. Also, in one of his questions he said he didn't buy new Magic cards because of the newer card face and I replied that that was just an excuse and that he probably just wasn't interested in playing Magic anymore. I had a troll for my Yu-Gi-Oh questions too. But he was 14 and typed like he was 2.
So, I've been writing poetry! It's derivative of Sylvia Plath(due to my english class studying her) and probably just plain bad, but I thought I'd show it off.
After all, if I don't get constructive criticism, how will I learn to do better?
The first one was written after seeing some interesting icicles hanging off a building on my walk home, the second just now, in a fit of introspection brought on by fever dementia.
Oh, fever dementia. Is there anything it can't do?
coffee-
coloured ice
dripping
Coagulating
hanging from your windowsill like a witch’s fingers would
hang,
still and solemn.
There is a (life)death in the ice.
A small and perfect death
of course there is, for ice is
cold and sharp, like steel or a mind-
a silver-grey mind, mind of banker or accountant--
ruthless
calculating
and chill, like the ice.
coins
to pay the boatman, resting on the eyes
of the still, cold sleepers.
an old custom, a custom dead as those it was meant for
why stop?
was it because we are more interested in the
Material,
the
cold concrete world of what we can touch?
or another reason-
are we afraid to let our dead
leave us, go to a resting place
do we want them bound on the near shore
for eternity(a taboo word; no-one thinks of
eternity anymore)
just to stay close to us.
Closer, that is-never close as they once were
if we were to ressurect this
--a modern-day
Lazarus, back from the grave--
would coins be the fare?
coins are so
trite
meaningless
small
in todays society
i think we would use
plastic
credit and
electric money,
rather than something real
funny...
we tout ourselves as realists
materialists
scientific
Generally I avoid commenting on poetry. I consider it to be one of the most personal forms of self-expression. Usually it means a lot to you and little to other people, and it takes a tremendous skill and talent to create poetry that strikes a chord with other people. Mostly because really great poetry simultaneously communicates something specific but is open to enough individual interpretation to be interesting. That's a really hard balance to find.
That said, since you did specificly ask for comments I'll oblige. What struck me most about this pair of poems is how opposite they are. Ice doesn't really say anything at all, it's more of an excercise in using descriptive phrases; coins makes a very specific statement and does it very directly using very little descriptiveness. Personally, I think the best poems find a balance between making a statement and using poetic descriptiveness. I'm also a fan of keeping things simple.
My favorite part of ice:
"
of course there is, for ice is
"
For some reason, the way you used this transition struck me as having really good rhythm. It just worked very well. My least favorite part of ice:
"hanging from your windowsill like a witch’s fingers would"
It just struck me as really silly. In what scenario would a witch's fingers hang from your windowsill?
I really like the idea behind coins but it feels very forced. It alternates between parts that are poetic and interesting and parts that are cerebral and sort of slapping you in the face with the point.
The opening is great:
"coins
to pay the boatman, resting on the eyes
of the still, cold sleepers."
Simple, poingant, a very specific reference without being too direct. From there it feel too cerebral, too much like an analysis rather than a musing. It picks back up here:
"if we were to ressurect this
--a modern-day
Lazarus, back from the grave--
would coins be the fare?"
A great question to pose, but I strongly urge you to drop the Lazarus reference. And then again you flop into overstating the point:
"coins are so
trite
meaningless
small
in todays society"
Perhaps consider cutting it and going directly into the next section:
"i think we would use
plastic
credit and
electric money,
rather than something real
funny...
we tout ourselves as realists
materialists
scientific"
Everything is going good...and then:
"yet our society is imaginary"
Slap! The last line is a fantastic ending. Consider cutting straight to it, maybe with the 'yet' at the front.
So if I were some sort of poetry editor (I imagine they exist), my quick revision would look something like this:
coins
to pay the boatman, resting on the eyes
of the still, cold sleepers.
a custom dead as those it was meant for
why?
are we more interested in what we can touch?
cold concrete?
do we want our dead bound on the near shore
for eternity?
(a taboo word)
if we were to ressurect this
would coins be the fare?
or would we use
plastic
credit and
electric money,
funny...
we tout ourselves as realists
yet we have done away with coins
Obviously this is just my take on it; hopefully it's usefull feedback.
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I started learning how to play the guitar the other day. I'm pretty much not flexible (to the point where I can't hold my hands/arms palms up), so playing guitar has so far been an exercise in patience. Oh well
I am slipping out a "Happy (Belated!?) Birthday, Mikey" now while I still breathe...
You're lucky.
Thanks.
And special thanks to Kraj. I'm taking that Eliza D picgasm as a birthday present. A rather nice one. I love that we've seemingly run out of hot guys and are now forced to picspam with girls. Oh noes!
My birthday went well. Everyone from work commandeered a severe chunk of a bar Wednesday night for karaoke. There was about fifteen of us, which turned out to be almost a third of the crowd. It was awesome. Anyone who wanted to buy me a drink had to sing a song. I don't know why we decided that, but it worked out great. Free drinks and free entertainment. Culminating in five of the guys and me slamming out "Like A Virgin" in a dizzying spray of irony. And bad taste. Good times.
Went out again last night, too. More free drinks on account of the fact that I'm good friends with three of the bartenders. Ran into someone really surprising - my pseudo-non-boyfriend. Last I heard, he had jetted off to California for good. Apparently he's back, and was out celebrating his birthday. We ended up partying together all night since I could get us both trashed for free. Events transpired that will have Micah squealing so loud I'll be able to hear him from here and then he and I parted ways. Who knows where things will go from here.
All I know is that I need to go out again tonight. Life drama calls for a night of drinks, dancing and debauchery. The D's I live by.
Emos are stoopid, its a fact.
They walk around, eyes cast down
and look like their puppy got smacked.
Their hair is messy, on purpose it would seem.
Black is their color and they wear it proudly
and in the summer I laugh as they sweat and steam.
Emos cut themselves when life gives them a scare.
The jocks and preps all laugh at them
and shouldn't that attention shows someone cares?
Emos are like geeks, except not smart.
Emos are like goths, except not hot.
Emos are stoopid.
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Agreed, that is pretty bad, probably the worst. 5W is nearly equally awfull, almost nothing worth playing (the same goes for 5U). Hell, if it had even one MORE W you can do silly enduring renewal tricks.
I don't necessarily HATE the 2WW, but it is fairly useless.
Besides that, most costs are fairly playable. Red is absolutely BEASTLY!
My fave has to be 1UR. Frenetic Efreet/Sliver and Wee Dragonauts (the best creatures evar!)
Speaking of mental magic, me and some friends did some mental 2HG the other day, LOADS of fun (Deathgrip+Laces/Spectral Shift et al ftw!)
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The benefit of that is that you don't see the cost very often since it's not on any non-rares. That cost might exist one to a stack but something like 5W might show up a lot based on commonality. It does draw a card with Gempalm Avenger but other than that it's a bunch of creatures (usually with big butts)
One of my favorite things to do now is to dredge most of the deck into the graveyard, let the opponent build up a lot of spells when he thinks he's about to win, then cast Reaping the Graves and counter his win condition.
Another favorite is to return a 2R card as Squee, Goblin Nabob from your graveyard to your hand and use it as Urza's Rage kicked. It turns a previously useless 3R into a Hidetsugo's Second Ritehehe.
We play a lot of different versions of mental magic. The most fast paced is the "DC10 Mental Magic" where you have infinite mana. You can only pay 5 mana into X or one activation (aka with Fireball the most you can deal is 5. With Mobilization you can only make one creature per turn, but it is every turn. And Stonewood Invoker can only be used once per turn even though it's over 5 mana)
You can concede the game at any time your opponent has drawn a 3rd card in a turn past the initial card draw of the draw step, if a player concedes to a card draw spell then the player that played the card draw spell still adds the excess cards to his stock. (This means if someone casts Careful Study then you can't concede, but if on that turn they also cast something like Moonlight Bargain you CAN concede. However they get to add the 5 cards to their stock.)
By stock I mean, whenever you win a game you get all the cards your opponent played, in his yard, and in his hand as well as the ones you played, in your yard, and in your hand. You don't get cards that were removed from the game. You play off the same deck of about 400 cards (or less doesn't matter. Just more than 100). The person with the biggest stockpile whenever you run out of deck to play with wins.
You can also concede to a tutor if it puts it in your hand. They still get the appropriate amount of cards from the top of the deck though. (Such as, if the opponent plays Demonic Tutor or Diabolic Tutor you can concede and they only get one card. The advantage of conceding here is if they tutor for a card draw spell that ends the game for you and they just end up with more cards. Better to concede to the tutor. It also helps stop the opponent from trying to tutor for the win and makes you focus on what cards you actually draw.)
Neither person starts with a card in their hand. The first person to go draws his card for the turn.
There's many different tactics in the game. A lot of times people will concede to an Ancestrall Recall as they probably should. But if you're good at the game and you know they're not, you can keep playing and everything they do can just increase the number of cards you win. It's rare, but if you win with damage you get to take 3 cards off the top of the deck and put them into your stock pile. Used to be just 1 but that turned out to not be enough of an advantage. Really 3 isn't either but it's better than 1!
Tricky players will draw just enough cards so that the opponent can't concede but you still have an advantage. Such as 1U for Train of Thought Some people will Replicate twice and draw three cards (since you can only spend 5 mana on its replicate ability you can't do it more than two times) but a smart player will just draw 2 cards and say go. The opponent' can't concede and you can flash back Think Twice on their turn staying under the card draw radar.
You can wish for cards in your stock pile too.
You could also play this version but instead change the rule to "You can't draw more than 3 cards in a turn including your draw step." So Train of thought infinite would still only let you draw 2 cards. Ancient Craving becomes a more expensive Night Whispers
Another way we play is to use the scoring system from DC10 Mental Magic. But the rules are changed slightly:
1. No flashback or other graveyard manipulation effects including cards like Anger, Eternal Dragon, Shambling Shell, or Doomed Necromancer. You can still play those cards, but none of their graveyard effects would work. The only graveyard effect you can use is Threshhold.
2. No card draw or tutor effects. This includes cards like Reality Anchor and Auratouched Mage. You can still play the cards but they do not have their tutor or card draw effect.
3. Smaller deck size. It's a lot longer a game when you can't draw cards or dredge. Best to start small. :-D
Some cards are perfect for mental magic. I mentioned Fireball but a little known one that is just fantastic is Illuminate. Can't wait to spring that one on someone when all they're worried about is Fireball or demonfire.
So much fun!
I feel left out.
Oh! But I reinvented by MTGSalvation look! I just need a new sig banner. I don't know what I'll do yet, though.
But he had some ****ing old cards....they used to be his brother's. [his brother is 30, Peter is 19]
Really? My boyfriend's brother was almost 3 when we graduated high school. I feel really old, and I'm not very good with little kids, but he's kind of like my little-little brother. He calls me his sister, which makes me really happy.
9/11...Oh yeah. I was in 8th grade at the time...and all the teachers were acting a little different than normal that day...but no one would tell us why. About 3 in the afternoon, they made an announcement over the PA system. You know what they told us? I'm directly quoting here, as best I can remember it.
"Attention students. A terrible accident has happened on the east coast today, involving airplanes. Please do not panic, you are completely safe. When you get home, please discuss what happened with your parents, they will give you more information. Again, please don't panic, and have a good afternoon."
Yeahh....my best friend at the time's dad was a pilot, and he was flying that day, so we both were freaking out. But of course, the high school kids got to watch stuff about it on tv. Quite honestly, I didn't know that the twin towers existed...i knew what the pentagon was, though. I was strangely fascinated by it all...then again, i'd never seen a plane actually crash INTO something. just into the ocean, or crash land in a field, on tv.
Anyway...they have a commercial on right now for "Get Smart"....it looks entertaining, actually. I turned the tv on to watch reruns of the WSOP from last year. 'cause I'm a loser like that.
In other news, it's two weeks until I get to see my boyfriend. SO EXCITED.
I know it seems that I don't care,
but something in me does I swear.
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I must note, not knowing what Mental Magic is, how to even play Mental Magic, etc.
And... I'm incredibly freakin' tired. Sorry. @_@ Feelin' sick, too...
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The North American version is better But congrats, I love my Chocolate.
Maybe taking a term off wasn't such a good idea after all.
Or rather, not so much the term off -- but instead of a usual 12+ unit course list, I only signed up for roughly 4 units -- two separate classes, respectively. The problem, though, is that they're both online courses (trying to teach myself discipline at the computer!). In addition, neither have started yet... they both start on April 2nd? Oy? ... and on top of all this, I'm not clear on how "not paid for yet" reads to the college...
'Cause I didn't drop out! I just kinda crashed last term. @_@
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Help has come in the form of a bit of basic algebra. I feel that it'll shed some light on your problem here.
Basically:
S + T = W
...S in this case stands for 'spam' and the T stands for 'light trolling'. And the W? That stands for 'Warning'. I love math. -- {mikeyG}
And....I don't even know what to call this but check out the accessories. Elegant hair, dress and jewelry, topped off with handcuffs for a purse strap. I love this woman! To top it all off, she even dresses down wonderfully and totally pulls off a girl next door persona.
A few things I did not know about her:
She has always wanted to meet me. OK, that part's a fantasy. Leave me my dreams, goddamnit! You can go away now.
Current New Favorite Person™: Mallory Archer
She knows why.
She's adorable and very talented, and doesn't look her age at all.
Here, look, I've attached pictures:
She's a broadway star, and despite her small(4'11") stature, she has an incredible voice. She won a Tony for Sally in "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown", a role which she created, and was nominated for G(a)linda in Wicked. She's also been in several movies and had a recurring role on the West Wing as Annabeth Schott, a PR consultant. Abd she's frickin' adorable, considering she's just shy of forty.
For examples of her work, check out http://youtube.com/watch?v=zXS0nEOx_20 , http://youtube.com/watch?v=e-gume4RcNU , or http://youtube.com/watch?v=xGSLXv0tvV0
And that chick, dorian, was also on an episode of Frasier!
I'm sure if you inform him of that fact, it will solve all your problems.
Current New Favorite Person™: Mallory Archer
She knows why.
After all, if I don't get constructive criticism, how will I learn to do better?
The first one was written after seeing some interesting icicles hanging off a building on my walk home, the second just now, in a fit of introspection brought on by fever dementia.
Oh, fever dementia. Is there anything it can't do?
coffee-
coloured ice
dripping
Coagulating
hanging from your windowsill like a witch’s fingers would
hang,
still and solemn.
There is a (life)death in the ice.
A small and perfect death
of course there is, for ice is
cold and sharp, like steel or a mind-
a silver-grey mind, mind of banker or accountant--
ruthless
calculating
and chill, like the ice.
coins
to pay the boatman, resting on the eyes
of the still, cold sleepers.
an old custom, a custom dead as those it was meant for
why stop?
was it because we are more interested in the
Material,
the
cold concrete world of what we can touch?
or another reason-
are we afraid to let our dead
leave us, go to a resting place
do we want them bound on the near shore
for eternity(a taboo word; no-one thinks of
eternity anymore)
just to stay close to us.
Closer, that is-never close as they once were
if we were to ressurect this
--a modern-day
Lazarus, back from the grave--
would coins be the fare?
coins are so
trite
meaningless
small
in todays society
i think we would use
plastic
credit and
electric money,
rather than something real
funny...
we tout ourselves as realists
materialists
scientific
yet our society is imaginary
we have done away with coins
That said, since you did specificly ask for comments I'll oblige. What struck me most about this pair of poems is how opposite they are. Ice doesn't really say anything at all, it's more of an excercise in using descriptive phrases; coins makes a very specific statement and does it very directly using very little descriptiveness. Personally, I think the best poems find a balance between making a statement and using poetic descriptiveness. I'm also a fan of keeping things simple.
My favorite part of ice:
"
of course there is, for ice is
"
For some reason, the way you used this transition struck me as having really good rhythm. It just worked very well. My least favorite part of ice:
"hanging from your windowsill like a witch’s fingers would"
It just struck me as really silly. In what scenario would a witch's fingers hang from your windowsill?
I really like the idea behind coins but it feels very forced. It alternates between parts that are poetic and interesting and parts that are cerebral and sort of slapping you in the face with the point.
The opening is great:
"coins
to pay the boatman, resting on the eyes
of the still, cold sleepers."
Simple, poingant, a very specific reference without being too direct. From there it feel too cerebral, too much like an analysis rather than a musing. It picks back up here:
"if we were to ressurect this
--a modern-day
Lazarus, back from the grave--
would coins be the fare?"
A great question to pose, but I strongly urge you to drop the Lazarus reference. And then again you flop into overstating the point:
"coins are so
trite
meaningless
small
in todays society"
Perhaps consider cutting it and going directly into the next section:
"i think we would use
plastic
credit and
electric money,
rather than something real
funny...
we tout ourselves as realists
materialists
scientific"
Everything is going good...and then:
"yet our society is imaginary"
Slap! The last line is a fantastic ending. Consider cutting straight to it, maybe with the 'yet' at the front.
So if I were some sort of poetry editor (I imagine they exist), my quick revision would look something like this:
coins
to pay the boatman, resting on the eyes
of the still, cold sleepers.
a custom dead as those it was meant for
why?
are we more interested in what we can touch?
cold concrete?
do we want our dead bound on the near shore
for eternity?
(a taboo word)
if we were to ressurect this
would coins be the fare?
or would we use
plastic
credit and
electric money,
funny...
we tout ourselves as realists
yet we have done away with coins
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I am slipping out a "Happy (Belated!?) Birthday, Mikey" now while I still breathe...
Ugh, and so sick. *nods off*
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And special thanks to Kraj. I'm taking that Eliza D picgasm as a birthday present. A rather nice one. I love that we've seemingly run out of hot guys and are now forced to picspam with girls. Oh noes!
My birthday went well. Everyone from work commandeered a severe chunk of a bar Wednesday night for karaoke. There was about fifteen of us, which turned out to be almost a third of the crowd. It was awesome. Anyone who wanted to buy me a drink had to sing a song. I don't know why we decided that, but it worked out great. Free drinks and free entertainment. Culminating in five of the guys and me slamming out "Like A Virgin" in a dizzying spray of irony. And bad taste. Good times.
Went out again last night, too. More free drinks on account of the fact that I'm good friends with three of the bartenders. Ran into someone really surprising - my pseudo-non-boyfriend. Last I heard, he had jetted off to California for good. Apparently he's back, and was out celebrating his birthday. We ended up partying together all night since I could get us both trashed for free. Events transpired that will have Micah squealing so loud I'll be able to hear him from here and then he and I parted ways. Who knows where things will go from here.
All I know is that I need to go out again tonight. Life drama calls for a night of drinks, dancing and debauchery. The D's I live by.
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Emos are stoopid, its a fact.
They walk around, eyes cast down
and look like their puppy got smacked.
Their hair is messy, on purpose it would seem.
Black is their color and they wear it proudly
and in the summer I laugh as they sweat and steam.
Emos cut themselves when life gives them a scare.
The jocks and preps all laugh at them
and shouldn't that attention shows someone cares?
Emos are like geeks, except not smart.
Emos are like goths, except not hot.
Emos are stoopid.