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[DeepAsleep]

We're in the holding pattern here. Snow supposed to start around 3AM and continue through Monday until about noon on Tuesday. Our first Nor'easter of the season. I have holiday baking to do and everything I need to do it and nowhere else to be. That sounds heavenly to me. I'm living in LL Bean flannel and listening to music. If we really need to go out, there's a convenience store a mile away and the road will be plowed--though getting the car to the road is often problematic. My feeling is I can make it a mile and back in even the worst weather, just take it slow and steady. And one of the great things about Maine is I could just throw my winter coat over my pjs, put on my snow boots and go. What an image, huh? Up here it's sexy to be warm. And there will probably be someone else there in pjs and boots and coat, too. This is one laid back town.

It gets cold, in Nebraska. Not as bad as there, but the wind whips off those fields... It hurts.

I got The Reverend providing a little extra Heat, but it's not the same as sunshine.

 

[champagne1982]

Cold is simply a matter of perspective. For instance, 2 months ago, today, at -26C, would have been cold but now, with the sunshine (all 8 hours of it until it gets dark) and the pretty contrast of the white snow against blue sky, 26 below is just to be expected. It's December for pity's sake.

 

[unpredictablebijou]

Hey NJ I just got in and got caught up - to answer your question, we are raising money for adopt-a-family. The total is still going up - folks are stopping by the shop to drop off donations, money and more. We may have to find a way to have a second raffle or something. It's astounding.

Now we get the wish lists, buy the presents, wrap them and deliver them to the charity who actually has the families adopted. We go through a different place every year.

Current total is $1576 and still rising. woot. and double woot.

bj

 

[DeepAsleep]

Ron Horner (didn't win, but this is a good snap)

Great plains poetry pile up was fun. I had a fun time being the (as usual) semi-official photographer. It's getting to be that I'm known for my portraits more than my poems, in the slam scene, which is alright. I got some good shots, which I'm more amped about than anything else. I avoided competing and had maybe a better time than others who attended - with the exception of Ron (above) and Casey, who snuck in a bottle of Crown Royal and got totally shitfaced in the back row. They may have had more fun. Or, maybe the guy who won $500 bucks for first place.

Or maybe everyone at the after party who got wasted on illegal absinthe. Trust a poet to bring the fucking absinthe.

The after party was rife with homoeroticism. Which is hilarious.

 

[Angeline]

Ohmigawrsh, it's still snowing! It has been now for about 30 hours. There's a little pile of snow along my deck rail that has to be 20 inches high. And it's still snowing hard. I think it's supposed to end around 4 this afternoon. I feel like I live inside a snow globe. I feel like Santa should be my neighbor. Maybe the elves could help us dig out the car.

That is our main activity this morning, unearthing the car and seeing if we can make it to the road, which looks very icy but at least it's plowed. Well, maybe ee will do most of the unearthing while I do the reviews. He looks resigned lol.

I wanted to mail my son his birthday card today, but I don't know if I can get to a mailbox. Oh dear. Gotta love Maine.

 

[fire child]

sunny skies

I have posted any new poems in forever and ever, and I suck at keeping up with people and remembering screen names. but it is nice to see that lit's alive. This lit blog was a wonderful idea (kudo's to the maker).
Let's see...update...
well, it's nothing but sunny skies here in fla. It has barely dropped below 68 yet. and since I'm in south fla, not really expecting it to. I spent last year in missouri for basic combat training, and saw snow for the first time in my life...loved it for about ten minutes, then I slipped and took a six foot fall and broke my hip. Needless to say, I'm sure it's beautiful, but I envy no one their white christmas.
I recently blew up my car. radiator is shot. I'm doing horseback riding as a form of physical therapy...and my butt and thighs look hot.
no plans for xmas...I have overseas training. Then its off to iraq for the new year.
Joy.

 

[Angeline]

I have posted any new poems in forever and ever, and I suck at keeping up with people and remembering screen names. but it is nice to see that lit's alive. This lit blog was a wonderful idea (kudo's to the maker).
Let's see...update...
well, it's nothing but sunny skies here in fla. It has barely dropped below 68 yet. and since I'm in south fla, not really expecting it to. I spent last year in missouri for basic combat training, and saw snow for the first time in my life...loved it for about ten minutes, then I slipped and took a six foot fall and broke my hip. Needless to say, I'm sure it's beautiful, but I envy no one their white christmas.
I recently blew up my car. radiator is shot. I'm doing horseback riding as a form of physical therapy...and my butt and thighs look hot.
no plans for xmas...I have overseas training. Then its off to iraq for the new year.
Joy.

Welcome back and god bless you. Snow is very deceptive isn't it? You deserve Florida after that fall.

 

[WickedEve]

Don't touch him! Back away you bitches!

He can fix things.

When a man comes to my home, wearing a tool belt, ready to repair and install, I realize his value. I know that a tool belt and penis are highly desirable in the "Oh, god, I'm totally single and desperate" tribe.

Hugo arrived yesterday, strutting, his man belt slung low on his hip. He wanted a kiss because he felt sexy in his screwdriver shirt and hammer pants. My eyes darted from house to house, from window to window. A quick kiss and Hugo was shoved toward the front door. I was sure that Caroline Diane Caroline was watching through the sliding door. Toothless, horse hair hussy.

Men are fascinating to observe. Especially when they're once again a man. Hugo had gone through the hideous man-panties, gay candles, pretty coffee phase. He misses his baggy man underwear that I had him replace with tight panties. His son calls his candles gay, even though he swears to him that his girlfriend bought them. The boy isn't buying it. I introduced him to pretty coffee: chocolate squares and kittens are the secret. Well, I haven't tried dipping a kitten, yet. Anyway, Hugo was a man again. His balls were free, the man panties at the dumpster, his candles were burnt, and his coffee was passed up for some Coors. He grabbed me in the kitchen and kissed me the way a man should kiss a woman. Wow. Then I spent the rest of the day handing him screws and watching him stand there with his arms across his chest while he called the wiring in my house retarded.

Hugo swore that the new ceiling fan, made in China, was purposely defective, and that the Chinese were laughing at him. I gently encouraged him to continue. "You're so sexy when you fix things, Hugo. I love the way you use the screwdriver. Screw. Oh, yeah, baby. Seeexxxyyy." No, I didn't feel that dirty afterwards, because it worked. By the end of the day, he had "motherfucking bastard" hung from the ceiling, blades spinning. Oh, my.

"Get on the bed," he demanded. I slid across the sheets, clothes burning off my body, legs permanently spread. It was time to reward him.

"Uh, no. Nice offer, baby, but I just wanted you to look at the ceiling fan since you'll be looking at it when you're bed."

Sigh.

Don't touch him! Back away you bitches!

He can fix things.

 

[Angeline]

Toothless, horse hair hussy.

Hahahahahaha. You crack me up.

 

[WickedEve]

Hahahahahaha. You crack me up.

I was being nice. It looks like dog hair. And she has no teeth. But she does have a 20-something boy toy.

 

[Angeline]

I was being nice. It looks like dog hair. And she has no teeth. But she does have a 20-something boy toy.

Given your description of her, I can't imagine that the boy toy is any prize. I'm just glad you're on my side lol. But I do have all my teeth. See ---->

 

[WickedEve]

Given your description of her, I can't imagine that the boy toy is any prize. I'm just glad you're on my side lol. But I do have all my teeth. See ---->

This is the woman who drove her riding lawn mower around town this past summer. I'd see her going down the road, pocketbook slung over her shoulder, cigarette hanging off her lip, Nascar plate on the back of the mower. An hour or two later she'd come back with bags of groceries. What boy toy wouldn't want that?

 

[Angeline]

This is the woman who drove her riding lawn mower around town this past summer. I'd see her going down the road, pocketbook slung over her shoulder, cigarette hanging off her lip, Nascar plate on the back of the mower. An hour or two later she'd come back with bags of groceries. What boy toy wouldn't want that?

I'm speechless.

 

[champagne1982]

This is the woman who drove her riding lawn mower around town this past summer. I'd see her going down the road, pocketbook slung over her shoulder, cigarette hanging off her lip, Nascar plate on the back of the mower. An hour or two later she'd come back with bags of groceries. What boy toy wouldn't want that?

The woman next door has evil in her eye,
as her boy toy massages tight shoulders and neck
she peers through the dust and the housefly specks
on the blinds and the window, at WickedEve's guy.

Most fittingly when it's time to head out and buy
groceries she guns up the super-charged Scag Mower and rides
out to the Wal-Mart for staples like Twinkies and triglycerides
by the gallon. She knows that its best for that crispy frenchfry

which her tweenaged boytoy prefers. She can tell when his sigh
blows soft past her lips and her dentures. But today she's pissed
at that bitch over there, she's got a fan from the sale she missed
last week at Kmart. All Horsehair Sue can do is ask, "Why,

"can't I find a man who, when I ask if he's handy, don't lie
and instead of fixin' my stove, he eats my pecan pie?"

 

[fire child]

Snow is very deceptive isn't it?

Sneaky, evil, wet, vile, loathsome disgusting stuff...
just a lil of what popped into my head when I read that.

 

[WickedEve]

The woman next door has evil in her eye,
as her boy toy massages tight shoulders and neck
she peers through the dust and the housefly specks
on the blinds and the window, at WickedEve's guy.

Most fittingly when it's time to head out and buy
groceries she guns up the super-charged Scag Mower and rides
out to the Wal-Mart for staples like Twinkies and triglycerides
by the gallon. She knows that its best for that crispy frenchfry

which her tweenaged boytoy prefers. She can tell when his sigh
blows soft past her lips and her dentures. But today she's pissed
at that bitch over there, she's got a fan from the sale she missed
last week at Kmart. All Horsehair Sue can do is ask, "Why,

"can't I find a man who, when I ask if he's handy, don't lie
and instead of fixin' my stove, he eats my pecan pie?"

My God! That's exactly what happened!!!

 

[Senna Jawa]

My homeless friend in Parma, Ohio

My friend is going through his second homeless winter in Ohio. He is about 40 years old, and 6'5", but he was already brutally beaten up twice (the first time they knocked his two front teeth). We worked together in Texas, back in 1991-1994. He had developed a unix network of NeXT stations, from zero to way over hundred, without ever being a unix administrator until then. He is highly intelligent, he was in the US army in West Berlin or West Germany, decoding the Warsaw Pact messages, he has unique memory,... Even now, he takes courses at a local college and gets top grades, but he cannot get a job. He could tutor English, philosophy, ... He could babysit dogs, ... Anything, but no, he cannot get anything. He had followed my advice and asked for help his local congressman, but they didn't do anything under the pretext that he has no address. I try to help him. We are in an email contact. So far he has refused a financial help from me. I made several calls today to Safeway. I wanted to establish an account with Safeway, so that he would eat at their deli or take some food from them, charging my card. But finally they told me that they don't have any Safeway store in that area. Do you know of other large (chain?) grocery stores there?

I wish I could just hop on the plane but unfortunately I cannot. My friend's situation is so desperate that I decided to write here, in case, as slim as it is, that somehow someone here can help him. I'll appreciate any info, any lead...

Regards,

 

[Angeline]

My friend is going through his second homeless winter in Ohio. He is about 40 years old, and 6'5", but he was already brutally beaten up twice (the first time they knocked his two front teeth). We worked together in Texas, back in 1991-1994. He had developed a unix network of NeXT stations, from zero to way over hundred, without ever being a unix administrator until then. He is highly intelligent, he was in the US army in West Berlin or West Germany, decoding the Warsaw Pact messages, he has unique memory,... Even now, he takes courses at a local college and gets top grades, but he cannot get a job. He could tutor English, philosophy, ... He could babysit dogs, ... Anything, but no, he cannot get anything. He had followed my advice and asked for help his local congressman, but they didn't do anything under the pretext that he has no address. I try to help him. We are in an email contact. So far he has refused a financial help from me. I made several calls today to Safeway. I wanted to establish an account with Safeway, so that he would eat at their deli or take some food from them, charging my card. But finally they told me that they don't have any Safeway store in that area. Do you know of other large (chain?) grocery stores there?

I wish I could just hop on the plane but unfortunately I cannot. My friend's situation is so desperate that I decided to write here, in case, as slim as it is, that somehow someone here can help him. I'll appreciate any info, any lead...

Regards,

Senna, try Kroger supermarkets. I believe they are very big in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois.

 

[LeBroz]

Senna, try Kroger supermarkets. I believe they are very big in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois.

False lead. I just checked and no Kroger within 20 miles. I too thought for sure they'd be there. Wal-Mart perhaps with its Super Center & maybe a deli? There is one at zip 44129.

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[LeBroz]

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Damn! Just did a google search on homeless help in Parma, Ohio and there's more there about help for cats and dogs than about people. Screwed up priorities.

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[Tzara]

There are three Giant Eagle stores within ten miles of the center of Parma, OH according to DexKnows.com, including one with a Parma address.

Good luck in helping your friend, SJ.

 

[Senna Jawa]

There are three Giant Eagle stores within ten miles of the center of Parma, OH according to DexKnows.com, including one with a Parma address.

Good luck in helping your friend, SJ.

Thank you Tzara, and also Angeline and LeBroz. My friend also wrote me back about "Giant Eagle" and "Wal-Mart". I'll contact them today, just in case, but for real--tomorrow, because of the office hours.

A self-made millionaire told me (kinda scolded me) in 1977: Wlodek, you've got to love that dollar. And I knew that I like dollar but I am not able to love it. But on certain occasions, like this one, I feel humiliated and degraded because I cannot do simple things which money can.

 

[Senna Jawa]

There are three Giant Eagle stores within ten miles of the center of Parma, OH according to DexKnows.com, including one with a Parma address.

Good luck in helping your friend, SJ.

I couldn't find any phone number to Giant Eagle, so I sent them an email message. They claim to answer the email messages within 2 business days, so it may be Monday before they answer me (will it be a robotic kind of answer: thank you for your letter. We value each contact with our customers. Blah-blah-blah... or a real one?). I even proposed that they will start a new kind of help program, and get a lot of publicity, but will they? I'll contact Wal-Mart tomorrow, by phone and/or I will walk to the nearest one. I'll also go to the local Starbucks, they are associated with "Giant Eagle".

 

[Senna Jawa]

I couldn't find any phone number to Giant Eagle,

Thank you Angeline for the phone numbers of GE stores in Parma.

so I sent them an email message. They claim to answer the email messages within 2 business days, so it may be Monday before they answer me (will it be a robotic kind of answer...?

I got the mechanical " Your feedback is very valuable to all of us at Giant Eagle. answer already. I even got two of them. The other one says:

Your Giant Eagle Incident has been received. Incident #: 2437398:
​

Ok, my email is an "incident" . Oh, well, I have to run now!

 

[Senna Jawa]

Your Giant Eagle Incident has been received. Incident #: 2437398:
​

I am waiting for their real response.

I called their grocery store in Parma, and
have talked to an employee only. The
manager will come tomorrow. Thus I will
call tomorrow again. I asked if there is any
job, anything at the store that my friend could
help (and earn some money) but the employee
has consistently referred me to the manager.
I asked him if he knows about any job anywhere
but I didn't get anything from him. He was ok,
polite.