--- In [email protected], "seventhray1" <lurkernomore20002000@...> wrote: > > I enjoyed Ann's posting of Catwoman. I am often a fan > of Judy's. Right now, and for somewhat of an extended > period I am on the outs with her. But Judy is very > restrained in her criticisms of me. As in Raunchy. I > am not sure why that is the case. Raunchy recently > said it is because I am "such a dupe". Maybe that > is Judy's reason as well. > > But I can see some the qualities of Catwoman in Judy. > Asked what they might be, I guess she can be stealthy. > I'm sure I can think of others given more time.
Catwoman is fiction, and exists only in the imaginations of those who believe in her. :-) > --- In [email protected], "Robin Carlsen" <maskedzebra@> > wrote: > > > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/321432 > > > > Adding another post to the irony-immune ones--this one a complete > surprise. But do you see, Steve? Ann has supplanted the description of > Curtis by her picture. I don't quite understand this; but if you just > suspend your loyalties and ego-driven predilections you will find > yourself having a most curious and inexplicable experience: here is Ann > contradicting Curtis in an absolute sense, which would have to mean, if > Curtis was anywhere near reality, than Ann posting this picture would > just make her look partisan and ridiculous. And yet, mirabile dictu, > both Curtis and Barry's posts have been displaced--seemingly in one's > intuition--below where one's personal biasses and prejudices exist. > > > > I myself haven't quite figured it out--but you can see how much this > goes to my conception of irony, because, if we are going to go by the > empirical verdict here--pronounced by reality in terms of which of the > three posts seems to have the most purchase on that part of us which > must remain impartial--Ann's post supersedes the other two--which made > authfriend seem savage and irrational. > > > > Don't ask me why: I more or less thought Curtis and Barry had the last > word on authfriend here. But it seems--if you follow the innocence of my > experience here--I have no explanation for this, as I have already > stipulated--it is Ann who has the last word. Her response is in perfect > ironical relationship with Curtis and Barry's posts. > > > > Now I can only conceptualize here about what this could mean. But I am > led to believe without fear of refutation (for that; someone would have > to nullify Ann's post the way she has nullified Curtis and Barry's > posts) that perhaps there is more to be said for the honesty and > truthfulness of motive and act in the person of authfriend. > > > > She suddenly doesn't seem so frightening to me. > > > > But perhaps you have a better explanation for the experience which > everyone who saw the picture had--for many, very much against their > will. But Ann's picture of Catwoman, it rocked--Now if you can only get > over the spell that you are under with Curtis and the determined animus > you have against authfriend, you perhaps will be able to understand the > phenomenon I am drawing your attention to. Because, quite obviously, > Steve, if there was any truth in what Curtis, then Barry, posted, Ann's > Catwoman photo would be DOA. > > > > It wasn't. I am going to re-examine my opinion of authfriend. She > might not be one of the 3 C's after all--and if she is not, then neither > is Ann, who has initiated us into an experience most of us have never > had before: that authfriend has something heroic in her soul. What else > can I conclude, Steve? > > > > And if you insist that Ann's picture didn't displace Curtis and > Barry's post, you will have to make this obvious to me in the very place > where I experienced that indeed this is what happened. I am an ironist. > To be an ironist you have to know when the other side scores against > you. I am indifferent to authfriend. But not so much now. > > > > I think I might just become one of her followers. > > > > Have I gone too far, Steve? > > > > Probably have. But I have made my point. > > > > But if I am objectively wrong in my analysis here, Steve, I want you > to draw towards yourself all the reality which is anxious to prove me > mistaken. I think I would rather be mistaken. In fact, help me out, > Steve, so I can get back to the effect left on me when I first read > Curtis's and then Barry's posts. > > > > Robin > > > > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" > curtisdeltablues@ wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "Robin Carlsen" <maskedzebra@> > wrote: > > > > > > > No, Curtis, you feel my sincerity--it is a passion in me. It is > the sincerity that you abhor. > > > > > > M: No, it is the sincerity that I miss in all this too-cleverness. > > > > > > But we all have our audiences here. Judy seems to lap your stuff up > like a mangy dumpster cat, who has found a puddle outside a Starbucks > where some frappuccino was spilled,and feels her churlish strength > lifting with each lap of her raspy tongue. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], turquoiseb <no_reply@> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > From what I'm told,> the new hip club drink is Red Bull and > absinthe. > > > > > > > > > > M: Nice catch. And it makes sense I guess. Instead of doing the > more pretentious but authentic sugar cube melting over that silver > thingy, they just cut the noxious anise flavored swill with some sugar > water with some caffeine in it. Then they can basically destroy any > character of the drink itself, plus they can over pay for their buzz, on > his dime, while talking non stop about how the sub psychoactive dose of > wormwood is getting them soooooo high. > > > > > > > > > > I probably have the nails wrong too. > > > > > > > > Dear Curtis, > > > > > > > > Actually, pieces like this are too funny and clever for me to even > respond to, let alone mock. I like it. Even as I am the object of your > sarcasm [and some bitterness] here, I like the intelligence, > originality, and vividness. > > > > > > > > Here's another example of a post which defeated my irony lust. Did > you enjoy it? > > > > > > > > One thing you might like to know about how I see my use of irony, > Curtis: I experience whatever love and goodness I possess to be happy > with me when I am ironic. > > > > > > > > And if my irony is indulgent, misplaced, or ill-advised, that very > fact will invite an ironic response more necessary than whatever > prompted me to deploy my irony in the first place. > > > > > > > > No, Curtis, you feel my sincerity--it is a passion in me. It is > the sincerity that you abhor. > > > > > > > > And my post about the C word, you are silenced by it. As is Barry. > > > > > > > > Sure, take that as a challenge, if you like. > > > > > > > > Robin > > > > > > > > A THIRD POST WHICH VANQUISHES AN IRONIC REPLY > > > > > > > > The Angel Gabriel blows his horn and the gates of heaven open. > Barry looks > > > > bewildered. > > > > > > > > Barry: Am I dead? > > > > RD: Yep, and so am I, got here last night with all the reprobates > from FFLife. > > > > Barry: Everyone, all at once? > > > > RD: Yep, Nabby made the travel arrangements. Crop circle guys > sucked us up to > > > > heaven though our cell phones...same technology aliens use for cow > abductions. > > > > Barry: Cows don't have cell phones. > > > > RD: Ha! Always the skeptic. > > > > Barry: I want to go home. > > > > RD: No can do. You have some work to do. > > > > Barry: No one can make me do anything. > > > > RD: Fine. No work. No friends. > > > > Barry: Friends? Who needs them? > > > > RD: You do. We all do. > > > > Barry: O.K. I'll bite. What kind of work are you talking about? > > > > RD: Soul searching, atonement, self-inquiry, stuff like that. > > > > Barry: Been there done that. > > > > RD: Well, there is an alternative program that requires no work at > all, but the > > > > climate is quite a bit warmer. > > > > Barry: I can't take the heat. > > > > RD: It's your choice, Barry. Do some work or take the heat. > > > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "seventhray1" > <lurkernomore20002000@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > And you know what Judy? I don't care. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I just finished a difficult week, and I feel great. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > M: You know what helps Steve? Just assume that whatever > > > > > > > Robin writes is coming from the posture of contemptuous > > > > > > > condescension 100% of the time and you will be right 99. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > What I do is imagine him surrounded by a group of club > > > > > > > kids who are all riding on his credit card. Whenever > > > > > > > anyone in the group takes what he says seriously and > > > > > > > responds "really?", they all shriek at the success of > > > > > > > making that person think he was being sincere for a > > > > > > > moment and leveling with them as an equal. Then they > > > > > > > point their black crackle nails at the person in > > > > > > > derision. After another round of Red Bull and vodka, > > > > > > > on his tab, that game starts again waiting for someone > > > > > > > to not maintain the poseur that he is just fucking > > > > > > > with everyone from his post Unity Consciousness > > > > > > > superiority. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hope that helps. > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm experiencing a wave right now of what I call > > > > > > Corrector Consciousness, in which state of mind one > > > > > > feels somewhat compelled to reply to posts on the > > > > > > Internet. In those posts the person in CC (my CC, > > > > > > not Maharishi's) tries to either dispute the post > > > > > > in some kind of protracted argument, find some way > > > > > > to improve on the post by rewording it, or at the > > > > > > very least correct the poster for some nitpick > > > > > > that isn't really worth correcting, but hey! there > > > > > > you are in CC, and that's just what people in CC do. > > > > > > > > > > > > Since I cannot find a way to do either of the first > > > > > > two, I shall indulge in the third. From what I'm told, > > > > > > the new hip club drink is Red Bull and absinthe. Other > > > > > > than that, I wouldn't change a word, CC or not. :-) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
