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current long endeavor: Day 7   (abstract history of the 20th century)

"The villa remains much as the family left it, in the countryside on the outskirts of the ghetto-turned-concentration camp,

caught in a surreal moment by a painter of shtetl scenes before the guards turned him away,

but not before he added the backdrop of genocidal insanity to the furnishings,

the room a cold, empty space where time ticked icily down under the threat of being turned to stone,

in a mythological setting of worldly illusions where people escape their damaged lives by turning into trees,

leaves waving gently around then dying in downward-falling spirals…" (excerpt)

 

 

A Box of Recent Musings:

 

"What makes you more civilized than me is your caring for others, and to a lesser degree, your ability and willingness to care for others..." -enlightened barbarian

 

Politics? Sorry, I've been away, exploring the depths of the human soul... 

 

The question here is which stereotype do you want to be? 

 

Sign of a failing civilization- when people choose to ignore the responsibilities and obligations that come before pleasure. 

 

People don't look at your clothes, they look at what's underneath.

 

People don't look at your writing, they look at what's underneath.

 

It was just another "cooler than thou" vehicle of the time.

 

Writers and journalists are taught to present the fresh and new. Unfortunately, all that seems to be left is the sick and twisted.

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If you abuse your freedom, you'll lose your freedom.

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Socialism begets tyrants just like communism, only of a more feminine nature.

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Do not look toward academia for freshness, originality, heart, or exploration, but for dissection, analysis, classifying, and technical refinement.

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Another "best thing not said": I don't know why you are putting all your literary eggs in that one stylistic basket- it won't save you from writing shallow tripe.

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The longer I stay, the more fragile the flowers become.

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Communism is a great system- for a primitive subsistance economy.

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When there is an unpleasant right thing to do, a certain segment of the population will doubt themselves into inaction.

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If you are creating with creativity in its rawest form, you will have a feeling that your are creating in the midst of a great void, trying to find a way out.

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I am not one to go around kicking down ancient pillars.

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Paraphrasing the Democratic Platform on Iraq: "We will end the war so our soldiers will not have to fight (evil where it exists)." What they are really thinking: "We are evil, so why should we be fighting it?"

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Some people make a better 'was' than 'is'.

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Beware of kneejerk highbrow denials.

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"That's funny- in a juvenile way."

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US Foreign Policy Statement: Do not give communists regimes technology that they cannot handle and do not deserve.

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One way to improve your creative output: Surround yourself with nasty, selfish people who could care less what you do- until you succeed at it.

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Another way: Surround yourself with people who are compulsively unpleasable for whatever nefarious ulterior motives.

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If you have something of value to say, say it clearly in order to be understood by the widest possible audience. If you just have a need to be cool or academic, then by all means create artful obscurity that is only good for generating envy.

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In the face of the ill-conceived, trouble is a GOOD thing...

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If the pen is to be mightier than the sword, it must be sharp.

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Was that a forever kiss?

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If a genre has devolved into a heirarchy of snobbery by the time that you get to it, give it its ultimate reward- ignore it.

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I leave to this world all my exhaled breath.

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It's a doll eat doll world.

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He is a typical smartass who gets his pleasures in the immediate.

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Be an artist in who all previous artists are incarnate.

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"By the light of a dark world..."

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The history of an art is the history of its intended audience.

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The Void is not so bad- it is where everyone meets...

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I was just exploring the exotic, untame, undiscovered wilderness of everyday life.

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Art is consumed, hence the need for the next meal.

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Be a master in facing that frightening realm of 'new'.

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They are the beings who completely dismantled and reassembled their planet's crust searching for their past...

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It will have a disasterous effect on the young and clueless who have not experienced why wrong is wrong yet...

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I have to park my car under a tree; therefore birds have not wholly endeared themselves to me.

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The secret to life may lie in mascara.

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I have long since ceased to be fascinated by such dreg of society.

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There is more to art than the art.

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A Box of AP History: 

 

My former page kept breaking, so I fixed it one last time and created an  AP Time Capsule: 2004-2006   -featuring an AP family craze (still love ya' all, though, being a brute, I am incapable of showing it), first literary forays into the heart using the 'first-hand experience' method (leaving shattered hearts everywhere, including mine), and the usual assortment of folly, wisdom, gravity, anger and mirth...

 

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 More Boxes (or "Tills of Orginality")

 

 

Latest Favorite Comments/Critiques on Me Box:

 

"You got your Shakespearean from the Internet?"

 

"This didn't do anything for me."

 

"This made me feel, dare I say, 'warmth'."

 

"This is the best bedtime story poem I've ever read!"

 

"Silly and sad, true black humor." 

 

"Unique is an understatement!" 

 

"...rated your comment 5 stars..." 

 

"I know you can do better."

 

"A true ballad."

 

"You have failed to deliver."

 

"It's not 'Frauline' but 'Fräulein'".

 

"as a dental hygienist i smile." 

 

"it's still pretty melancholy...but it's really coming along...it's starting to grow on me...it's still like nothing I've EVER seen though."  (-comment on a musical score of mine...) 

 

"Why the diatribe?"

 

"I wanted more meataphor...!"

 

"This is a no-no."

 

"I was rivited."

         

"Well you can say you set a record. You had me, Kimberly, and Bel all bawling* today, with each other and individually. We love you and each other. What a connection! This is beauteous!" *and laughing (auth. note)

 

"Thank you so much Wayne for your comment. You have no idea what this means to me... your attention for me made me already 90% better. Thank you so much! I haven't smiled for a long time here, but by talking to you and reading your poetry I do laugh and smile again. How can I ever thank you for that?"

 

"This poem is so YOU. It made me laugh."

 

"I'm truly sorry wbiro but, it must be my age, as this is beyond me."

 

"Haha...that picture just makes me smile...it's so silly but that's why I love it!"

 

"This is very unusual for me not at all what I am used to. I found it very hard to wrap my head around. It is way beyond my comprehention."

 

"Kinda suspect." (jealous boyfriend over a romantic write! -auth)

 

"WoWeeee this is really exausting to read, you tire me out by your hyperness!"

 

"Wow- this is one of the most unique story-poems I've ever read on here. And the flow was flawless, and loved the quick pace."

 

"very sophisticated, non-cliche dirty pretty, and just beautifully poetic"

 

"LOL if someone could actually pull that off now that would be quite impressive." (and I did -auth.)

 

"OH MY ROTFLMAOOOOOOO....Gawwwwwd your silly."

 

"this is hysterical"

 

"Blitherin' Good fun!"

 

"I cant say that I understand this but it is well written."

 

"You write so eloquently, I do not doubt, not for a moment that someone, would love to publish these."

 

"You have the knack of tossing out random looking, nonchalant words that are sneakily polished to perfection."

 

"Ak! I love this! It's so pretty!"

 

"Why you wanna make me cry and I have a headache."

 

"you have been missed..."

 

"I KNEW you would think of something sweetie!"

 

"I absolutely love the metaphors."

 

"That's the kind of random humour I love..."

 

"Well...that was rude." (and later) "Lol This was great. I was laughing all the way through. So that is why you were all like that!"

 

"Oh no! This is too funny! Haha...now my day is much better!"

 

"oh this is so sadly written..."

 

"Well, I came by again to see how this was doing...everything is great...do you have bowings in the strings or no?"

 

"Interesting. The word choice in this was quite complex, and I liked that about it."

 

"The story was rather shallow, no internal meaning to me..."

 

"Sorry but I just can't get to like this..."

 

"I am sure the finished product will be mind boggling."

 

"This works for me in the spirit of experiment & avant-garde deconstruction..."

 

"For some reason the music made me think "Rhapsody in Blue" gone wrong...REALLY wrong...!"

 

"OMG, I am rolling on the floor here... whooooooooooooooootttttttttttttttttttttt!"

 

"OMG...I was too SHOCKED by the changes to my music that I couldn't read the poem..."

 

"One would perhaps consider the intrinsic subject/object dichotomy between..."

 

"I will tell you I don't get it..."

 

"Different so different I am not sure about this at all."

 

"I do not think it is bad poetry, I just wonder, is it poetry..."

 

"I looked at the number of lines and thought...no friggin way I'm gonna read this all. Then I did."

 

"but it was so irritating scrolling down...lol..but absolutely love the poem..."

 

"This was quite a different message from what I expected..."

 

"you tied my head in a knot...bravo"

 

"Yes!!!  How you cleaned up the end was absolutely beautiful!!!"

 

"I suppose it means you are a Virgo?"

 

"good grief wbiro lol"

 

"I see you're up to your usual, unusual tricks, Poet."

 

"Great write despite the typos."

 

"It's a bit over the 30 lines I asked for (over 3 times that even)..."

 

"I think Ellis will like it, that's all that matters."

 

"I rather enjoy the words as they fall euphonously on the ear without the recording..."

 

"the pictures are distracting and the whole is merely complicated by the glossary in the notes."

 

"ag you are the best!!! Thank you for your comments!!!! English not my first Language, makes it hard to write sometimes..."

 

"Not for me I am afraid on reflection." 

 

"Suddenly I feel like singing fado, and dancing the flamenco."

 

"The pictures were so pretty! And the poetry of course too. ^_^"

 

"You are the first person I've ever mentioned Vietnam to..."

 

"I am sorry for spelling your name wrong. your name is like a set of broken teeth, not a train."

 

"Loved it, if you don't mind I'm going to print it out and give it to my brother in law, who is a town planner..."

 

 

 

 

 

 

five comments that together closely sum me up:

 

"Well, I have never seen nor read poetry this way."

 

"Oh, my...I am stunned by the melancholy beauty of this."

 

"A brilliant melange of astro-physics, robotics, hard-core SF and human emotions."

 

Oh my gawd but you are a bad boy! This is too funny!

 

"I love spongebob!"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Names Contemplating Box:                               

 

w birolius maximus skepticus

w birolius maximus pointicus

w birolius maximus skepticus pointicus

maximus skepticus

maximus skepticus pointicus

 

just plain max

 

 

 

rageofachilles

 

 

but other dipshits have despoiled it already; I'll have to despoil another...

 

wbirolius maximus rageofachilles skepticus pointicus?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Musings of 2007 Box:

 

Lost Love- It is not the who but the what that is lost, so rekindle the what with any who, and all the better with an any who who has lost not just any what, but a what with a who without which being a who would have been whatless...

 

Philosopher- a person who likes to hear himself think...

 

Love- like fencing with boingy swords.

 

Vulgarity and Shame- two words who's meaning seems to be missing from our dictionaries today...

 

Social Perspective: being lower working middle class isn't so bad anymore- new shoes no longer give me blisters, and winter clothes actually keep me warm!

 

Large numbers of anything will include that which is screwed-up...

 

Writing a Poem- it all begins with a feeling...

 

No matter what you're wearing, I'll look for your spirit first... but the primal apeman in me won't...

 

Whatever you have, it is slow, huge, ugly, bulky, and primitive by tomorrow's standards...

 

You will be remembered by your spirit long after your words are forgotten.

 

You will earn your dream of being called a 'poet' only if you choose to be nothing else; but what kind of poet would you be then?

 

Marry for love? Ha! Leave love to the poets. If you are getting by on mutual tolerance, you are doing great right there!

 

Bugs are not allowed even one wrong decision in life...

 

Whatever it is, Hollywood has corrupted it...

 

In a cosmic sense, there are an infinite number of causes for any one of our actions. So think deep the next time someone asks, "Why did you do it?" 

 

A poet wears a three cornered hat- thoughts, emotions, and images. Over focus on one, and the others languish in the shallow and cliché.

 

Poetic editing- for me entails going back and removing 6000 exclamation points, and leaving only three...

 

When writing poetic collaborations: look inside yourself and use your natural reaction, whatever it may be- for the you that is you is always more interesting than the you that you think that you should be...

 

A Lasting Relationship- two people on the ends of a bungee cord.

 

YouTube- the latest candy store for that perpetually rotting section of our minds... (after watching the Whopper Freakout)

 

(later) YouTube- becoming a world treasure which merits financial aid from the United Nations... (after watching Stravinsky's Rite of Spring on it)

 

A Spontaneous Welcome to AP: Wellllllllllllllllll...? I am drumming my fingers impatiently waiting for your first 1000 poems... which will include 147 collaborations, 3 epic romances, 212 classic forms, 14 concrete poems, and the rest wild free verse that offers raw emotion, breathtaking imagery and groundbreaking philosophies all wrapped in a wry sense of humor and cutting perspective... nah, on second thought, just create, and throw ambition to the wind...!

 

You can see now how I get more out of the simple than the sophisticated.

 

Here's to the world of poetry that is more about creating a self-image and being accepted into a crowd than anything else.

 

Best thing I refrained from saying: "No, I'm not going to bend my writing to squeeze into your tiny world of glitzy adult cliché with unhealthy and destructive themes." 

 

"We're so poor now we have to eat in the kitchen..."

 

A piece of art is for others to love. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Let it Be Said Box:

 

Let it be Said: "From The Encyclopedia of Mindless Liberal Clichés"

 

Let it be Said: "'Save the Earth' is our new religion, and we are the Gods; and like any religion, it is filled with myth, wisdom, and the usual politics, greed, lust and corruption that man will bring to any endeavor."

 

 

 

The What I'd Like to Hear Box:

 

from the next lottery winner: "I'd just like to say that there is nobody more undeserving than I!"

 

a curse: "May you drive behind a thousand delivery truck."

 

A volunteer to the community service supervisor: "What do you mean picking up litter is not helping the poor? The poor are not cute, little cuddly puppies and kittens for you to coddle, they are big, mean, irate slobs who litter!" 

 

A journalist to a politician: that you can come up with no better response than that of a demanding tyrant makes me oppose you all the more!

 

 

 

 

 

Politico Ranting Box:

 

Socialism- humane as the exception, lunacy as the rule. 

 

Communism- a cruel and brutal response to cruel and brutal conditions.

 

Communism- Once it has served it purpose, its leaders cling to absolute power tyranically.

 

Capitalism- it's successes and failures are one and the same as those on individual levels.   

 

To an Anarchist- "Beware of what you wish for!" (spoken with an evil grin...)

 

Current political/religious apparatus in most of the Muslim world- Gangsterism.

 

Hugo Chavez- buys votes with wealth he did not create.

 

Prodding an Intellectual Liberal: "I see you do a lot of trashy reading, but very little thinking..."

 

Socialism- it is unhealthy to live off the rich, or the government for that matter.

 

 

 

 Religion Ranting Box:

 

Religion is not only a frame of mind, it is also a frame of emotion. Challenge one and you challenge the other.

 

Love to today's Christian fundamentalists is like hate to today's Muslim fundamentalists- it sustains them.

 

Zen- a backwards philosophy that has one spending one's time trying to achieve a lower state of consciousness... such as that of a bug, without conscious reasoning.

 

Religion and Death: Without religion, death is depressing; and the only hope we have of existing after death is to continue the species until someone figures out how to recreate everyone, intact...! Personally, I don't find that too depressing...

 

 

 

 

The Cheap Fabricators of Unrealities Box:

 

"You remind me of a moon-eyed old guy chasing me around at work." 

(personally, I pity the poor fool, considering the source of this ill-aimed jab...)

 

 

My AP Arch-Nemesis Box:

 

Reserved for that perpetually miserable self-absorbed habitually contentious person (still searching- I must find one who is more than just a disturbed fabricator of cheap unrealities...)                     

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Memorable Events Inside My Mind Box:

 

My Political Sides Talking to Each Other:

 

My Conservative side to my Liberal side: "Hey, I know- why don't you make a baby, then kill it with an abortion, because you're still too stupid to raise a child!" 

My Liberal side's retort: "Hey, I know, why don't you make a baby that you can't provide for, and keep it, so you can all live poor, miserable lives!"

My Conservative side's response to that: "Hey, better yet- why don't we wait until we outgrow our stupidity before we engage in baby-making activities!"

 

(then my conservative and liberal sides both get physical and try to strangle each other...)

 

 

 

An Empty Box:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some wasted digital space...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Original Music Box:

 

The Grand Puppet Gala:

A New Land (orchestral)

 

 

Back to Abstract:

DGX-6 Piano Duo
DGX-6 Piano Duo Percussion and Bells

DGX-6 Piano Duo Percussion Bells Timpani and Vocals


Recent Musical Additions to the Mini Epic Romantic Saga of Sir Kitty and Princess Kite:
Kite and the Butterfly Cloud 
Sir Kitty's Winter Midnight Chocolate Disco Masquerade Ball
Love Tale of the Silver Gauntlet

Two Kings (orchestral)

 

More from the Adventures of Kitty and Kite:

When Kitty Met Kite (orchestral)

Kitty and Kite War Theme (orchestral)

Order from Chaos- Destination: Melancholy Universe (orchestral)                           

 

 

Current Musical Project:

Revisiting the Beatles 

(40-some done, 100 or so more to go...)

 

Latest Additions:

I'll Get You

P.S. I Love You

I Saw Her Standing There

Hold Me Tight

 

Finished Streaming Audio Pages:

And I Love Her
If I Fell

A Hard Day's Night (Messy) 

 

Special Presentation:

An Evening With "This Boy"

 

Clean and Orchestrated:

Norwegian Wood

This Boy

Little Child

Thank You Girl

All I've Got to Do 

I Should Have Known Better

I'll Be Back
Not a Second Time

All My Loving

Maybe I'm Amazed
It Won't Be Long
Hide Your Love Away

You Can't Do That

Tell Me Why

Don't Bother Me

I Want to Tell You

I'm a Loser

Martha My Dear

Blackbird
I'm Looking Through You
There's a Place
No Reply
Day Tripper

I Will
'Till There Was You

Elenor Rigby
Your Mother Should Know


Loud and Messy Odds and Ends:
I've Just Seen a Face
Good Morning

From Me to You

I Don't Want to Spoil the Party

I'm Happy Just to Dance With You

This Boy- Messy and Loud 

Any Time at All 
I Feel Fine
I'll Follow the Sun
Strawberry Fields
While My Guitar Gently Weeps  

And I Love Her- Orchestrated

Martha, My Dear- Orchestrated

I Will with Babbling Trombone

 

Bare:
And I Love Her- Piano, Guitar, Drums 

While My Guitar Gently Weeps- Piano, Guitar, Drums

Martha My Dear- Piano and Guitar

Strawberry Fields- Piano and Guitar
Your Mother Should Know- no Drums

Till There Was You- no Drums
I'll Follow the Sun- Bare Guitar

 

 

 

Bumper Sticker Box:

 

                                               

for an old car...

 

 

 T-Shirt Box:

 

T-Shirt with one's occupation on it (it would give, say, a pharmacist, some respect on the street that he otherwise wouldn't get!)

 

% Ethnic Make-Up T-Shirt for Americans

 

 

To motivate us when we need to get back in shape...

 

popular media image

 

unpopular media image

 

brings up a new quote, "The media can be truth's worst enemy." -wbiro 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photography Box:

 

Feral things living in a hole in our mulch...

 

 

 

Me learning 60's songs...

 

 

Photos I took at Waterloo...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Poems Featuring Original Music/Scores:   

 

Lune Sings  

 

And One for the Program  

 

In Him I Sing  

 

Upon Arriving at a Monolith  

 

Gas Pump Music Duel   *

 

The Mini-Epic Romantic Saga of Sir Kitty and Princess Kite   

 

Chained in Silver   *

 

Ooo-Ooo-Uh: A Qbert Recital- The Waltz  

 

Flies in My Wallet  

 

A New Autumn Day  * 

 

So Distant Now  

 

Merry Merry Wiccan Wiccan Friends   *

 

On the Town  

 

In This Wilderness a Love of Old   *

 

The Sable   *

 

Donkey Feathers   *

 

The Obsidian Tree   *

 

Little Buzz-Fly and the Waltzing Ballerina

 

The Forest Altar  *

 

The Snowy Banks  *

 

Together in Our Fantasies

 

In the River Ever Floating Free

 

In the Garden of Your Thoughts

 

It Is the Christmas Season

 

The Dreamland Gates

 

What is Our Love Today?

 

Celestial Rings/The Dark Universe

 

percussive Plan

 

World Without Words

 

I Can't Stand Real Words

 

Madness

 

Two for Romance on this Saturday Night

 

Four Dark Pieces- From the Monster in Me

 

Melancholy

 

 

* Music by Random Goldfish arr. by me

 

 

 

and finally...

 

 

The Epitaph Box:                                                                  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If this sentence disappers, my page is about to crash again...

 

 

 

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  • Ishtar on April 7
    shoopidy shoopppp shoopp.
    school is eating me.
    I have no limbs.
    soon, I'll have no brain. buahahah. . . . Now don't go making a smart-alecy remark about blondes and no brains.
  • MescalineZeitgeist on March 31
    I loveeee your profile!!!
  • Ishtar on March 28
    Was it with a bunch of huge R letters chasing you down a lane embedded with sharp nails and glass.


    ... that's what I dreamt of when I was trying to figure out the S word in a previous riddle my friend started.
  • raspberry on March 19
    Uncle.. where have u been.. loooong time??

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