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02 February, 2014

Chicks with Quills; Chicks With Arrows; Properfessors With Art; Lonely Foxes, and the Cunning Fennec Fox




2 February 2014


1028 hrs

Good Morning, Patient Reader . . .


            Well, There is some good news on the 

home front . . .


            Primarily, I suppose, I have recovered 

from the specifics of my Rant Last, though I still 

harbor the usual Cunning Fennec Fox sociopathy 

that is 

my congenital milieu . . .
            So shall I move on to the finer points of 

this last week?  Splendid!

Vesper

            First and foremost, My Very Newest Friend informed me 
that I can indeed reference her name, certain works, and her 
blog/website info here on CFF.  She is a Quebecois, though I am 
unsure I am using the term correctly, id est;  is she of the 
particular party that demanded independence from Britain?  Or 
is it Quebecoise, as she is a (quite lovely) woman?  Any input 
from y’all would be most welcome and received with the respect 
a learner affords a learning.
            Her name is Vesper, which is something I do know a little 
more of . . .  It can mean Venus, or Hesper; it refers to Evening, 
as is seen in the Roman Catholic hour (seventh?) of vespers-
quiet, reflective hour of evening prayer in which there is 
sung/prayed a canticle known as Evensong . . .
            Ironically, as I am NOT a theist (as you all know by my having made this fact pretty effing obvious), I find this last definition the most enchanting.  I like the idea of an Evensong; a quiet, musical ritual in which one reflects and is thankful to the IS or whatever (Nature in my case), and rolls about the brain the events of the day.
            At any rate, Vesper is the Curator of the wonderful page,
Truly a page everyone should visit, like the Louvre at least once in their lives.  Hyperbole?  Well, as we all know, hyperbole is the best thing EVER!!!!
Just a sample from her blog:

First Snow in November


The Winter Queen is dancing
above the town
When she sways
and swirls
to the music
of angels
or of the spheres,
her ball gown
-regal as she is-
sheds pearls and diamonds
on her subjects
They make luxurious jackets
for trees and squirrels
and turn into hot kisses 
on my eyelids

(Vesper  chickwithaquill.blogspot.com)



And that's not even my favorite.  I will not share with you which of her many works- photographs, poems, etc.  is my favorite; y'all need to find your own.  Good luck choosing!
I may seem overly effusive, but isn’t it always interesting when another shows you some pieces of their heart . . .  some vignettes of the mind?  I think so, and since this is my blog, I am right.
So please . . .  take a moment and roll in the colour of her minds tides.  You may find within her art your very own Evensong.
In other news, a good friend of mine has moved back to the area.  I spoke with him on my new telephone just yesterday, and though he lives about a hundred miles away, at least we can shoot the proverbial shit much more often than before, which was, er, never.
I met him back in 2010- we watched a game of the World Series-“Give him the High Cheese!  Let Timmy smoke!”  became fast friends, and have been friends ever since.
We sort of lost touch over the last few months, due to life, or Life, and now we’re back in touch.  Good to hear from you, Shmony!
Super Bowl.  So I live here in the Pac NW, as you all know, and yet I am NOT a Seattle Seahawks fan.  Sure, they entertained me back when Steve Largent and Jim Zorn played- but really, they do nothing for me.  How ‘Bout Dem Cowboys.  Yes, and I defend it!
And then there is Denver.  How do representative football teams from the two U.S. States that have recently legalized Weed make it to the Ultimate American Professional Football Game?  Apparently, by remaining very mellow.
But Denver, a team I never really cared for either, is now a team in which Manning is manning the helm . . .  Peyton Manning, ex-Volunteer from Tennessee, Knoxville (that’s pronounced Nocks’-vull, to all of you Yankees out there- BTW, I am a Yankees fan.  Find a better SS than Derek Jeter, I challenge you.)
Tennessee . . .  Great women’s softball team; who can’t love those tight, orange pin-striped leggings?
            But the football team . . .  Grrrrr.  Roll Tide, is all I have to say about that.  Don’t even get me started on Elway, or King John if you suck Denver . . .  well, let’s not get VULGAR. 
            Elway lost two bowls, then won two, only because Terrell Davis could make the play option work.  But Terrell had that fucked up Mile-High Salute!  Let’s see his DD-214.  Poseur.
            Anyway, I dislike Denver just one C hair less than Seattle (all of the PAC NW-ers are Seahawks fans, for some reason) so I hope they (barely) win.


            BBC News just informed me that Philip Seymour Hoffman is now dead.  WTF?  Man, I really liked his work.  Have y’all seen his performance in The Talented Mr. Ripley?  He stole every single scene from Matt Damon.  And as Truman Capote . . . jesus, the guy was a juggernaut.  I even thought his performance in the (3rd?) Mission: Impossible film was something else.  Look at his work- Synecdoche, New York?  Come on!  Jesus, how old was he?  46 years old . . .  Humbling.
            What else?  When it rains it pours- feast or famine here in the old personal life.  I am not a braggart, though I would be the Best Braggart Ever if I were; nor am I a womanizer, or a Player, as I was called recently, but there are several women in my life right now vying for my attention.  Now don’t get me wrong- this is not a complaint.  I simply marvel at the surrealism of it all.  First of all, I do not think of myself as attractive, nor do I currently, as a poor and starving student, have the ability to Wine and/or Dine anyone or lavish them with gifts.  I am not even sure I can set aside the time to spend it with them in any intimate way.  About all I can do is give the World Famous Cunning Fennec Fox Full-Body Massage, using the patented “swiggly” at the end (more on that later, perhaps).
            Even so, I have not yet even employed that particular bonus.
            No, I am just me, be-bopping through life, no expectations, no illusions of love, and by god they all know this because I tell them so- You, Patient Reader, know all of this all too well. 
            And yet they seem OKAY with all of that . . .  But they all seem to at first, don’t they?  They all think that wow, this is a new philosophy . . .  that this is all that is required of him for me . . .  I don’t need anything more . . .  Horse shit.

Try Angles by Properfessor

            There is always that bizarre and surreal moment where suddenly I awaken next to a changed woman- someone who demands that they be loved- who would rather hear the words than hear the honesty in my own I Love You-less speech; hear those long-forgotten words roll from my mouth like the emetic lies they are, than to be treated well and kindly.
            I remember a time when, “Words just aren’t enough, Cunning Fennec Fox . . .  You have to show me that you care.”  Never enough, is it, Patient Reader?
            Yet, reluctantly, I admit I am human.  I need to touch and be touched.  But I do not need to hurt anyone, especially myself.  And I always fall for the “I’m not like those other women line,” hook Line and sinker, don’t I?  You can’t fool me seventy-twelve times in a row, dammit . . .  I won’t fall for that again . . .”
            So what do I do?  I go for it, and one or both of us always get hurt in the end.  It’s all about expectation, I suspect.  I have none- they have all.  Is it the Biological Clock?  Is it the mutated gene in our species X chromosome that needs the promise of forever no ifs ands buts get your ass over here and coo in my ear don’t do that do this you suck I love you?

How The Devil Sees Snowing Souls
by Properfessor

            So I do not know what to do with this new cornucopia.  They are all aware of one another- they may not know their names but they have not been kept from this knowledge of plurality. 
            Sure, it is probably a competition, now.  One trying to best the others.  It’s a challenge, and I get that.  I really do.  I used to be the same way, back when I was naught but naughty.  But again, I have no expectations.  Only that I will get hurt, this is my understanding, if I allow myself to get hurt.  All I have to do is don’t.
            Well, enough of all that . . .  I need to get this posted and get my homework done for my other three classes.  What a day I still have ahead for me.  Painus!  But I love to learn, so learn and do I shall. 
            Wish me luck and right-thinking, Patient Reader.  I need companionship, but I eschew the boxcar-loads of baggage inherent within. 
            Again, 

            chickwithaquill.blogspot.com

As Always, I remain

Triplicate by Properfessor





The Lonely Cunning Fennec Fox

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