A goddamn birthday party.


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By la on Friday, January 17, 2014 - 02:15 am:

    I haven't spent too much time thinking about it,
    but I'm turning 32 on the 24th. Here in San Jose,
    I don't go out, don't do anything, kinda lucky to
    have that option but it's wearing me down. I need
    to get outside. Do things with people. Stuff.
    Yes.

    More pity? Last year I lost my job the week
    before, canceled the party as to not spend money,
    then got sick. Whoohoo!

    So anyhow, I'll figure out something... but
    anyone (heather, I'll text you in the morning)
    who's in the bay area weekend after next, I'd love
    to get together and have drinks or something. I
    don't know. Something.


By The Watcher on Friday, January 17, 2014 - 05:25 am:

    Oh the things that just went through my mind!

    I'm a dirty old man with to much time on his hands.


By droopy on Sunday, January 19, 2014 - 08:38 pm:

    watcher,

    it so happens that my birthday is on the 23rd. i
    will be...old. i planned to spend it in an alleyway
    with a case of wine. but if you happened to be in
    fort worth, i'd love to meet up with you somewhere
    and let you molest me.

    beggars can't be choosers.


By Antigone on Sunday, January 19, 2014 - 09:31 pm:

    I'm tied up on the 23rd, but how about the 24th?


By droopy on Monday, January 20, 2014 - 01:26 am:

    for wine, molestation, or both?

    actually, i will be at arts 5th avenue that night.
    www.artsfifthavenue.org/
    i happen to have the same birthday as django
    reinhardt. i'm going with my boss, who was once a
    jazz singer.

    by the way, happy birthday la.


By Antigone on Monday, January 20, 2014 - 02:05 am:

    I've got the kiddo on Saturday, but if you want to get together any
    other Friday I'd be up for it. :)


By la on Tuesday, January 21, 2014 - 10:13 pm:

    So I forgot my birthday is this Friday instead of
    next..... bwaha. I'm going to make some kind of
    cake, but not my dream cake because plums aren't
    in season.

    Dream cake is probably more of a coffee cake than
    a birthday cake anyway.

    You live in California, Antigone? I've long since
    forgotten where you are. And droopy, sometime
    we'll have to get together and play ukulele.
    Though I never practice. And I live a long ways
    from Texas still.

    We've always been dirty here, some older than
    others. I'm just now getting to the point where
    I'm not horrified to admit it.

    la has always preferred wine to molestation.
    Lately I've been quaffing a sparkling pinot grigio
    and using the bottle to roll out pizza dough.


By Antigone on Tuesday, January 21, 2014 - 10:24 pm:

    Unfortunately I'm in the Dallas area, la. Otherwise I'd happily
    head to birthday partiness.


By droopy on Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 03:04 am:

    i didn't know you were a uker, la.

    we may never be able to meet in person, but perhaps
    we could create some kind of online ukulele club
    here on sorabji.

    we can call it sorabji ukulele club kings (SUCK).

    this evening, i bought a bottle of wine using
    change collected from a pickle jar.


By heather on Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 03:59 pm:

    You didn't text me.


By heather on Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 03:59 pm:

    You didn't text me.


By la on Thursday, January 23, 2014 - 02:29 am:

    Uhm.... I think I know where my phone is. Texting
    tomorrow. Oops.

    I've gotten to the point where I'm really bad at
    communicating. I notice I've got an email and I
    week later I *might* respond.... don't feel like
    I've got much to say.

    But I did say I'd text you. Um.


By The Watcher on Saturday, January 25, 2014 - 04:44 am:

    I have a ukulele too. I never learned to play it.

    I got it eons ago with S&H green stamps.


By Platypus on Saturday, January 25, 2014 - 06:14 pm:

    la, somehow I had forgotten that you're in San Jose now. I'm in
    Berkeley half-time now, I should ping you when I'm down next.


By ... on Sunday, January 26, 2014 - 01:46 am:

    i am drunk and alone and scampering around,
    listening to Beethoven, washing dishes, looking
    busy but doing nothing, just as i like it.
    birthday carnalities expected to occur at a midtown
    hotel and some place north of here.


By droopy on Sunday, January 26, 2014 - 02:12 am:

    it's my party and I'll cry if I want to.

    by the way, everybody send me your unused ukuleles.


By Pepper on Sunday, January 26, 2014 - 03:19 pm:

    I once had a mandolin.


By Norwegian Pepper on Sunday, January 26, 2014 - 03:57 pm:

    Or should I say, it once had me?


By sarah on Sunday, January 26, 2014 - 10:56 pm:


    do you know what ukulele means in hawaiian?

    don't cheat and google it.




By droopy on Monday, January 27, 2014 - 03:37 am:

    i won't.

    it's not like i was one of those guys who
    obsessively researched the instrument once i got
    one.

    and not once, in all of the years i've been
    frequenting ukulele websites, has this subject ever
    come up.

    what does "ukulele" actually mean?


By sarah on Monday, January 27, 2014 - 03:45 pm:


    the word ukulele is an analogy to the sound of the
    music of an ukulele.

    uku is hawaiian for "bug".

    lele means to hop, jump, or leap. it also means
    to behave in a a happy, upbeat manner. to do a
    little jig.

    so ukulele means a happy, jumping bug.




By sarah on Monday, January 27, 2014 - 03:50 pm:


    oh, and in hawaiian it's pronounced

    oo-koo-LEY-ley



By Pepper on Monday, January 27, 2014 - 08:19 pm:

    Norwegian Pepper = Mark Thomas


By jac on Monday, January 27, 2014 - 11:02 pm:

    wrong, Pepper. jac is not MT.

    you are a genius for figuring out how to view source.

    really, you should be making a million bucks a year for that kind of genius.

    but there are more than 2 people in new york, and many of us access via IP addresses that look the same to you.

    you'll make two million bucks a year if you figure that out.

    onward and upward!


By Antigone on Tuesday, January 28, 2014 - 12:24 am:

    And I assume that if Mark were to impersonate some characters on
    this board he would just edit the IPs himself, or have some posting
    mechanism for funging them. This is his construct, after all.


By Pepper on Tuesday, January 28, 2014 - 08:23 pm:

    Only Mark does the color things. In just case if Mark does the coloring thing..He is the one.


By Antigone on Tuesday, January 28, 2014 - 09:31 pm:

    Nah, I used to do the color thing but I forgot the magic
    incantations.


By jack on Tuesday, January 28, 2014 - 10:51 pm:



    Pepper. you are confused.
    jack does the color things.

    Mark does not do the color things.

    Provide a link if you think Mark has done a color thing. He hasn't, that jack knows of.

    A couple of other people, like Antigone, also did color things at times. But Mark did not, at least that jack ever saw.

    you think Mark and jack are the same person.
    they are not. that's what i'm telling you.
    you can believe whatever you want, but do you like being wrong?






By Antigone on Wednesday, January 29, 2014 - 01:42 am:

    I love being wrong.

    Being wrong means you can then be right.


By The Watcher on Wednesday, January 29, 2014 - 04:28 am:

    Or, you can be wrong again.


By Spider on Wednesday, January 29, 2014 - 03:10 pm:

    I can do the color thing, too.

    I can also do this.



    Because a long time ago, Jack taught me.

    :)


By Pepper on Wednesday, January 29, 2014 - 08:22 pm:

    Well at least, Spider is not Mark.


By jac on Wednesday, January 29, 2014 - 08:29 pm:

    yes, Spider is jack.


By Spider on Thursday, January 30, 2014 - 10:46 am:

    No, Jack is spider.

    It's spiders all the way down.


By Spider on Thursday, January 30, 2014 - 10:50 am:

    Testing testing

    hellodarknessmy
    oldfriendI've
    cometotalk
    withyouagain


By oh youve got to read this on Thursday, January 30, 2014 - 11:02 am:

    In the stump of the old tree, where the heart has rotted out, there is a hole the length of a man’s arm, and a dank pool at the bottom of it where the rain gathers, and the old leaves turn into lacy skeletons. But do not put your hand down to see, because

    in the stumps of old trees, where the hearts have rotted out, there are holes the length of a man’s arm, and dank pools at the bottom where the rain gathers and old leaves turn to lace, and the beak of a dead bird gapes like a trap. But do not put your hand down to see, because

    in the stumps of old trees with rotten hearts, where the rain gathers and the laced leaves and the dead bird like a trap, there are holes the length of a man’s arm, and in every crevice of the rotten wood grow weasel’s eyes like molluscs, their lids open and shut with the tide. But do not put your hand down to see, because

    in the stumps of old trees where the rain gathers and the trapped leaves and the beak and the laced weasel’s eyes, there are holes the length of a man’s arm, and at the bottom a sodden bible written in the language of rooks. But do not put your hand down to see, because

    in the stumps of old trees where the hearts have rotted out there are holes the length of a man’s arm where the weasels are trapped and the letters of the rook language are laced on the sodden leaves, and at the bottom there is a man’s arm. But do not put your hand down to see, because

    in the stumps of old trees where the hearts have rotted out there are deep holes and dank pools where the rain gathers, and if you ever put your hand down to see, you can wipe it in the sharp grass till it bleeds, but you’ll never want to eat with it again.

    --Hugh Sykes Davies


By spider on Thursday, January 30, 2014 - 11:06 am:

    This is a strange color.

    That's bullshit; how can a color be strange?


By jac pepper on Thursday, January 30, 2014 - 10:08 pm:

    S spider jac


By blac jac on Thursday, January 30, 2014 - 10:14 pm:

    spiderisjaccubed
    ain't nuthin'buta
    peppa thang fool


By jacq on Thursday, January 30, 2014 - 10:16 pm:

    and it is spiders, all the way down


By jack on Thursday, January 30, 2014 - 10:17 pm:

    and speaking of birthdays,

    happy 29th, mt! hope you're enjoying!


By Danielicyhot on Saturday, February 1, 2014 - 05:52 pm:

    mt celebrated 29th danielssss the 26th. droopy
    everyday of January, Spider on this the Vietnamese
    New Year, the famous TET. Spiders all the way.


By semillama on Wednesday, February 5, 2014 - 09:57 pm:

    it's my wife's (Kazu) birthday today.


By Karla on Thursday, February 6, 2014 - 05:05 pm:

    Happy Birthday to Kazu. How's the little one these days, Semillama?


By Karla on Thursday, February 13, 2014 - 02:22 pm:

    So I see my status as thread killer remains unchanged. Ha-ha. Hmmn.


By la on Thursday, February 13, 2014 - 10:56 pm:

    We all kill threads sometimes.


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