The Bar

Elemental666 · Post by **Elemental666** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 3:01 am

*slips into the bar and checks the cooler*

ah I see someone's been tasting the lastest batch of gewdness! Very good!

*grabs a bottle and sips merrily*

sputnik · Post by **sputnik** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 3:07 am

<unfreezes>

as I was about to say before I so rudely froze in mid-conversation, thanks for the brew LCN.

Good morning folks. Coffee time.

Martiansky · Post by **Martiansky** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 8:00 am

*walks in, makes a huge bloody mary, grabs a box of tissue, sits at the Bar and begins to drink*
(see "Fuck" thread)

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 8:24 am

*Fishy has her coffee*

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 6:35 pm

Sorry to hear about your sick kitty M, good luck.

I'll have a..... for some reason a PBR seems like it would be the perfect beer, yeah the peoples beer,....

* shakes head, as if waling up from a bad dream *

No I'll have a dark stout!

sputnik · Post by **sputnik** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 6:40 pm

Hey there Z. Good to see you tonight. PBR would be fine for me if you've got spare.

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 7:00 pm

Hey Sput! , sorry my mind was wandering,

Here's your PBR

sputnik · Post by **sputnik** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 7:01 pm

Excellent. Is it hot over your way? I sure am roasting.

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 7:06 pm

It is though I haven't poked my head out since I've been home it could be a cool 50 out now. I've felt so drained from the humid heat I haven't felt like doing anything. not a good thing as time is so short.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 9:04 am

Is it true about Nipples?

*fishy is silent for a long, long, long, long, long time*

I mean I barely knew him, but we'd sit here a few seats down from each other and edrink.

*silent toast*

Anyone want to do more of those for him--add it to my tab.

Lassen Forge · Post by **Lassen Forge** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 10:21 am

(Walks in slowly, wiping tears from her eyes)

'Morning all. Just heard about Nipples. Wanted to... to...

(damn these leaking tears...)

(pours cup of coffee, drops a double of Makers into it, lifts to sky...)

To Nips. I'm sad we couldn't have met face to face, but we will someday, somewhere beyond. This one is for you, and to you...

(In the ancient Arabic tradition, sips to make sure it's drinkable, then walks to the door, hoists cup, and launches the Yankee Coffee into the wind. Then pours herself one, sits down at the bar, and slowly sips hers, reminiscing...)

BBS

__________

Thinking beyong the corporeal shell for a while

tisha2 · Post by **tisha2** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 11:12 am

* silently enters bar...makes one screwdriver, one gin & tonic, and pulls one pint of pilsner. adds an olive to the beer. sets all three at the the three stools near the door, along with three roses; one red, one white, and one yellow. raises her own glass of whiskey to Nipples and his incarnations.*

Skol, baby.

You'll be missed.

Below is his last bar post. I think it's perfectly appropriate.

paps wrote:I will not claim victory by tit or cock size.
There is no lessor, nor greater.

Fortune is what is...
~asks for an olive in his beer~

EvilDustBooger · Post by **EvilDustBooger** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 11:24 am

....EviLLe Appears, and is at once aware of the sadness in the bar .
after a long silence, he uncorks the pint bottle of Maker`s Mark he has stashed in his kilt. He lifts the bottle and finally utters the only thing he can think of...
..." Here`s to Nipples. I didn`t know him at all. But misery loves company. And miserable company is better than no company at all.
So , here`s to our fragile lives, fertile memories, and miserable friends."
He takes a long silent drink, and vanishes before anyone can see him crying..........

Martiansky · Post by **Martiansky** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 11:25 am

I didn't get to meet Nipples either....I am saddened by this. It seems like I knew him, from far away.

Nipples, I hope to meet you in the great Burningman in the sky. Cheers to you......
*lifts a dark beer to the sky....*

buckethead alien · Post by **buckethead alien** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 11:37 am

To Nipples.

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 1:04 pm

I was fortunate enough to have met Nipples and considered him a friend. We had talked about driving out together this year. I still have the bottle of Absenthe he gave me after his trip to Europe. I just don't know what to say. I will miss him dearly.

Sensei · Post by **Sensei** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 1:20 pm

I'm sending out peaceful thoughts your way, Miss Blue. Be cool, pretty girl.

LeChatNoir · Post by **LeChatNoir** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 1:39 pm

My friend, my friend... I’m going to miss you.
Thank you, Peter, for being such good in this world.

I just don't know what else to say at the moment. I'm still processing.

If I could, I'd give you all a big hug, but I guess the thought will have to suffice for now...

Ugh...

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 1:40 pm

Is it okay for a fish to cry into a cat's fur?

LeChatNoir · Post by **LeChatNoir** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 1:56 pm

Anytime, fishie...

Zulegoona · Post by **Zulegoona** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 3:06 pm

I too find it hard to find the words to express my sorrow at the loss of our friend.

Maybe after the moon rises I'll go out and give a howl.

Sensei · Post by **Sensei** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 4:25 pm

Zulegoona wrote:Maybe after the moon rises I'll go out and give a howl.

That's an excellent suggestion, Zule. You guys can start it off back east, and those of us out here on the left coast can keep it going the rest of the night.

Oh, and one more thing. Keep your chins up people, and remember what kind of person he was and how he only lifted others up, n'kay?

Lassen Forge · Post by **Lassen Forge** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:11 pm

Sensei wrote:
Zulegoona wrote:Maybe after the moon rises I'll go out and give a howl.
That's an excellent suggestion, Zule. You guys can start it off back east, and those of us out here on the left coast can keep it going the rest of the night.

Oh, and one more thing. Keep your chins up people, and remember what kind of person he was and how he only lifted others up, n'kay?

No wonder we love you so, Sensei... too bad you're ruining this event! >grins<

Finally got time in my schedule to be sad. Needed that. Nipples would have wanted us to carry on and rock on and love and enjoy life. But the shock is great, the pain deep. I think he's probably amazed (reading over our shoulder) how many people he touched!...

______________

Live life to it's fullest. Enjoy every moment like it's your last. Because someday it will be. So don't flake on it while you have the chance.

sputnik · Post by **sputnik** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:30 pm

To Nipples!

To Amnesia!

To Paps!

But most of all...to Peter!

<downs a shot of Maker's and sits at the bar>

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 7:41 pm

drinks for all. Damn thing to happen. It seems too many folks I know are checkin out these days. brings me back to the only real things that matter...
you fill in the blanks for yourselves. I'll try love.

LeChatNoir · Post by **LeChatNoir** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 12:37 am

When I was around the age of twelve, I lost a friend to an automobile accident. When I was 18, I lost my grandfather, a man who was extraordinarily close to me. And as the years lumbered by, more and more people left until I realized at some point that all of us count those whom we lose and continue to add them up until one day, we become one of the counted for someone else.

Tough as it often is, death is as natural as birth and is no less a miracle. Sometimes I think maybe it’s even more of one, in that birth is like a blank canvas... an existence merely on the cusp of being lived. But death... death is like a finished painting, a collage of life built one breath, one thought, one brush stroke at a time. An accumulation of hearts touched and memories shared that form a picture of the life lived in the minds of those who had the good fortune to have shared in it.

I flew to Minneapolis to welcome home from Europe one of my dearest friends and meet up with several new ones... including Peter, Blue and Z. I had the genuine pleasure of meeting him only that once in person, at Barley John’s Brew Pub on the night of what I rank as one of the best birthdays I’ve ever had. Though this was the only face to face meeting, I had many contacts with him both on and off the eplaya. It’s hard to make sense of how deeply this has affected me, since this is someone whose life overlapped with mine for what is in all honesty, a very brief time. But in this man I saw a beautiful, sometimes bittersweet tragic sort of existence, graced with the ability to bounce back from whatever obstacle was encountered and always, always smile. I can’t claim to have known him anywhere even close to what his girlfriend or children did and my heart goes out to them with the greatest of respect. I suppose that, perhaps selfishly, the thing that pains me the most is that the chance to get to know him better has been taken away from me. He was someone in whom I identified and empathized. Maybe I feel that, through this loss, the chance to get to know myself a little better was taken away some too. I don’t know... or maybe I’m angry and feel we were all robbed (including your son, Peter) of just a little bit of good when we seem to live in a world sometimes so starved for it.

My friend, I do know you would want us all to not be sad and keep smiling... but you’ll just have to get over it for a bit, because there are many people who are going to miss you and your chiming in with cryptic verse. Lot’s of people are talking about you tonight. Can you hear them? I hope you can.

And so we go... onward through the fog.

Sputnik?... whenever you get back through here... I’d take one of those shots of Makers with you.

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 12:41 am

That was beautiful.

blueniteowl · Post by **blueniteowl** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 12:43 am

Bleh, shot for me too please.

Lassen Forge · Post by **Lassen Forge** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 5:49 am

>>Yawn<<

Good morning. Guess I'm opening...

(Lights lanterns & fireplace, dumps ashtrays, mops off bar top, brings ice in from outside...)

Hmmm, what coffee this morning? Something to ward off tear hangovers. Hate those. How 'bout some of this espresso-roast Kenyan? Yeah, that's the ticket! Little chicory, little cinnamon, little nutmeg...

(Fires up coffe pot, sets out condiments and stuff, starts polishing mirrors...)

Now for the best part... Coffee with a shot o' Makers.

LeChatNoir · Post by **LeChatNoir** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 8:44 am

(Shaken from his funk, he awakes with a blink and rub of the eyes)

Thanks for bringing us back to the topic of drinking, BBSue. Sorry 'bout the heavy vibe, there... Probably should have posted it in the other thread, but it was 3:30 in the morning so I figure I was good to even get it on the right board.

So... this came to me upon waking and I’ll deliver it in typical, corny eplaya feline persona:

The bowl is deep. Sometimes not as deep as you think it. You can let it evaporate or lap it up, but either way one day you will find the bottom. So I’m gonna lap, thanks...

One bowl of coffee and makers please!! Oh... and I brought some more chocolates!!!