The Bar, Volume #4

[theCryptofishist]

"there, their, they're..."

[Bob]

Going as a buhrnur? Easy. Janky dayglo wig w/feather extensions, blinding 40 watt bike light on a headband, buhrnur pendant like Jerri Manthey's on Survivor, bikini top with bearing grease handprints, tutu with bearing grease handprints, goth angel wings rimmed with flickering EL wire half-camouflaging an algae-laced Camelback, ammo belt stocked with lollipops and whip-its, fake fur legwarmers with bearing grease handprints, and clown-sized platforms. You can tell it's a buhrnur if instead of politely taking candy, they give you a creepy hug, squeal "Welcome home!" in your own fucking doorway, and shove janky shit at you that they found at the dollar store. Crikey, at least you can put the Book of Mormon or Watchtower in the recycle bin.

[Aurelia]

or, try Second life Burn 2
a 3D version
cool

not my style but some camp mates live it
xoA.

[ygmir]

*wanders in, starts ECM*

haha need the coffee today......I spent half last night, chasing a young raccoon around my house.
Clyde (The Dangerous) chased it's partner out the door, but one decided to play hide and go seek, running room to room, hiding, then bolting elsewhere......all the while Clyde was outside chasing it's partner.
well, I'm leaving all the doors open today, hoping if it's still in here hiding, it'll find it's way out.........

*heads for ROS, clicks TV*

[media]

[Elorrum]

One night at an old open house in Fiji, my mother and I took turns clapping and banging in the kitchen to scare a large beastie out. It was thumping and scratching around behind the cupboards all night. In the morning, we pulled the stove away from the wall and found a very large land crab trying to fit it's shell back down a hole in the floor. Not the sort of thing we were used to dealing with.

[ygmir]

One night at an old open house in Fiji, my mother and I took turns clapping and banging in the kitchen to scare a large beastie out. It was thumping and scratching around behind the cupboards all night. In the morning, we pulled the stove away from the wall and found a very large land crab trying to fit it's shell back down a hole in the floor. Not the sort of thing we were used to dealing with.

bisque?

[Elorrum]

I didn't know at the time what good eating they were...

[Simon of the Playa]

how 'bout "there is no there, there."

[media]

[Thorormr]

I wonder which it is this time, life imitating reality or reality imitating life. Here is the current state of a painting I'm working on, and the current satellite of the coming storm.

[ygmir]

nice Thor.........for some reason, I'm reminded of Peter Max, or art from "The Yellow Submarine"..........thanks for sharing.

[theCryptofishist]

Meh. Spirals go way back...

[Box Burner]

"there, their, they're..."

I feel the same way about 'em.

[Thorormr]

nice Thor.........for some reason, I'm reminded of Peter Max, or art from "The Yellow Submarine"..........thanks for sharing.

No, thank you for appreciating. ^.^

I wanted something larger than I usually work to burn up some old cheapie starter paints. Originally I wanted to just keep adding more bands of color, now it seems I'm only going to be adding a few more and filling up the dead space with exactly that. . . I'm going to fill the void with a mix of mostly black with some blue added in to chill the color and give it depth and a touch of white because I want it a hair lighter than the lamp black. I also want to do a fade to white at the edges of the black leaving brush marks deliberately in it so it has the effect of sunbeams into murky water. Then I'll add stars, a few galaxies and I might study nebulae and do something in pink, purple and orange. Or at least that is the current plan from what it's telling me it want to be. I just re-read Hitchhiker's Guide so maybe it's reminiscent of the skyscape from Milliways.

[Ugly Dougly]

I got massage from a gal named Sandy recently. Wow, what a pair of knockers, though they're probably silicone.
No idea how this relates to the storm, but I am glad I am on the west coast.

[Box Burner]

I got massage from a gal named Sandy recently. Wow, what a pair of knockers, though they're probably silicone.
No idea how this relates to the storm, but I am glad I am on the west coast.

Interesting form of massage. Is it related to booby boarding?

[magicmarty]

In case you missed it, the SF Giants won the World Series in a 4 game sweep of the Detroit Tigers!!! I can now get back to thinking of real life once again!

(((LF)))

[ygmir]

*wanders in, starts ECM*

oh yeah, congrats to you Giants fans!!!

well, lets keep our fingers and toes crossed for all our friends on the east coast!! Considering power outages and such, please let us know you're ok and safe.....or not, so we can help.

[littleflower]

g'morning ...... !!!

nice work, Thor!! i am also a big fan of spirals ...... one of my favorites:



thinking about you all in the east .... hang in there ....

(((((marty)))))

[knowmad]

Moin Moin!

Aww Halloween season. went to a party last night that never happened. friends I was riding with got pulled over and arrested; for a unpaid traffic violation from last June. WTF? So as I was unloading from the car, big backpack full of costume one of the cops askes me if he can ask me a few questions and if I wouldn't mind standing over here out of the rain. I said No. I have 5 miles to walk in this weather, and have nothing to say to you. turned around and walked off.
Sooo that sucked.
5 miles in the Rain is bearable if you have a hipflask full of rum.

*wanders in, starts ECM*

oh yeah, congrats to you Giants fans!!!

well, lets keep our fingers and toes crossed for all our friends on the east coast!! Considering power outages and such, please let us know you're ok and safe.....or not, so we can help.

I hear that. Coffee, and looking at the Storm through the glass.

I got massage from a gal named Sandy recently. Wow, what a pair of knockers, though they're probably silicone.
No idea how this relates to the storm, but I am glad I am on the west coast.

X-wife's name is Sandra, could really wreck a place, nice hoobies and also doesn't have anything to do with the East coast. The East coast could really use some toughing up, The Pacific north west experiences storms of that magnitude (a couple every year)

[Simon of the Playa]

The East coast could really use some toughing up

you've got to be fucking kidding me....


are we talking metaphysically, physically, or both?


because quite frankly, when i think of the west coast, i think of squishy, like french cheese.


now pardon me, i have to take the dog for a swim.

[wh..sh]

because quite frankly, when i think of the west coast, i think of squishy, like french cheese.

And here I thought we were jello in jeans.

[theCryptofishist]

The problem is that people in the rust belt are used to sleeping on beds of nails. I'd think someone from the Iron Range in Minnesota could out-tough someone in the suburbs of Washington D.C.

[Ugly Dougly]

I'd think someone from the Iron Range in Minnesota could out-tough someone in the suburbs of Washington D.C.

Lived in both, Fishy. It depends on what you call tough.

[theCryptofishist]

I'd think someone from the Iron Range in Minnesota could out-tough someone in the suburbs of Washington D.C.

Lived in both, Fishy. It depends on what you call tough.

Or what Simon considers so.

[knowmad]

SOP!
Squisshie like French Cheese! Laughing my ass off. but yeah we feel for you.

What the Hell? "Iron Range" Ozark Mountains? Appalachian's?; See this is the kinda soft egg mentality of the eastern mind. Mountains are Large Rocks with no trees on the top covered in Snow year round. Everything East of the Rockies are hills. Didn't hear about anyone eating their camp-mates while climbing through the Cumberland Gap?

[Ugly Dougly]

Of course a blizzard in Buffalo and a blizzard in St Paul are very much the same, except the New Yorker can best manage a "duh fuck is your problem?" while we hear the Minnesotan say "ya sure you betcha" and work his way out to the ice fishing shack.
They'd both go rubber-kneed in the face of an average California earthquake.

[Ugly Dougly]

The Iron Range in Minnesota (Hibbing if memory serves) is where must of the country's iron has been mined.

[ygmir]

The East coast could really use some toughing up

you've got to be fucking kidding me....


are we talking metaphysically, physically, or both?


because quite frankly, when i think of the west coast, i think of squishy, like french cheese.


now pardon me, i have to take the dog for a swim.

*bows head, shuffles out back door, arm flab waving as I go*

[knowmad]

lol! Ygmir!
ummm. Thinking about it, in the Appalachian mountain passages are all named gap, or notch named after; east-coast or English dignitaries. WTH? Out here was have pass names like Wolverine, Bear-tooth, Swift Current, Lost Trail and Dead Indian

[Thorormr]

well, lets keep our fingers and toes crossed for all our friends on the east coast!! Considering power outages and such, please let us know you're ok and safe.....or not, so we can help.

So far I've only had the lights flicker a little. But then I'm inland a little bit, and it appears I'm on the storm side of the ridge this time.

I've seen a blow like this while at Pennsic, NBD. I grew up in southern New Jersey, even hurricanes stayed only for a brief visit. I have a solid camp kit, which the current version has been tested through two Pennsics, two Burns and a couple other middling small events. I restocked my food box right after Alchemy except for the semi-perishables as I usually also pack portioned bags of granola and dried fruit, I'd rather make them up right before I go than have the granola go stale or the dried fruit take up moisture and mold. In addition I have the makings of my 72 hour bugout kit coming together so there is another 5,000 calories with it, plus the staples in my "kitchen." There are seven cans of propane plus the ones on the stove, slow cooker and heater, then in my camp kit I have a butane stove with a dozen cans for it, plus an esbit pellet stove and a swiss canned gel stove in addition to the two Trangia alcohol stoves and I guess about half a gallon of denatured alcohol and some methyl alcohol for them. There's four days' of water on the shelf and I put a muck tub out in the rain. All of the batteries are charged, the little truck has a full tank of fuel, ZAST about half a tank (still around 20 gallons). So I recon I'm good for two to three weeks without power. Neighbors have pools, there are deer in the woods, and the squirrels are brave. I have 27 canvases, a respectable amount of paint, a bodhran and poi. I could do with a break to play with my toys. If it's truely bad I can siphon the fuel from the little truck, pack the important stuff into ZAST and pick a direction. I have enough cash in the bank to get me to California and back if necessary, though I am sure I'll find somewhere nearer than that to hang out until things improve enough to come back here or I find a job wherever I wound up. I think it would be mildly entertaining to get wrapped up in some kind of major art project for BRC2013; the only thing stopping me now are all those signatures I put on credit card receipts that said I promised to pay them back.

I think I'll make pumpkin bread.