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Saint Keggers
02:49 / 22.08.06
i dont see it. But maybe its just me.
 
 
paranoidwriter waves hello
03:45 / 22.08.06
I think you're Joshing me, eh, Keggers?

But if not,....


[!!!!!!!!!! LONG POST WARNING !!!!!!!!!!!]


For example take a look at my last post to Suedey in this thread, and try reading it with different emotive registers employed. e.g. sarcastic, interested, loving, angry, etc. Please don't think me an egotist, please, for I chose my own post merely so as not to pick apart anyone else's, and I do actually REALLY love Suedey and hir work. Also, all my posts here have been written with love not malice, and with not that much forethought either.

However, I've been seeing these trains of "coincidences" I'm struggling to describe in many posts and threads, and from many different members, lately. Indeed, try doing the same exercise I just typed with the recent posts of other Barbelites in this thread and other topical threads.

Coincidentally, I've also just almost literally had a near crash/mix-up with another member, (who is lovely and cool and understands me now, etc, but) who questioned something I'd written in another thread about them, something I'd actually intended as a complement about them and their work, but which they had mistakenly thought was a sarcastic piss-take.

(I'm skint, so) I'll bet you a penny nobody can guess who that is -- well within, say, ten guesses, anyway. And I mean that. This particular member is a cool, talented, and al l round decent, respectable member. But I doubt you'd guess who ze is, even if you compiled all the times of posters whose work I've discussed lately on Barbelith, and then tried to calculate the best odds.

Oddly enough, that person's work has also rung many other Hyper bells in my head, both with my own work and research, but with that of other members, as well. Almost Symphonic. Plus (!), thread subjects and other linked texts within and outside Barbelith seem to be converging everywhere more markedly on Barbelith and elsewhere, in my warped little bwain.


[!!!!!!!!!! LONG POST WARNING ENDS !!!!!!!!!!!]


I'll explain more later, if need be, but I'm going to attempt sleep again any minute, and get my body-clock back in synch with RL. I need to earn some money quick, unfortunately. But hopefully one day, with a little more luck and perseverance, I'll catch a hold of my financial paperwork and finally process it though the shredder.

The day I owe nothing to bankers will inspire a night without nightmare. One can always dream, right?.

Seriously, is it just me ?... Am I embarrassing myself again?... Or has this coincidence thang always been happening, and I'm just waking up / going to sleep suitably late, again?
 
 
Princess
21:41 / 22.08.06
Where is everyone on Barbelith tonight? Hast the red plague swept past again?
 
 
Jake, Colossus of Clout
21:44 / 22.08.06
Nah. Got beer. Got wine. Got the night off.

Ahhh... Relaxation ensues.
 
 
Princess
21:45 / 22.08.06
Oh shit. It's happened. You've all caught the work-ethic. Thats where you all are isn't it? You're all at your desks "working". You make me sick! You all need help!
Holy shit. Must go wash in bleach.
 
 
Princess
21:52 / 22.08.06
Beer sounds nice. I may also acquire a beer.
 
 
Jake, Colossus of Clout
21:55 / 22.08.06
I wouldn't be caught dead working behind a desk, thankyouverymuch. I work behind a bar and sip on wine. Good times.
 
 
Princess
21:59 / 22.08.06
Either you work in a pub or you have the coolest office ever.
 
 
Jake, Colossus of Clout
22:05 / 22.08.06
Bartender at a ritzy restaurant.

It pays well, and you get to drink wine that you might otherwise not be able to afford.

It's sort of lush heaven for me.
 
 
Princess
22:07 / 22.08.06
My admiration for you is almost love, yet my envy is almost hate. It's conflicting...but I know this:

I have to be near you before you die.
 
 
Jake, Colossus of Clout
22:13 / 22.08.06
Come visit. I live in tourist paradise.
 
 
Princess
22:14 / 22.08.06
Aberystwyth?
 
 
Jake, Colossus of Clout
22:22 / 22.08.06
How did you guess?
 
 
Princess
22:25 / 22.08.06
I'm a +7 Psychic. But seriously, your not there are you? That would be weird.

Also, I don't think aber has any ritzy hotels.
 
 
iamus
22:30 / 22.08.06
I have to be near you before you die.


Have to? Or will be?

At any point before he dies? Or Just before he dies?
 
 
Princess
22:35 / 22.08.06
You didn't see my praying mantis tattoo when we met, did you Iamus?
 
 
iamus
22:40 / 22.08.06
No.

But I did see you rip off a man's head and devour it. I didn't believe your excuse leaving the pub for twenty minutes, so we had you tailed.
 
 
Saint Keggers
22:59 / 22.08.06
'lo all.
 
 
iamus
23:13 / 22.08.06
It be Keggers!

Hows tricks the'night?
 
 
Jake, Colossus of Clout
23:21 / 22.08.06
Things are well.

And I'm in the US. Comfortably seperate from most of you crazies.
 
 
Saint Keggers
23:24 / 22.08.06
Well Iamus, the tricks are fine. Im drinking wine and doing art. What could be better?
 
 
iamus
23:29 / 22.08.06
Not much, I reckon. I was arting, now I might be diving in and out of the Sims 2, possibly, perhaps.

Jake, that's only to lull you into a false sense of security. There is nop such thing as seperate in the age of the internets.
 
 
Jake, Colossus of Clout
23:34 / 22.08.06
I'm duct-taping my windows and posting at the same time.
 
 
Saint Keggers
23:40 / 22.08.06
And I'm in the US. Comfortably seperate from most of you crazies.

Y'know Jake. Im in Canada... thats uncomfortably close for this crazy. Muwhahahahah!
 
 
iamus
23:46 / 22.08.06
He's not fucking about, Jake.


He means business!
 
 
Jake, Colossus of Clout
23:52 / 22.08.06
Duct tape. I've been told that keeps people like you away.
 
 
Saint Keggers
23:59 / 22.08.06
Riiiight. Its not like it'c kryptonite and Im Superman. Its just ducttape.
 
 
Jake, Colossus of Clout
00:04 / 23.08.06
That's not what Tom Ridge says.
 
 
Saint Keggers
00:05 / 23.08.06
I dont watch talk shows.
 
 
Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
00:10 / 23.08.06
YEAH!
 
 
Saint Keggers
00:10 / 23.08.06
Hey Suedey!
 
 
Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
00:11 / 23.08.06
That was FAST. Hey!
 
 
Jake, Colossus of Clout
00:12 / 23.08.06
Talk shows!? He's the director of the Department of Homeland Security, and he's here to keep me safe.
 
 
Saint Keggers
00:14 / 23.08.06
Is that some sort of burglary alarm system?
 
 
Jake, Colossus of Clout
00:26 / 23.08.06
Like that, but bigger. And with more love.
 
  

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