Scribblings - Page 5

Patricia · 05-15-2008, 05:09 PM

Ah, but you are lucky, Zelda. You have Monoprix and Carrefour and Monsieur Bricolage and BHV.
Every time I go to France I stock up on French products. In the UK the face-creams say, "reduces the appearance of fine lines". --An ambiguous statement. But in France they boldly say, "contre les rides". Irresistible.
I now have a cupboard full of French face-cream, plus any amount of French soaps, paint-brushes and a pretty blue plaque saying '12' on my door. I've still got the beginning of les rides, though...

Taylor514ce · 05-15-2008, 05:10 PM

Yes, I'm a doodler. With terrible handwriting, too. The "art" is something I'm working on for my latest custom Catan set.

zelda_pinwheel · 05-15-2008, 05:11 PM

today's scribblings are the titles of books that intrigued me in the window of the bookstore i walked past earlier. i thought it would be singularly appropriate to share them here.

José Saramago Les intermittances de la mort
Julien Bouissoux Voyager léger
Marie Phillips Les dieux ne valent pas mieux !

on the same page there is a song which i heard at a party a couple of weeks ago :
"Busy Line" by Rose Murphy (excellent song !)

and this candy wrapper joke, which sadly i cannot translate because it is a pun :
"on dit pas dégâts des eaux, on dit des marins." (if you don't understand it at first, read it out loud.)

zelda_pinwheel · 05-15-2008, 05:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Patricia

Ah, but you are lucky, Zelda. You have Monoprix and Carrefour and Monsieur Bricolage and BHV.
Every time I go to France I stock up on French products. In the UK the face-creams say, "reduces the appearance of fine lines". --An ambiguous statement. But in France they boldly say, "contre les rides". Irresistible.
I now have a cupboard full of French face-cream, plus any amount of French soaps, paint-brushes and a pretty blue plaque saying '12' on my door. I've still got the beginning of les rides, though...

yes well just watch out who you tell about your cream. that's a dagerous word to bandy about lightly here, i've discovered. but it's true, my creams make many bold statements. sadly, according to a girlfriend of mine, they are all lies. i've got the beginning of les rides as well, despite my twice-daily application, so she's probably right...

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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce

Yes, I'm a doodler. With terrible handwriting, too. The "art" is something I'm working on for my latest custom Catan set.

hey ! it's even more fun when we have the pictures. thank you for that. maybe i should finally get around to reinstalling my scanner (or i could just keep using my telephone camera, like the slacker that i am). what is a Catan set ?

Taylor514ce · 05-15-2008, 05:24 PM

Settlers of Catan is a really nerdy board game, invented in Germany, Die Siedler Von Catan. The basic board is composed of hexagonal tiles, each tile representing a different type of "resource" that one gathers and spends throughout the game. The game comes with cardboard tiles, but I've made several sets of different materials and custom artwork. The above is a composite: ore, sheep, timber...

zelda_pinwheel · 05-15-2008, 05:29 PM

oh and Patricia, we have monoprix et al, but you have HOBNOBS !!! i love hobnobs. the last time i flew i had to change planes in heathrow, and i was so excited because it meant i could get HOBNOBS !! sadly, all they had were minature hobnobs with the chocolate on one side. those are good too but i prefer the original ones. full-size, no chocolate.

a few months ago i discovered a pub that had recently opened on the canal near my house ; in the shopfront adjoining it they have an english and irish grocery store where they sell things like lemon curd and heinz baked beans and scones mix and cadbury chocolate. i went rushing inside to stock up on hobnobs only to learn (from Jimmy, in a glorious scottish accent) that they had no more hobnobs ; "everbody likes hobnobs, so they go quick. i like hobnobs too. i wish we had some. i could eat some right now."

since i discovered it, every time i go past that place i go inside to look for hobnobs. only once they had some, so i bought 3 packages. they're long gone though. *sigh*

Taylor : thanks for the explanation. i don't know that game.

Taylor514ce · 05-15-2008, 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

Taylor : thanks for the explanation. i don't know that game.

As an attractive female, there's no reason you should.

zelda_pinwheel · 05-15-2008, 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce

As an attractive female, there's no reason you should.

pff...

zelda_pinwheel · 05-15-2008, 06:19 PM

"slumped in an agnosticism about sentience itself..."
--John Leonard

zelda_pinwheel · 05-15-2008, 06:22 PM

Since Half the world is H2O

Having disregarded exhortations to join the
NAVY
we learned to swim.
Those who do not swim,
learn to sail,
or more bizarrely,
Water ski.
Others, who had not even conceived of water,
Oh they wish for dry land.
But as the continents are defined by the sea,
This is never wholly possible.

--Lou Reed

I copied out this poem for the 4 lines in bold.

montsnmags · 05-15-2008, 11:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce

Moleskine.

Prepare to be intimidated.

...and, henceforth, it shall be known as "moleskin" (without the "e").

We're nothing if not a provocative lot.

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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce

Share, share what is in your notebooks, whatever they may be! Be not ashamed...

You know, I thought I had nothing, but I just had vague memories of scribbling something while on the train to work a year-and-a-bit ago. What do you know, when I just had a look, there are some scribbles in there.

Apparently, I'd anticipated myself quite accutely, as the very first thing written at the top of the first page is:

Self-indulgent crap

It then goes on with:

Down into the woods
into the drowned woods
into the unsound woods...

and so on with the same dank, dark, jungle-y metaphor.

Apparently I was not in a good place then (psychologically or creatively).

Cheers,
Marc (I'm all better now though...well, except for, you know, the other stuff)

montsnmags · 05-15-2008, 11:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Patricia

I can understand this intimidation thing. I can only write happily in two ways:either on the computer (because that's temporary and the words can be changed) or using a pencil (ditto)....

Erasability is the cornerstone of my every utterance (uttered and unutterable).

Cheers,
Marc (If someone says "rubber", that's pretty much the end of this thread)

montsnmags · 05-15-2008, 11:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

...
Others, who had not even conceived of water,
Oh they wish for dry land.
But as the continents are defined by the sea,
This is never wholly possible.

--Lou Reed

I copied out this poem for the 4 lines in bold.

"...Y'see I'm stuck between hell & the deep blue sea,
& I know that water's sucked under better man than me,
I was just another western guy,
--with desires that couldn't be satisfied,
So one day, I asked the angels for inspiration,
--but the devil bought me a drink,
& he's been buying them ever since

he's had the liquor on my tongue
--feel like the sea upon the sand,
he's had me signing confessions
--from this shaking hand,
he's had me struggling to hang onto hope--
Like a drunken sailor in a tugboat
with a bottle of vodka in my overcoat,
& my dog eared bible lost--overboard

Y'see he tricked me into temptation,
So I've tricked him into this confrontation,
I never said I was the man I appeared to be
not the flesh wrapped around the bones of necessity.
Or the soul on fire--scribbling thoughts for posterity".

The The - The Mercy Beat

It's an excerpt from a favourite song, but I quote it for the emboldened words.

Cheers,
Marc

pshrynk · 05-16-2008, 10:03 AM

Just testing:

RUBBER!

GeoffC · 05-16-2008, 10:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pshrynk

Just testing:

RUBBER!

As in eraser ?

05-15-2008, 05:10 PM	#62
Taylor514ce Actively passive. Posts: 2,042 Karma: 478376 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: US Device: Sony PRS-505/LC	Yes, I'm a doodler. With terrible handwriting, too. The "art" is something I'm working on for my latest custom Catan set. Last edited by Taylor514ce; 06-09-2008 at 09:23 PM. Reason: Picture went missing; note: don't screw around with your albums.

05-15-2008, 05:09 PM	#61
Patricia Reader Posts: 11,504 Karma: 8720163 Join Date: May 2007 Location: South Wales, UK Device: Sony PRS-500, PRS-505, Asus EEEpc 4G	Ah, but you are lucky, Zelda. You have Monoprix and Carrefour and Monsieur Bricolage and BHV. Every time I go to France I stock up on French products. In the UK the face-creams say, "reduces the appearance of fine lines". --An ambiguous statement. But in France they boldly say, "contre les rides". Irresistible. I now have a cupboard full of French face-cream, plus any amount of French soaps, paint-brushes and a pretty blue plaque saying '12' on my door. I've still got the beginning of les rides, though...

05-15-2008, 05:11 PM	#63
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	today's scribblings are the titles of books that intrigued me in the window of the bookstore i walked past earlier. i thought it would be singularly appropriate to share them here. José Saramago Les intermittances de la mort Julien Bouissoux Voyager léger Marie Phillips Les dieux ne valent pas mieux ! on the same page there is a song which i heard at a party a couple of weeks ago : "Busy Line" by Rose Murphy (excellent song !) and this candy wrapper joke, which sadly i cannot translate because it is a pun : "on dit pas dégâts des eaux, on dit des marins." (if you don't understand it at first, read it out loud.)

05-15-2008, 05:24 PM	#65
Taylor514ce Actively passive. Posts: 2,042 Karma: 478376 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: US Device: Sony PRS-505/LC	Settlers of Catan is a really nerdy board game, invented in Germany, Die Siedler Von Catan. The basic board is composed of hexagonal tiles, each tile representing a different type of "resource" that one gathers and spends throughout the game. The game comes with cardboard tiles, but I've made several sets of different materials and custom artwork. The above is a composite: ore, sheep, timber...

05-15-2008, 05:29 PM	#66
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	oh and Patricia, we have monoprix et al, but you have HOBNOBS !!! i love hobnobs. the last time i flew i had to change planes in heathrow, and i was so excited because it meant i could get HOBNOBS !! sadly, all they had were minature hobnobs with the chocolate on one side. those are good too but i prefer the original ones. full-size, no chocolate. a few months ago i discovered a pub that had recently opened on the canal near my house ; in the shopfront adjoining it they have an english and irish grocery store where they sell things like lemon curd and heinz baked beans and scones mix and cadbury chocolate. i went rushing inside to stock up on hobnobs only to learn (from Jimmy, in a glorious scottish accent) that they had no more hobnobs ; "everbody likes hobnobs, so they go quick. i like hobnobs too. i wish we had some. i could eat some right now." since i discovered it, every time i go past that place i go inside to look for hobnobs. only once they had some, so i bought 3 packages. they're long gone though. sigh Taylor : thanks for the explanation. i don't know that game.

05-15-2008, 06:19 PM	#69
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	"slumped in an agnosticism about sentience itself..." --John Leonard

05-15-2008, 06:22 PM	#70
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	Since Half the world is H2O Having disregarded exhortations to join the NAVY we learned to swim. Those who do not swim, learn to sail, or more bizarrely, Water ski. Others, who had not even conceived of water, Oh they wish for dry land. But as the continents are defined by the sea, This is never wholly possible. --Lou Reed I copied out this poem for the 4 lines in bold.

05-16-2008, 10:03 AM	#74
pshrynk Beepbeep n beebeep, yeah! Posts: 11,726 Karma: 8255450 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: La Crosse, Wisconsin, aka America's IceBox Device: iThingie, KmkII, I miss Zelda!	Just testing: RUBBER!

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