I'll be travelling to Maine's
Kennebec River valley for a week of glorious rusticity. No
internet access electricity or hot running water for a week- just a glorious time paddling around one of the
great ponds of Maine, swimming in water pristine enough to drink, and hiking in the backcountry. While the ancestral manor of the family (a home built by my great-grandfather, and his compatriots who all pooled their labor to build homes for themselves) is in the Bronx, the two room cabin in Maine also looms large in the family history. The first trip to Maine is a family rite of passage, and the dirt roads and pristine waters are just as much a part of the family legacy as the elevated "6" train of Westchester Avenue and sadly non-pristine salt marshes of
Pelham Bay.
Thankfully, there are no
two-toed sloths in the Maine woods (I couldn't find the "shithouse troll" animation, which I would have embedded. Also, I was going to
embed this video but st00pit Youtube won't let me do it.
At any rate, I'll be back in a week... don't break the internet while I'm away.
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No fair...
pityping, says w.v...
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sounds amazing.
Have a great time!
Boy, that's a cry for a Zardoz if ever I heard one.
Has tehre been a BastZardoz? I can't remember.
It will be a stealth Zardoz. Probably just me, leaving drunken talking-to-myself comments over here for a week.
It will be AWESOME. maybe not as awesome as Kathleen cranberry Vodka Week, but still.
Hey, ZRM.
hey, zombizzle. Whatcha doin here?
just keeping the Stealth Zardos going.
Didja notice that last wv was hypto?
I sure did, Z.
man, it's gonna suck when someone else notices this.
later...
more drinks....
much Yo La Tengo.
I got no advance notice of this zardoz.
Am I interupting some alone time Z?
And no, I don't think B4 has been Zardozed just yet.
And I might have some free time today.....
and tomorrow....
any maybe Firday.
I mean, it's not like B4 invited us along on his awesome vacation. So, all the more reason to zardoz, I say.....
All those zardoz avatars in a line were kind of cool....
Have fun! I have fond memories of trips to Acadia.
Wait... did I hear... ZARDOZ?!??!
It's been too long. :)
No, he has not been Zardozed yet. He's a VIRGIN!
Ok, the avatar has been changed. I'm ready.
El saw the Z signal up in the sky. He's ready!
Party Zardy!!!
this one canbe slo-mo. He won't be back for a week. Let's put a couple hundred up for old B^4!!
Alas, I don't know where he keeps the booze or the Romantics CDs.
El's busy with other things anyhow so is in no mood for a hit it and quit it.
definitely better to be slow-cooked.
Or braised.
Speaking of cooking...I gots to get to it.
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you know what this thread needs? Some Kathleen!!
Yes, where is the K-Unit?
Call her over here...
I don't know where the whiskey is, but I DO know where the Limoncello is....
Zardy Party made me cry happy tears
Zardozing is less fun when there are word verfs to do.....
Boss thinks I'm im-ing
Silly boss
Iz Zardoz!
Hey, MenD made it to the party, while it's still going on.
Amazing!
Has B4 ever even participated in one of these before?
B4, before
hehehee
I crack myself up.
wv: nestical
HAHAHAAA
I think he has, but he tires easily.
Hah! I laugh to think of him coming back from his vacay all exhausted, with mail and work to catch up on, and having to spend several hours reading 400 comments!!
working on breaking the internet, BBBB!!
Z just stole my comment
right out from under me
I was totally going to go there with a "don't break the internet" thing
Bad things happen when blogs are unattended.
Really Big, Bad, Bald Things.
It almost seems like you guys should fill the comments up with those Styrofoam packing peanuts.
That'd be cool...
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howzzat, mikey?
okay, my peanut comment looks fine in full page mode, but in the popup comment box it breaks.
Fucking Blogger how does it work?
100 is no longer the official Zardoz threshold, remember. Goobie thread changed that - forever.
fish
style
posting
is
allowable
Needs more haiku. Von's
comment at seven twenty-
four doesn't count. Wait.
In honour of Jennifer's basement I have put "Song from Under the Floorboards" on the stereo.
How about "The Ocean Doesn't Want Me Today"?
Every time the floorboards leak there is a new star in the sky.
The only way there's a song coming from under Jennifer's floorboards is if there's a singing fish down there.
Did someone say Singing fish?
On a scale of 1 to 10, how do you rate it?
I rate for Colin Newman.
Colin Newman's song "Alone" made an appearance in the 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs in a scene in which the character Buffalo Bill is sewing in a basement -Wackaloon pedia
Screwim if he's down there sewing is all I say
Sew what?
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Was Beefalo Beel sewing his wild OATS?
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Stop trying to derail the thread, hater Thunder!!!
Songs cannot 'make an appearance', sir, being of an auditory rather than a visual sensory modality. I call shenanigans. Unless you have synasthesia, in which case I call brown-yellow-turquoise.
Sir, have you not heard of the Musical arrangement called "The Queen of Sheba's entrance" sir, which is an appearance if I am not mistaken.
(Quick Moriarty he's on to us, pack the spoons for flight)
Sheba is a cat food, not an appearance, A.K.
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see, I KNEW it was gonna be a mistake to invite the UpsideDownians over here.
How does Smutty keep all the water from just flowing out the top of that toilet?
AFJ.
Songs cannot 'make an appearance', sir, being of an auditory rather than a visual sensory modality
Poor Zild Bastards, with substandard hallucinogenics.
A cat goes into a bar and asks for a Gerflugal Cocktail. The barman says "Ma'am this is not that sort of place, you want a she bar"
They are all killed by an orb impact
Tricksy A.K. with the "r"!
Geflügel Geflügel nt , -s no pl (Zool, Cook) poultry
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Von's gonna have a lot of catching up to do tomorrow.
And where in the world is Snag???!?!?
have you not heard of the Musical arrangement called "The Queen of Sheba's entrance" sir
We have no decent hallucinogens because AK has scarfed them all, which is why he is now going on about a "musical arrangement" when it is in fact a Pre-Raphaelite painting. As any fule kno.
Also "entrance" is used here in the sense of "en-trance", i.e. Queenie is exerting the mesmeric powers otherwise known as 'boobies'.
We have no decent hallucinogens because AK has scarfed them all...
You could always go out in the yard and gobble some Datura.
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Are orbz hallucinogenic?
They sure seem to be, judging by the behavior of some...
Holy crap! I'm behind!
Also, I think Smut Clyde is the #1 Google result for "Jennifer's basement"...
see, I KNEW it was gonna be a mistake to invite the UpsideDownians over here.
Fool! Thank GAWD they don't know where Wisconsin is!!!
The only way there's a song coming from under Jennifer's floorboards is if there's a singing fish down there.
:)
Accompanied by my maniacal laughter...
7 days, Mr. Zombeh. Are you ready??
Von?? Where in the hell is Von?!? What have you guys done with her? I suspect she's trapped in a Smut haiku.
Snag is too busy eating in Beverly Hills restaurants. Pfft.
Why didn't someone tell B4 to turn of the damn word verification??
Oh!! That reminds me!! I had a dream last night that I was working on a painting of purslane! It was so much fun. I'm going to have to do it now. The end results may suck, but I bet the painting of it will be fun.
I wonder if I could grow purslane in my basement...
Hey, when's AK going to post another poem? It's been awhile hasn't it?
Smut's been hogging all the bandwidth with those photos of the enormous cat.
I wonder if I can ramble up to 100.
It used to seem so effortless...
Maybe it was the thought of torturing fish that made it seem effortless.
Maybe it was having ZRM present at the same time... a partner with whom to Zardoz...
Accompanied by teh occasional thundra in the background...
The A/C just went on... my house smells like stanky dogs and musty water.
Blech.
Anyone know how I can get a meteor to take out part of my house without actually damaging anything I like in it or the ones I love? Hmmm?
Insurance might cover that.
Anyone have a job for a old, dinosaur-esque artist who is languishing in the vine?
Anyone have a comment to add?? Anyone?
KATHLEEN IS PROBABLY TOO BUSY DRINKING!
NOT THAT THERE'S ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT!
MenD is probably hung over...
Smut Clyde is probably lounging in his party pajamas.
AK is most certainly writing a beautiful poem... no need to interrupt that for a Zardoz.
This is the time when fish shows up from vacation and hogs the glory...
Ahhhh! I feel better now. :)
100 is no longer the official Zardoz threshold, remember. Goobie thread changed that - forever.
No, maybe not, but it still spells relief.
Wow. When Von's away, Jennifer will play!!
Sorry, been busy working and lunching
He might actually dislike us, you know
Which, I would really dislike
b4? Don't be mad, k? We do this to people we like.....
I love zardozing.
Fiiiiish?
here fishy fishy fishy....
Or Mandos. Doesn't Mandos zardoz? Huh. Say that 10 times fast....
Von needs an avatar...
Just saying, there are plenty of rhymes for 'B4'. I'm tossing up between Petrarchian sonnet form or a limerick.
Also, I think Smut Clyde is the #1 Google result for "Jennifer's basement"...
Evidently not. First hit is an intervention blog called What to Trash, What to Treasure.
"Jennifer is an artist who has many collections of interesting things she may one day use to make art: cards, suitcases, ceramics, galvanized tin. She also collects dishware that appeals to her. She is pretty organized and has a huge basement to stash all this stuff but it got to the point where just had way too much. She couldn't find things, they weren't put away in the right categories and she needed help."
As yet there are no horror movies called "Jennifer's Basement". AS YET.
Well, that sure as hell isn't me... I'm not organized.
I thought there was a Jennifer's Basement. I thought thundra had linked to it before. I also thought I posted this comment before, which is ironic because I was discussing deja vu... but blogger must have eaten it... the comment, not the deja vu.
That other Jennifer seems to suffer from a bloated category list too.
probably lounging in his party pajamas.
It's a smoking jacket, or would be if I smoked.
It's a smoking jacket
Thou doth protest too much, methinks...
That other Jennifer seems to suffer from a bloated category list too.
At least we have them...
Another difference between the Jennifers... I do not have a large basement, but it still floods like one.
The jacket is for smoking you in, S.C.
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Smoked Clyde :)
It's a smoking jacket
WELL, SOMEBODY PUT IT OUT.
I do not have a large basement, but it still floods like one.
Perhaps if your basement was larger, the concentration of flood would seem less.
sorry I was AWOZ. Had to visit an out of town project, and then other stuff.
You guys are so great to run up the Zardoz. Well done!
Let's go for 200!!
Also, I don't think anybody should blame fish.
Furthermore, Mekons.
Just wanted to make sure I got that in.
Also, I don't think anybody should blame fish
I think you can only blame fish in months that have an r in them.
Furthermore, Mekons.
Just wanted to make sure I got that in.
Oh! Now there's a surprise...
JENNIFER!!
aren't you supposed to be in Whitewater? You have to zombie-proof the compound!!!
Also, I am in Beverly Hills with Snag.
As far as you know.
Last comment Friday night, First comment Saturday morning.
I actually DO have a life. One must keep the Zardoz in motion.
Whitewater, Wisconsin?
I'm worrkin' on a loan there.
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Jennifer?
Thundra?
7 days, Mr. Zombeh. Are you ready??
SHHH! We can't let the breathers know the the time of the Zombocalypse!! I will get censured by Z.O.M.B.I.E. if they find out I told you.
Alos, I will be in non-Zardoz mode for most of the day. I hope someone else will be by to pick up the slack.
Perhaps Mandos can fill up the comments. Here:
"Boy, I love my iPad! It helps me work and is useful around the house."
Without the iPhone, iLiving would be iMPOSSIBLE!
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ooo, that's some fine Mandos trolling.
iMMA have to get my haircut today.
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aren't you supposed to be in Whitewater?
Leaving in a couple of hours... got a late start.
Yes, thundra... that would be the same place. And no Zombeh, it's not a loan for us... although using the equity in the existing place to secure a loan to branch out has been discussed. So far... too many chefs in the kitchen. If anything were done it would be the quintessential tiger formed by a committee.
Welcome to Camel Estates!
yeah, I guess thundra is to kewl to even write loans for us, let alone join us in Whitewater....
INTERNET NOT BROKEN YET.
fyi- thundra had already received an invite. I was raised properly... He had other plans (Pffft!) and had work looming... although, had he known the exact locale, which the WHOLE WORLD DOES NOW.... AHEM... perhaps he could have written it off as a business trip.
Ok, I've got to get the heck out of here.
sorry Jennifer. Zombies misbehave.
Although not the whole world, just the world that reads BBBB Blog.
next week; Zombie Kill of The Week goes to Jennifer.
heh. 140 comments, no problem.
if we don't hit 300 by the time BBBB comes back, I will swear off eating brains.
is there iPhone reception at the compound?
Livedrunkblogging! Bring the cranberry vodka!
I probably will not make a site visit to Whitewater. HUD is more interested in making sure the engineer and appraiser visit the site (Fannie Mae would require the underwriter to visit as well).
HUD will be adopting that Fannie Mae requirement, but they haven't yet. So no trip for me. And I have two other loan applications I have to get in before the Whitewater one, so I'm not getting any vacation this summer at all!!!!
(*BIG sniff*)
Perhaps in September.
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Also: Some July pics I hadn't gotten around to uploading until now.
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I just don't get it. I have no job, & barely have what passes for a life, but I neglect the Internet for a day or two to associate w/ actual people & I'm farther & farther behind on all social obligations, meaty & cybery. Yet here, it's all fun, all the time.
How do you people do it?
Praise Jebus, MB.
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How do you people do it?
Artificial stimulants mainly.
Alcohol and coffee work, too.
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Supernatural focus.
And alcohol.
151 Rum.
Look, this little window stays open if one forgets to close it. Handy.
Exactly.
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Is this thing on?
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helloooo, ZardoZ!!!
Are you at the lake all the kewl peoples went to, ZRM?
I sure wish I was at a lake...
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Baiting ZRM
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no, thunder, all the people with jobos get vacay. zombiizzles never gets time off.
however, if Imma get a little lucky later, and thirsty, I will be drinking honking big rum and cokes in pint glasses like my hero N__B.
wv was imperap, no lie.
Now I haz to figger out if that is a rhyme by the Queen, or by a gremlin.
Baiting ZRM
I feel like that dude.
except for the tattoos.
Did I see some fancy blogger, initials, P.P., poop on by?
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gotta go outside and do some work on our crappy old house.
tried to do some work on the computer, but am in a foul mood, now.
laterz.
I got a whole lotta work to do on the computer.
But I don't wanna do it.
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I WANT to do the work, thundra, but was in a crappy mood and couldn't do it.
maybe now. more drinks.
capcha is calling me a wisess.
MB is calling me a drama zombie. Also.
Sonic Youth is being very loud in my earphones, however, and I have a nice glass of wine at my elbow....
Do drama zombies hang around singing songs from West Side Story?
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BRAKING NEWS!!! MUST CREDIT ZOMBIE!!!
ZARDOZ HAS JUST BEEN ADDED TO THE NETFLIX INSTANT STREAMING SELECTION!!!
WOOP WOOP WOOP WOOP!!!
I know what I am going to be doing later tonight. Hold my calls.
YES I WILL BE ZARDOZING B^4'S PLACE WITH A ZARDOZ LIVEBLOG. HOW META IS THAT??!?!
..as long as I can finish these damn floor plans, that is.
Do drama zombies hang around singing songs from West Side Story?
sure, but our dancing sucks.
but you know, whatever puts asses in the seats.
Heck, maybe I'll watch ZARDOZ twice!
The good is gun...
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I'm just in it for the Rampling....
So, how's tricks? If that is her real name
She said don't tell A.K. anything if he asks about her.
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AK the interloper. ADD TO THE ZARDOZ CHARLOTTE COMMANDS YOU@!
How about some Bikini Girls With Machine Guns?
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I love the Cramps, thunder VJ.
Zombie Sir, I am not now, nor have I ever been an antelope and I think it is cruel to comment on my spindly legs and habit of jumping into the air for no apparent reason. Also snacking on the lawn.
Sir
Is our host really coming back tomorrow?
Effing week, how did it work?
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of course, he went to Maine, so who knows he might have ended up in a Stephen King novel.
ahh, a floating head.
hey, there's a guy in the movie called Niall Buggy.
HERE COME THE GUNS.
I betcha that floating head corners like a boat.
What about the BRUTALS WHO DO LONG DIVISION?
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BOORMAN is a lousy name for someone is making movies.
Naked peoples in plastic. Why?
Also, the shape of the floating head inside doesn't work with the shape of it outside. I NOTICE THESE THINGS BOORMAN
It's magic, ZRM.
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alright. Sean's first kill is the asshole with the blue headscarf.
He dies slow, though, and has to make a speech. Booo!
Use a larger caliber next time Zed.
Does this thing change pages when it gets to 200?
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Sean is definitely stuffing.
Maybe hydra-shock bullets would do the job in the current caliber.
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Lols at stuffing.
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I hope so thundra.
Rounding the corner...
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THERE ARE PLANTS IN ZORBS.
DID I JUST BLOW YOUR MIND?
Brand new page.
Everything will be different under the new regime!
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OK I has to crash now.
Flipside, and such as.
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WTF? A hippy attic? I know there were a lot of toasted minds, but I thought they had a budget.
Ooo, a Cracker Jack ring!
with a built in projector.
I bet he could have taken over the world with an iPhone.
nice grunting Sean. you're an actor's actor.
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