The PigPen's Resplendent Kaffeeklatsch

[milo]

"Would you search again using different sources
and see what you come up with?" does the trick. But using a different search engine works as well*.

Now try again and do a better job.  

So impressed with you guys, your writing skills have me actually reading all these posts that I have pretty much no interest in. I doubt if I'll retain much of the detail but I'm enjoying it.

So, had to make my own coffee.

Yah, I am with you, I never heard of any of this and am mostly decidedly uninterested in Christian apocrypha but impressed at others just the same.

Splash of whisky in my coffee if you don’t mind

[wasellajam]

Large dark roast, milk and sugar, please. I hadn't had an irish coffee for years until recently, it was delicious. And effective.

[milo]

Large dark roast, milk and sugar, please. I hadn't had an irish coffee for years until recently, it was delicious. And effective.

Man, with the promise of being snowed in all weekend anyway do I get super productive and try to get as much done while I can or just say fuckit and start my day with an Irish coffee

[wasellajam]

Large dark roast, milk and sugar, please. I hadn't had an irish coffee for years until recently, it was delicious. And effective.

Man, with the promise of being snowed in all weekend anyway do I get super productive and try to get as much done while I can or just say fuckit and start my day with an Irish coffee

I’m in fuckit mode, but that’s my usual. And don’t be pretending that Irish coffee wasn’t your idea.

[milo]

Large dark roast, milk and sugar, please. I hadn't had an irish coffee for years until recently, it was delicious. And effective.

Man, with the promise of being snowed in all weekend anyway do I get super productive and try to get as much done while I can or just say fuckit and start my day with an Irish coffee

I’m in fuckit mode, but that’s my usual. And don’t be pretending that Irish coffee wasn’t your idea.

well, I am just going for a tall black for now - I should really get some groceries just in case and test the generator.  After that, it might be a cozy blanket and reading poetry for the weekend.

And an Irish coffee or 2

[milo]

I don't know if it makes any sense to spotlight a poem after the poet stopped participating but this has always been one of my favorite poems on the site:

https://www.pigpenpoetry.com/thread-1171...s+iscariot

[busker]

I don't know if it makes any sense to spotlight a poem after the poet stopped participating but this has always been one of my favorite poems on the site:

https://www.pigpenpoetry.com/thread-1171...s+iscariot

That's interesting. I didn't like it at all, with lines like

The kind sea rushed to embrace you,

and

And now you lie

full fathom five
with pearls for eyes.

which is a secondhand allusion at best.
I stopped liking it after shattered cheeks

and I didn't quite know who'd died in the end. Clearly, the matted hair indicates that it's a human, not a dog. Why Judas Iscariot? I found it unnecessarily mysterious, reaching at profundity.

But - sometimes you just like what you like

[wasellajam]

I don't know if it makes any sense to spotlight a poem after the poet stopped participating but this has always been one of my favorite poems on the site:

https://www.pigpenpoetry.com/thread-1171...s+iscariot

Very dramatic. I’m in love with one from mercedes in practice but no, I don’t think it’s a good idea to spotlight old threads where the participants aren’t around.

[milo]

I don't know if it makes any sense to spotlight a poem after the poet stopped participating but this has always been one of my favorite poems on the site:

https://www.pigpenpoetry.com/thread-1171...s+iscariot

Very dramatic. I’m in love with one from mercedes in practice but no, I don’t think it’s a good idea to spotlight old threads where the participants aren’t around.

yah, it is unfortunate, rare writing like this is  - well, rare.  Even when we had 60 members we would get maybe one poem like this a month.  We might go years at our current pace before we see anything of this caliber.

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I mean of course there is still plenty great old stuff to read but I was thinking how bare the spotlight looked.

The critic spotlight is pretty much non-existent at this point and perhaps should be eliminated

[wasellajam]

I don't know if it makes any sense to spotlight a poem after the poet stopped participating but this has always been one of my favorite poems on the site:

https://www.pigpenpoetry.com/thread-1171...s+iscariot

Very dramatic. I’m in love with one from mercedes in practice but no, I don’t think it’s a good idea to spotlight old threads where the participants aren’t around.

yah, it is unfortunate, rare writing like this is  - well, rare.  Even when we had 60 members we would get maybe one poem like this a month.  We might go years at our current pace before we see anything of this caliber.

For myself, I’ve been reading older threads to get back in touch with how much I love this site. I’m sure if I spent that time reading more recent threads I would find poems I love that were edited here. I resolve to do more reading.

[milo]

You must have been answering just as I was. In classic predictive form, the answer to yours is already above it

[wasellajam]

I’ve been reading some excellent recent crit, it’s worth reading recent threads and making recommendations to a mod when you see something particularly helpful.

[milo]

I’ve been reading some excellent recent crit, it’s worth reading recent threads and making recommendations to a mod when you see something particularly helpful.

That is the exact reason I was looking

[busker]

I don't know if it makes any sense to spotlight a poem after the poet stopped participating but this has always been one of my favorite poems on the site:

https://www.pigpenpoetry.com/thread-1171...s+iscariot

That's interesting. I didn't like it at all, with lines like

The kind sea rushed to embrace you,

and

And now you lie

full fathom five
with pearls for eyes.

which is a secondhand allusion at best.
I stopped liking it after shattered cheeks

and I didn't quite know who'd died in the end. Clearly, the matted hair indicates that it's a human, not a dog. Why Judas Iscariot? I found it unnecessarily mysterious, reaching at profundity.

But - sometimes you just like what you like

I don't know why I didn't like it on first reading. Maybe because I was seeing it on my mobile, a smaller screen, taking a quick look in between things.
Re-reading it at my desk patiently, in the afternoon, it's different. I see milo's point.

[wasellajam]

Good morning, brand new day full of unknowns.  I'm already done with my first cup and morning word puzzles, gonna make a second cup and start reading. Stay safe today.

[milo]

Good morning, brand new day full of unknowns.  I'm already done with my first cup and morning word puzzles, gonna make a second cup and start reading. Stay safe today.

I already did all the shopping yesterday.  Didn't test the generator but in a pinch - what's a better test than if the power runs out.  Starting my first cup now

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I am steeling myself up for my Reddit poetry chores. Maybe the whiskey would be a good idea

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The deed is done for the day - 2 feedback and a throwaway poem dropped with plenty of links back to here. Not a single interesting line that I could find unfortunately, I might give it another pass later since I finished so early today. parse

[wasellajam]

Good morning you sweethearts, those in the storm path how'd you do? We got pretty buried in snow but it's January, just have to slowly shovel out. Haven't checked the road yet but I've heard the plow and the lights didn't even flicker. woohoo

[milo]

Good Morning!! Everything is iced in here. The door to the chicken coop had ice in front of it so I had to fight to open it while the chickens looked on judgingly. I don't know if I will go out today or not - roads still pretty bad here. Might be safer to just stay in with this hot coffee

[wasellajam]

Good Morning!!  Everything is iced in here.  The door to the chicken coop had ice in front of it so I had to fight to open it while the chickens looked on judgingly.  I don't know if I will go out today or not - roads still pretty bad here.  Might be safer to just stay in with this hot coffee

Ha, I feel like that most days. 

[milo]

Good Morning!!  Everything is iced in here.  The door to the chicken coop had ice in front of it so I had to fight to open it while the chickens looked on judgingly.  I don't know if I will go out today or not - roads still pretty bad here.  Might be safer to just stay in with this hot coffee

Ha, I feel like that most days. 

ok - well, I suppose I best get off to the chores at Reddit