Comments on: we’ve been hacked

By: minnie

minnie — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:54:04 +0000

Wow! Yours first, Alison — I have never seen so many geese in flight! What a thrill! And those beautiful veggies make me so deliciously hungry.

Loved Phranc’s show (Oct 1.) and her “flivver”. Not sure if I got the name right; we called ‘em “cornstalks” when I was a kid, but I never did learn to make one — until now.

Antidote for Mac guy: Perhaps rent old “PeeWee’s Playhouse” and “Mr. Rogers’ vids for a warmup? Then, gloves and blunt-tipped scissors — voila — no paper cuts, no inadvertent thigh stabs. You get a wondrous flappy thing, and a lovely craft idea to pull out from what’s under your tiara when those little nephews and grandkids get restless at Thanksgiving. Have them all make one! Rehearse a Majorette show for the old folks!

Spot-on, whom Alison suggested as Phranc’s hypothetical progenitors.

I loved the pink glow of trees in Alison’s “geese” movie, but that’s where it gets too scary for words to me: the glow means winter will come! Cold! Shut all the windows! And I just hate to wash my face when it’s nippy.
I lied. I did have words.

By: Mac guy

Mac guy — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:22:49 +0000

Please understand that I mean this in the nicest way possible and with respect and best regards to Phranc, but I have to say that the YouTube video linked above is simply TOO SCARY for WORDS!

By: ksbel6

ksbel6 — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:48:47 +0000

I’m with Dr. E Although October is my favorite month because of the awesome colors.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:22:58 +0000

today, the geese are definitely “harsh and exciting.”

my favorite poem to know by heart.

By: Ready2Agitate

Ready2Agitate — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:52:53 +0000

Oh I am running off to make a newspaper craft and go woo-weeee it’s October! (I was half-specting she was going somewhere to do with cutting up the images of a particular vice presidential candidate… but no, it was so pure! Hoo-ray for Phranc & Pickle!)

By: Jana C.H.

Jana C.H. — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:43:25 +0000

Jen in WI — Ogden Nash is my second-favorite poet! Your taste is wonderful!

Jana C.H.
Seattle
Saith WSG; I dreamt that I had somehow come / To dwell in Topsy-Turveydom!

By: Aerik

Aerik — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:59:54 +0000

Holy fuck, the hidden links are still there! All of them to oksameridial. Fuck you, oksameridial!!

By: Dr. Empirical

Dr. Empirical — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:07:14 +0000

I don’t have anything to say, but I’m posting this as a “Fuck You!” gesture to the spammers.

By: Julia

Julia — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:51:50 +0000

Phranc has a YouTube show? AWESOME!!!! I am now singing “Female Mud Wrestling” to myself in homage.

What does it say about me that the first poem I thought of was this bit of Kenneth Koch’s “Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams”:

We laughed at the hollyhocks together
And then I sprayed them with lye.
Forgive me.
I simply do not know what I am doing.

By: jen in WI

jen in WI — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:37:22 +0000

Not sure what it says for my taste in poetry, but I’ve always liked this one (Ogden Nash):

Kipling’s Vermont

The summer like a rajah dies,
And every widowed tree
Kindles for Congregationalist eyes
An alien suttee.