| Author | Message | ||
     susi t learn Senior Member Username: etsi Post Number: 12065 Registered: 4-2003 |
i don't get it! i used to surf, jump horses, play softball but i can't seem to keep my butt off the floor! lol when i was a kid, the big thing was to go to the roller rink. i was 13 when i got my first kiss. being the ultimate tomboy, the poor kid ended up with a black eye.  (i was a late bloomer) and that insipid rink music...'bout enough to drive one nuts. tell ya what lab, i'll just stand here stiff legged and you pull me around. | ||
| John Senior Member Username: johnalbert Post Number: 1195 Registered: 10-2005 |
scratch erch. the lights of sals come back on and every thing is in its place. john is taking orders. must remember to call that time traveler on the board some time today. note to self must get own weapons. patsy cline is singing away on the juke and every one looks feisty. susi a black eye aye! anyway morning all... hey how did this pizza stain get on my shirt. Oh lab I might have to put my hand in a bag of cheetos and get you back! One Spam on toast coming up? | ||
| Patricia Davis Senior Member Username: patricia Post Number: 9403 Registered: 10-2003 |
"One Spam on toast coming up?" Well, not for ME it's not...euwww! Ick!  Nope, I'd like a plate of hummus and baba ganoush with a stack of whole wheat pita bread for lunch today--I was Lebanese in a past life Pat goes to the jukebox and plays the waltzes from the newest Harry Potter movie soundtrack while swooping and gliding around the cafe...bits and morsels of hummus and eggplant flying about in her wake. She ignores the pleas for non-orchestral music. Sorry I missed the rollerskating party last night. I was mainly an ice skater, but I think I could still do the rollerskate bit...I think | ||
| John Senior Member Username: johnalbert Post Number: 1200 Registered: 10-2005 |
did you forget the teziki pat? got have the yougert and ill bring you some greek olives and some more pitta. yum skating it was fun just wondering what movie we will see tomarrow. | ||
| buddie Senior Member Username: buddie303 Post Number: 507 Registered: 11-2005 |
buddie does the Car Hop deliveries for Sal as she waits for Pat to arrive with their " Matching Outfits " for their roller " Premiere" as Pat referred to it.. | ||
| susi t learn Senior Member Username: etsi Post Number: 12082 Registered: 4-2003 |
mmm...i'll have the red pepper hummus. and raspberry ice tea. my legs are still vibrating from skating. can't stay long, have a cherokee education class tonight. | ||
| buddie Senior Member Username: buddie303 Post Number: 508 Registered: 11-2005 |
Still waiting..I hope our presentation does not involve throwing anyone in the air..I'm freefall challenged.. better at catching.. | ||
| L. A. B. Senior Member Username: leathab Post Number: 5290 Registered: 12-2003 |
(Tacks up John's shirt to the 'Art' Board, working "title" The working man!!) Now those abs are what I call a "work of art!!" (Happen to be sketching a photo of Charles Dance from "Pascali's Island....it was an awful movie, but he was drop-dead gorgeous in it!!) Lime coke and string french fries with ketchup and chili/cheeze dog, please!! (Went bowling and bowled horribly, 102 and 109.) Couldn't get the ball to knock down the pins. Sad. Maybe it was all those "strobe/black lights John has revolving around the lanes???? | ||
| Patricia Davis Senior Member Username: patricia Post Number: 9410 Registered: 10-2003 |
"roller Premiere?" Not me--not sure who said that. Anyway, you're off the hook, buddie--I'm all sore from sweeping up cat hair. If I tried to skate, I'd crack and fall apart  Not as flexible as I used to be, methinks. | ||
| John Senior Member Username: johnalbert Post Number: 1204 Registered: 10-2005 |
you mean my flabs lab. its darned cold here today. i am motivated to do nothing but dinking around on the computer. i think i will go watch a movie or something tonight. its like 9 dollars to get in to the movies now and the candy is still the outragious price but less candy now whats up with that. they could cut the cost by fireing half the teenagers they have as they do nothing mutch anyway. on and on i could go but i wont. woaw your gong rollerservice at sals. we are comeing up in the world. cool buddie. talk llater gang! | ||
| Brighid Senior Member Username: brighid_moon Post Number: 704 Registered: 5-2005 |
*comes in doing the "I'm getting a puppy" dance* Anything cold to eat or drink in here? Man these hot flashes are getting to me! *falls into a booth to fan herself and waits for sexy roller-skating servers to... serve her* "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." --From Hamlet (I, v, 166-167) "Watakushi wa shishi desu" --From Harley | ||
| Patricia Davis Senior Member Username: patricia Post Number: 9411 Registered: 10-2003 |
A *puppy*!!! Oh, wow...that's like adopting a kid! But they're SO CUTE! And warm and snugglicious  I like your dance, too--I did one yesterday before posting to the Monster Thread, but covertly. It was my "Happy Dance" and closely resembles the one that Snoopy used to do in the comics Your waiting for the roller boys to, um...serve you reminds me of an old writer friend who we took out for a celebratory pizza one night after she finished a novel. Poor thing, she said she typed in the last word and then sat back and waited for the long-anticipated line of dancing boys to enter her room....but they *didn't*?!! I told her it was just a screw-up in Heaven and to have another beer and I was certain they'd appear eventually  | ||
| Brighid Senior Member Username: brighid_moon Post Number: 705 Registered: 5-2005 |
ROTF If I ever get to work writing that novel that's been in my head for the past 30 years, I'd darn well expect a line of dancing boys! I'd deserve it! *takes a long drink from a 40 oz glass of ice water, then pours the rest over her head* "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." --From Hamlet (I, v, 166-167) "Watakushi wa shishi desu" --From Harley | ||
| buddie Senior Member Username: buddie303 Post Number: 509 Registered: 11-2005 |
I'm with you..skates are off.. I think John said it?? buzzy I mean buddie | ||
| Sheila Na Gig Advanced Member Username: wimminsknickers Post Number: 489 Registered: 7-2003 |
Sheila flies in, sprinkles fairy dust over everyone and leaves. Pog Mo Thoin. | ||
| Sheila Na Gig Advanced Member Username: wimminsknickers Post Number: 490 Registered: 7-2003 |
Hey, 11 more posts to go and I'm a bona fide senior member guys. How cool is that!  Pog Mo Thoin. | ||
| Sheila Na Gig Advanced Member Username: wimminsknickers Post Number: 491 Registered: 7-2003 |
Ahem, that should have been 10. Now I guess it's 9... Yeah, yeah I know. All together now on the count of three, "So ask us if we care, Sheila!" Pog Mo Thoin. | ||
| Patricia Davis Senior Member Username: patricia Post Number: 9415 Registered: 10-2003 |
Nah, Sheila--I think it's great that you have a short-term goal in life! So many of us don't....actually I DO have one--it's to get 4 of The Skeptic's 100% cotton work shirts ironed tonight and it ain't gonna happen sitting here at Sal's...[sigh] See ya later | ||
| Brighid Senior Member Username: brighid_moon Post Number: 706 Registered: 5-2005 |
Go-Als? What is this word "Go-Als?" And where do I sign up for them? "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." --From Hamlet (I, v, 166-167) "Watakushi wa shishi desu" --From Harley | ||
| John Senior Member Username: johnalbert Post Number: 1208 Registered: 10-2005 |
I was avoiding the place until 666 rolled past. shew that was a close one but who was the lucky 666 person to post drum role Sheila! but ill change the out come for ya. 6 blessings 6 delights 6 times the love the thing about fairy dust is it makes every one sparkle with their inner light. I don’t have to iron work shirts any more I don’t have to wash his dirty shorts no more. I don’t have to cook meals he don’t come home to eat any more. single so rocks these days. puppy you just keep your puppy too. I have 3 and soon to only be one. I really am more like pat being a cat person but we always had big dogs and believe me much easier to deal with. little ones are so demanding. but while I have been single I have gotten them back on training and are minding me better and my little boy has almost become a gentlemen. except the rolling in stinky stuff thing he does. but my dog troubles are nothing compared to susi's | ||
| Brighid Senior Member Username: brighid_moon Post Number: 707 Registered: 5-2005 |
She's a rescue puppy from Puerto Rico. She's six months old, housebroken, spayed (etc.), and a beagle/basset mix (a Bagel?) So she'll be really mellow and laid back, not big at all, and good therapy for my Dad... really good since Mom passed. And good for me too, because it'll give me a reason to go on walks and get my butt in gear. I'm really rather excited, I haven't had a dog in years and our family loves them. Tandra Chocolate icecream to go please? (Message edited by Brighid_Moon on March 17, 2006) "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." --From Hamlet (I, v, 166-167) "Watakushi wa shishi desu" --From Harley | ||
| Sheila Na Gig Advanced Member Username: wimminsknickers Post Number: 493 Registered: 7-2003 |
Brighid, what a wonderful thing to do! That little dog is just adorable. I'm sure she's going to bring a lot of joy into your life. John, thank you so much for lifting the curse of the 666 I was really worried there for a minute. But as always, you always take good care of your "coffee klatch" girls. Miss Patricia, I'll have you know that I'm very proud of all my short term goals. Why I just accomplished one right now. (Opens the bag of mostly blackened popcorn she's rescued from the microwave). And I'm going to bloody well eat too! 'Tis only slightly well done after all... Pog Mo Thoin. | ||
| buddie Senior Member Username: buddie303 Post Number: 510 Registered: 11-2005 |
Whew !! Friday  hot fudge Sal , make the fixens all happy and colorfull..no peanuts though..thanks | ||
| susi t learn Senior Member Username: etsi Post Number: 12090 Registered: 4-2003 |
brighid i dreamed of a basset hound last night! lol i wanted to name him max. | ||
| Brighid Senior Member Username: brighid_moon Post Number: 709 Registered: 5-2005 |
Susi: LOL Synchronicity! I'm hoping to have more luck with little Tandy than you've had with your babies, I'm thinking that it may also be a "breed" issue, which is why I was looking for a specific breed that would be mellow for my Dad (had I my 'druthers, and were it for just me, I'd have picked a pitbull or Staffordshire terrier, I'm a masochist that way I just love to wake up to destroyed property! ) *Pours hot fudge over burnt popcorn and munches!* "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." --From Hamlet (I, v, 166-167) "Watakushi wa shishi desu" --From Harley | ||
| susi t learn Senior Member Username: etsi Post Number: 12092 Registered: 4-2003 |
i used to have an old bassett named max. my dog got run over right before i left for work one day and i was so distraught my boss gave me his bassett. (i suspect he was looking for a home for him at the time). he was old and deaf. wouldn't come when you called but if you clapped your hands, he felt the vibrations and would come. he had one gait...mosey. | ||
| L. A. B. Senior Member Username: leathab Post Number: 5295 Registered: 12-2003 |
(Pours a whole stick of melted butter over burnt popcorn) Anything to kill the "cancer producing" black stuff. 'Course the butter is cloggin my arteries even as we speak. Your photo Brig is gorgeous, such a beautiful face that cutey has!! | ||
| Patricia Davis Senior Member Username: patricia Post Number: 9417 Registered: 10-2003 |
Tandy's *adorable*! I love that expression on her face in the photo--sort of like, "A photo?! No one TOLD me there were going to be PHOTOS--!" I love that after her hard life, she's at last landed on her feet (paws) and is going to be spoiled rotten for the rest of her days--that's wonderful Mmmm--hot fudge on popcorn...with *butter*! YUM! | ||
| buddie Senior Member Username: buddie303 Post Number: 511 Registered: 11-2005 |
Hummm nobody's here..the place smells of 1/2 burnt popcorn..opens windows . John , Sal if you sold the cafe I want the disco ball ? Drags out the projector.Movie night ? Plays "An Innis aigh", for St.Patty's Day. I can't believe Sal has that selection. Well I need a lift so I'm off for some green beer and Irish music. | ||
| L. A. B. Senior Member Username: leathab Post Number: 5297 Registered: 12-2003 |
(Anyone for "Lord of the pants...uh Dance"??) I enjoy Flatley in Riverdance too. But he's American of Irish descent, as Peter O'Toole is English of Irish descent (don't let him fool you, he wasn't born in Ireland, he was born in Leeds.) Can I say I really miss Richard Harris as Dubbledore!! (Pours the "green" beer and eats the "green" pretzels with the "green" cream cheese.) | ||
| buddie Senior Member Username: buddie303 Post Number: 512 Registered: 11-2005 |
OMG.the 1st movie I saw Richard Harris in was Umm...?? Man called Horse?? | ||
| Patricia Davis Senior Member Username: patricia Post Number: 9423 Registered: 10-2003 |
L. A. B., you can say it, but as much as I *loved* Richard Harris, I *LOVE* Michael Gambon in the Dumbledore role--he's just *intense* and gives one of those many-layered performances that makes me wonder about Dumbledore's past and about how he got to be who he is and what he's really capable of....?! And, wonder of wonders, he's only *7 years older than I am* (!) but he plays an elderly man perfectly. Just watched a brief cast interview and the young actor who plays Harry (Dan Radcliffe) said of all the cast members, he'd most like to be like Gambon, who he says is "an original", very unconventional, unpredictable and a "free spirit". And I'd like to have a wee dram of Irish Whisky to celebrate my name saint's day | ||
| buddie Senior Member Username: buddie303 Post Number: 513 Registered: 11-2005 |
I love the feeling of Intense? LAB & Pat a toast to you all..I'll play " the eyes of Margaret " Sal has the Irish going tonight | ||
| John Senior Member Username: johnalbert Post Number: 1210 Registered: 10-2005 |
gosh I walk in near the end of the movie again what are we watching. its been a weird day. not sure what’s going on at all for sure it was 10 am before I realized it was St patties day. out ye damned snakes get thee from Ireland! cool could snake have been reptilians or knowledge we may never know | ||
| Patricia Davis Senior Member Username: patricia Post Number: 9427 Registered: 10-2003 |
And, faith and begorra, Gambon (Dumbledore) was born in Dublin, Ireland! That's all right, John--I went to get dressed today, only to discover that my only piece of green clothing was in the laundry So I, Irish on both sides, did NOT wear The Green today Pat calls out a sheepish "Erin go bragh" and slinks out the back way.... | ||
| susi t learn Senior Member Username: etsi Post Number: 12108 Registered: 4-2003 |
thought i'd stop in for a coffee after kareoke. they of course were serving green beer. (none for me though-too toxic looking) there was an indian couple wearing green top hats...too funny. we also had an 'incident'.....some drunk came over and sat next to me and the kid. seemed harmless but totally obnoxious. kept crowding me. told him twice to back off. then he ran his hand through my hair. said, 'i just had to'. i told him if he touched me again, i'd 'have' to break his hand. didn't faze him. i'm giving him my best 'look'. then he puts his arm around me and grabs my beer and starts drinking it. i snatched the beer out of his hands and told him to go sit somewhere else. my kid caught this and was getting riled. i can handle myself and would have but bryn's very protective of me and told the guy twice to leave. he didn't, so.......i'm afraid before i could see it coming, he pushed the guy over in his chair. i immediately jumped up and told the kid to park it. a couple of friends calmed bryn down. i told mike, the cook, to just get the guy out of our face and it'd be cool. i HATE confrontation. and i feel bryn was excessive in his reaction. the guy's gal friend came over, we discussed what happened. she apologized for his actions, i apologized for the kids and they left. full moon too i guess. and tomorrow the kid gets the lecture on how mom is quite capable of handling herself. | ||
| buddie Senior Member Username: buddie303 Post Number: 514 Registered: 11-2005 |
Hi Lab Hi John.. Morning Susi..I'm up because I thought I had to go to work today ..can't blame green beer , wish I could.. .. must be the moon.. OH..Poor Bryn.. that guy was a jerk so don't forget to mention that also..going back to bed now Pat when I was growing up if you did not wear Green on St.Paddy's day they said the Crows would Shlit on your head.. that must have come from green beer ..lol | ||
| tuuli kki Advanced Member Username: tigerseye Post Number: 204 Registered: 2-2006 |
lol susi, Good for Bryn. Wish St Paddy would come back and oust a few more serpents. | ||
| Patricia Davis Senior Member Username: patricia Post Number: 9432 Registered: 10-2003 |
Me, too, tuuli kki, me too. buddie, that is *hilarious*! Good thing I live in the city! Ooooo--it's brunch day! How about scrapple with maple syrup and a side of fruit salad (heavy on the citrus) with a nice frothing glass of fresh-squeezed orange juice. No alcohol for me this AM though--want what wits I still have about me today Oh, and lots of milky coffee.... | ||
| L. A. B. Senior Member Username: leathab Post Number: 5305 Registered: 12-2003 |
(Wish St. Patty would leave the snakes alone, and oust the boarish drunks.) One caesar salad please, and a large caramel macchiatto please. Decided to do the background on an "oil painting" starting it up ready for warmer days. It is fairly warm outside (at least until the sprinkles started) so I was able to get the board painted a bit. Gonna do some dancing native children with some Southern Utah background with them. Will see how it goes. Takes time. Gotta have it done by August. Keep yer "dukes" up, Susi, don't want you to get hurt!! (Message edited by Leathab on March 18, 2006) | ||
| Patricia Davis Senior Member Username: patricia Post Number: 9434 Registered: 10-2003 |
Forgot to say before, susi, I hate confrontations too--even the snippy, snotty little ones--and the big obnoxious drunken ones the most of all, since it's not like you can just appeal to their reason At least Bryn's protective instincts are intact, even if his impulse control is a wee bit impaired. How nice to see a son defend his Mum, though, in these days of zero gallantry on the part of so many males Refill on the coffee? Where the heck is John today? | ||
| susi t learn Senior Member Username: etsi Post Number: 12116 Registered: 4-2003 |
yeah, we had the 'talk' today. i told him i thought he was excessive in his 'protection' of me. i explained how it could have been handled differently. and how there are always consequenses to one's actions. and you never know what those could be. i told him he just meant to shove him, but didn't know his strength so the guy fell backward in his chair. he didn't mean to do that but what 'if' the guy had hit his head? no one knows more about the crap that comes with a head injury. of course he didn't think of that. you're right, his frontal lobe was damaged, the response center. so he acts first, usually, before he thinks it through. but no one was hurt and he knows if he does anything like that again I'LL kick his azz. | ||
| John Senior Member Username: johnalbert Post Number: 1215 Registered: 10-2005 |
some one always spoils a good time. sound cool lab, I think my problems I have with painting is that I am a turbo painter and want everything now. when I settle in to the meditative painting thing I always enjoy it. but then some days I just want to mass produce. potters are trained to rely on instinct and make a lot and cull later as one never know what will happen to the work. its so flying by the seat of your paints sometimes being a potter but you learn to make certain things and after you get your mass production done you make the real work. one supports the other. and when you get to the point where you are making the other work you integrate it in to your mass production lines. or parts of it. anyway just a thought for the day. | ||
| L. A. B. Senior Member Username: leathab Post Number: 5310 Registered: 12-2003 |
Oil painters are stuck doing "dark to light" which means lots of shadows, armpits and hidey holes first. (Unlike watercolorists who go "light to dark") It's hairy wanting to get it on the canvas and having to wait. (I'm as impatient as you.) But oil is a strange medium, it acts like sculpture sometimes, and you blend something on the canvas accidently, that isn't on the palette, and you can never reproduce it. Weird, it's very like it's alive as well. You coax it, scream and 'swear' at it and then settle for what it wants. (Another latte please, getting thirsty.) | ||
| John Senior Member Username: johnalbert Post Number: 1217 Registered: 10-2005 |
comeing up, the thing i do is make mud too much of the time and deciding what it the furthest away is another thing i have problems with what to paint first in the forground. painting is intense thinking. I always miss a step and it ends up not looking right, but i work on it cant wait to see the finished work lab | ||
| L. A. B. Senior Member Username: leathab Post Number: 5314 Registered: 12-2003 |
My problem is "eye-balling" the correct sizes head-body etc. I hate being "mathmatical" about it, seems to lose something when everything is "too semetrical. (Maybe I'm slightly cross-eyed, or the stigmatism is off??) (Grabs the peanuts and throws them into the mouth, slurping the coffee as chaser.) Uck, you didn't warm me they were "honey-covered" peanuts....too sweet!! Want salty!! | ||
| Patricia Davis Senior Member Username: patricia Post Number: 9437 Registered: 10-2003 |
I tend to work from distance to foreground and from dark to light, no matter what painting medium I'm using. I'm too impatient to paint in background around anything A painting that had a huge influence on how I paint is this unfinished one, which Maxfield Parrish decided to redo a portion of, then died before he could complete it. He began with a detailed ultra-marine base and then glazed over it, but in the shadows, the original blue shines through in the finished painting. The day that Alma Gilbert hung it in her gallery, she called me and I had a rare chance to study it for hours, with my nose about 3 or 4 inches from the panel. Ever since, I've done basically that in many paintings, both acrylic (water-based) and alkyd (oil). | ||
| John Senior Member Username: johnalbert Post Number: 1218 Registered: 10-2005 |
sounds weird i have the same exct problem have to use a t squar. also try if your drawing from photo reference drawing upside down. i dont know why but it works. also i do blind contour drawing as warm ups. it works for me. but i still have problems. that book drawing on the right side of the brain opened up the world of art for me at one time. but i had to put it away and lost the ground i gained. just now i feel i am learning again. | ||
| John Senior Member Username: johnalbert Post Number: 1219 Registered: 10-2005 |
lots of his work was set up for the four color plate printing method. there is an artist in AK that does the same thing and does the polar bears. he goes over board though and his painting are like blue yellow and orange. but the work is exquisite and he captures what he wants too. you know pat I always thought your work was a bit like maxfeild parish inspired but is defiantly your own thing. I think one problem I have with painting is that I don’t integrate things very well as I always think in separate elements and things just look stark. plus I have a love of vivid color. which is fine I guess but not so fine when subtlety is called for. Ill have to take a good look at that painting again. love the maxfeild parish paintings btw. | ||
| buddie Senior Member Username: buddie303 Post Number: 515 Registered: 11-2005 |
Nice to see people are on the move. Lab may your creativity continue , hope you share it with us.Your subject matter sound sweet. As for me I slept the day away and don't feel one bit of guilt.I was so maxed out by Friday I even slept through 6 phone messages..OK I'm finished with the self pity.. Sal I'm Hungry..I'll have a tea.. sausage, homefries,french toast with butter & maple syrup.. |
