What's everyone up to right now?

[*Deidre*]

Digesting BBQ pork quesadillas and getting ready to watch old recordings of NYPD Blue.

Yum, sounds good.

[brewer]

Digesting BBQ pork quesadillas and getting ready to watch old recordings of NYPD Blue.

Yum, sounds good.

How did you know it was a naked butt episode?

[*Deidre*]

Yum, sounds good.

How did you know it was a naked butt episode?

lol The first part of your post, silly.

[brewer]

How did you know it was a naked butt episode?

lol The first part of your post, silly.

I know that butts rarely sound good but don't you think naked butts are yum?

[*Deidre*]

lol The first part of your post, silly.

I know that butts rarely sound good but don't you think naked butts are yum?

Not yum, and not all. lol 


Time for bed, good night friends 

[Mystic]

I know that butts rarely sound good but don't you think naked butts are yum?

Not yum, and not all. lol 


Time for bed, good night friends 

Have a good night Deidre.  Dream well.

[*Deidre*]

Not yum, and not all. lol 


Time for bed, good night friends 

Have a good night Deidre.  Dream well.

With all of the discussions still swirling around in my mind, I hope I don't dream of witches casting spells on your halal meat. 

That sounds so wrong.

'night 

[Mystic]

lol haha

[Astreja]

Worked up some first-chair clarinet parts for rehearsal tomorrow night (I'm second chair but am the designated sub if the firsts are MIA.) Got a chance to practise that cool melody in Ravel's Bolero. Also spent some quality time with Ada, my alto clarinet, and fussed a bit with the B flat key which was sounding, uh, more like B sharp.

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When I got home I did some reading, practised a bit on my bass clarinet (gradually getting the hang of that thing), and made a German-style baked pancake with blueberries..

I played that thing in high school. Badass.

At first it was surprisingly hard to not squeak on the lower keys.  Had to form a slightly different embouchure to adjust to the larger mouthpiece, and now have things relatively under control.  When those low notes come out clean, though, they are gorgeous.

Might eventually buy a new mouthpiece when I have some spare cash lying around.

[Rev. Rye]

Finished a big critique of my latest short story. Overall, they liked it, but they didn't like the detachment I put in my narration (I may have autism, but I did not like it when one person suggested I make the main character autistic; that isn't the story I wrote and that's not the mental condition I wrote for him), and I think I really need to set up the parallels between the main character's plan and the "good guy with a gun" fantasy ubiquitous in American culture and how it's not all it's cracked up to be. I'm thinking more allusions to classic westerns, setting up his detachment as a defense mechanism that ends up failing him, and playing up the chaos in the final shootout.

Also, to decompress, I wrote a review of A Matter of Life and Death for my column.