Can I mop your brow? I am at the ready with the fearsome brow-mop.

Wash ,'Objects In Space'


ita's thread

A place where we can talk about ita, miss ita, and share information about memorials. The hugging started over here in Natter.


P.M. Marc - Jan 16, 2015 8:37:39 am PST #705 of 3156
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Please do not disturb my comforting belief that no human being within the last several decades has been desperate enough for sex to make Carrot Top a viable option.

Dick Cheney?


Steph L. - Jan 16, 2015 8:38:20 am PST #706 of 3156
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

It's in COMM, somewhere. her admission of it, right after the emphatic denial of making out.

Juliana: Didn't ita make out with Carrot Top once?

ita: JESUS CHRIST NO!!!! A MILLION TIMES NEVER!!!!
I just saw him naked.


amych - Jan 16, 2015 8:40:20 am PST #707 of 3156
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Dick Cheney?

As always, Plei cuts straight to the most horrible possible YES I AM STILL SCARRED BY HENRY KISSINGER, MISSY


Liese S. - Jan 16, 2015 8:42:33 am PST #708 of 3156
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Stop! stop! I finally stopped having Kissinger ptsd and now here you go again!


Beverly - Jan 16, 2015 8:48:02 am PST #709 of 3156
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Pssst. Snyder/Joyce/I forget just who--Holland?


Anne W. - Jan 16, 2015 8:52:04 am PST #710 of 3156
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

Beverly, I'm afraid you're right. I just got the most horrible flashback.


Beverly - Jan 16, 2015 9:00:46 am PST #711 of 3156
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Good times, good times.


Trudy Booth - Jan 16, 2015 9:07:38 am PST #712 of 3156
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Please do not disturb my comforting belief that no human being within the last several decades has been desperate enough for sex to make Carrot Top a viable option.

Dick Cheney?

Even Carrot Top has standards.


Sue - Jan 16, 2015 9:15:40 am PST #713 of 3156
hip deep in pie

Cheney is definitely a top. I don't know how compatible they would be.


Ouise - Jan 16, 2015 9:15:41 am PST #714 of 3156
Socks are a running theme throughout the series. They are used as symbols of freedom, redemption and love.

I am very much a lurker at heart, and tend to feel silly when I post anything, but here goes anyway.

Tomorrow evening I will be singing a duet in a concert - the piece is Purcell's Elegy Upon the Death of Queen Mary. I will be singing it for ita instead of Queen Mary. I think the words work pretty well with some minor substitutions.

O dive custos auriacae domus
Et spes labantis certior imperi;
O rebus adversis vocande,
O superum decus in secundis!

Seu te fluentem pronus ad Isida
In vota fervens Oxonidum chorus,
Seu te precantur, quos remoti
Unda lavat properata Cami,

Descende caelo non ita creditas
Visurus aedes praesidiis tuis,
Descende visurus penates
Caesaris, et penetrale sacrum.

Maria musis flebilis occidit,
Maria, gentis deliciae brevis;
O flete Mariam! flete, Camoenae!
O flete, Divae, dea moriente.

O God, guardian of the House of Orange,
and surer hope of fleeting power,
O you who should be invoked in adversity,
O divine ornament in prosperity –

whether the eager choir of Oxford
by the river Isis calls
on you in prayer of they who are washed
by the swift stream of the distant Cam –

come down from heaven to visit with your help
the palace not thus entrusted,
come down and visit the chapel of our Monarch
and the sacred chamber.

Mary is dying, lamented by the Muses,
short-lived darling of her people,
O weep for Mary, O weep you Muses,
O weep you Goddesses, Weep for the dying divinity.

HENRY PARKER (1695),

TRANSLATED BY OLIVER TAPLIN