Weekend Updatia

I haven't written much poetry - or fiction, for that matter - lately. Too much going on to get the moment of quiet needed. Or, usually, the many moments. The writing goes by as fast as I can type, but sometimes I have to sit and wait around until the muse starts dictating the work to me.

Anywho, on that note, I started posting some older pieces that haven't appeared in this venue. Unless I forgot to tag them, of course. I started things off with rusalka, one of my favorites, and in rather dubious honor of the delisting of the the grey wolves, I posted Vanishing Point. The latter piece is older than Justin.

I posted the wrap-up for last week's game of Monday's Thirteen, exposing the four correct answers. I'll be posting the new edition for this week in a few moments.

Yesterday I made some changes to the Green Man Enviroscaping LLC website - there's now a blog in place of the news page and there's a page for job listings, with one open position listed.

Monday's Thirteen: Episode Two

Welcome to Monday's Thirteen, the movie quote guessing game.

Answers will be screened, those who guess correctly will have their name listed with the quote as soon as I can. More than one person can claim a quote, so the movie's name won't be revealled until the weekend game-end.

On Wednesday, some additional hints will be posted for the Double Quotes. Check out last weeks Wednesday's Little Helper for some clues on the Triple Quotes - these guys have been hanging around since the pilot episode, and here I thought some of them would be dead giveaways. If any last until Wednesday, I will be mapping the hint to the quote. If any last until Friday, I might have to post an additional quote for each Triple Quoted movie - I want to make room for some new ones for next week!

As the original meme considered these "guesses", I'm surprised how few guesses there have been - most have been known outright. Feel free to post multiple guesses, like tewok does, and who knows, you might get one! =)

Triple Quotes
1. "Maybe I'm dreaming. My eyes are open, which means maybe I'm awake dreaming that I'm asleep. Or, or more likely, I'm asleep dreaming that I'm awake wondering if I'm dreaming." -- Ladyhawke, guessed by dreamingcrow, nea852

2. "Your Holiness, a surgeon to save the body must often hack off a limb. But in truth nothing could prepare me for the beauty and the power of the limb that I had come here to sever."

3. "She can sing, or she can scream. But she still pissed me off." -- Rock and Rule, guessed by the_dark_snack

4. "We eat when we're not hungry, drink when we're not thirsty. We buy what we don't need and throw away everything that's useful. Why sell a man what he wants? Sell him what he doesn't need. Pretend he's got eight legs and two stomachs and money to burn. It's wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong." -- The Mosquito Coast, guessed by feste_sylvain

5. "I've been trying to get you all night. Why don't you answer your fucking beeper?" "I just wanna tell you, Jack, that the next time I'm suspended, so is my fucking beeper!"

6. "Dying's the easy way out. You won't catch me dying. They'll have to kill me before I die!"

Double Quotes:
7. "Do you know how Florentine women ensure their husbands come home? Every morning they slip him a slow poison, and every evening the antidote. That way, when the husband spends the night away, he has a very bad night." -- Brotherhood of the Wolf, guessed by dreamingcrow, phantom_wolfboy

8. "If you'll notice the arterial nature of the blood coming from the hole in my head, you can assume that we're all having a real lousy day."

9. "You know some of you guys have some cute little asses. It'd be a real shame if I had to blow'em off." -- Streets of Fire, guessed by tewok

Single Quotes:
10. "But Mortimer, you're going to love me for my mind, too." "One thing at a time!" -- Arsenic and Old Lace, guessed by dreamingcrow

11. "It's as though we were made for each other. Beauty and the Beast. Of course, if anyone else calls you 'beast' I'll rip their lungs out." -- Batman, guessed by celticboy, malinaldarose, blackbyrd2

12. "I miss you like the sun misses the flower. Like the sun misses the flower in the depths of winter. Instead of beauty to direct its light to the heart hardens like the frozen world your absence has banished me to." -- A Knight's Tale, guessed by blackbyrd2, belgatherial, bookgirlwa

13. "Where I come from, we talk to our women. We do not drug them with plants." -- Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves, guessed by malinaldarose

winterstream

winterstream
by Everett A Warren
November 19, 1999

silent
dreaming
cold
clear
flowing
immersing
splashing
making magickal
crests of ice
edgertonian
impossible cliffs
curving
shining
shimmering
encapsulating
branches dipped low
drinking
icicle coating
chiming
in whistling wind
and rippling waters
cascading
singing
songs of cheer, thoughtfulness, and meditation
songs of peace, love, and happiness
so that we might remain
for precious moments
awash in solitude
dreaming
silent

Copyright (c) 1999 Everett A Warren