We Take the Fifth
I was looking for an Original Sarcasmo that related to the Fourth of July. What's that you say? Today is the fifth of July ? A day that does not even warrant capitalization ? Ah well, yesterday was a holiday. Technically, as my fair city, the US Postal Service, and many union employees are celebrating the Fourth falling on Sunday by having off today, it is still a holiday. The second Fourth. The Fourth, part II.
It doesn't matter anyway. This Original Sarcasmo was posted July 3, 2006, ( otherwise known as Fourth of July, the prequel ) and has absolutely nothing to do with Independence Day. (the day, not the movie, which, it has nothing to do with either.)
The link it appears, takes you to all the posts for July 2006. Possibly something to do with all the moving around. All of the posts are worth a read. The one I am referring to is :
My Life with That
All because she couldn't find a decent pencil.
Enjoy !
Oh, and may the Fourth be with you, which admittedly was more amusing yesterday, and actually somewhat funny on May the fourth.
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All Hail Sarcasmo
Today is her birthday. She would have been 37. What do you think would have her attention these days? Having already portrayed the victim of a zombie attack in an independent film, and a pirate on haunted ship, done voice over work for video game, co-authored ,with Peccable, an award winning IF game, road tripped around Europe with her sisters, did karaoke in Tokyo with Sarcas-sis and her BIL, visited London solo, wrote for Phillyist & Shiny Shiny, not to mention building a global following with this very blog, well, what would be next ? I don't pretend to know, but without a doubt it would be interesting, and she would be giving it her all.
Speaking of that global blog following, I very recently made a new friend, thanks to Sarcasmo. Someone I already knew but had never met. He has been stopping here at the Corner for years. Not a fellow blogger, or a personal acquaintance, justme_in_here wandered through one day, liked what he read and stuck around. He commented off and on, first here and later on Wednesdays Off as well. As if by some sort of telepathic connection, just when I would be wondering if he had forgotten about us, he would post a comment or send an email.
That's just how it happened one day in May. I wondered and he emailed. He was here in Philly on business and had been to Rittenhouse Square, but hadn't found the plaque. I gave him directions and invited him to breakfast.
I have to deviate from the story for a second and just let you in on this. If you tell people that you are planning to meet up with a person who you only know from an online relationship, chances are they will assume he is an ax murderer. I'm just saying. Back to the story.
As we ate , justme_in_here shared his photos from his trip to Philly with me, Including, photos of doorways. Inspired, he said, by Sarcasmo.
She is still, an inspiration.
If you feel inspired today, toast her with a Starbucks. Or dance to the music, even if everyone is watching . And if you can, kiss the frog.
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Any Day in May
Vis Major wished me a Happy Towel Day this morning. Were it not for Sarcasmo, I would not know what Towel Day is, or that it even existed. I figured there was probably an appropriate original Sarcasmo to mark the day, so I searched the archives. Since the big move, the search feature on the blog itself is a little wonky. But this was an easy quest as Towel Day is the 25th of May. So I paged through the archives. May 2006; 2005;2004;2003;. Found nothing about Towel Day, Douglas Adams, or Hitchhikers.
What I did find was that Sarcasmo was loquacious, even for her, in the merry month of May.
So I wish you all, a Happy Towel Day. And urge you to pick a May. Any May. And pick an Original Sarcasmo to share with all of us. And if you find a reference to Towel Day, feel free to point out my oversight. I have a bit of a time constraint as, unlike everyone else in the free world I do not have access to the internet at work. Work to where I should have been gone 10 minutes ago !
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Recycle Responsibly
Today Sarcas-dad and I visited the local city recycling center and disposed of an old laptop battery. It was quite a simple task. I could not help but compare it to the time Sarcasmo wanted to dispose of an old, broken computer monitor. Simple? Of course not. But it made for a great Original Sarcasmo, complete with references to Alfred Hitchcock movies, and Sarcasmo's faithful minion Trotwood.
I get to recycle that post for you thanks to Friend of the Corner, Wandering Star, without whom the Corner would be a nice place to visit, but not a place to post to. Despite Blogger's handy dandy migration tool, the move was not without glitches, late night emails, and although he never let on I imagine there was a new level of frustration experienced. But here we are. Thanks Wandering Star.
Now that we are settled in our new digs I hope to get back to posting all kinds of fun stuff. You know what that means:
Sarcasmo's Corner invites you to participate on this blog. If you have any stories to share, or links you think Sarcasmo would post, please send them to; slf1954@verizon.net . Or leave them in a comment. We thank you all for keeping Sarcasmo's Corner a place for her friends to gather.
Here's one, just to ease back into it. An alphabet Sarcasmo would love. Recycled from Friend of the Corner Cheryl.
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Star's Barleywine
Usually at the end of my very infrequent posts, I ask for readers to share stories about Sarcasmo with the rest of us, I knew you guys were reading it! This lovely sweet story was sent to me by friend of the corner Tom.
Several years ago now I made a small batch of strong beer, sort of an attempted belgian ale thing, as sort of a tribute to
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sarcasmoscorner. I owed her a bottle of Chimay, y'see,and I never got to pay up.The results were disappointing— it didn't ferment much at first, basically a mild ale with a lot of extra sugar— so I never mentioned it to anyone. Left one bottle in the basement, didn't even bother to put a suitable label on it. Forgot about it entirely.
Now I'm discarding box upon box of stuff in preparation to move, and amidst four dozen empty grolsch bottles (I will never again ask movers to move my empty beer bottles for me, geez what a jackass move) I come across this thing. Still labeled "BAST.BOB ROSEMARY BREW."
Y'see, a decade ago (!) I made a batch of beer with rosemary rather than hops, out of historical curiosity: they used rosemary before they used hops. Guess what, it was weird and different and people largely didn't care for it.
I thought it was that stuff so I wasn't too excited, but I was curious what ten years might have done, so I poured a glass anyway.
It was the beer I'd made for Star. Apparently it decided to take its own sweet time fermenting in the bottle.
It is Star's barleywine. It is heavenly. And there is just one bottle in the world, half of which is already in my belly. Sorry about that guys. (:
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Tom Boutell
http://www.tommybgoode.com/
http://boutell.livejournal.com/
Sarcasmo's Corner invites you to participate on this blog. If you have any stories to share, or links you think Sarcasmo would post, please send them to; slf1954@verizon.net . Or leave them in a comment. We thank you all for keeping Sarcasmo's Corner a place for her friends to gather.
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All Hail Sarcasmo, and Her Friends
Clearly as you are reading this, I have stopped wringing my hands and cursing my wretched fate. It's tough to type and wring at the same time.
Relief has come in the person of Friend of the Corner, Wandering Star, ( how appropriate is that alias in this situation ?) who has gallantly stepped forward to facilitate moving Sarcasmo's Corner. By facilitate, I mean he is doing it all. He is optimistic, and so am I.
As with any move, things don't always go back into place right away. Since we don't know what the initial result will look like, WS suggested a please excuse our dust post until he neatens it up. So this is it.
To all of you who, like myself, lack technical expertise but sent wishes of good luck, and moral support, I want you to know that it means a lot. And a big thank you to this Friend of the Corner who also offered his assistance.
What a tribute to Sarcasmo that her friends are there for her.
See you when the dust settles. And if anyone wants to help with the unpacking, well,
Sarcasmo's Corner invites you to participate on this blog. If you have any stories to share, or links you think Sarcasmo would post, please send them to; slf1954@verizon.net . Or leave them in a comment. We thank you all for keeping Sarcasmo's Corner a place for her friends to gather.
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This Blog Is Moving and I Need Some Help With the Heavy Lifting
Dear Friends of the Corner, I think I may be in over my head here. We all know that Sarcasmo was the technical support of both this blog and mine. She set them up, and whenever there were any little hitches, I wrung my hands and cursed my wretched fate while she made all the necessary adjustments. She promised that one of these days she would teach me what she knew. I honestly don't know how she came by all this internet savvy. Except that it often strikes me as a foreign language, and she was good with that. Ask her sisters about the time she got them directions in Europe using her high school french.
Now, Blogger has notified me, and the rest of the 5% of their customers who use FTP publishing that they can no longer dedicate their resources to that. So, if I want to continue posting to Sarcasmo's Corner, as well as my own blog, Wednesdays Off, I have to move them.
Shudder.
If it were just Wednesdays Off, I wouldn't care too much. If I screw it up, I can just start over.But that is not an option for the Corner.
I have been doing some research on the site that hosts the blogs, and on blogger. It has answered some questions, but created others. I think there are a couple of things that could happen.
1. I don't do anything. The blog will never be updated, but all of her words will still be there. Not the way I would want it to be, but better than having the whole thing go poof.
2. I find another platform that does support FTP publishing. I am guessing that would require it's own expertise that I don't possess the skills for either. And, who's to say I won't find myself right back in this position in the near future ?
3. I try to move Wednesdays Off first, and if that goes horribly wrong I revert to option number 1. Sounds like a plan except that Wednesdays Off is a sub domain of Sarcasmo's Corner.
I am not sure if they can be separated.
4. I use the migration tool that Blogger is supposed to release tomorrow to relocate Sarcasmo's Corner, and let the chips fall where they may.
What do you think? I would like to back up both blogs before I do anything, but having watched the tutorial video several times, I know that I still don't know what I'm doing. I called the host site support the last time I had a technical problem. I explained the level of my technical prowess. The tech was very nice, and I think he did his best to simplify his answers. It was still beyond me. If you watch The Big Bang Theory, I felt like Penny listening to Sheldon.
I am open to any and all suggestions, and welcome any assistance you can offer. Is there someone, or a service, that I can hire to do this for me ?( while I wring my hands and curse my wretched fate?). If you can help, or you know someone I can contact, please email me at slf1954@verizon.net .
In case this is my last post here, I wanted to let you know that Slouching Towards Bedlam is, well, Slouching on. Peccable let us in on this news:
http://umu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:281798
A gentleman in Sweden, going for his doctorate in a Studies in
Language and Literature program did an analysis of the Gothic
tradition in what contemporary interactive fiction.
He analyzed 4 pieces, including Slouching, which he did a 30 page
analysis of before comparing and contrasting it with other works,
including Bram Stoker's Dracula.
He compared it to Bram Stoker's Dracula. Can you imagine her joy?
Interest in Slouching has also been expressed by another party for use as an example in a textbook.
If by chance this is the last post, many thanks to you all. For everything.
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Enlightened by Monkeys
Sarcasmo was quite enamored of monkeys. For that reason alone she would have been delighted by the baby shower. Monkeys were represented. On outfits with feet, crib sheets and blankets and all kinds of baby accoutrement. She would also have been delighted that the party was for Friend of the Corner Poppy, who was looking all lovely and radiant. There was much of the traditional ooohing & aaahing, and we had cake and got to play with crayons and watercolors before we went home.
According to a few online references, the baby shower was originated in the 18th century by a German silversmith named Franz Schauer , to encourage gift giving by the well do do in New York. Kind of like the way Hallmark has made up holidays to sell greeting cards.
So what essentially began as a marketing ploy was morphed into yesterdays lovely gathering of friends, old and new. And monkeys.
Today is Valentines Day, or as we suggested in a previous post, Compulsory Love day. Sarcasmo was a fan of love, but not so much the day. According to those online references, handwritten valentines gave way to the mass produced variety in the 1800's.
So, baby showers, traditionally a gathering of women were started by a man in order to create a need for his product, and, personally expressed declarations of love were overshadowed by mass produced greetings, both in the Victorian era. That is not what I thought was implied by the term Age of Enlightenment.
Consider yourself enlightened.
Happy Valentines Day.
Much love to Poppy & Feanor and our soon to be here newest Friend of the Corner. May he love monkeys too.
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It's All Part of Her Rock & Roll Fantasy
Sarcasmo was always open to a new adventure. When I heard about the upcoming Ladies Rock Camp here in Center City, I felt sure she would have been organizing the troops into signing up. Who among you would be in the band? And what would you call yourselves?
Sarcasmo's corner is hoping that you will include us among your new year's resolutions. Send any links you think Sarcasmo would have posted, or any Sarcasmo related stories you want to share, to slf1954@verizon.net. Or post them in the comment section. And thanks for hanging in with us for another year. It means more than we can say.
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Damn you Currier & Ives
Okay, show of hands. Who else woke up this morning and realized that tomorrow was Christmas Eve? Anyone ? Anyone?
Somehow, the lovely serene feeling of presents bought and wrapped and tree bedecked in living room gave way to OMG I STILL HAVE STUFF ON MY "TO DO BEFORE CHRISTMAS" LIST. How did that happen?
Among the things still on the list for which I was sure I had another week to accomplish was, write an outstanding Christmas themed post for Sarcasmo's Corner.
See:
- Bake cookies
- Lose 10 pounds
- Buy matching Christmas outfits for Sarcas-family.
- Write outstanding Christmas themed post for Sarcasmo's Corner
- World peace
I tend to over reach every year.
When all else fails I as usual turn to Sarcasmo for some holiday musings. or, as some might consider it, reruns. While searching for the penultimate of her yuletide posts, I came across this Original Sarcasmo. Originally posted December 23, 2003, it is as you would most likely have guessed, about pirates. If you thought it was going to be about Christmas you are either new to the Corner, or you have not been paying very close attention.
Have a wonderful holiday.
Sarcasmo's corner is hoping that you will include us among your new year's resolutions. Send any links you think Sarcasmo would have posted, or any Sarcasmo related stories you want to share, to slf1954@verizon.net. Or post them in the comment section. And thanks for hanging in with us for another year. It means more than we can say.
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