D. Brian Nelson wrote:

I just have to explain to everyone this isn't personal.  It's about pants.

-Don

Oh dear........  its not just some local freakishness spawned by JMG then *yikes* lol

D. Brian Nelson wrote:
Weren't we supposed to be praising Lapis?

Yeaaaay LAPIS!  Hip hip hoorah!

-D

We are also raising plane ticket funds for Praxis - jesus, has NOONE got an attention span anymore?!?! 

Michael Rothman wrote:
Sort of coming in late on this but must agree about loving Lapis.  I have since I shot with her in Sept of '04.   Not sure if this image will appear but below is a link to her on my portfolio.



http://gallery32247.fotopic.net/c286253_1.html

Michael

wow, that is a beautiful picture of her.  ive never seen it.

MadamePsychosis wrote:
Praxy I am sure if each one of your admirers just donated 5 bucks we could get you here.  We should start a pledge.  Sally Struthers could host!

With five bucks from each admirer, I expect she could afford not only a plane ticket, but probably a month in the Presidential Suite at The Plaza as well.

Lapis? Well, I'm hoping… doesn't look like it though. ;-(

Eric Muss-Barnes wrote:

That's sweet.

I'd pretty much try to screw the daylights out of her. But, you know, we all express love in different ways.

That would happen after the hug.

Bruce Caines wrote:
i am adding my lapis love to this thread. when she gets to nyc this week i hope to love me some lapis live. (hmm...her boyfriend may not like the sound of that.)

he had no problem with her sleeping in MY bed, caines.

MadamePsychosis wrote:

Bruce Caines wrote:
i am adding my lapis love to this thread. when she gets to nyc this week i hope to love me some lapis live. (hmm...her boyfriend may not like the sound of that.)

he had no problem with her sleeping in MY bed, caines.

This statement requires a LOT more explicit detail. Preferably about 5 to 6 pages, 9pt font, single-spaced, typed on 8.5x11 paper with 1" margins all-around. Have that on my desk by morning, please ...

Bruce Caines wrote:
i am adding my lapis love to this thread. when she gets to nyc this week i hope to love me some lapis live. (hmm...her boyfriend may not like the sound of that.)

You silly silly man you.

Eric Muss-Barnes wrote:

MadamePsychosis wrote:

Bruce Caines wrote:
i am adding my lapis love to this thread. when she gets to nyc this week i hope to love me some lapis live. (hmm...her boyfriend may not like the sound of that.)

he had no problem with her sleeping in MY bed, caines.

This statement requires a LOT more explicit detail. Preferably about 5 to 6 pages, 9pt font, single-spaced, typed on 8.5x11 paper with 1" margins all-around. Have that on my desk by morning, please ...

a transcript

Eric Muss-Barnes wrote:

MadamePsychosis wrote:

Bruce Caines wrote:
i am adding my lapis love to this thread. when she gets to nyc this week i hope to love me some lapis live. (hmm...her boyfriend may not like the sound of that.)

he had no problem with her sleeping in MY bed, caines.

This statement requires a LOT more explicit detail. Preferably about 5 to 6 pages, 9pt font, single-spaced, typed on 8.5x11 paper with 1" margins all-around. Have that on my desk by morning, please ...

a transcript of our conversations would be even HOTTER!

Bruce Caines wrote:
i am adding my lapis love to this thread. when she gets to nyc this week i hope to love me some lapis live. (hmm...her boyfriend may not like the sound of that.)

Her boyfriend is one lucky guy and very secure. So fawn all you want.

BTW he has read your book and admires the project

MadamePsychosis wrote:
i really and truly do.

before i met her, i loved her, but now, im forever doomed to the path of the Unrequited Lovers....

Madam, you should tell the world about Lapis's qualities. Be concrete in your praise. Don't tell us how you feel. Show us in your description.

Michael Rothman wrote:
http://gallery32247.fotopic.net/c286253_1.html

Michael

Michael,

thanks for posting this link... you have some beautiful work and now i love lapis even more!

Lapis wrote:
And Donley, if you don't go to shibaricon, you won't get to spank as many bottoms!

I am interested in neither shibari nor spanking bottoms.  I've never been a fan of raw fish, in any case.  And that spanking thing I only do when girls ask me to nicely.  Or throw a tantrum.

-Don

D 'Thesis' Yanov wrote:

Madam, you should tell the world about Lapis's qualities. Be concrete in your praise. Don't tell us how you feel. Show us in your description.

Thesis- lookie here.  I'm over this 8th-grade CAPT writing test, SAT II, 5 paragraph persuasive essay shit.  (Lapis, you know what I'm sayin... I've said it before :-D ) 

I prefer cryptic abstractions to descriptive adjectives.

I don't show or tell.  I don't kiss and tell.  I write things that sell.  I miss your girlfriend.

Ian Weintraub wrote:

Michael,

thanks for posting this link... you have some beautiful work and now i love lapis even more!

Thanks for the compliments.  With Lapis as with many of the Models I work with, they make my job SO easy. I just look in the view finder and push a button.   LOL

BTW Love your concepts.

Michael

Michael Rothman wrote:

Thanks for the compliments.  With Lapis as with many of the Models I work with, they make my job SO easy. I just look in the view finder and push a button.   LOL

BTW Love your concepts.

Michael

Thanks Michael...

MadamePsychosis wrote:
I prefer cryptic abstractions to descriptive adjectives.

I don't show or tell.  I don't kiss and tell.  I write things that sell.  I miss your girlfriend.

Hey Lady! kiss + no tell = no sell

lll wrote:
Am I late to express my love for Lapis?  Oops...I am in trouble...waiting for my IM to explode tonight. 

you're waiting for what to explode?  this is getting really x rated...

Kristin Anne wrote:

you're waiting for what to explode?  this is getting really x rated...

he make sexy-time explosion. (www.officialborat.com)

MadamePsychosis wrote:
I miss your girlfriend.

She is amazingly addictive isn't she?  One little taste...one teensy exposure to her and you end up hooked.  And the more time you have with her, the more you want and need.

Damn.

Time to start saving my pennies for a trip to Chicago I guess (or to fund a trip for her to come back out here...).

So, MP, how about we do a fundraising bake sale, we can set up right under the BQE...

Mockingbird Girl wrote:

She is amazingly addictive isn't she?  One little taste...one teensy exposure to her and you end up hooked.  And the more time you have with her, the more you want and need.

Damn.

Time to start saving my pennies for a trip to Chicago I guess (or to fund a trip for her to come back out here...).

So, MP, how about we do a fundraising bake sale, we can set up right under the BQE...

lets take the G to the F and set up in D(own)U(nderthe)M(anhattan)B(ridge)O(verpass). 
i hear a lot of rich art students live there.  ;-)

StMarc wrote:
(Not work safe. Some people might consider this somewhat squickish, although it's very Classical. You have been warned.)

Resquiat en pace.

do I hear Carmina Burana in the background?

StMarc wrote:
(Not work safe. Some people might consider this somewhat squickish, although it's very Classical. You have been warned.)

Resquiat en pace.

MadamePsychosis wrote:
do I hear Carmina Burana in the background?

Mmm. No. (Interesting idea, though.) This is a concept I've been kicking around for a while called "Heart of Stone." It's sort of a postscript to the Arthurian legend. I still haven't got it quite right, but I got it a lot righter than I had before. Two or three more goes, a little more fiddling with the incidentals, and I think I'll have it.

M

Mockingbird Girl wrote:

She is amazingly addictive isn't she?  One little taste...one teensy exposure to her and you end up hooked.  And the more time you have with her, the more you want and need.

She is totally addictive. I think you got to the heart of the matter.
She is a subtle potion. A little bit goes a long way. You think you have been only slightly effected. But then when she goes, you understand how dependent you have become.

(For M.P.) Hello my name is dyanov and I am a Lapis addict. I haven't touched a drop in 3 days. However, I am breaking down and that is why I am at this meeting.

Are there any other L.As here?
Anyone in their first day of sobriety?

MadamePsychosis wrote:
lets take the G to the F and set up in D(own)U(nderthe)M(anhattan)B(ridge)O(verpass). 
i hear a lot of rich art students live there.  ;-)

Ooooh...good idea!  BUT - how about the G to the F and go to Park Slope and set up shop in Prospect Park....cupcakes and a lemonade stand.  Lots of rich parents and their kiddies...  ;-)

(what an amazing photo that would make...)

D 'Thesis' Yanov wrote:

She is totally addictive. I think you got to the heart of the matter.
She is a subtle potion. A little bit goes a long way. You think you have been only slightly effected. But then when she goes, you understand how dependent you have become.

(For M.P.) Hello my name is dyanov and I am a Lapis addict. I haven't touched a drop in 3 days. However, I am breaking down and that is why I am at this meeting.

Are there any other L.As here?
Anyone in their first day of sobriety?

I was actually thinking of you when I wrote this this morning....and thinking about how much you must miss her now.  The first day is probably peaceful...and a little nice (it always is for me when I have "alone" time).  But by now...yowza...

I think the two of you should move to NYC. *nod*  Yes, yes I do.  ;-)

Mockingbird Girl wrote:
I was actually thinking of you when I wrote this this morning....and thinking about how much you must miss her now.  The first day is probably peaceful...and a little nice (it always is for me when I have "alone" time).  But by now...yowza...

I think the two of you should move to NYC. *nod*  Yes, yes I do.  ;-)

agreed, totally totally agreed, phuck Uchicago and their snooty undergrads... hyde park and that whack fake beach... Home of the Blues, exactly.

D 'Thesis' Yanov wrote:

She is totally addictive. I think you got to the heart of the matter.
She is a subtle potion. A little bit goes a long way. You think you have been only slightly effected. But then when she goes, you understand how dependent you have become.

(For M.P.) Hello my name is dyanov and I am a Lapis addict. I haven't touched a drop in 3 days. However, I am breaking down and that is why I am at this meeting.

Are there any other L.As here?
Anyone in their first day of sobriety?

Better late than never, you ;-)

Mockingbird Girl wrote:
I was actually thinking of you when I wrote this this morning....and thinking about how much you must miss her now.  The first day is probably peaceful...and a little nice (it always is for me when I have "alone" time).  But by now...yowza...

I think the two of you should move to NYC. *nod*  Yes, yes I do.  ;-)

You are so right. The first couple of days are alright and then and then...
It leads both of us to appreciate what we have and how much our struggle to be together has been worthwhile.

Before we move to NYC we both have to go there together, but I think we will at some point live there.

BTW you have great taste in poets. Leonard Cohen is up your ally. Cohen loves Lorca and transformed Lorca's poem "Little Vienesse Waltz" into an amazing song "This Waltz."

MadamePsychosis wrote:

Better late than never, you ;-)

I went to a meeting tonight because the leader of this meeting is so fantastic. He is a gay drag queen, in make up, former prostitute, now psychiatrist, who was in jail for manslaughter. Michael is one of the funniest people ever. I would pay to listen to him. The only other thing that makes me laugh as much is Borat/ Ali G. (ask Lapis) After listening to him, you really do feel that your problems ain't that big or very important. As he said --but much better than me -- "Whatever crisis you have this week don't worry about it. You'll have another crisis by next Friday."

Well for at least 35 minutes after the meeting I felt great. (Sorry I'm constitutionally incapable of writing l-o-l)
or as Leonard Cohen says "for something like a second my heart was at ease."

MadamePsychosis wrote:
agreed, totally totally agreed, phuck Uchicago and their snooty undergrads... hyde park and that whack fake beach... Home of the Blues, exactly.

Are these your original sentiments or are you goading me? I am slow on the uptake, but I think it is the latter. Have you been there? Have you known some of the prigs and snots?
I am a total contrarian and I spent most of my life mocking the U of C and Academia. However, in the last couple of years I have come around. I started to take classes just for fun, just on things that interested me with no practical thought. I am addicted to really smart people who have things to teach me and the U of C has some great pockets of knowledge. I am enamoured by the Committee on Social Thought, which is a basket case of really interesting people from all sorts of disciplines.