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03-04-2007, 07:03 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Neverwhere
Posts: 320
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I was here once before ...
So I'm not exactly new.
But I posted alot of really BAD poetry just prior to the Gothic.Net schism about a year back.
Thought I would stop back and see if there was anyone still around in this part of the galaxy from those days.
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03-04-2007, 07:25 AM
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#2
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 3,421
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I am here. Drac is here. Jill is here. Occasionally Xng swings by.
I'm not sure if anyone else is left. I tried to get Sancty, but she declined.
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03-04-2007, 10:34 AM
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#3
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
Posts: 7,449
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Welcome back Simple Poet! I remember you, I believe I joined just before you left ( I remember reading your dramatic goodbye posted along with other's in a "so long" thread somewhere). I am glad to see you return!
I always looked up to your poetry as an inspiring example. You came back at an opportune time, as the site is beginning a (small) transformation with a literary emphasis. Anything someone of your calibre can contribute will enhance the process. Of course, there are still the same issues that plague other forums, trolls etc.
Again, welcome back!
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03-04-2007, 11:02 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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I still remember you! And for some reason I thought of you yesterday. o_O
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03-04-2007, 11:12 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Blountsville, AL
Posts: 2,619
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I THINK I convinced you to come back. I begged you to come back what, a month or so ago? So, yeah... I'm pretty sure I did. XD
Anyway, welcome back!
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03-04-2007, 12:26 PM
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#6
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Earth.
Posts: 8,001
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Wait...I was gone from the forum for about a year, what schism?
And what happened to Xnguela? I was buddies with her around the time I joined, but she just disappeared.
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03-04-2007, 12:40 PM
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#7
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
Posts: 7,449
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Originally Posted by Underwater Ophelia
Wait...I was gone from the forum for about a year, what schism?
And what happened to Xnguela? I was buddies with her around the time I joined, but she just disappeared.
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There was a "purge" (mass banning) of certain members who were complaining a lot about the admins. The site has healed now, and the admins are now responsive to member requests, and at least respond with explanations when they deny requests, so the site is functioning as it should instead of being distracted by political wars. Xng was one who had left, and has now returned as DarkHeartedDemoness.
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03-04-2007, 01:02 PM
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#8
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Blountsville, AL
Posts: 2,619
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Xnguela is DDD? I had no f*cking idea! Why am I not told these things?!
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03-04-2007, 01:06 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Earth.
Posts: 8,001
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Oh! That explains A LOT. And yeah, I had no idea she was DDD either. Haunted House had told me she came back, but couldn't remember her name. Why were people complaining about the admins? (This is like some sort of ancient lore)
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03-04-2007, 01:17 PM
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#10
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 3,421
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It's DHD.
We were complaining because they sucked, and we had 340923840 trolls who posted things like chld porn, etc.
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03-04-2007, 01:22 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Neverwhere
Posts: 320
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Thanks for the warm welcome and the history lessons.
It is nice to be remembered so fondly. Draco, Jillian, HP, Maggot ... I remember all of you and hope we will all be better acquainted now that The War is Over.
So Xnguela is in disguise then, curious indeed, but good to know.
Why do I feel as if I have been welcomed back from exile ... no don't answer that.
Ophelia, I don't know you but it is good to meet you as well. I am glad this place is taking a literary bent because that is prescisely why I signed on in the first place.
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03-05-2007, 09:09 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Neverwhere
Posts: 320
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In the old days, there was a twenty questions component to introductions. Well, here is my revised version ...
Now the NEW 20 Questions:
1. What's the most important thing in life to you?
To live to see and cackle with glee at the imminent abolishment of the Urban Mainstream garbage culture and a I hope to witness a return to a more literary impetus in the States
2. What's your ultimate ambition?
To FULLY immerse myself in Medieval Studies and Renaissance culture because I can't deal with this reality thrust down our gullets ... and to publish a novel and poetry collection.
3. Describe yourself in six words.
Antsy, Meticulous, Anachronistic, Pessimistic, Loyal, Cordial.
4. What's people's first impression of you? Why do you think so?
They think I am odd, and probably rightly so.
5. In what way are you physically or mentally "f-cked up"?
Physically I take meds to control my hypertensive tendencies. Mentally, I take meds to relax my mind. Spiritually, my innocence was ravaged by darker spirits and though I find a unique quality of beauty in the night and in “goth”ness, I wish I had not indulged in the more destructive habits associated with a secretly rebellious youth.
6. This sentence is false, respond!
Everything happens exactly as it does. That's Zen!
7. Are you attached, surgically or otherwise to another living being?
I am married going on six years to Mrs. Poet, my beautiful wife who does her best to understand and encourage me through my idiosyncrasies. She is truly the Regis of my Heart.
8. What is your age, location and gender?
I am male. I live close to heart of a sweltering subtropical U.S. marshland I despise ruled by a Mouse, and I am thirty something or other.
9. Why are you here?
Curiosity – if you are referring to the site. I am merely Goth by Proxy and a bit skeptical of where this counter culture is going … Otherwise, for my personal mission in life – is to return to Paris someday before I look like Uncle Fester. Not grandiose, but then again I am easily entertained.
10. Grab the closest novel you can find. What is the title and the first line in chapter 1?
John Gardner: Grendel “The old ram stands looking down over rockslides, stupidly triumphant.”
11. What type of music, films, or books do you enjoy?
Music: Live, Queen, The Doors, Tom Waits, REM, Dire Straits, Green Day, there is SO much more.
Films: Dead Poets, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Big Fish, Garden State, The Indiana Jones Movies (the Last Crusade is my favorite), The Star Wars Films (the favorite being Revenge of the Sith), Star Trek films (The Undiscovered Country is my favorite ... with all of the subtle Shakespeare in it), The Phantom of the Opera, Most Film Noir and just about any movie with Bogart, Branagh's Shakespeare films..
Authors & Poets: William Shakespeare, Ray Bradbury, JRR Tolkien, Jack Kerouac, Raymond Chandler, Ernest Hemingway, John Donne, William Butler Yeats, Virginia Woolf, Annie Proulx, Ezra Pound, Arthur Rimbaud, Czeslaw Milosz, Carl Sandburg, T.S. Eliot, James Tate, Joyce Carol Oates, "Pulp" Star Trek novels. There are many others
12. If you were to turn around and look behind you, what would you see?
A smiling volleyball wearing an Indiana Jones style hat.
13. Are there any pervasive and distracting smells you'd like us to know you are experiencing?
Not where I am writing this. I do love the aroma of thick lavender and roses.
14. Measure something near you. Tell us the measurements, but not the name of the object
23 feet.
15. If black is goth and goth is good, then why does gothic toast taste so bad?
Because as the Mad Hatter insists, only the best butter can be used to lubricate the workings of a pocket watch, and since Goths (from my experience) have little concept of time, there is no need for said butter which means when the toast ultimately burns that we must ingest it with suffrage, not unlike a medieval flagellant would.
16. If God is Love and Love is Blind and Ray Charles was Blind, does that mean Ray Charles is God?
No. In the words of the Immortal Steven Curtis Chapmena "God is God and I am not".
17. What BESIDES Black is your favorite color?
I like Silver … also deep browns and greens
18. Do you drink, smoke or uhh "other"?
With respect to this question, my greatest vice has been occasional merlot and import beer.
19. What were you doing before you hopped on ye olde internet just now?
Sleeping.
20. Why is a Bicycle?
Cottleston Cottleston Cottleston Pie,
A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.
Ask me a riddle and I reply
Cottleston Cottleston Cottleston Pie.
Cottleston Cottleston Cottleston Pie,
Why does a chicken? I don't know why.
Ask me a riddle and I reply
Cottleston Cottleston Cottleston Pie.
Cottleston Cottleston Cottleston Pie,
A fish can't whistle and neither can I.
Ask me a riddle and I reply
Cottleston Cottleston Cottleston Pie.
-- A. A. Milne
And so it goes ...
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03-05-2007, 12:45 PM
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#13
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 3,421
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Care to elaborate on these "destructive habits"?
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03-05-2007, 10:05 PM
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#14
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: With the Zombies
Posts: 2,208
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Hail.
Welcome back. I'm sure you'll find much has changed...
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It's not so much the pain
It's more the actual knife
Pretending the picture is perfect
I cut myself to sleep
I close my eyes for a second
And curse my fragile soul
I scream to hide that I'm lonely
The echo calls my name
*ANIMAL CRACKERS*
http://www.myspace.com/persephone_x
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09-07-2007, 06:15 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Neverwhere
Posts: 320
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Yeah, I'll say ... quite a bit ... especially following yet another hiatus on my part.
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09-07-2007, 09:41 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: GA
Posts: 681
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Hey Poet--welcome back!
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09-07-2007, 09:58 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Canada
Posts: 2,095
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Welcome back, poet. Hope you continue to post on the boards.
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09-07-2007, 10:32 PM
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#18
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 951
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I was from a year back as well..I just don't post that much XD.
And welcome back.
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09-07-2007, 11:05 PM
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#19
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Washington
Posts: 1,092
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Welcome back again, Poet. I never saw a lot of your posts, but there was something about them I liked. Or maybe it was just your avatar what gave me bias, I dunno.
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09-07-2007, 11:11 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: GA
Posts: 681
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Meh...I post off and on myself--I sorta miss the place even when I get busy, enjoy the people and the discussions, from high brow, to WTF????, to just plain silly
Gotta love it...
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09-08-2007, 05:42 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Near Southampton
Posts: 1,319
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III reeemmmeeeemberrr yoooouuuuu.....
Welcome back.
You'll see that we still have trolls and fuckwits under the floorboards...
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09-08-2007, 01:45 PM
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#22
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Harlem
Posts: 6,909
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Originally Posted by PersephoneX
Hail.
Welcome back. I'm sure you'll find much has changed...
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Where in the blue fuck have you been?
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Not all beliefs and ideas are equal.
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09-08-2007, 02:13 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Amidst a shallow grave
Posts: 1,211
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I second Kontan. And welcome back. 
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09-08-2007, 02:35 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Flushing, NY
Posts: 3,206
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Welcome back. I wasn't here before your last hiatus, but I look forward to reading your future posts .
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09-08-2007, 02:37 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Washington
Posts: 1,092
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Originally Posted by KontanKarite
Where in the blue fuck have you been?
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Not here I'm afraid, as that post of hers was made in March =S
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