The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    Just Curious

    By barefooted on Wed, 02/12/2020 - 1:07pm |

     

    Who's still around these parts?  I see Flavius, AA, jollyroger and rmrd as "readers" and, naturally, a few of the headline gang.  Since I'm not here on a regular basis I'm sure I'm missing some ... but who?  I'd truly be saddened to think this wonderful place has become a virtual water cooler.

    Even so, just being here makes me smile.

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    Nostalgia is a powerful thing.  ;-)


    by barefooted on Wed, 02/12/2020 - 1:10pm

    Water's cool, but it's always cooler on the other side.

    Of course Desidero would disagree, being desirous and disagreeable, but I strive to please.

    Think of us as the Goofus and Gallant of blogs.


    by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 02/12/2020 - 1:26pm

    I find room temperature to be the most comfortable.  Though I suppose it depends on the room.


    by barefooted on Wed, 02/12/2020 - 2:22pm

    Some like it hot. When life deals you Lemmons, make Lemmonade - walk on the Wilder side.


    by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 02/12/2020 - 2:29pm

    Seems like an odd coupling ... unless you're blazing a new path.


    by barefooted on Wed, 02/12/2020 - 3:03pm

    More old. And grumpy.


    by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 02/12/2020 - 3:57pm

    Compliments will get you anywhere.  ;-)


    by barefooted on Wed, 02/12/2020 - 4:30pm

    Save it, Tiger. Talk to my sister Eileen.


    by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 02/12/2020 - 4:40pm

    We've clearly been a virtual water cooler for the last two years, probably more. But most of the small group chatting around it are still here.


    by ocean-kat on Wed, 02/12/2020 - 3:13pm

    And a fine group it is.  Nice to see you, ocean.


    by barefooted on Wed, 02/12/2020 - 3:19pm

    At first glance it might appear that we are squatting. But no! The owner is actually very supportive, keeps everything well maintained behind the scenes and even stops by from time to time.

    You did not see Flavius over there? Still sharing great memories.

    NCD is still very much a regular, just not every day, and still can be a funny as hell mimic.

    I think a lot of people found a new place to spend most of their time but still lurk a little from time to time and peep up when they really really got something to say, like oldenGoldenDecoy (I got the impression somewhere along the line that he spends more time over at TPM Prime?)

    Richard Day had a serious heart disease problem, posted about it and how the doctors "fixed" him, starting posting other things again for a while and then disappeared again!

    As he always did, Doctor Cleveland comes and posts few and far between, but interacts when he does. Danny Cardwell posts more often but as he always did, doesn't usually interact. The last time he decided to interact, he got real pissed so maybe that's why he usually chooses not to interact?

    Orion returned and was real active in the second half of last year, and it was all pretty pleasant having him around, he seemed happy about it, then he disappeared again!

    Like you just did, basically it's like Prufrock, people come and go, talking of Michelangelo

    me, I just like having a place to analyze things going on and get input with a few people, not a big crowd. I get the noise over at Twitter, like having a place to clear my head.


    by artappraiser on Wed, 02/12/2020 - 4:36pm

    In short, it's kinda like the chronics in Cuckoo's Nest. You wanna see baseball? Gotta hold a vote first. Me I volunteer for the Billy Bibbitt role.


    by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 02/12/2020 - 4:42pm

    I saw a REAL old name pop up on a post by Jolly Roger on Monday: wendy davis !!!

    I suspect that, just like you, old members stop by once in a while to check out what's going on, mainly lurk a bit and then usually end up going back to their new routine. Whatever that is, whether it's some new club or maybe they've mostly broken their habit.  But sometimes, like with wendy, they just get the urge to say somethin'!

    It's mainly a bad habit, an addiction, what we do, we know that. cheeky


    by artappraiser on Wed, 02/12/2020 - 4:56pm

    It's funny how, sometimes, a place with no ceiling or floor still has a corner that makes you just want to grab your favorite pillow and sit a spell.  Thanks, AA, for sitting with me and telling me about our friends.

    I'll see ya again soon.


    by barefooted on Wed, 02/12/2020 - 4:55pm

    welcome, but I have been remiss, I must add an important name because I know you liked to share poesie with him:

    MOAT!

    moat took a short break last year, but now still comes by all the time. seems to me moat is clearly trying to cut down on the addiction, very disciplined, sticks to looking at only a few topics.clearly one of them is Trump admin. corruption.

    last appearance of moat, I think, was here on the 8th on one of my threads, maybe there was one more recent. moat is a precious mind. hope moat does not break addiction!


    by artappraiser on Wed, 02/12/2020 - 5:09pm

    Discipline, sticking.

    A precious mind; addiction.

    He is my poesie.

     


    by barefooted on Wed, 02/12/2020 - 8:25pm

    I too like that we are a small group but while I wouldn't like to see dozens more here another dozen smart people would be a welcome addition.


    by ocean-kat on Wed, 02/12/2020 - 5:20pm

    Oh, I was going around looking for an *honest man*. Will revise my job ad criteria. Hard to leave Greek tradition behind.


    by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 02/13/2020 - 4:07am

    smiley


    by kyle flynn on Sun, 02/16/2020 - 8:48pm

    hi kyle. keep on lurkin' smiley


    by artappraiser on Sun, 02/16/2020 - 9:02pm