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Archives: April 2015
Night Crumbs
Thanks to Katy Perry's (probably) April Fools' Day wig, I'll never ever be able to scrub the dark-sided and heave-inducing image of Pimp Mama Kris shooting whipped cream out of her tits – Lainey Gossip
Megan Fox serving up mouth breathing mannequin stiffness in Harper's Bazaar Arabia – Drunken Stepfather
FYI: When Bradley Cooper goes beard browsing at the clubs, he wears earplugs – Celebitchy
The Oscars really don't have shit on the bright shiny A-list extravaganza that AOL hosted in Times Square – Reality Tea
If Aubrey O'Day was going for" Transylvania real doll call girl on downers," she pretty much nailed it - Egotastic!
Dear Crystal O'Connor (Side note: I hate that her name makes me think of the supreme goddess from Showgirls), I'm trashy enough to get pizza for my wedding, but I'm just a little classy enough to get it from California Pizza Kitchen – Towleroad
When are we going to find out that Rita Wilson cheated on Tom Hanks with Vanilla Ice in the 90s and gave birth to Chet Haze? – The Superficial
So from now on, you can think of FourFiveSeconds as a Wilson Phillips song featuring RiRi, Kanye and that guy from the Beatles – Jezebel
Um, I think Kylie Jenner got some of Khlozilla's cooch fur stuck on her purse – Hollywood Tuna
Dave Chappelle's stalker obviously doesn't know comedy, because you're not supposed to throw the banana peel. You're supposed to slip on it – WWTDD
Hilary Duff still has pool hair – Popoholic
Behold, cum gutters galore - The Berry
Patton Oswalt took a break from hating on ginger earth angel Phoebe Price (no, I will NEVER forget) to defend Trevor Noah in a tweet rant – Just Jared
Joni Mitchell is still in ICU, but is awake and happy-ish – Popsugar
Suicide Squad added more cast members – Pajiba
"DAAAAAAAAAAD!!!" – Brooklyn Beckham to his dad – ICYDK
It's like gay Christmas! Faye Dunaway is writing a tell-all about the making of Mommie Dearest – Queerty
Pic: Instagram
The CAPTION THIS Contest For April 1st!
Pic: Tosh.0
Open Post: Hosted By A Florida Dad Using A Camaro To Pull His Son's Tooth Out
And here's #4,568,093,675 for why I love the greatest state in the country: Florida.
When I was a kid, we'd try pulling our loose teeth out by doing the "slam the door" trick. It hardly ever worked for me. Nowadays, kids have it easier. All they have to do is blast a Justin Bieber song at their mouth and that tooth will jump right out and run toward the nearest exit. But this Florida dad, who's a wrestler named Rob Venomous, decided to go old-school. He hooked his son's tooth up to a string attached to his Camaro (with the word "balls" on its license, because Florida) and hit the gas pedal. Don't worry, I'm sure that Rob Venomous knows what he's doing. I'm sure he's also a board certified dentist and learned that technique at the Florida School of Dentistry.
via Fox 13 Tampa
FKA Twigs May Become FKA Pattz
Her last name is Twigs, right?
During a conversation with Vulture (via Popsugar) about music and stuff, the godfather of Auto-Tune T-Pain said that he listens to a lot of FKA Twigs for inspiration and when he was asked if he's working on her next album, he dropped a bomb that will make the Robsten fangirls scream until their tonsils rip off, fly out of their mouths and wiggle on the floor. A window in my bedroom just broke and I'm pretty sure it was from the pressure of the high-pitched wail that Nutty Madam let out all the way from England. T-Pain just casually let it be known, that you know, FKA Twigs is engaged to ol' Patty, no big deal:
Will FKA Twigs be on your new album?
Well, the first time we even met each other, we met in the studio. Her music's changed a lot since then. But she's on tour so much, and anytime I call her, she's in a different place. And she's engaged now, so that's about to be a whole other thing. [Laughs.]
Wait, she's engaged? That's news to me.
Yeah, to ol' Patty [Robert Pattinson]. I don't know if she wanted anybody to know that …
Couldn't T-Pain have waited, because the Internet is barely starting to rebuild itself after it was nearly destroyed from that Zayn news. But seriously, I don't think the Robsten fan girl wing of mental hospitals need to make room for new patients just yet. I'm sure those crazies haven't totally lost it, because they probably think this could be a prank and they're furiously refreshing Vulture until they see the words "UPDATE: APRIL FOOLS'!" Or they're gathering evidence to prove their theory that FKA Twigs is holding one of the unicorns from ol' Patty's enchanted forest hostage and is making him marry her.
And here's some pictures of FKA Twigs wearing a gold ring on THAT FINGER at the Alexander McQueen exhibit last month. It's either 'shopped or she, Vulture and T-Pain have been working on this elaborate prank for a long time! Obviously.
Pics: Wenn.com
January Jones And Will Forte Might Be Doing It
If you've been watching Fox's The Last Man on Earth, you know that Will Forte's character Phil Miller has been desperately trying to get with January Jones' character Melissa Shart for the past couple weeks (despite the fact that he's fake married to Kristen Schaal, who was his second choice after a hot department store mannequin. Trust me, it's a great show). However, it sounds like pretending to have the hornies for each other might have lead to actually having the hornies for each other, because UsWeekly says Will Forte and January Jones are totally dating. Random, thy name is Betty Draper humping on SNL's MacGruber.
A source says that they've been dating for the past couple months, adding that he's a "good guy" and they're "having fun". Well no fucking duh, how could you not have fun with Will Forte? That's like saying "Guess what! I went on a date with Kim Kardashian and she brought her mom and a camera crew!" I mean, we're talking about the man who gave us Paul L'Astnamé from 30 Rock; if anyone could get January Jones' non-smiling face to crack a smile, it's him.
Then again, this could all be UsWeekly's idea of an April Fool's Day joke. In which case, does that mean he's still available? How does he feel about ok-faced bloggers that smell constantly of strawberry Pop-Tarts? I'm…uh…asking for a friend.
But speaking of smiling, here are some pictures of January Jones smiling at the Mad Men season premiere last week. Who knew that getting dicked by Tim Calhoun is the cure for chronic resting bitchface?
Pics: Wenn.com
Natalie Portman Says Parisians Don't Wear Shorts
Members of the pro-shorts army better put on their best pair of scrappin' shorts and get ready for another battle, because Natalie Portman has joined Fran Lebowitz in the war against shorts. GOOP'S ambassador to France Natalie Portman did an interview with the Wisconsin Gazette (via Bustle and Lainey) to promote some Miss Dior shit and her movie Knight of Cups, and she got into talking about what it's like living in Paris with her twirling ballet dancer husband and their son Aleph. When Natalie Portman skips down the street in Paris singing "Bonjour, Paree!" from Funny Face (which you know she does because trick thinks she's our modern day Audrey Hepburn) with a baguette in her arms and a beret on her head, she doesn't have to worry about her eyes being hit with the sight of French legs sprouting out of tacky shorts. Le trashé!
It's so interesting to plunge into another culture and experience a different way of living. The city is so rich in terms of the architecture, the bookshops you find at every corner, the way everyone dresses so well. No Parisian ever walks around in shorts and even the children look very chic (laughs).
The closest I've been to being in Paris is the time I ate French onion soup and a crow-sawnt at a Mimi's Cafe outside of Lake Perris, CA, so I have no idea if she's dribbling out the truth or not. But I do wish that Parisians would secretly gather together and agree to wear shorts on the same day. Natalie's mind would be blown across the Atlantic. I'm not sure if I totally believe Natalie, because one of my style icons is French and his ass is always SANS PANTS!
Explain that, Natalie!
Here's Natalie with her son last year and yes, she's wearing cut-offs, but it's okay since these pictures were taken in the uncouth land of déclassé known as L.A. When in Paris, don't wear shorts! When in L.A. , look like trash!
Pics: Wenn.com, FameFlynet
Milla Jovovitch Is A Mom Again
After being pregnant for what felt like 4 years (I could have sworn her knocked-up announcement came out the same day Britney's "Till The World Ends" was released), UsWeekly says that model/actress/semi-professional Alice from Resident Evil cosplayer Milla Jovovich gave birth to the baby growing inside of her earlier today. Milla and her husband Paul "Not the Boogie Nights one" Anderson are now the parents of a 7lb. 10oz. baby girl. I was crossing my fingers Milla made the smart decision and named her new baby Rouge Pulp, but UsWeekly says her name is Dashiel Eden. They already have a 7-year-old daughter named Ever Gabo.
Milla and Paul have chosen the most random names for their kids. Dashiel Eden sounds like the name of the summer cottage the Crawley family escapes to when Downton Abbey is being fumigated for bugs, while Ever and Dashiel sounds like the fancy Beverly Hills bedding store where Snobby Saleswoman #2′s sister works. Not to mention that Dashiel will probably get shortened down to Dash, which is truly tragic, because as we all know DASH is the name of the Kardashian's jank clothing store. See, these are the things you have to consider before you name a baby.
And if you want to see what Milla looked like before she gave birth, here's a very knocked-up Milla and her husband and their dogs going for a hike a few weeks ago. I can totally relate to those tiny poochies getting carried back to the car by Paul (hiking makes me tie-tie too).
Pics: Splash, Wenn.com
Giuliana Rancic Says She Knows She's Really, Really Skinny
One of the lone hosts standing at Fashion Police tells People Magazine that she hears it loud and clear when people say she's skinnier than a praying mantis' right nipple (Yes, praying mantises have nipples. I saw this on Planet Earth, ok") and she also thinks she's super thin and doesn't like. Giuliana says that there's no reason to give her a copy of Tracey Gould's book Room To Grow, because she doesn't have an eating disorder and she also says that she eats more than all of her friends. Cut to Giuliana eating with all her friends, who are birds.
Giuliana Rancic says that she's talking about it now, because the comments about her have gotten out of hand and she wants people to know what's going on.
"Some people were saying, 'The cancer is probably back.' And they were accusing me of every eating disorder. I thought to myself, 'God, if someone really thought I had an eating disorder, what a horrible way to approach it.'"
Rihanna Wants You To Know She's Definitely 100% Not Dating Leonardo DiCaprio
About a month ago, Leonardo DiCaprio's people sent out a Morse code message from the communications deck of Leo's snapper trapping yacht, The S. S. Snatch Catcher, to silence the rumor that he was sticking his dirty hobo dick in Rihanna by claiming that he was still single. And now it's RiRi's turn to do the same.
During a recent interview with Hello! (via The Daily Mail), Princess Ooh Na Na was asked: "How does Rihanna DiCaprio sound to you?", because I suppose the sneaky sleuths at Hello! were trying to trick her into admitting that she was still picking Leo's bloated beard lice off her pillowcases. Unfortunately for them, RiRi is smarter than the average intergalactic stripper princess, and she responded:
"It sounds to me like you should stay away from the blogs because they will screw you every time. I'm so busy right now that I just don't have a lot of time to offer to a man, so it wouldn't even be fair to be thinking of pulling somebody else into this life. But if I did, he would have to be man enough to live with my schedule and not get scared."
So there you have it. RiRi is too busy to be cruising around the world on Leo's floating fuck pad. But back to that Rihanna DiCaprio business. What the hell kind of dumb ass question was that? How does Rihanna DiCaprio sound? DUH – it sounds terrible! Rihanna is like Cher or Snoopy – she doesn't need a last name. Rihanna isn't tied down to a man OR a last name.
Excuse My Jailbird Beauty: Teresa Giudice Poses For The Cover Of UsWeekly In Prison
You might be feeling dead inside from reading the dozens of hilarious April Fools' jokes that your prank master friends are putting on Facebook, so here's something to fill your insides with sweetness and awwwwness. One of The Real Grifters of New Jersey Teresa Giudice is about 3 months into her 15-month prison sentence and since she's got court fines and creditors to pay back, she got prison bitch glamorous for a touching fambly portrait shoot for UsWeekly. Nothing brings the unfeeling mound of bitterness you call a heart to life like a criminal making money off of being a criminal. But what really makes this cover extra special and sweet is that they cut out her two other daughters from the picture. You dodged a tacky bullet, other Giudice girls.
UsWeeklysays that the Olan Mills-like portrait was taken in the visiting room at the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Conn, which is Teresa' home for the next few months, because she committed bankruptcy fraud, among other things, with her husband Juicy Joe. Teresa told UsWeekly through her lawyer that what she really misses most is Bravo's cameras. No, Teresa said that she misses her girls and they will get through it together as a fambly, blah, blah, fart, blah.


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Halloween decor finally done
I didn't take photos of the front porch, its basically same as last year. But here's the small area I did around my kitchen table Again I thank Candy for the nudge in doing my pair of curio cabinets this year. I normally only change them out for Christmas, but now I'll probably doing them for all the holidays since I always decorate the bay window.
There's 15 photos, so here's the link to my album to see them...
hugs, Karen
Here is a link that might be useful: my Halloween decor photos
Karen, it's all so wonderful! Glad Candy gave you the nudge and you decorated the curio's for us. You must of done some major repacking girlfriend.
I'll have to go back and look again and again. I can't seem to get into much of anything right now. Guess my work load is taking control of my mind this year.Not Good!
I'm so glad to be able to come here and see all the neat creations you come up with. I'm really loving all the black and white you used.
Oh boy, that was a fun tour of around your kitchen area! Wow! I love your bay window ...that is really cool all done up in black silhouette-like! And your kitchen table w/black trim & chairs...wow, really works good! But I think what really makes it all so Fall/Halloween-y is all the goodies in your curio cabinets! Awesome! All the witches & personal gifts & that red owl (I saw that one at TJMaxx awhile back...when I got my gold mercury glass one!) Miss Oct. is adorable! And the books on the glass shelf! Everything looks great!
I love the vignette on the antique tea cart ...your wall arrangement above it, the lamp, painted frames & of course, Jazz in replica!
Your Bebe witch is a hoot, too! Wow, I'd say you're certainly ready for the holiday ahead! Congrats, good work & TFS! Jeanne S.
Jeanne, I have you to thank for my bay window decor! Soon as you saw the metal stuff piled there after unpacking, you saw the potential of using it that way. ;o)
You and Candy were my "helpers" and I so appreciate it as I sure needed that this year.
hugs, Karen
What a TREAT! Thanks so much for the tour.
First let me say how much I love the Tea Cart and the vignette on it.
The red owl caught my eye too, and I'm glad that you used your Curios to display your treasures.
They look wonderful...you have some fun witches!
BTW, did I say that I LOVE witches?
I'm going back now to see what I missed.
TFS, Karen
Karen this is the BEST Halloween display you've done to date!
You've collected so many wonderful pieces...if there is such a thing as 'Elegant Halloween'...then this is definitely what you've created! I love how your Bay window turned out..with all the Ravens/Cages and Black Metal pieces - especially how you arranged them. Your curio cabinets are filled with great displays. Those witches look like if they could 'get out' they'd stir up some real mischief! Love the Purple one and also the 'Witch & Famous'..she's a hoot.
Great arrangement on your teacart...love the 'Jazz' cat on it too.
I know there are things I missed commenting on - you did so much!...I'm going back to see what I missed.
Looking good there Karen! I especially like the bay window arrangement of crows, etc. You amaze me with all of your holiday decor....I swear I need to visit so you can teach me how to pack like you do. I thought I was a master packer, but you're the "Queen"! Great job!
Wowza!! I love it all. The bay window looks fabulous, and I can't believe you have never done the curios before because they are absolutely wonderful!! The tea cart is perfect in the spot you chose, and the decor on it is perfect.
I couldn't believe when I saw your chandelier because I have 2 much smaller witches hanging on mine and a giant spider web with a huge spider on it!! Can you say "Great minds think alike?" Ha Ha. Or, maybe we are just cosmically in tune!
For not putting all of your decor out, you sure did a great job with what you did. Imagine what you could do if you had the energy and your legs cooperated...there probably wouldn't be a bare spot anywhere!! LOL
I love the "witch and famous" sign too!
Fabulous as usual, but we wouldn't expect anything less from you!

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If we don't feel with our hearts, we don't belong
If we don't see as one, the world is wrong
Beyond the wars and the hate and the insanity
We are all connected as humanity
We are the child with cancer who still wears a smile
We are the kid from the projects facing trial
We are the pregnant teen feeling lost and used
We are the elderly man in a home abused
We are the young couple, marriage on the rocks
We are the homeless one in a cardboard box
We are the cold and hungry, sad and depressed
We are the lonely child who never felt blessed
We are the woman whose life was filled with pain
We are the man standing alone in the pouring rain
We are the child who struggles day to day
We are the teenage girl who ran away
We are the soldier killed in an unjust war
We are the young man who can dream no more
We are the inmate locked away for life
We are the old man who has lost his wife
We would be better off without our vanity
And have a sense of belonging to humanity.
I called to the winds of autumn
As they wrapped up the dying year;
"Oh stay for a moment and tell me
Of answers I need to hear".
Who is the rival of prudence
Who is the merchant of crime
Who closes the eyes of beauty
And steals the hours of time?
Who brings the winter to age
From the springs of the fountain of youth
Who is the companion of sorrow
And destroys the justice of truth?
Who's the apprentice of Satan
The Prince of the Power of Air
Whose appetite is transgression
With more than enough to share?
Who weakens the power of the great
Who slaughters the wisdom of wise
Who brings the honest and gracious
To depths that others despise?
The winds of autumn now answered
With a voice like a phantom call
"It's an evil afflicting so many
Who drown in the drink alcohol."
This is the spell of the devil
Who casts his net from hell
An addiction with power to destroy
Gathering all who are caught in its spell
For his net will gather the unwary
To beguile lost souls with his breath;
This is the destruction of lost dreams
That perish in the arms of death
Daddy never did understand.
That violence doesnt bring comfort.
A lost soul seeking acceptance from a unwelcome hand.
She was silent no one ever knew.
The secrets behind her bruised eyes.
A shocking victem none but all had a clue.
She cried to empty walls never speaking aloud from fear.
A confession of pain and shattred trust.
this is only what angles hear.
Scars selfinflicted are better than that
dirty feeling.
As she lays a broken shell gazing at the celling.
She questions if others know what will they say.
Doing whatever it takes to stay numb.
Innocence lost a parent should never betray.
The guilt was placed apon the wrong head.
Void of all emotion.
No child should yern to be dead.
At times it gets to uncomfortable so in
another direction we steer.
For at times it's just to painful to stomach.
What only angles hear.
When my final shadows cling on desperately
Where I fight formidable battles
to merely hold the light
I send you loving vibrations
and soul sustenance
Deep from the cathedral
of one heart to another
where today no choirs sing
nor symphonies play
Yet it is here where we meet
in spiritual solace
here to surrender
and exchange inestimable treasures
recollecting memories
like unopened letters
Galaxies are stretched
over chronicles of shared history
Nebula birthing stars
will be exposed
in forth-coming conversations
bringing short-lived fulfillment to you
Hungry to feast
now will be the time
to approve your blood art vision
and with my own haunting surrender
as dappled shades ink stain your chest
I will reside with you and share, mesmerised
pens - by branding
as this will be your written reams to me
your artist's pallet or brushed canvas
no need for words
and yet creating
mysterious magical moments
Bitter-sweet the music
that dances taut guitar strings
but now blood approved
please go kick your heel up
return to your laughter
and ride on the breeze
for not all are lost
change not
for I am with you always
to love, listen and comfort as one
with you in me and I in you
as masterpiece
These are the confessions of an Anarchist,
when I
stepped away from the light,
entered the shadows
of forbidden caverns,
the caves, tunnels
and catacombs of anarchy.
Here a constant, cold caress
of moisture,
a persistent inner rain
pooling alongside lonely thoughts.
Nothing would grow that deep underground,
not even fungus, nor lichen.
I survived on sheer will and dampness,
lungs mutated into gills,
eyes became accustomed
to this ever-present night.
A Mission lost in translation and transmission,
a rogue satellite orbiting
through thin air's mind-bending space,
cut-off from other agents of Anarchy.
I slithered along corridors of broken souls,
fed on regurgitated thoughts
and drowned dreams of cities burning down,
melting like hot candle wax.
How I wanted the cities above to burn!
To burn down into the ground
in waves of rolling thunder and lightning.
Not able to differentiate between night and day,
weeks gave birth to months
in a C-section of fleeting years.
Somehow I stumbled upon a side entrance,
felt warmth pushing in,
pushing down,
and my will shattered apart,
fusing back together into Plan B.
As I broke the surface,
light seared my tightly shut eyes,
breaching eyelids with ease.
The pain felt wonderful,
changing into a delirious exultation
and heated comfort,
thawing out frozen, stiff bones.
Rays of sunlight rippled across my skin,
evaporating the slimy, cavernous musk,
burning me on the outside,
cleansing me from the inside.
Eventually I was able to keep my sore eyes open
while they felt ready to sizzle and explode from sensory overload,
globules floating through my vision.
The first thing I clearly saw
was not close up magnified,
but the distant horizon enveloped in a halo
of lemon haze, arching between two mountain peaks.
I wept,
skin buzzing from the sun's heat.
how sunlight changes the perspective of nightmares,
revealing reality's potential fibers,
balancing the darkness within,
bending the remaining droplets of lost hope
into a prismatic ribbon of brilliance and prayer,
always evading the deep-rooted catacombs below,
a place I will choose to forego,
only entering within memories,
until even these are burned away by sunlight,
until even these are cleansed by sunlight.
2013 Double-Rainbow Remix
December 18th/19th, 2013
(originally written April 12, 2011)
It seems that all my life I've seen some darker times
Now and then the times I knew were more than I could stand.
But, learn we must, from all hard times and soon we come to know
It's trying times that we go through that makes a boy a man.
When we feel weak at heart and think we'll never make it
Our spirit strengthens us to somehow carry on.
It's then we learn that just at midnight things could get no worse
And soon we see the darkness fade and midnight brings the dawn.
Every midnight has a dawning
Every dawning has a day
Where daylight shines on things remembered
And some things lost along the way.
And every passing daylight
Brings evening into play
Where we'll face another midnight
That brings, yet, one more dawning day.
It seems a pattern thus emerges,
Monotonous as it may seem,
Every midnight brings a dawning,
Filled with all our daylight dreams.
Dreams are meant to bring survival
To those who may have lost their way.
Who found the darkness of the midnight
Kept the dawning light at bay.
So, as near as I can figure,
There's this we can rely on
However bleak the darkest midnight,
After midnight comes the dawn.
Written by John Posey
In a new road,
Rain will fall,
Wind may blow,
Swifting our woe.
The road forever on and on,
Many paths to choose,
Many paths to take,
Home behind,
World ahead...
Through the shadows,
Through the night,
Clouds going by,
There we will lie,
Very deep,
Seeing shivered land,
Seeing the dead seas...
Through the edge,
Miles to go,
Singing by,
Darkness rising,
Vanishing light,
Hollow flourishing,
Going by,
World ahead,
Home behind...
Rain may fall,
Through the nightfall,
Through the twilight,
Through the dusk,
Through the dawn,
Beyond mountains,
Beyond stones,
Standing strong,
Wandering lost,
World ahead,
Home behind,
Paths on and on,
'Till the road comes along...
In churned up soil the poppy rose
On top of death, still steadily grows
And in our minds we see the crosses
That lie in rows and count our losses
Blood that drips from tiniest bloom
Beloved children, lost from the womb
Their essence blown upon the earth
For infinity, will show their worth
And so they marched by decree
A war they fought, so we could be free
The poppy, how we remember them now
So in silence we do reverently bow
One single day, just once every year
To remember all the horror and fear
To give thanks and praise, to those in need
Who saved us through unselfish deed
For so young when they said goodbye
With no idea that so many would die
In Flanders Fields where poppies grow
Innocence, now lays buried in each row
For those that did return safely home
Their spirit lost and so had flown
To fly away among the peaceful skies
With friends and larks with carefree eyes
In the thunder hear the roar of guns
Calling to all our native sons
Arise, arise, from sleep once more
For once again, there will be war
In Flanders Fields, the poppies grow
They cover our loved ones, buried below
Like a blanket, they protect all within
From a world that is ravished by sin
More souls will join them as the years go by
More wars will be fought, as the lark does cry
More fields will be filled, with our dead
And poppies will mark their graves in red
"Lest we forget and more shall die"
"In Flanders Fields our loved ones lie"
Have You Ever
Stood in a field of ripened gold grain
Lifted your face to be kissed by the rain
Felt in your heart the anguish of pain?
Held someone's hand in their hour of sorrow
Brought a new dream to the edge of tomorrow
Leaned on a friend finding strength to borrow?
Spent a sweet moment with a child at play
Given a home to a lost lonely stray
Found faces in clouds as they float away?
Held a lost moment hidden in time
Sucked on the juice of a tree ripened lime
Whispered a word in transcendant rhyme?
Descend in the depths and found yourself lost
Awakend with wonder to windowpane frost
Swallowed a slight despite the high cost?
Danced in the wind with a rose in your hair
Cried all alone with no one to care
Hoped for tomorrow with all you can share?
These are the moments that make life worthwhile
Knowing that living shares joy with the trial
And so much is solved when a face wears a smile.
A lonely person hides to cry
An ancient person wants to die;
Within the shadows of the mind
A thought unused is left behind.
We walk the path that goes nowhere
Where silence is the friend we share;
Where friendship lives in solitude
And loneliness is thought imbued.
A single candle shares its light
With stars that pierce the shades of night;
We wait alone till we are gone
While fleeting years still hurry on.
We keep the rhythm, read the rhyme
We lose the step and pass the time;
We move with fate to reach the end
And still we never comprehend.
We lost the dream, we lost the light
We spend our years tossed in fright;
Till wisdom found how great the cost
With nothing gained when all was lost
Demons of faith,
God speed,
Ageless tears,
A dweller lost in the perfect Odyssey.
Bricks of memories, barricade my way out.
Growing gray within the ageless centuries.
Steady rivers, at the pitch of one response.
Times out, by the heat, and beauty.
Tragedy is never a fear to announce.
The drug that takes to cure, the world,
~ lost in a torn humanity.
Harmless, results and tears
~ struck in every way, in the same day.
Sneaky thoughts up my sleeve.
I will leave, the envious of me, this you best believe,
There is no way in...
I found the perfect way out...
Destroying demons,
That get in my way..
Waking up in a dusty road.
Unleashing every load.
Today's a different day, still I wake up the same way.
But, today life is reversed.
I find myself with an endless thirst.
Tossing me into a 700 degree level,
I shine away from the path of the dust devil.
Swirling all around, forbidden to enter my bound.
Your pitch at me,
a fever I want no more.
Now I can see, the emptiness of the things inside of me.
Now I can feel, my soul reaching out to heal.
Breaking every cold sweat,
Shivers, pneumonia a life of regrets.
Withdrawals left behind.
Symptoms, showing the fever is gone.
God Speed*
Into my life*
Take my letter to her, O Messenger!
Yes, totally washed are its words and phrases
A deed of my flooding eyes I couldn't deter
The tornado of tears accumulated for ages
The storm of anguish concealed in heart
Washed all urges of soul that flowed from pen
The torrents rumbling from the start
Once started couldn't be stopped there and then
Her perception will be triggered, I am sure
This blank sheet will reveal all that I meant to say
The power of love will her instincts conjure
My feelings, my urges won't go astray
Tell her, that the lustrous mansion of pride and ego
Is falling to pieces like the house of cards
The dark alleys of life that lost their glow
In a state of disrepair, description beyond words
The King of Diamond has lost the game
A player is lucky to hold the three A's
Lost is all the glory and fame
Built in years and lost in days
His eyes craving for your enchanting face
The candles of his eyes weep in the desolate nights
Lost is all peace and tranquility's trace
Your charming features his heart ignites
A few breaths are left in the dying tree of life
With fallen leaves and barren branches entwined
Resuscitate and free it from torments and strife
Be a glow of the dimmed eyes that brilliantly shined
Tell her, the writer awaits your reply
With burning heart and soul alight
Before torments enhance and wounds multiply
And the bird of life takes to wing of flight
A beautiful time, the slightest breeze
We yearn to be more than lost
Your charm so delightful, alluring
Warm to my every thought
The beauty of life's song
Sings so sweet in our minds
On occasion our souls will play
Among the ruins within our hearts
Delighted in everyday life
Intimately peaceful with every breath
My heart,
Believing in the reality of your love,
Followed you into passions' burning
In search of the promised oasis of our
Where happiness, you said, so easily could
A mirage your love turned out to be
Under the sizzling sun of disillusion was
I left,
Sacred oaths taking,
Not to listen anymore
To heart's fraudulent
© Demetrios Trifiatis
When I am Colder,Older and then alone...
I will collect the sky on my own...
When the art has faded and the days then fade-
when everyone has gone away...
I may finally see what never was saw
.....ahhhhhhhhhhhhh............... the quiet sky
The unlit room which bares my end...shows the flashes of my pains my joys and sins.
This life has been a strange one since the curtains were drawn
These paper and plastic figures have clouded the dawn
I was once younger,foolish,and obsessed with truth
Now I am bitter,sour,dour faced with my heart under shoe
The children were all searching or lost in a crowd
All weeds in a garden...growing vile and foul
Though beauty was sold it never came true
Obsessions and vanity have traveled safe through
Materials and poison and everything lost
have been burned in the fires or lost in the frost
I stand face to mirror tearing my being apart
Winding thoughts of love,pain,god,and art
As the sun sets and the darkness grows
I too shall follow this pattern in tow
Death has a friendly hand and a pretty face
She has given me comfort as I leave this place
The wars have occurred,humanity's lost
Souls have been burnt in the fire or lost in the frost
Day was Life,Night is Death
And the latter has given counsel on my final steps
When I tried, I'd grab your hand
Pull you close and hurt you inside
When I lived, I'd bring you down
There's nothing left to live for this time
Funny faces, painful places
Tempting lies and metaphoric races
Spiteful smiles, selfish trials
Losing friends within my denial
When I gave, I'd take the land
Sell it off and then demand
If you give, I'll share the wealth
But now I'm done and I see sand
Trading thoughts, selling pain
Despising trust unless I gain
Unheard sounds, silent voices
Expressing nothing and no more choices
I got lost in fear but now I'm fine
I fell so far and lost all time
Landed on my feet and heard a rhyme
I heard my breath and took in this sign
Waking, feinting, coloured paintings
Shivering and understating
Take my mind, take my soul
Circulate it all as I'm creating
Words that breathe, words that show
Wisdom as my eyesight grows
I've seen the fall, I've felt the breeze
Swam through space and shadowed trees
Another death and I'll be fine
My soul has finally aligned
Though my body still a cage in time
My spirit travels and I find
I got lost in fear but now I'm fine
I fell so far and lost all time
Landed on my feet and heard a rhyme
I heard my breath and took in this sign
The world is round and so I spin
I'll close my eyes and I'll begin
I'm tired
I'm Physically and Emotionally tired
I don't want to be the strong one anymore
I can't this time
I don't know what to do Daddy
I need your help down here
I can't get back in control of my emotions
I'm having a hard time dealing with your absence
I'm having a hard time standing by myself
I need your help Daddy
I'm broken and lost without you Daddy
I need your will to want to carry on
I need your strength to over come this
I need your strength to stay standing
Your courage to fight back again
I need your help
Please Daddy I'm at a loss
How am I suppose to do this
I need your guidance
I need you to guide me back
To whom I was before
I need your help Daddy
I need your help
He was always so happy
strong and bold.
He'd give you the shirt off of his back.
He had a rough life
growing up through the depression,
but like he always does,
he got through it.
He has two boys, of whom he is so proud.
Moved from Regina, to Victoria.
He had the best life anyone his age could have wanted.
But ever since his wife died,
he has not been the same.
But like he has always done,
he got through it.
Mind slipping,
just a little forgetful.
That's how it always starts out...
But like always, he powered through it,
until now...
He is not the same person that I used to know.
He been sentenced to the prison in his own mind.
Possessed by the thoughts of his dogs ashes.
He likes to play the blame game,
but we know he doesn't remember that it was him.
He wakes up in the night
shaking with pain,
tears streaming down his face.
There is nothing we can do,
Oh well...
Two more tylenol.
Hold on to hope
for as long as you can,
It's only a matter of time now.
He gets vocal, a very loud tone.
He'll block you in your room
and make false accusations
But we know that it's the pain induced monster in him.
Tick tock, tick tock...
You can't handle the stress anymore
you have to leave.
Just hope for the best,
maybe it will get better.
Surprise, it doesn't.
Your denial is foolish, everyone knows
what happens next.
All results of
I never knew following dreams could be this lonely,
But up on the hill, looking back, thank God I'm not the old me.
If the tears will fall, let them be;
I believe this is God's plan, follow your dreams.
My heart was in such pain
I felt like I was going to go insane
I just don't know what to do
And my eyes full of tears that distort my view
I fell to my knees and felt the urge
My muscle tighten and pin needles struck me like a surge
My body was warm and with feelings so confused
My mind felt sadness had fused
I could not conquer my fears
I just sat down and fell into tears
When some close to you passes on
It felt like a warmth has gone
So I raised my hand towards a box that was empty with no tissue
I first was embarrass and had a little bit of issue
All my friends hugged me and said sorry for your loss
So now I cry in my bed and toss
April 14, 2013
Cold and dark, the eyes of the depths
glaring at the stars above.
Few dare descend the steps
which reach down to oblivion's cove.
Heavy, the desire for truth,
like the chains dragging my body further down
unto fate unknown.
Beyond recompense, lies the ruin
sunken to forbidden ground,
now home only to the strangest of creations
and catacomb to the drowned slaves of history.
Will all memories be as this one day?
Ghosts that haunt the corpses of humanity's ambition?
Black are the bells that once chimed to announce omen.
Buried are the thoughts that walked my mind.
Broken are the tables where ideas once feasted.
Bound are the hopes, eaten by preying sharks of doubt.
Weighing down, the garments choke the breath of life.
There, where insanity was sane, beneath facade's streams
lies truth, in the sea of forgotten dreams.
You know how we sometimes analyze too much and forget to feel?
It's okay to feel -
whether it be confusion
or you just want to cry -
even the strong ones like us get lost
we don't always say what we really need,
we hide behind the go between and supporter to everyone..
So tonight if you're lost
know that in your silence you can still
liaise with your Maker...
He sees beyond what we ever imagined
most importantly He gives us the peace
and guidance we sometimes seek in others...
Say unto wisdom, thou art my sister and call understanding thy kinswoman. Proverbs 7:4
Wisdom flew out the window as the clock struck
sixteen minutes after midnight on an October night in 1973
It soared away on feathered wings of blackbirds cawing of death
carrying the message to streets and by-ways of childhood
The entrance to the avenue of innocence barricaded by birds
weaving an impenetrable barrier of lost dreams and half-grown shadows
Understanding slid into creases in rumpled bed sheets
and was lost when my sister flew home to Heaven
Shrouded by a fog of sleep I dropped my kaleidoscope
shattered childhood's innocent hues cracked prisms of dreams
She was the older sister She took wisdom with her when she left
leaving me with years of making wrong choices
She held understanding of my fears hopes dreams
She alone knew my desire to be a nun and knew I wasn't Catholic
We were saved together baptized together
I morphed my dream of entering a nunnery into zeal
for ministering to people in far-away lands
Instead I spent too many years chasing chips of colored glass
that held fragments of an innocent lost love
My dreams drowned as I swam through seas of alcohol
Youthful shadows lost forever in a haze of pot smoke
I tried to build a kaleidoscope with shards of glass
but the prisms were lost inside my LSD induced nightmares
My age not my memory tells me I was a teenager once
Years of lost moments and wrong paths taken
where I only circled back endlessly on myself
Time tumbles along like prisms of glass in a kaleidoscope
The cha-chinking of colored moments ever changing
I spun like a top on my pivotal moment lost sight of my destiny
Yet somehow I meandered through the maze
picking offshoots of wisdom compassion understanding
tucking them like little wild daisies into my hair
I found the words to speak of what I learned
in this language of poetry that travels to far-away lands
Eye understand the purging processsSsss,
the simplicity of catharsis -
heated caterwauls wailing in alleys
with porch lights shot through by moths of powdered blame, regret
and guilt. Continuously, I read the poems of others:
"Poor me! Poor, poor pathetic me,
my heart is going to wither away!
Because of YOU! Because of YOU!
I hate you now,
you spineless whore.
Why did you leave me shattered
upon the harsh surface of broken dreams?"
"Slam! Slam! Slam! I have a big gun, you'd better run!"
Japanese Whispers - "Lost in a forest - all alone."
"All together now, let's sing Kambojah."
Oh, I feel the pain, feel the nightmares
unfolding in the minds of others,
a clairvoyant, empathetic twister I am;
I don't wear a tin-foil helmet.
and the dreams, the beautiful dreams of light
The words fill me,
vowels and consonants bridge murkiness
with an astounding clarity.
simple moments touch me deeply.
Of smothered hope
rekindled hope
sunken coffins
bats and belfrys
rainbows arcing -- introspection flowing across the nostalgia of
porch-swings, dripping peaches, the scent of a newborn baby, the existentialism
of bee-headed bishops, forbidden touches, slippery, secretive pantings.
After having written 500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,002 poems,
I became tired of writing for/about myself in a certain way.
I lost my way,
desiring the vain-glory of spotlights,
far too entrenched in devices,
and the: I-am-so-cool-I-am-too-cool-to-be-warm-crowd.
Curdlings of avant-garde souring my morning coffee,
the hollow musings of lost souls reaching out of sugar-cubes,
reaching for something more
than their silly, inane routines of simply surviving. Simply surviving.
I understand.
I read poems
as gifts for my soul.
But for me, it isn't quite as easy to reciprocate,
for I am a rhombohedral, hexagonal ____________.
It was only after being able to reach deep inside myself,
pulling out a purity of intention,
to finally, finally write poems for another - as gifts
with no expectations or strings attached,
that I was able to give back,
to fully express how deeply the words have touched me all along....
Inner Struggle
is it the stars
on a cloak of midnight blue
or the moon beams
dancing through the canopy
that eases reality's view?
the reflection
in the window pane
begs answer
for it's tears, not rain,
that stream on the glass
silent cascades
bare the resistance
of approval
prayerfully awaiting
the dawning acceptance
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I came upon an old man,
A homeless, wretched soul.
He looked so sad and helpless,
In his hands, he held a bowl.
He was propped against the building,
So, his weakness would not show.
He saw the world through glasses,
With hair as white as snow.
I heard my father whisper,
As my eyes filled with tears,
"One need much more than money,
One needs his loved ones near."
My father loved his family,
Does this old one feel the same?
With my father's soul beside me
I asked the old one's name.
His name, he said with feeling,
Was lost with all he owned.
A thief assumed his identity,
Then, all he had was blown.
His wife died in December,
The vulture, then closed in,
Pounced while he was grieving,
Then, his life changed again.
I gathered the frail body to me,
Spoke kindly, acknowledged his need,
A home and a heart full of loving,
My family would plant the seeds.
Love is the first to be planted,
Followed by trust in their care.
My father's spirit surrounds us,
His example taught us to share.
The old one lost all his pallor,
With love and trust he gained
More than he ever hoped for,
Another family, who gave him a name.
Grandpa, we decided to dub him
As we fought for all he had lost.
As he won the last legal battle,
His life was the price that it cost.
The old one wanted cremation.
My mother did not and she prayed.
Next thing we knew came a lawyer,
And the Last Will and Testament played.
My mother, for once, became speechless,
And I drew in no better air.
Grandpa was there in the picture,
Leaving us undisputed heirs.
Dark clouds crowd the sky, diminishing light
Eternally, the Flower, Death covers it
Not a Soul is left to shiver, Death is night
Death controls the life of Man, all Lovers
Known as the Dark Angel he comes and goes
All fear him, for that he gives no do-overs
He steals life as the wind quietly blows
There is no remedy, not even time
Only God knows that the soul truly owes
The Soul lasts until the last, final chime
No hope, No desire, time to feed the Fire
You go to Hell, with Satan you will dine
You can't be saved with your Lover's desire
Your Heart, Body, and Soul are now Fire
Why are we here on earth,
because the Lord has something for us each to do.
He has not told us what it is,
but it is not to pine over lost love.
It is said he never gives us more then we can handle,
we just need to work at finding our way.
Life can not always be peaches and cream,
we must be ready to take the bad with the good.
Life will not always be what we expect it to be,
we must open our eyes that we may see.
A person should never feel they are not needed,
we need someone and someone needs us.
Though it may not be the person we want it to be,
someone is out there it may just be a matter of time.
To grieve over a lost love one is to be expected,
to go through life alone is not what anyone expects.
We need only to open our eyes and believe...
I am needed ...I am wanted ...by someone.
Someone is out there waiting for me,
a real live human Being...I just need to believe.
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How can one express the baffling depths of obscurity?
How can one behold to open the shafts of the mind?
I have never been able to solve the mystery—
Of myself. . .
I wish at times that my life was no more
That I could live as another and finally see things right
But I am always stuck in this darkness
And I cannot see this mind in light
There are beasts. . .demons prowling through the wasteland
Searching for any remaining life
And if they are ever found—
They are doomed and consumed
Fear is their downfall and they never fail to smell it
Their ashes remain, dancing with the imaginary breeze
It is silent here—there are no answers
I wish there were answers. . .
But maybe there was never a reason
No answers. . .
Talons extend and clench around my heart
They will never seek me out—they left me here
It is like they knew…I had no reason—that was the answer
I feel the pulse of my dangling life
Alone in the dark, whimpering like a child
I have scared myself, becoming this dragon-daggered youth
No balm in Gilead!
No eyes to see
All I know will never be free
I don't need anyone!
You are a disgrace—scum of the waste!
You have everything, you ungrateful little nothing
You are a joke. . .
So swallow it all up like the pushover you are
Stand your lowest and trudge right through
No questions. No answers. Just . You.
Or just lie back down into the mush of disease
It has already infected you to the core
Accept who you are, you ugly pestilence!
I hate you
Who are you to be glorified?
Dream snatcher. . .murderer of all things bright
Saturated in what you call light
I see right through—even as the reflections shatter
All of the dead kept you alive—they all matter…
But alive you are the worst there is
False savior—edited attention whore
I never want to see your face again
See, that's why I hide. . .
Desperation. . .desperation. . .
I sob and cry kneeling in defeat
For once I am right. . .I am right
It was their night they shone bright as they danced their sweet dance
Two lovers embraced in their world of romance.
They laughed and they cried as their eyes locked in stare
It was their world for this moment as if no one was there.
And their steps they so flawlessly glided in tune,
To a melody that touched everyone in that room.
Their passion brought envy to onlookers there,
Who secretly questioned their own love affair.
But as the night closed and came to an end
The lovers were blind to what lie round the bend.
The house and the cars and the jobs that went bad
The kids drove them crazy and their savings were drab.
So they fought to hold on to the things in their life,
That caused them so much of their pain and their strife.
They fought with each other like enemies do,
And dismissed in their life everything that was true.
So when sickness and hardships and troubles occurred,
Their vows to commit seemed truly absurd.
Their home and their kids would now take a backseat,
For their moral obligation they chose not to meet.
So I Ask …
What happened to that dance they danced so well?
With passion and truth everyone could tell.
What happened to their dance where they held so tight?
What happened to the wonder of their glorious night?
What happened to the words that charmed their ears?
With a passionate rhythm that brought them to tears.
What happened to those vows that poured from their heart?
The "I love you forever and till death do us part".
For these aren't just words we borrow for the day,
From another who tells us this is what we must say.
We say them cause it's what we feel true in our heart,
It's a God given blessing we commit from the start.
But these words are now lost as they fall on deaf ears,
Since the pain and the struggles they've created these years.
So the lesson here learned dear people of odd,
Is that love is so fragile but made strong with our God.
So stop fighting for power and money or need,
For all of this nonsense is only our greed.
Keep God in your life and he'll walk you through,
When heartache and pain and losses ensue.
For why commit vows in the eyes of our God,
And not call on him when life gets too hard?
For the truth of our vows we are all meant to see,
is that marriage is not, made of two, but of three
If reading these words ring some truth in your heart,
Decide that today you will make a new start.
Go hug your spouse and say something kind
Don't let the small stuff cloud up your mind.
We're all just lost souls who are trying to cope
If not there for each other then where is the hope?
You see, the anger, the fight
that in us abide, Is only the insecure child inside.
So rise up above all this fear and this pain,
And see all the beauty that there is to gain.
By trusting in God and his will for you
Together forever he'll see you both through.
For life is too short for our miserly ways
cheap on our love hence dreading our days.
He made us to love in all that we do
To wake up each morning and start us a new.
So pray for your spouse, ask God to be kind
To the person you prayed in the beginning to find.
They're still the same person you loved from the start
But life and it's troubles have hardened their heart.
You vowed that you'd love them in sickness and health
Now is your chance to show God what you felt.
So rise up my friend, don't say that you're through
For what if your loving God gave up on you?


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Has anyone bought a grate from this comany?
Are they really efficient and a lot more heat ouput than the standard grate?
Please tell me your experience.
I've had one for 4 years and I love it! Well built and works as described on the website.
It took me a little while to get used to the different style of fire it produces--a slower, more controlled burn. It definitely throws out the heat. Not as efficient as an insert, I'm sure, but for the recreational woodburner like myself, it works just great.
I'm thinking of getting one of their firewood racks. Like the grates, it's built of 3/4" steel bar. Heavy duty stuff. I like that!!!!!
As long as the fireplace is open (no doors or no insert), it is consuming a lot of excess combustion air which is air in the home that has already been heated. This air is replaced by cold outside air and the net effect is that house gets colder, although it may be warmer in the room with the fireplace.
If you want heat out of your woodburning fireplace, you need an insert. If you have a pre-fab wood fireplace, instead of a masonry fireplace, you don't have too many options.
Good luck.
Hey Marra, if your looking for greater heat output consider installing a cast iron "Fireback". Its placed in the very back of the fireplace and its designed to protect the firebrick and of course being of Cast Iron material, radiate more heat out of the fireplace. I originally saw them on a website and were advertised with a large variety of designs available, on these plates, (Firebacks). They were selling for I think about $150.00 each. I would think that one would have to secure it to the back of the fire place somehow as not to have it inavertantly fall out though.
We purchased this grate last year. We love it. We use our fireplace at night when we are watching TV after work. I like it because we do get a little more heat when the doors are open and when we are sitting close to the fireplace. It's good as a additional source of heat, but it doesn't,t reduce our heating bill. This company also offers cast iron and heavy duty stainless Steele firebacks. They recommend stainless Steele firebacks for additional heating. I am thinking about adding this also.
When we moved in to our 'new to us' old home, the old tired thin grate was
sagging and did not produce such a good fire. We only used it a few sundays but rely on it for storm power outages. This grate provides a good draw and has kept us warm in our large open liv-din-kithen during the past two 6day storm outages. We do plan an insert update as it will be much more efficient overall, but if you only use your fireplace for storm back-up and a random holiday, this is worth it.
I have one and absolutely love it. We have a very wide (large) fireplace so we bought one of the larger models. Fortunately, the company is located in a nearby town so I drove up to get it. I cannot begin to imagine the shipping cost if I'd needed it shipped, given its weight! But it works like a charm, just as advertised. Much more heat, much less "tending." We do have to get longer length logs the next time we order -- it will work better with those. The guys in the showroom (very small, low-key) were terrific, too. Very friendly company to deal with.


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I am working on a mobile web dice simulator. The initial prototype is here: http://dicewalla.com
I currently have one large canvas where I draw all the dice. I am planning to re-write the code in way that is more MVC and easier for me to update. I think it would be easier for me to generate a small canvas for each die object than to draw all of the dice on the big canvas and keep updating that big canvas.
My question is if there is a bad performance hit in having the browser create lots of little canvases vs one big one. It's hard to test locally, I was hoping someone here might know what the best practice is.


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Layout help - aye, aye, aye!!
I want to say that i am very grateful for all of the people on here who help each other. Kitchen remodeling is an overwhelming process, so it's great to have a place to bounce ideas and share experiences.
We hired architects to help with an addition and kitchen remodel. They have been great and have lots of good ideas that seem to be right on track with what i have seen here on gardenweb. But there are still a few issues with the current plan and wanted some feedback before i meet with kitchen designers for the cabinet quotes.
About us- family of four with 2 toddlers. My husband doesn't cook and I'm hoping my daughters will help me bake when they get older. I always loved to bake and finally have some time to learn to cook and experiment now that i am working only part time. The current kitchen isn't very functional in terms of counter space and sink location. I do almost everything on the small kitchen cart/island we bought. Someone took the part of the wall down between the kitchen and dining room and made the half wall a very non-sturdy peninsula. It has become a catch-all for "stuff."
We will be expadning out the back of the house to add the family room and will relocate the dining room to the back as well to gain more space in the kitchen. Gas lines and plumbing can be moved, but columns/ wall need to be incoporated along sink wall to maintain structural integrity. Also, there is an odd spot of glass blocks 18 inches wide on one wall - i guess someone added this for more light in living room. We have grown used to it and currently, it will remain in reno; however, it starts about 34 inches from the floor and therefore, the counters will have to be lower at this end of the run.
My goal is to create a functional inviting kitchen where i can cook and family can gather (but be out of my way while i'm cooking!)
Must haves- 36 inch gas range, island, prep sink, reduce refrig size in plans to 36 inch from 42 inch
Would be nice - 2nd wall oven (not sure of size or conventional electric vs steam oven), tv spot, refrigerator drawers
maybes- warming drawer
My concerns about current plan -
1. flow from dining area to refrigerator - will people be walking through my cooking zone? can i alleviate this with fridge drawers elsewhere. currently, flow would be good from living and family rooms to fridge
2. where do i put my glassware - so used to uppers by the dishwasher currently
3. location of wall oven and micro - want landing zone above oven and near micro (don't want built in micro)
4. peninsula - we had it extended to accommodate 4 stools, BUT - worried that this forms a bottleneck in kitchen. I have never lived in a house without table in kitchen. I'm afraid losing the table in the kitchen will be less comfortable. Should i nix the peninsula and place small round table in this area instead. i think we are going to widen the raised countertop on other side of sink (in family room) for additional seating when needed and will have cabinets and/ or shelves built underneath for storage of infrequently used items.
5. glass blocks - as mentioned above. if they weren't there, i could have more freedom in appliance locations, upper cabinets and counter height. Husband wants desk over there, but i'm not crazy about that idea at all.
Whew! I hope i got everything in. I can't find the post about what i should include in the layout help request.
This post was edited by phillyfeet on Sun, Nov 10, 13 at 23:08
So, what we really need is a detailed, measured layout of the space, including the widths/lengths of each wall/window/doorway and the distances b/w each wall/window/doorway.
The FAQs now have the various posts from the old "Read Me" thread - I've linked to the Layout FAQ below.
Meanwhile I will see what I can do, but w/o the detailed layout it will be tentative b/c we need measurements to know what will actually fit where.
Here is a link that might be useful: FAQ: How do I ask for Layout Help and what information should I include?
Since there is no seating overlooking the family room, what if you swap the main sink and range? That would give you more contact with the family while you cook, easy access to the island prep sink...and storage for your dishes. You could use one of those 'glass' hoods, with maybe glass uppers, in place of the glass block? That would look nice from the family room :) From Kitchen plans
buehl - i copied all the measurements i had from the architects drawing. i'll try to add more as you suggested.
lavender- swapping the main sink and range is a great idea, but will that pose a problem with venting since the area above the main sink was going to be open? I am still trying to figure out the venting requirements for the range. also, not sure what you meant about the glass hood. i'll try googling it!
Meeting with cabinet stores this weekend to get preliminary pricing on some custom vs semi-custom lines and i'm really excited.
it is an existing space, but most doors and windows will be removed, moved or added. I will measure what won't be changing tonight and add it in.
Lavender- i think i'm losing it! when you said glass hood, were you talking about the vent hood? for some reason, my mind went to the other wall with the glass blocks and i couldn't figure out what you meant!
1, 4 and 5- It may be better to add seating to the raised bar in the FR and remove the peninsula. Then, you can have fridge drawers at the left end of your cleanup counter.
I don't think having a table in the area where you have the peninsula would be good, because it may block your way to the pantry. Maybe you can move the LR entry to the left and move the sliding doors from the office near the pantry and have a table near the cooking counter (or go to table height near the glass blocks and have a peninsula for eating).That may discourage people from coming into your cooking zone.
2- Maybe something like this for your glasses (the one on the side).
Or you can keep some of your glasses in the drawers.
Modern Kitchen by Wellesley Kitchen & Bath Designers Divine Kitchens LLC
3- How about something like below for landing for micro/oven?
Sena01 - wow, what great suggestions! I love that first picture with the column for glasses. if i went with table height peninsula by the glass blocks, do you think that would interrupt flow from office (the office will just be a tiny room open to the mudroom that will be the main front entrance for family and entrance from garage) to bedrooms (looking at the diagram, our bedrooms are to the right of the kitchen and living room - we live in a ranch style house)
Buehl -I'm attaching the diagram with a few more measurements. i put a few ? where i really don't know what it will be. that small wall by the living room entrance is in rough shape. we think there is brick under there that was continuous with the fireplace and raised hearth. Someone before us covered all the brick with dry wall and plywood. We were able to fix up the fireplace area and hearth, but had no idea what to do with this plywood covered wall that measures 46" w x 17" D x 24" H. We just painted it the same color as the walls when we moved in and hoped someone would come up with a creative solution when we eventually remodeled the kitchen. Still not sure what is going to go there. This house had a lot of really bad DIY projects (like the box fan in the attic that blew into our garage!)
Measure the existing space, mark what is changing (we can probably figure that out, though), and post the resulting layout here.
That will give us a better feel for the space. Right now, we can't tell how long or deep the kitchen space really is b/c there are only partial measurements. We might be able to figure it out eventually by trying to cobble together the partial measurements, but it would be much easier if we could see them all.
okay, will do tomorrow. i realized i did make a mistake in labeling the space tonight- the entire space is 12'11" deep by 25'6 3/4" long. Just about everything is changing except that small area leading to the existing living room and the basement door!
It seems you can't move the LR entry to the left and so having a table height peninsula or a table at the end of the cooking zone would not work because of the LR entry and the island.
I think it would be better if you moved the pantry closer to LR and have a corridor at the back of the pantry and have the office near the DR, so anyone coming from there go to the FR thru DR instead of walking thru your cooking/prep zone.
BTW, with 12' 11" length how can you have 42", 46" aisles at the top and bottom of the island? I guess the cleaning counter extends over your FR some inches.


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In a small nonstick pan (6"), heat a little bit of olive oil. Wash and then slice the potatoes very thin and display the slices in the bottom of the pan into a rosace (do not wash the potato slices). Cook at medium heat for 4 minutes, flip it and cook for another 3 minutes. When golden brown, reserve on a plate. Repeat three more times.
Make the ratatouille. Heat the olive oil, add the onions, the peppers, the zucchini and the eggplant; season with salt and pepper. Cook for 5 minutes, add the tomatoes, the thyme and the rosemary and let cook until completely dry (about 15 minutes). Check seasoning. While the ratatouille is cooking, heat some olive oil and a "nut" of butter in a saucepan. Season the two loins of lamb and pan sear them on high heat all around. Turn the heat down, and cook them for 3 more minutes. Remove the loins of the pan to rest for 10 minutes. Deglace the pan with the roasted garlic smashed, add the wine, scrape the bottom of the pan and let reduce by two thirds. Add the stock and the juices from the plate where the lamb is. Reduce and add the butter. Turn the heat off. Check seasoning. In a ring (6") place the ratatouille still hot; slice the lamb (reheat it in a hot oven for 3 minutes if too warm) and make a rosace on the ratatouille, remove the ring, pour some of the sauce on the lamb and around, finish with the potato rosace on top. Repeat three times and serve.
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Diplomacy & Politics
09/06/2012 23:40
Netanyahu on Iran.
(photo credit:REUTERS)
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and US Ambassador Dan Shapiro did engage in a
sharp, undiplomatic exchange last Friday over Netanyahu's frustration with the
Obama Administration's Iran policy, the US congressman in that meeting said
Thursday.Republican Congressman Mike Rogers from Michigan, who chairs
the House Intelligence Committee, told a Michigan radio station that the "sharp
exchange" was "unusual, to say the least."According to transcribed
segments of the interview that appeared on Jeffrey Goldberg's blog, Rogers –
when asked whether it was inaccurate to say the exchange was a shouting match –
replied that "there were elevated concerns on behalf of the
Israelis."Pressed whether he had ever experienced anything like that
before, he said, "We've had sharp exchanges with other heads of state and in
intelligence services and other things, but nothing at that level that I've seen
in all my time where people were clearly that agitated, clearly that worked up
about a particular issue where there was a very sharp exchange."Yedioth
Aharonoth published on its front page last Friday a report of the exchange,
saying that "sparks flew" during the meeting.Two days later Shapiro went
on Channel 2 and denied the story, characterizing it as a "silly" report that
"did not reflect what actually occurred in the meeting."Rogers said that
it was "very, very clear" from the meeting that the Israelis "had lost their
patience with the administration. There was no doubt." "Right now the Israelis
don't believe that the administration is serious when they say that all options
are on the table, and more importantly neither do the Iranians. That's why the
[nuclear] program is progressing," he said.Rogers said that he walked
out of the meeting feeling that Israel was at its "wit's end," and feeling that
the window for impacting the Iranian program was starting to close.The
Michigan Republican said that what was apparent was "a lot of frustration with
the lack of clarity and the uncertainty" about the administration's position on
the Iranian issue."And that's what I think I saw across the Middle
East," he added."The uncertainty about where the United States' position
is on those questions has created lots of problems and anxiety that I think
doesn't serve the world well and doesn't serve peace well."
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