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[rivka]

elsiekate10: btw, my mom was unable to breast feed any of us for any length of time

RivkaWald: and look how you turned out.

elsiekate10: yeah well the others aren't queer
elsiekate10: well twink is
elsiekate10: okay, bad example
elsiekate10: but the point is i made it to adulthood, can hold down a job, and i love my mother

RivkaWald: Hey, why would we mind our kid being queer? I'm more worried that she'll grow up to be a shapenote singer.

elsiekate10: *grin*
elsiekate10: so you want me to stay far away
elsiekate10: well i understand

RivkaWald: No, I want you around so I can constantly point out to Alex that there but for the grace of God goes she.

elsiekate10: *giggle*
elsiekate10: shoot what's the line
elsiekate10: if i'm not a good role model i can be a ... some sort of horrible example or something
elsiekate10: it's someone's sig quote which narrows it right down

RivkaWald: Anyway, you'll have to be around a lot for that to work.

elsiekate10: well i could try
elsiekate10: assuming, for the purposes of argument, that you hadn't run me off with a rolling pin long beforehand

RivkaWald: I wouldn't use a rolling pin. Too cliched.

elsiekate10: fry pan? waffle iron? pitchfork?

RivkaWald: Stuffed penguin?

elsiekate10: that won't get rid of me
elsiekate10: i can withstand many an onslaught from a stuffed penguin and come back for more
elsiekate10: especially if i sense that i may get another shapenote singer out of it!

RivkaWald: hee!
RivkaWald: we make our own poly drama, instead of using the popular kinds.

Comments

[eeyorerin]

My .sig for a while was "I'm not a role model; I'm a worst-case scenario," which was a direct quote from one of my professors.

penguin abuse! penguin abuse! :)

[lcohen]

*blush*

anything for the next generation of shapenote singers!

[lyrical1.livejournal.com]

RivkaWald: Anyway, you'll have to be around a lot for that to work.

I'm all for elsiekate10 being around a lot. Um, as a rolemodel for Alex. Yeah thats it.... =)

[ororo.livejournal.com]

If you can't be a good example, at least you can serve as a horrible warming. Katherine Aird, I think.

[purplepaisley.livejournal.com]

Okay, this is fascinating. I'd never heard of shapenote singing, but now I'm all googled up.

And you sound a lot more cheerful. If this is the effect of a determined effort to focus on the positive, it's working. ;-) Go you!

[lcohen]

woo! another one who might be lured into the fold!

[purplepaisley.livejournal.com]

Dunno - sounds like a Murrikun thing to me. We just didn't *do* things that way in the Mendelssohn. ;-)

[lcohen]

well, no, not with mendelssohn.

it certainly started here but i know it's spread to the UK and i bet there are groups up there. anyway, if you wanted, i would try to find out because i am like that.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I really love her. :)

We are pretty creative about inventing poly drama around here, too, as we don't use our quota otherwise.

[xopher-vh.livejournal.com]

1. I'm announcing the formation of a) the Shapenote Singers Liberation Front; b) the Front for the Liberation of Shapenote Singers, c) The Liberation Front for Shapenote Singers, and d) the Parents and Friends Of Shapenote Singers (P-FOSS).

2. Penguins have no fear of shapenote singing and will walk right up and stare. But then, so will anyone.

3. William Billings wrote the most horrible setting of "Rise Up My Love, My Fair One" I've ever heard. From this it is obvious that

4. I have ADHD. Which is worse than shapenote singing. Or penguins.

P-FOSS

[lcohen]

i have so got to tell this one to my parents!

billings also wrote an "easter anthem" which is one of my fave pieces ever. win some, lose some.

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

*insert random Billings adoration here*