[Cally Conan-Davies]

Come sit beside me, I said to myself,
and although it doesn't make sense,
I held my own hand in a small sign of trust,
and together I sat on the fence.


(I talk among myself all the time, Richard!)

Cally

[Gail White]

Sphere posts have been getting so convoluted lately (apparently in an effort to hurl insults without naming names), that I often don't know what anyone is talking about, and therefore spend most of my time in the lighthearted section on drills and amusements...

[Orwn Acra]

Doubleplusungood, indeed.

[John Whitworth]

Lighthearted? Light verse is serious business. And remember, the Speccie is paying £30 these days. Think what you can do with £30. Well, you can buy four bottles of gin and still have change left for a Kit-Kat

[Kevin Greene]

Gin?! I thought you were half-Irish! (No, that was your spouse. I'm sure she has better taste. *wink*)

Actually, I like gin. Fights the malaria that afflicts us here in Wisconsin.

Kevin

Edit: Oh, you have to add tonic for the medicinal effect.

[Philip Quinlan]

Originally Posted by Cally Conan-Davies

Come sit beside me, I said to myself,
and although it doesn't make sense,
I held my own hand in a small sign of trust,
and together I sat on the fence.


(I talk among myself all the time, Richard!)

Cally

Dear Cally

I suffer from a similar affliction which means I sometimes speak my private thoughts out loud. I am working extra specially hard at the moment to overcome that.

No - it isn't Tourette's syndrome!

But Gail is right. The distance between the said and the unsaid is becoming very great around here.

I am making a great effort not to repeat previous admitted mistakes but I would be very interested to hear Alex's own take on recent events around here.

Janet, as I know personally, is one of the most temperate of people. Rose doesn't take fools gladly but equally does not take offence easily (or at least gives as good as she gets).

Even someone who was maintaining a healthy detachment from all this couldn't fail to notice that something is going rotten.

Moderation==moderation.

Simple equation.

This is a good site fundamentally, and a serious one. I can't think of anywhere I'd rather expose my soft poetical underbelly. But there most definitely IS a problem.

This is Alex's site and he's entitled to run it any which way he chooses so I think it would be simplest if we heard from him.

Philip

PS - post saved in case removed

[Laura Heidy-Halberstein]

nevermind.....

just a thanks to Alex for all the years he's let us play here and a hope that we all remember that we're old enough to relearn how to play together.

[Seree Zohar]

Come sit beside me, the double-coat TimTam
called as the mug pwoofed a hot-choklit sigh,
so I held out my hands in a small sign of trust,
and we dunked as we mourned times gone by.

[Philip Quinlan]

Laura

In for a penny in for a pound...

I have the greatest respect for Alex in principle, although he seems like quite a shadowy figure around here.

What I wonder is whether what is going on here has more to do with the individual power trips of certain "moderators" than Alex's original intention.

This was the best place to be. It is now balancing on the cusp. And I'm afraid to say that Ablemuse is a side issue to the 'Sphere not the other way around.

Poetry should excite emotion, passion, debate, contention for goodness' sake. Otherwise this is nothing more than a knitting circle devoted to counting stitches and debating in an oh so refined way the relative merits of substituting a plain stitch for a purl.

When we're not discussing American Idol ad nauseam that is.

Jesus!

And since I'm about to get blocked from the site I'd just like to take the opportunity to ask Michael C to make sure he turns the lights out when he leaves.

To the few friends I've made here (most of whom have now left when I think about it) I say thanks for a good experience.

Philip

[Shaun J. Russell]

Yes, when I've had a few light-hearted, well-reasoned posts deleted already today, just because they're talking about the recent exodus...well, what's the point of me hanging around a site where I can't talk about a pressing issue that affects all of us?

Seriously, it's shameful...and I'm usually the first to jump to the defense of an admin / mod, since it's generally a thankless job.