March 19, 2004
Everybody knows your name
This isn't so much a blog as it is the neighborhood bar. Got the regulars hanging out. I imagine the general cry.
"-g-!"
There is the tinkle of a bell as the door opens, and temporary blindness as the light leaks in.
"Ray!"
"fivecats!"
"Francois!"
This is a side street. Not upscale. No lattes. Coffee. Good coffee. Or for Ray - tea.
No coffee drinks with whip cream either. My irish coffee is with a shot of Jamesons, some brown sugar and heavy cream poured over the back of a spoon to float on top. Some micro-brews...just because I like the idea, even though I don't drink beer.
Elaine and Sheils sit at the end of the bar near me so we can giggle. And even though Amy is young, she can hang with us. There are no belligerent drunks, only happy ones.The erudite black wearing angst ridden friends come by specifically because Elaine, Sheils and I laugh at them, and they (rightfully) feel like the taunting is good for their souls.
Posted by weez at March 19, 2004 12:01 AM | TrackBackre: Everybody knows your name
...or at least your initial.
This IS a great place to hang out.
It just took me a while to figure out that you, Elaine and Sheils were giggling because my zipper was down.
"FRANCOIS!"
Posted by: -g. at March 19, 2004 06:39 AMActually, Sheils would be mocking my Mountain-Dew green Lucky the Leprechaun socks (and rightly so), which are so hideous they glow in the dark of the back of my closet, where even Buster the Ridgeback Cat dares not go.
Drunk? On words as much as alcohol, one would suspect. My second-favorite state, only a bit less amazing than being high on life. I'd say let's make it happen, but it already is. Funny how virtual bars work, innit? I am so happy to be there -- love the caramel light! Thanks for the invitation.
Posted by: ray orkwis at March 19, 2004 08:49 AMThat's funny -- I thought we were all sitting around together. I didn't realize all of the women were down at the far end of the bar. :-)
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Posted by: fivecats at March 19, 2004 09:35 AMthe better for us to observe and mock you.
Posted by: nain at March 19, 2004 09:36 AMYou guys are loud. And all the better to check out who comes in the door.
Posted by: weez at March 19, 2004 09:55 AMPeople watching! I love people watching, ha ha.
Thanks for letting me hang out with everyone, I love company and meeting new people.
Posted by: Amy at March 19, 2004 10:37 AMhey, -g -- which is louder "_G" or "-G" or is "_g" softer than "-g"? And this darn interface may not display a "superscript(-)g" which leads me to understand that an underscore and a subscript dash are not equivalent. I guess I really don't know "your name" but I do know a bit from the email address and hints about a trail that leads to mamamusings :)
This is fun. -g is a name with competing shout mappings (at least in a typographically sensitive reading of the glyph).
And voila -- a glyph is not a name or is it? I need to consider the characters in the glyph to my own name. Is my reaction different if I sense myself being hailed by letters that include a cedilla under the "c" or "C"?
And now I am pondering what the difference might be between "your name" and "my name" and "your names for me" (which are names I use).
I sometimes hail Weez and sometimes address Elouise (and am now tempted to go on a streak of inventing epithets for the person so referred). *smile*
Ah, "everybody knows your name" -- everybody might not agree on what that name might be but everbody has a name for you. Interesting, your name made be for you but not of you. :)
Well, cuz I was giggling I typed "made" instead of "may". Lovely maidenly ring to -- "name made"
Curious as to how folks might read that exclamation of a name near a reference to a downed zipper in light of the maid/made pun *grin a la -g*
Posted by: Francois Lachance at March 20, 2004 10:43 AMFrancois, I love your writing. It usually takes at least three reads and several windows to grock it.
:)
Posted by: weez at March 20, 2004 11:15 AMActually, nobody's gotten it right yet.
There should be a period at the end of -g., even if it's not at the end of a sentence.
Posted by: Liz at March 20, 2004 11:55 AMLiz, you have sharp eyes from hours of coding, eh? *smile a la -g.* Ah but is it called "a period" that little dot or is it called an "abbreviation point" (to back translate what some euro-languages other than English call it that little dot). ":" is called in French "deux points". In any event I now know that to properly address -g. I need three ascii characters *tilting the head a little to see what it would look like as glyph taken as an emoticon* -g. looks like character wearing a cap with a feather and sporting a monocle {haven't a clue what it looks like reading the "emoticon" the other way.
Parlour game: -g. is the glyph representing the [blank] formerly known as [blank]
!ZEEW WEEZ!
The emoticon from the other direction is a sleeping flamingo.
Posted by: weez at March 20, 2004 06:19 PMI began using the "-g." years ago while posting to FIODNet echoes (one of which being the virtual locale in which I met and fell in love with the current Mrs. Lawley).
In the beginning it was an abbreviated way to express my identity (anyone remember a time when you tried to reduce character use in coding?),
After being asked multiple times why I chose such a signature tag, one day I replied that it stood for: "minus g spot".
As I seemed to be without a g spot it seemed accurate. And if anyone can show me that I do, indeed, have such a spot, then I welcome with open arms the opportunity for you to show me the error of my past thinking.
"NORM?!?!?!"
Posted by: -g. at March 20, 2004 10:49 PMI am doing my own LaChance...
From Scribbling Woman to
Netwoman
http://www.netwomen.ca/Blog/2004_03_01_archive.html#107958630316435300
who pointed to "Just in from Cowtown", a piece describing blogs as digital pubs.
http://calgal.motime.com/1079509647#237594
Weez, blogs are more like the writing space between wiki and threaded discussion boards. They don't have the open rewrite the whole entry feature of a wiki nor do they have (for the most part) the ability to organize comments in a hiearchy. Nor are they synchronous like chat rooms or MOO (however MOOs do have boards and moo-mail and chat). And some blogs have no comments but can be commented upon by being pointed at. None of this means that a blog is not like a pub (some more than others). It just means that there are some features that are closer to other genres online.
-g. The male equivalent of the female g spot is the prostate. See book by Jack Morin and/or a search using the string "male g spot".
Resiting the Weez move of posting a relevant URL. And resisted signing the comment with +g(dot) *wink*
Posted by: Francois Lachance at March 21, 2004 07:49 PMThen logically, I could be
-p.
which looks like a blind cyclops, sticking its tongue out and sporting a goatee in one direction, and someone pointing at a star in the other.
As to reference material- look at your good vibrations catalog.
Posted by: weez at March 21, 2004 07:55 PMHmmm
interesting symmetries
-g.
-p.
How do they plug into each other?
The dot is likely the connector.
-g..p-
A fuller system would make the - a connector too.
.p--g.
Which would allow for the rainbow
.p--p. -p..p-
.g--g. -g..g-
.g-+g. -p..p+
Certainly broadens the set of commonly accepted sexual orientation/identities.
By the way, chalk up the typographical string manipulation to Matt Kirschenbaum who has sent me back to reread Douglas R. Hofstadter's _Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid_
And thanks to Weez for providing the e-chalk board to play with.
Posted by: Francois Lachance at March 22, 2004 09:24 AMI believe several of those connections are illegal in several states.
Posted by: weez at March 22, 2004 12:14 PMAh but in some states those combos are _not_ illegal including Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Canada, etc. And certainly in some states of the United States of America.
And there is the great distinction between the connections themselves and words and pictographs about those connections. :)
Posted by: Francois Lachance at March 22, 2004 12:42 PMTo see the multiple dimensions on tap in a universe where every one is a body that knows your name see June 19, 2003 entry on Today's nerd word http://weez.oyzon.com/archives/000017.html
Flavour 1 - cheeks hurt - http://weez.oyzon.com/archives/000933.html#2556
Flavour 2 - across the fold - http://weez.oyzon.com/archives/000929.html#2554
Flavour 3 - negative space - [a wonderful example of baroque minimalism] http://weez.oyzon.com/archives/000920.html
Flavour 4 - Folding and Lacing - http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/jardin/html/blogTEI.htm#nomenclature121
flavor 1 - parallel universes infinite space
flvor 2 - infinite space infinite time and changeable physics
flvr 3 - infinite happenings finite perceptions
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