mmm butterscotch

I was sent a photo by a friend of him in a bath of popcorn.

I would think popcorn is scratchy.

i'd have thought so too

Quote from: Pica Pica on April 28, 2009, 06:48:25 PM
a little while ago, I asked the peeps on here for maybe a small video clip or some photographs to make a kind of 'meet the folk' androgynes on parade type video - but no response 

Speaking of horror epics, here are two photos, courtesy of my iMac, just now. The blue shirt came from the women's department, the petal pink from the men's. When I was twenty, I feared everyone could look at me and see I was a girl inside. Now there is no way I can look as androgynous as you or weegerri.



Pica, boo!
S

I would not have known you to be the same person as in your avatar.

I don't think you need to do anything with your hair, I like it.
You could go to the trouble of putting it up, maybe some plats like Willie Nelson or native American Indian style. But if you are happy with it and it does not get in the way leave it where it is.

I like my longish hair, comes down to my collar bone. For work I tend to tie it back in a pony tail or a messy bun, sometimes with a headband to keep back the strays. I also recently got a 'condor' clip and it is surprisingly easy and elegant to use it to tie back your hair - just sort of gather your hair low like a ponytail, twist it then clip back up against the back of your head). 

I like your 'library', looks just like my computer room.

The avatar is ten years old. Change slips up on one, doesn't it?

In public and mostly at home, too, I wear my hair in a ponytail.

My wife and I are inveterate book collectors. The walls of our bedroom are lined with bookcases (leaves very little room for clothes). There are bookcases on the stairway landing, in the living room, dining room, kitchen, alcove outside the bathroom, and in the basement. My wife is not careful to reshelve so there are also piles of books everywhere (not including the half dozen I am reading--I am slow and easily distracted).

The view in the pictures shows a corner of my basement office. My main computer sits on an antique rolltop desk, I bought used in Detroit in the 1960s. Behind me, is a reference shelf, a computer manual shelf, and my foreign language collection (German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish mainly). Just out of sight are the poetry books. I must have everything Sylvia Plath wrote--and R.S. Thomas, the Welsh priest. Upstairs, we have five full height cases of religious books, and three half-high of cookbooks, etc. Amazingly enough, I can find the book I seek most of the time.

And now, clad in button-down shirt, hair neatly in ponytail, Grumpy mug in hand, I salute you Nicky.

S

Quote from: Simone Louise on April 29, 2009, 04:14:06 PM
Speaking of horror epics, here are two photos, courtesy of my iMac, just now. The blue shirt came from the women's department, the petal pink from the men's. When I was twenty, I feared everyone could look at me and see I was a girl inside. Now there is no way I can look as androgynous as you or weegerri.

I love your hair Simone! You should wear it without the pony tail more often! I should talk though since I usually tie mine back too.

Z

Simone, you're truly adorable.    I love your look!  It's very distinguished!

Quote from: Rebis on April 29, 2009, 02:46:25 PM
No soap in the tub, just flavored syrups.

That would be a sticky situation.

Is that photoshop, or has not a single book changed position in a decade?

Simone said that the avatar was a decade ago, not the previous pictures.
I think you're looking good, the Willie Nelson thing is good. You could easily get away with plaits like that.

We are all the beautiful people.

Even if Tekla misunderstood me, I got to thinking, as a result, why I keep all these books. The internet replaces many reference volumes in my daily life. It came to me in the shower, where else could I find something like a rare treasured poem. Let me read you one--see what you think; this is Concessions by R.S. Thomas (I do love to read aloud).

Not that he brought flowers
Except for the eyes' blue,
Perishable ones, or that his hands,
Famed for kindness were put then
To such usage; but rather that, going
Through flowers later, she yet could feel
These he spared perhaps for my sake.

Without those words, something would be missing from my life.

Anyway. I didn't post pictures to fish for compliments, though I blush that you friends responded with such nice words. Pica requested pictures of androgynes, and I thought there should be some of peeps who, unlike Pica and weegerri, look silly crossdressing and have bodies rarely mistaken for the opposite sex.

I presume all you other beautiful people, including self-deprecators like Jaimey and Rebis, sent photos and clips to Pica, perhaps in plain brown wrappers. Note to Pica: let me know who you're missing, and I will get after them--discretely, of course. I can't wait to view Androgynes on Parade; that will be so neat.

An aside to you business types: once again, I note a demand for a service to androgynes allowing us to exchange body parts. Breasts and functional tear ducts for some of the male-bodied; square and cleft chins and stiff upper lips for some of the female-bodied; and so on.

Company coming, so tonight it's roast beef grilled on the Weber,
S

Hey, if it wasn't for misunderstanding I'd have no understanding at all.  Or as my mom used to say "You understand wrong."

I thought those photos were from different times, I see now they were not.

I used to have all those books, lost them in the divorce - part of what one of my friends called "Instant Budahahood"

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Please do not say "you look good" and so. Say, "You look /awesome/", overdramatic compliment or go home

I see your "Instant budahood" and raise you "a chunk of ancient greek philosophy"

I think Socrates said true wisdom comes from knowing that you know nothing. At least that is what he said in Bill and Teds Excellent adventure 

But I think he was wrong. I would say true wisdom is knowing that you do know something, but not everything.

On that note my piece of wisdom for the day is "Eating nice food is nice". You can quote me on that.


Nice nails ZZ! I liked looking through your Pics, you are very lovely!

Quote from: ZaidaZadkiel on April 30, 2009, 04:15:47 PM
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Please do not say "you look good" and so. Say, "You look /awesome/", overdramatic compliment or go home

Cool nails but you look like my ex wife in the second picture! She was gorgeous but totally crazy!

Seriously I think you look beautiful, very beautiful. If I was your age and I met you I would hit on you big time!

Well now, if everyone else is posting pictures, I will too!  I have a new haircut!  We are the beautiful people!  I'm going to put that on a shirt...

I call this one, "I wanted to show off my new haircut, but why am I making such a weird face?" 



I mean, really?  What's with the look?  I wonder if I make that face in real life...of course, if I could get someone else to take a decent photo of me, I'd be all set, but they never turn out well when someone else does it...hmm...at any rate, that's me with my hair chopped off.

Quote from: ZaidaZadkiel on April 30, 2009, 04:15:47 PM
Please do not say "you look good" and so. Say, "You look /awesome/", overdramatic compliment or go home

you do look awesome.  I would die for your lips, your eyes, your hair, your everything. In fact, I think I will.

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Quote from: Jaimey on May 01, 2009, 05:23:35 AM
Well now, if everyone else is posting pictures, I will too!  I have a new haircut!  We are the beautiful people!  I'm going to put that on a shirt...

I call this one, "I wanted to show off my new haircut, but why am I making such a weird face?" 

I mean, really?  What's with the look?  I wonder if I make that face in real life...of course, if I could get someone else to take a decent photo of me, I'd be all set, but they never turn out well when someone else does it...hmm...at any rate, that's me with my hair chopped off.

when I looked into your one eye, I got hypnotized.  That is a cool look.

damn you kids with your more than 4 remaining hairs.

On the first video, after going on about how smart sie is, and how sie can buy books, and all of hir life experiences - it all seemed a little....... condescending. The remark about pica not being an androgyne because of hir clothes and lifestyle ("living like a man") was out of bounds.

The second video seemed like more of the same. Has the "->-bleeped-<-r than thou" argument (more androgyne than thou?) bantered about on other parts of the board really reached into the androgyne forum now? Never thought i'd see the day. We're a pretty open and accepting group.

I don't dress androgynously. No one can tell by looking at me that i'm an androgyne. And that's fine, and it doesn't make me any less of an androgyne. Being an androgyne is on the INSIDE, as are most forms of GID, and anything on the outside is just an expression of what's on the inside, should one choose to express themselves that way.

Quote from: riven_one on May 01, 2009, 09:21:05 PM
Has the "->-bleeped-<-r than thou" argument (more androgyne than thou?)

There's a card game called "Gother than thou"...

I'm sure your four hairs are lovely, Reb.



You know, Simone, the more I look at you, the more you look like a guru.  I bow to you, oh wise one. 

There's a card game called Gother than thou

I'll see your black lipstick and nail polish and raise you self-destructive cutting and a rainy day picnic at an overgrown graveyard.