It’s bizarre how my old Nikon takes better pictures on really sunny days than my newer one, but so be it. This is the only thing that’s blooming at the moment. The honeybees, bumblebees, and hoverbees are all over it. The sedum is getting nice and pink, but won’t really bloom until September, at the earliest. Summersweet smells really sweet, but also spicy. The scent fills the air for a good 10′ around the plant.
The summersweet pictures are after the cut.
Daggy’s back, with a new (and so far unsuccessful) way to drum up promotion for his “interview”: http://shocklinesforum.yuku.com/topic/5823
Let’s see how long until:
a) He edits it in an effort to bump.
b) Philbin, Dudgeon, or Purpleverse comments in an effort to bump.
Kind of like this four way circle jerk: http://shocklinesforum.yuku.com/topic/5662
(PS: Am I the only one that can’t wait to see how Mr. PurpleVerse deals with the lawsuits that will come about after he prints Dagstine’s slander without following up with any of the involved?)
Apologies: I meant libel (since it’s in print).
I’d guess the odds are around 4:1 that Daggy or one of the Legion bumps it before Monday.
It’s bizarre, but these two got lost:
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edit this on August 2, 2008 at 3:31 pm1 cussedness
beautiful, Rusty
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edit this on August 2, 2008 at 7:22 pm2 Louise
That is beautiful, indeed. Garden porn soothes.
Daggy will complain and one of them will bump it and then he’ll hope each time that people really notice him and flock to show they missed him.
Those are pretty. Make sure to sneak us some pictures when it’s in full bloom. I’m making a list of “Rusty’s stuff to grow” 😀
I should take you all some pics of our day lilies and post them on my EW blog. They are quite lovely, and garden porn is nice to share. 😉
Absolutely gorgeous, Rusty!
Louise, my aunt showed me her new lilies when we where there a couple of weekends ago – blood red, and huge. I should have had a camera with me!
My veggies are only doing so-so. Blasted cucumber beetles. It’s weird, though. They’ve shredded a few zucchini plants, but left the rest alone.
They make a hot pepper spray to keep bettles off crops without using pesticides.
Philbin just bumped his interview thread.
Boy you’re quick Tony, I just saw that.
Beautiful pics Rusty. That has to be one heck of a garden.
OT on the OT, but popping in to say ‘bye for now to all you lovely snarky people … going on a cruise … unsure about amount of ‘net access … please continue to document the Nitwittery for posterity because I don’t wanna miss anything 🙂
Oh look—the Legion have created a new Blog and are trying to make it look like they had nothing to do with it: http://shocklinesforum.yuku.com/topic/5843
Oh my, and Pacione has crawled out from his rock to take a swipe at Sabledrake too. They must all coordinate their posts.
Enjoy your trip Sabledrake. I’ve done the Alaskan cruise and it was one of the best vacations of my life.
“They make a hot pepper spray to keep bettles off crops without using pesticides.”
Nice. will have to look into that.
Sheepworld? WTF?
Sheepworld == Epic Fail. I bet at some point they’ll try baiting us or ODP into a flamewar. Key word is try.
I’m with Mike on this one. Sheepworld = epic fail. If they keep it going, it could be fodder for sf_drama (the kiddie table, so to speak, tangentially related to stupid_free, but not limited to stupidity that occurs on LJ communities).
Damn. All the good stuff happens when I’m sleeping off my Indian food. There must have been knock-out drops in that chicken dhingri. Next time, I’m getting the tikka masala or vindaloo. 😉
And I commented Epic Fail in the thread, so we’ll see if Matt deletes that but keeps Nikita’s swipe at Sable.
BTW Nicky finally figured out I have a blog and posted his first comment.
Dangit Rusty! Now I’m craving curry again…
I’m snagging page captures, in case this gets good — and deleted.
I see no comment from Nikita on this thread; Raingods, where is it?
His comment was on my blog. The comment on Sabledrake is here: http://shocklinesforum.yuku.com/topic/5740
Those two need to grow the hell up. They are like two whining babies in the playpen crying over crappy diapers.
Nick and Daggy, of course, if anyone was wondering. 😉
I just left a comment on the Sabledrake thread.
I very seriously believe that bringing out my own reprints is not the same thing as run of the mill self-publishing.
Daggy says: “Congratulations, Mike, it’s good to see that your books are doing well and getting the well-educated readership and respect that they deserve. ”
Doing well? They would have to sell first, and sell a lot, to do well.
But it won’t sell.
I also wonder if a lot of mutton seizing will go on over at Sheep world. *eye rolls* 😉
they will lie about the figures, of course. Then when the truth comes out, pretend they never said it.
Gods help me, I feel a rant coming on.
Don’t they say that imitation is just a form of flattery?
Oh I do declare, I’m all a flutter! *fans self with, um, fan*
Pacione just left the first comment on “Sheepnet” and he pretty much gives a major clue to the identity. (Dagstine should really learn to hide his tracks better).
Well, if you also consider that LD has typo issues, and his website, while a dot.com, is hosted by wordpress.
Alright. What in the hell has the world come to when Matty’s got his knickers in a twist over this blog, of all things, and Dracon’s acutally making sense?
Matt — get over your self-righteous self. This blog is what it is. We get silly and goofy, and point and laugh at train-wrecks like the Nitwits and Blu Phi’er, but not everything here is childish. We’ve had some really good discussions, the likes of which you never allow on your forum (lock/snip/delete).
Dracon has been remarkably well-behaved, hasn’t he? I could almost begin to like him. Perhaps during his time away, he got some help? Or maybe he’s free now of Philbin’s influence?
I don’t blame you on the rant, cuss.
R, I can’t understand how LoN don’t see this is a snark blog plus a fun and informative place to hang out — blow off some steam, if you will, sometimes. Yeesh, I just don’t see why they can’t take some innocent ribbing and critique. We all get that in life, and especially in this industry, where you are told from day one to grow a thick skin if you want to make it.
Oh well, I’m the black sheep of the family, anyway. 😉
How fucking clueless can Matt get? On the one hand, he cuts Nikita’s swipes at sable (which is fair-according to his own rules they are snark) yet locks the sheepnet thread with him having the last word on something he cannot understand.
If he visits these blogs as he he says, he would see they aren’t written to make fun of the nitwits, they do that themselves; they show new writers what NOT to do. The blue phier threads alone have done more of a public service than the thousands of posts on SL combined.
I feel a rant coming on to Cussedness, time to add an entry to my blog.
Matt is such a hypocrite. He’s a clear cut example of how NOT to run a message board.
Regarding Sabledrake’s Thread.
Larry Says:
Yeaaa! More self-published books.
Come, have a seat at the Table.
Interesting.
Sabledrake said in her original post:
Sabledrake Enterprises is delighted to announce the publication of four new books by Rob St. Martin!
Rob St. Martin? Wait, how can they be “self published” if Christine Morgan/Sabledrake is doing the publishing?
Aww Rich, don’t you know reading comprehension isn’t one of their strong suits?
Your point, sir, is well taken!!
=)
“I’m not in support of any blog or site that just serves to do nothing but make fun of people. Let’s just drop it.”
Oh, really? Given that’s what exactly he’s allowed Shocklines to become, a place for le Legion to snark willy-nilly at folks who are never allowed to respond to their libels without deletion or banning? Fie upon him, and his house.
Yeah, I know I flounced from there, but as I often tell She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed when my vision wanders, just because one is on a diet doesn’t mean one can’t look at the menu.
Look at Larry’s writing. You think logic comes anywhere into the picture?
He’s allowing Daggy to do to Sable what Philbin did to me.
I guess I’m too successful for Matt’s taste.
Where are these posts? At SL?
Link?
Got it!
What a joke! Sheepnet? How about Shitnet!
Daggy: “…where real writers can go…”
Real writers?
You have to learn to write first to be a real writer.
Let’s post over there. Muahahaha.
Let’s post over there. Muahahaha.
I wouldn’t. Not with Larr… I mean “Lucy” having mod powers. The mod over there could edit everything you say or even delete your posts.
Cue Admiral Ackbar: it’s a trap
That site reeks of flame bait.
Lars thinks he’s being so clever. *rolleyes*
Tsk. Tsk. Larry is being double naughty.
Reminds me of that film, Victor/Victoria.
How about, Lawrence/ Lucinda
Larry Q. Dagstine… sooooooper genius.
Well, Daggy, your bluff has been called, you’re cover blown. No one’s rising to the bait.
Lars has induced me to dig out my Green Day “American Idiot” CD. I’d forgotten how much I like this CD (in small doses).
So the whole, I’m not a writer, just a reader bit, was at last a truthful admission. 😉
Wow, I take a nap and larry and Nikita try to rip me a new one on my blog. Not sure which is more pathetic, Larry trying to defend Matt or Nicky’s homophobia.
One thing to say about Sheep shit, I mean Sheep net:
hahahahahahahahahhaaaa
*goes back to work, while grooving to Rammstein*
😀
Well according to Larry he knew about Blue Phier’s problem a year ago. Funny he never said anything about it that I’m aware of. Or maybe it was ignored because no one takes him seriously.
LOL! Nikita called me out on his blog.
http://nickolauspacione.blogspot.com/2008/08/hey-rainfag-piss-off.html
The truth hurts some more than most. Now I really need to do some laundry.
I don’t think he said anything of the kind. No one takes him seriously because he’s never honest and never forthcoming with facts. When challenged he just adds a layer of vagueness to the whole argument in a weak attempt to make himself look smart.
Larry is a historical revisionist. If Larry had a time machine, he’d worn holes in the space time with how many times he’d gone back and rearranged reality to suit his present needs.
Oh ….
*eyeroll*
Larry’s now accusing Rusty of creating Sheepnet.
(In the comments on rain’s blog)
If he actually had known about Blue Phier, he would have been crowing about it someplace that got far more traffic than my little blog. Honestly, who does he think he’s kidding?
Rain, we’re also talking about a guy who thought Apex paying a professional rate and moving online meant the death of horror.
Sheepnet’s hosted at WordPress, right? So’s this blog. So are nearly two million others. Gee, that’s a huge leap of logic to connect me with the work of a Nitwit.
Hey, Rain, link me to the post that Lar is commenting on on your blog. I want to take a swing at him.
Here you go, Cuss.
Thanks Rusty.
BTW goat cheese enchiladas are delicious. That’s apropos of nothing other than I made some and they came out great.
CONFIRMATION THAT LAWRENCE HAS ONCE AGAIN TRIED UNSUCCESSFULLY TO STIR UP SHIT WITH AN ALT. THIS TIME, AS LUCY SHEEPGOD:
http://shocklinesforum.yuku.com/topic/5859/master/1/?page=1
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Matt, I’ve been receiving numerous emails and I really don’t have time for publicity stunts right now (as much fun as they are). I hope you will let this thread slide — or perhaps lock it as is. It seems that I am being accused of being Lucy, the hostess of the new site SHEEPNET (www.sheepnet.wordpress.com). Yet I left a comment there and it did not appear. Well, maybe not yet, due to moderation.
Lucy is obviously a fan of my work, and some of you folks here must have made her angry. I am NOT Sheepnet. I just wanted to clear that up. Matt will confirm this, as he can see the IPs of who posts and match them up by person and region.
Otherwise, might I suggest going to Raingod’s blog.
Thank you.
Lawrence Dagstine Homepage: http://www.lawrencedagstine.com
Lawrence Dagstine MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/lawrencedagstine
He had no interest in doing anything other than getting Matt to read my post on Shocklines.
I didn’t see the light from his post trying to save me so now he’s having a tantrum.
It is blatant, even for him. Shit stirrer doesn’t even begin to describe it.
Bully? How about threatening people, stalking them, harassing them, and this shit. That’s a bully, you turd-muffin.
That is a blatant attack on raingods, so we’ll see if that gets edited out. It should, just to prove your blog wrong! 😉
Anyway, sure we all breathe a sigh of relief to see the dying man back on form. What a recovery! (wanker)
LOL, seems as if he’s making up for lost time.
His profile is set to friends-only, as is Nicky’s. Great way to gain friends and readers, eh?
Well they can’t be called on their own bullshit on their own blog now can they?
As disgusting as Pacione’s messages are and shit stirring as Larry’s are, I see no reason to edit them or delete them. Their posts speak more for them than anything else.
And Larry’s thread is locked and closed. Not because of his asking it seems but Matt’s Paladin like obsession with snark. He left 3 posts. His, Larry’s and WrathofSquirrels.
Proves my point in spades.
Hey, Paladins can be cool. I’ve played them many a times. Mine tend to more compassionate than anal, but that’s just how I roll (d20s).
Paladin’s can be cool. I play one in WoW and rolled a few in my D&D days as well. I was thinking of a Paladin from the CRPG Planescape: Torment, where if you did the least little thing wrong he’d leave your party. He was a great character and almost impossible to finish the game without him.
Oh, Vahlinor! I remember him. Yeah he was certifiably Lawful Anal.
I loved that game.
Yes that was it! I was racking my brain trying to remember it. It’s still my favorite game and probably one of the best ever made.
My absolutely favorite D&D character (and the last I ever played, about 1990) was Scrag, the half-ogre paladin. Harder to kill than a tick and built like a beer truck on steroids, but with a sweet disposition. Until riled, then watch out. Out comes the Sword of Really Big-Time Hurting that makes a Vorpal Blade look like a Swiss Army knife. Fun times.
Sir Otter,
My favorite character was an elf mage I played in a year long campaign a number of years ago. Konstantin was a drunk, perpetually horny who once mouthed off to a Minotaur and got promptly thrashed. One more point and he would have been history. I had such fun with him. I miss those times.
I have mostly played computer, and rarely actual pen and paper rpgs, except for when Sovay was living at home and I got drafted into a game by half a dozen little boys who were enchanted by the idea that a mom would actually play that stuff.
I’ve never played DnD; I’ve recently (well, past couple of years anyway) played in a Palladium setting though. I love it; right now I’ve a Paladin for the Elvin Love Goddess and War God/High Father, who isn’t Elvin. It’s a weird and twisted game though but lots of fun.
I’m really enjoying WoW. I’d never been too interested in mmo’s but heard a WoW podcast that intrigued me and haven’t looked back since. A lot has to do with the guild I joined I think. With 3000+ members there’s always someone around to help with quests, run an instance or just shoot the shit with. Plus my hunter has a pet gorilla, so how cool is that?