blatherskites ? Yeah, you know who you are. 001011 ... antisocial you have the mental agility of a soap dish 001230 ... Thyartshallshant Actually, im more comparable to the actual soap, thank you. 001231 ... sunshine beg Gizmo Duck from Ducktales. Blathering Blatherskite!!! 011105 ... lost i think maybe i can be considered a blatherskite. i think i have been around about a year now. 011106 ... Dafremen Blatherskites are paper sails To catch the winds of our expression The nothingness that is our expression, the wanting-to-be-somethingness that it represents Inseparable from these expressions are the rules of order found in their chaos Like the strings that keep blatherskites tied to the ground These tethers are tested to their limits, on occasion snapping free from restraint Twisting and gliding prettily yet swiftly to the ground, we find that blatherskites need these strings to keep them soaring, to keep them stable. These strings that we place on our expression must be both delicate but enduring. Mutual respect regardless of personal prejudice allows blatherskites to stay tied to their individual ground. But it is the unchallenged wind of expression that allows blatherskites to find their mutual joy against the background of a common sky. 011106 ... birdmad nice one, man 011107 ... Dafremen Your response was a thousand times better loc0. 011107 ... minnesota_chris They strike me more by their similarity to each other, than by their differences. 030220 ... ferret blather's kites, i don't see 'em! 030716 ... oldephebe this infinite choir of babble but more than that *dofs classic phillies cap at Daf* i think what distinguishes blatherskites is that incessant imperative you know? ones being burbling up and out of them. A rhetorical rogue, a truth teller, sages and vanities, and seers. We stir the entrails and consult the muses and build these rigorous abacuses of distillation and cogitation and the wars within at least my/our breast(s) to be a rational man, to be tethered to thing that i can touch, that have pecuniary value, to have a heart swollen by throe, to be stirred by what is beautiful - the dueling of Platonic and Aristotlean verses. These are not rooms that are full of bones that do not make a sound - I am not such a man - who will hurl my apostacies into a pityless unhearing sky - let the fire leap from me and i will write it upon the Heavens breast - picture an armada of caskets set out to sea their sales billowed by deaths obliterating sigh - there are so many things i want to say and so hard to stop to hold back my heart and turn down the flame and write an elegant exposition - i'm all raw and ragged - and here we can rouse the dead here we can lay our harrow down- here we can say I am not such a man who will throb silently in his cave - this is my winter lyric - and i will make a sound like a saw - rudely stir the day - and slash at the darkness - this is the house of desolation and inconsolable despair - this is a house where charmed iron flowers scream - such agony, it is unbearable to me to be unwound in such a tapestry - and some with the breath of innocence still in their wombs it won't be long until they too are bruised -and i wish we could be bound together w/o the yoke of hatred animus i wish we could clothe our minds in candor and then not have its embered issue stamped out - and maybe we nourish these winds of unreason - maybe and I'm waiting for a living light to pour into my squalor - and what about all these vying vanities - if we do not elevate ourselves first then what will others see? By the way the ice cream man has a big sack of crack - and some of us reveal a whole world in one rapturous breath - and some of us prattle away the time pulling at pubescent themes and seams - one great cacophanous choir and I say DAMN IT!!! Sing out sing out, and do not let your heart drown within it's depths - and most of us grapple with the essential paradox of the creative act, and sometimes we see things shimmer at the corner of our eye sometimes on the edge of wakefulness we get a glimmer of genius, of what we can truly be - to go beyond and break its yoke - lets scorch the earth and exhale comets into/across the sky let us sing ourselves into divinity - let us be loud - let us not sink beneath the surface and latch the door let us be heedless - let us hurl our howling spears with pinpoint accuracy - let us be at the heart of tyranny - let us be at its throat - let us divest ourselves of all these petty tyrannies - let us speak about trembling in ecstacy as our lover shudders beneath us - let's say it all with quicksilver virtuosity - let us say it with a true and trembling ephebic earnestness - don't pawn me off with a prayer to some fallen part of grace and be all broken sighs and reasons why - let us be exalted in our emptiness - let us be 030716 ... relentless inner critic Why are you always on a soapbox? Take a self improvement course or something. Or stop taking it, or try one of those psychotropic amelioratives. Please. Sheesh! and ah more Sheesh! 030717 ... Dafremen Stay up there on that soapbox oldephebe!! We need orators around this place since Truth stopped ranting and since I'm busy working on a book. Just don't forget the tang in case yer throat gets dry up there! : ) 030804 ... misstree oldephobe, you brought tears to my eyes. the good kind. sing it, scream it, preach it and roar it, brother. 030804 ... oldephebe Daf - Ha ha! I told you the tang really roils the gastric juices, i'd be all abdominal heaving and variegated spumes but thanks for the encouragement and kudos on your book deal mistree - i've read some of your lovely words and have been similarly affected (or is it effected? not so smart after all i guess) thank for such kind words, really because all the circuitousness i know it can get pretty maddening sometimes - i'll keep trying to pare down the prose, but then i'm reminded of something jane said and then i just let it all hang out or flood out as it were (as it were? who am i Sir Arthur Conan Doyle? c'mon let's get on with the insouciant and ironic verbiage! Kay. ... 030805 ... misstree indeed. sometimes the best way to nail down a concept, a feeling, a moment, is to dance around it with outrageous words, like a bee trying to tell the hive which flower has the nectar. after all, isn't expounding upon words the reason why we're here in the first place? 030805 ... oldephebe i so exuberantly concur and ah beggining the sentence with indeed, really a nice touch you've equisitely encapsulated whatever it was that i was trying to say i'm learning, i am expanded by everything i read here 030805 ... realistic optimist oldphebe you gave me chills. blather on, my efriend, blather on. 030910 ... oldephebe realistic optimist - right back at ya man! 031007 ... Death of a Rose amen said the atheist 031021 ... oldephebe a peacocks panoply...a garish promenade into and out of the self pure power of a soul punching out it's sound.. climb to the roof of the sky descend the stairs to the squalor of bottom basement banal say now how hard how loud does your mind howl a fragrant kiss of ambrosia petals oops way too early and i'm running a little late this morning later.. 040121 ... pressed down and folded up tight "pure power of a soul punching out it's sound" That line sounds vaguely familiar. 040121 ... !!!! god what an artless way of getting your words put on the recent list! 040328 ... iNsEcUrE_GoTh_GiRl ummm ok in that case..... what would be an arty way? excuse me for not understanding. 040328 ... Smurf I'm not one. Not yet at least 040424 ... emmi it's the first time i typed the word, and i misspelled... "blathershites" aiaiai 040626 ... czmember i admit i need help... 040805 ... falling_alone i dont believe you know me very well. i'm not one to converse, but i'm here and i've been here. 040809 ... wafflehousegirl13 I blather. But I am not a kite. Is 'skite' a queer suffix? If not, where does the 's' come from? Ha. I said come. =) 050520 ... Lemon_Soda I like to think I am. I've been here long enough to leave and come back... ...but I guess the yay or nay on that is up to you guys. 050520 ... epitome_of_incomprehensibility Why complain about the word "blatherskite"? Not everything has to make sense... blather is a forum for word creativity and inventing words is creative! 050715 ... oldephebe ..."a karass, a far flung network joined in a common destiny.." (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) only for the purposes of this comparison and definition as it relates to "blatherskite" I'd substitute destiny for pursuit. ... 050724 ... RIC Don't you mean, "I'd substitute pursuit for destiny."? 050724 ... oE Yeah. Work on your grammer though... ... 050724 ... tomorrows dream blath·er·skite [ bláər skt ] (plural blath·er·skites) or bleth·er·skite [ bléər skt ] (plural bleth·er·skites) noun Definition: 1. talkative person: somebody who enjoys silly or unimportant chat 2. inane talk: chat about silly or unimportant things 3. One who blathes These are the things that define us and yet they are only words, give those regulars on this site a title, yet it could be demeaning or pleasing depending on the eye who veiws it. 081015 ... thy thank you blatherskites thank you thank you thank you! where_would_we_be_without_you? . 121125 ... meta meta 121126 ... D where_would_all_the_blatherskites_be_without_you? wandering_still. . 121126 ... D where_would_all_the_blatherskites_be_without_you? wandering_still. . 121126 what's it to you? who go blather from