Here He Comes, The Queen of Chee-ee-eese!
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dr_pretentiousThe Bad Poetry Party was a spectacular success. Good food, good wine, good company, appalling verse--a perfect combination. We adorned ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
vgnwtch's husband T with the Cheese Crown for his discovery and performance of a trove of truly abysmal poetry by a kid who wishes, rather desperately, to be Poe. Oh, the misplaced modifiers! I knew, when mischievouspie's wails of horror at the syntax turned to mock threats of vengeance, that T had found something extraordinary. aristeros gave a fine performance of a 19th century ode to a train wreck. newroticgirl dredged up her high school notebooks--brave, brave woman! From jeneralist, we had anagrammatic poetry galore. tracyandrook composed new odes just for the occasion, and jaime_sama was represented in absentia when her husband performed a poem she'd crafted from spam subject lines. One measure of true bad craftsmanship and the true craftsmanship of bad: can the poem make aspenwolf squeak involuntarily? tracyandrook declared that she could not wait to break out "The Eye of Argon" until the crowd had thinned and only the die-hards were left, so we spent a prose interlude with the worst work of short fiction in the entirety of Anglophone literature, and then came back for another round of Enjambments Man Was Not Meant to Know.
T andvgnwtch are well stocked now to make Bad Poetry Day an international phenomenon when they move across the pond--she was the second Queen of Cheese, and may still have the jalapeno cheddar crown. After all, if International Talk Like a Pirate Day can become a massive phenomenon, why not bad poetry, too?
International Bad Poetry Day, by the way, is really January 22nd, my actual birthday. Sometimes we have to settle for celebrating on Bad Poetry Day (observed), but we do aim for the real thing. It's kind of a race now: which will I manage to establish first--a goofy pseudoholiday, or a writing career? What if Bad Poetry Day turns out to be the whole of my literary legacy?
Sunday, Dan and I languished among the party dishes with our likewise tuckered out houseguests,twoeleven, radiotelescope, and gregoradon, who had crossed state lines to be here and were able to stay through most of a second day. Today, we seem to be recovered from the party, and mostly recovered from the dishes, but what on earth are we going to do with this refrigeratorful of cheese? Stilton with candied lemon peel, anyone?
Thanks to all of you who came out for the occasion. And those of you who couldn't be here--well, next year in South River. Have I mentioned recently how grateful I am to the universe for my good friend-karma? Not recently enough? I don't know how I got so lucky. You all make my life sweet.
vgnwtch's husband T with the Cheese Crown for his discovery and performance of a trove of truly abysmal poetry by a kid who wishes, rather desperately, to be Poe. Oh, the misplaced modifiers! I knew, when mischievouspie's wails of horror at the syntax turned to mock threats of vengeance, that T had found something extraordinary. aristeros gave a fine performance of a 19th century ode to a train wreck. newroticgirl dredged up her high school notebooks--brave, brave woman! From jeneralist, we had anagrammatic poetry galore. tracyandrook composed new odes just for the occasion, and jaime_sama was represented in absentia when her husband performed a poem she'd crafted from spam subject lines. One measure of true bad craftsmanship and the true craftsmanship of bad: can the poem make aspenwolf squeak involuntarily? tracyandrook declared that she could not wait to break out "The Eye of Argon" until the crowd had thinned and only the die-hards were left, so we spent a prose interlude with the worst work of short fiction in the entirety of Anglophone literature, and then came back for another round of Enjambments Man Was Not Meant to Know.T and
vgnwtch are well stocked now to make Bad Poetry Day an international phenomenon when they move across the pond--she was the second Queen of Cheese, and may still have the jalapeno cheddar crown. After all, if International Talk Like a Pirate Day can become a massive phenomenon, why not bad poetry, too?International Bad Poetry Day, by the way, is really January 22nd, my actual birthday. Sometimes we have to settle for celebrating on Bad Poetry Day (observed), but we do aim for the real thing. It's kind of a race now: which will I manage to establish first--a goofy pseudoholiday, or a writing career? What if Bad Poetry Day turns out to be the whole of my literary legacy?
Sunday, Dan and I languished among the party dishes with our likewise tuckered out houseguests,
twoeleven, radiotelescope, and gregoradon, who had crossed state lines to be here and were able to stay through most of a second day. Today, we seem to be recovered from the party, and mostly recovered from the dishes, but what on earth are we going to do with this refrigeratorful of cheese? Stilton with candied lemon peel, anyone?Thanks to all of you who came out for the occasion. And those of you who couldn't be here--well, next year in South River. Have I mentioned recently how grateful I am to the universe for my good friend-karma? Not recently enough? I don't know how I got so lucky. You all make my life sweet.
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Date: 2006-02-27 10:06 pm (UTC)Also, a Bad Poetry Party sounds like a fabulous idea for a gathering. Something like the Bad Movie Suckoffs we've been having at the Murk, only perhaps more literary, and with more actual cheese!
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Date: 2006-02-28 04:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-28 08:01 am (UTC)*shaking the angry fist*
curse that Nick guy for having worse poetry than me!!!!!
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Date: 2006-02-28 06:11 am (UTC)Any chance we could take a look at some of that poetry? Or maybe some links or names? I'd love the chance to chuckle at the kid who would be Poe.
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Date: 2006-02-28 06:26 am (UTC)By the way, what's your e-mail address? I want to send you comments on Atlantis Cranks...
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Date: 2006-02-28 08:04 pm (UTC)I'm at avery at alum dot vassar dot edu.
Feel better.
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Date: 2006-02-28 08:05 am (UTC)thank you again for the invite, I had SOOOO much fun. AND so much cheese!
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Date: 2006-02-28 08:05 pm (UTC)Face down upon my kitchen floor
Date: 2006-02-28 11:16 am (UTC)The queen of cheese does not even _eat_ cheese, so if he doesn't accept his cheese award, measures will need to be taken straight away.