Be gentle...this is my first time.

Pandora's Box

2010-12-06T21:12:00.000-06:00

Ever since that night, that conversation, I can't get the images out of my mind. I keep picturing her bound, blindfolded, collared. Submitting to me. The image taunts me. Now I am seeing myself, bound and submitting. Being what she needs be that brat or perfect obedient vessel. I can do that. I can give perfect obedience. Or I can give chase. Whatever will quiet her demons for a time. With that one conversation she broke open something in my soul. I am like Pandora's Box. Only there is no kind hope waiting within me to soothe the traces of darkness flowing from me in ever increasing torrents. Something in her makes me break my rules, pushes me to the edges of my control. I fear, I fear that one day I will do something that will hurt more than me. Where is my resolve? I was once infamous for being able to control my baser nature, now I am a shadow of myself. But maybe that is where the problem lay. She breathes essential life to the fallow ground that I have become. But the time for life has passed. I cannot manage my two dimensional existence with this new texture touching me. I also cannot give it up. I crave it and fear it and want to see the edge of my control in a way I have not felt in so long. It will drive me mad if I let it and oh I want to taste that madness. Knowing that if I do it will be the gust of wind that topples my carefully constructed house of cards. I cannot resist even though I know that I will be consumed and left for dust in the end.

Thoughts....Words....Actions

2010-08-04T00:30:00.000-05:00

Thoughts become words, words become actions and actions determine your character. I have taken this as a kind of mantra over the years. Whenever foolish, characterdamaging thoughts fill my mind, I let this mantra run through my head. If only I can keep the thoughts in my then they will not damage my character.

mmmmm.....Saucy :)

2010-01-30T15:11:00.001-06:00

To start..THE CONTENT OF THIS BLOG FROM HERE ON OUT WILL BE ADULTS ONLY!!! The links I am posting are for adult only sites/entertainment or what ever you would call it.

Now that the preliminaries are done with...on with the show. :)

So I have recently discovered that I really like erotica podcasts. I have always known that I am interested in erotic literature but I thought that hearing it out loud would be too much like watching porn. Au contrare, it is NOTHING like watching porn. Well maybe not nothing like. *snicker* But it is not nearly as squitchy as I thought it would be. Especially when it is erotica performed by the sultry voiced siren Philippa Ballantine. I would recommend any of her podcasts as they are all amazingly well written and voiced but for the purposes of this post I want to steer you all to Erotica a la Carte. This podcast has fantastic writing by a number of different authors and is beautifully voiced both by Ms. Ballantine as well as a number of different talents from all around the podcasting universe. I am also just getting into Nobilis Erotica, but I will admit that I haven't listened to enough of the episodes to feel comfortable with posting a review yet.

The only problem with these podcasts so far has nothing to do with the podcasts themselves but with the stiff necks at iTunes. You need to subscribe via the websites on these as they do not show up in the iTunes directory.

That's all for today. I hope you all find these podcasts as...inspiring...as I have.

Toodles

Inspirational Sentence

2007-04-17T21:42:00.000-05:00

When I was in high school I had this really brilliant teacher who (being spoiled by teaching college students) absolutely refused to demean herself (and rightly so) by giving "words" to miscreants. Well, eventually (since corporal punishment is impractical at that age) she gave in, but not entirely. She decided that if she was going to give "words" then she would try to use this as an opportunity to share wisdom with her students (her nefarious plan all along). Thus the daily inspirational sentence which we would begin every class by dissecting so she could be better assured that it would indeed be inspirational if she had to hand down the aforementioned punishment. In that tradition and in light of all of the "sharing" I see daily when trolling the net I give you this inspirational sentence, though I can't remember who to attribute it to as that class and this sentence transpired in my other life.

"Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship."
Unknown

Take that as you will and I know you will.

Radio Silence

2007-01-23T19:39:00.000-06:00

I have been trying to figure out what to post since my word of the day calendar ended. I am intending to get a new source for words but I might go a different route than obscure. Maybe out of use insults. I don't know if anyone even reads this but my friends but just in case, No I'm not dead just looking for material.

Give the Goose

2006-12-29T13:16:00.000-06:00

To hiss; from the sounds uttered by geese; theatrical slang.
-Albert Hyamson's Dictionary of English Phrases, 1922

Lowbell

2006-12-28T08:14:00.000-06:00

When a peasant of South Northhamptonshire has committed any breach of good morals, it is customary for his neighbours to "lowbell" him, the meaning of which is best expressed by its apparent etymology, the past participle of the Anglo-Saxon lowain, and the verb bellan, still retained in this dialect. On the first appearance of the culprit, the villagers rise en masse and greet him with a terrible din of tin cans, kettles, &c. and amidst the hooting and vociferation of the multitude, he is generally compelled to seek shelter by flight. This is called lowbelling, and the actors are termed lowbells, or lowbellers, forming a tolerable explanation of lowbell in Beaumont and Fletcher's Woman's Prize, which has so long mystified the commentators.
-Thomas Sternberg's Dialect and Folk-lore of Northamptonshire, 1851

Lumming

2006-12-27T15:48:00.000-06:00

A term applied to the weather when there is a thick rain; Galloway.
-John Jamieson's Etymological Scottish Dictionary, 1808

Squizzle

2006-12-26T11:21:00.000-06:00

To let squizzle, to fire a gun.
             -Mitford Matthews's Dictionary of Americanisms, 1956

This day in History:

    On St. Stephen's day, 26th December, before the days of gun-licenses, every man or boy who could by any means get a gun went out shooting, and it was dangerous to walk the lanes. The custom is said to have its origin in the legend of one of St. Stephen's guards being awakened by a bird just as his prisoner was going to escape...

                             -M. A. Courtney's Cornish Feasts and Folk-lore, 1890

Nabbity

2006-12-21T08:36:00.000-06:00

Short in stature, but full grown; said of a diminutive female. A ludicrous derivative from nab, "to catch, as a bird catches insects in its bill," as if the little creature might be taken up between one's finger and thumb.
-Rev. Robert Forby's Vocabulary of East Anglia, 1830

Clack

2006-12-20T11:55:00.000-06:00

To clack wool, to cut off the sheep's mark.
-John Kersey's New English Dictionary, 1772

A sheep's mark is the notches cut in their ears to identify the owner of the sheep.

Adam's wine

2006-12-19T08:22:00.000-06:00

A cant phrase for water as a beverage, our first father being supposed to have known nothing more powerful.
-John Jamieson's Etymological Scottish Dictionary, 1808

[Variant of the still used Adam's Ale,] a humorous colloquialism for water, as being Adam's only beverage at the teetotal period when he flourished, [which] occurs as far back as Prynne's Sovereign Power of the Parliament (1643): 'They have been shut up in prisons and dungeons, allowed only a poore pittance of Adam's ale, and scarce a penny-bread a day to support their lives."
-William Walsh's Book of Literary Curiosities, 1900

Grithbruch

2006-12-18T08:57:00.000-06:00

Breech of the peace; [from] Anglo-Saxon grith, peace.
-Herbert Coleridge's Dictionary of the Oldest Words in the English Language, 1863

Ponny

2006-12-15T08:48:00.000-06:00

A sleigh-ride. "Come on out and have a ponny." Long Island.
-Harold Wentworth's American Dialect Dictionary, 1944

Blague

2006-12-14T09:13:00.000-06:00

Humbug, hoax, pretence; [from] nineteenth-century French.
-C. A. M. Fennell's The Stanford Dictionary of Anglicised Words and Phrases, 1964

To tell lies.
-Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1888

Dipsomania

2006-12-13T10:14:00.000-06:00

A confirmed mania or insane craving for alcoholic stimulants; [from] Greek dipsa, thirst, and mania, madness.
-W. & R. Chambers's Etymological Dictionary, 1877

Soap-and-bullion

2006-12-12T08:55:00.000-06:00

A thin, watery soup served on some [sailing] vessels. A sailor's food is oftentimes of the poorest-not to say revolting-description. The following are some of the choicest terms for such dainties: Lobscouse, dandy funk, dogsbody, sea-pie, choke-dog, twice laid, hishee-hashee, dough Jehovahs, tommy, soft tack.
-Albert Barrere's A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon, and Cant, 1889

I have known many a strong stomach made food-proof by years of pork eaten with molasses and biscuit alive with worms, to be utterly capsized by the mere smell of soup-and-bouilli. Jack calls it soap-and-boullion-one onion to a gallon of water, and this fairly expresses the character of the nauseous compound.
-Clark Russell's Sailors' Language: A Collection of Sea Terms, 1883

Croydon-sanguine

2006-12-11T09:28:00.000-06:00

Supposed to be a kind of sallow colour.
             -Robert Nares's Glossary of the works of English Authors, 1859

A complexion inclining to the Oriental colour.
             -Sir John Harington's Anatomie of the Metamorphosed Ajax, 1596

[Said to Grim, the collier of Croydon:] "By'r ladie, you are of a good complexion, a right croydon-sanguine."
             -Richard Edwards's Two Most Faithfullest Freends, Damon and Pithias, 1567

Bonus Word:

Sallow:
             of a grayish greenish yellow color

Mere Corduroy

2006-12-08T09:13:00.000-06:00

Mere corduroy is a metaphor for inferior folk. This expression exhibits a curious debasement of association. The word is derived from the French cord du roi, so called because originally worn by the kings of France in the chase, being formally manufactured of silk but now made of other material, and chiefly used by laborers. The word had come to be used as a sort of general designation for this class.
-A. Wallace's Popular Sayings Dissected, 1895

Extra pull

2006-12-06T08:22:00.000-06:00

An extra pull, an advantage. A drinking metaphor from the extra pull at the handle of the beer machine.
-Albert Hyamson's Dictionary of English Phrases, 1922

Lawyer's treat

2006-12-05T08:05:00.000-06:00

A phrase implying that each shall pay for his own drinks. A lawyer never treats his clients at a refreshment bar-they "defray the cost" between them.
-Trench Johnson's Phrases and Names: Their Origins and Meanings, 1906

Happy Prohibition Repeal Day!!!!

Five-finger-tied

2006-12-04T12:28:00.000-06:00

Tied by all the fingers of the hand.
-Daniel Lyon's Dictionary of the English Language, 1897

Exaggerated expression for "tied very securely."
-C. T. Onion's Oxford Shakespeare Glossary, 1911

Bibliothecary

2006-12-01T09:56:00.000-06:00

Keeper of a library.
-Elisha Coles's English Dictionary, 1713

Whildom

2006-11-30T08:22:00.000-06:00

Whildom-in former days quondam-is familiar to everyone as an archaic adverb.
-James Greenough's Words and Their Ways in English Speech, 1901

Diverb

2006-11-29T11:21:00.000-06:00

An antithetical proverb or saying, in which the parts or members are contrasted or opposed.
-Charles Richardson's Dictionary of the English Language, 1836-37

"England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses; Italy a paradise of, hell for women." as the diverbe goes.
-Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, 1621

Ballerine

2006-11-28T07:56:00.000-06:00

Plural of ballerina, feminine of Italian ballerino, "dancer."
-C. A. M. Fennell's The Stanford Dictionary of Anglicised Words and Phrases, 1964

Two for One

2006-11-27T11:18:00.000-06:00

In celebration of the holiday from work I was lucky enough to get, I will post one of the words missed while I was away as well as today's word.

Insectile:
Having the nature of an insect.
-Rev. John Boag's Imperial Lexicon, c. 1850

Fleet-Streetese:
The so-called English, written to sell by the "Fleet-Streeter," or baser sort of journalist; a mixture of sesquipedalians and slang, of phrases worn threadbare and phrases spring from the kennel; of bad grammar and worse manners, the like of which is impossible outside Fleet Street, but which in Fleet Street commands a price and allows not a few to live.
-John Farmer and W. E. Henley's Slang and Its Analogues, 1890-1904

Bonus Word
Sesquipedalians:
Having many syllables
-Webster Online Dictionary

Slype

2006-11-22T08:12:00.000-06:00

A fellow who runs much after the female creation, yet has not the boldness-though the willingness-to seduce any of them.
-John Mactaggart's Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, 1824

Shinnicked

2006-11-21T09:21:00.000-06:00

Benumbed, paralysed with the cold, especially when accompanied by contraction of the muscles and violent shivering.

-George Story's Dictionary of Newfoundland English, 1982

2006-11-21T07:00:00.000-06:00

I'm baaaack...and the word of the day resumes.

Eat the mad cow
To be reduced to extremities, so as to eat even a cow that has died of madness. From the French.
-Albert Hyamson's Dictionary of English Phrases, 1922

Drive Pigs

2006-11-10T09:25:00.000-06:00

To drive pigs to market, to snore like the grunting of pigs.

-Albert Hyamson' Dictionary of English Phrases, 1922

He is driving his hogs over Swarston Bridge, this is a saying used in Derbyshire when a man snores in his sleep. Swarston Bridge is very long, and not very wide, which causes the hogs to be crowded together, in which situation they always make a loud grunting noise.
-Capt. Francis Grose's Provincial Glossary, 1787

On a side note, I will be on vacation next week so no word of the day until 11/20 and then I will post the one for that day and the best one from the week I am gone.

Later!!