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...but I was on the other line, a couple of 'em. You're unblocked now, I saw a few days ago; good. I'm sorry you were blocked in the first place. Much discussion has passed me by in the last few weeks since it's been a busy time. In other news, baby Liam can stand for ten Mississippis, and he enjoyed being in the sea this past weekend. All the best Kiefer. Drmies (talk) 14:47, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi Drmies!

Ours has been sliding sideways along sofas, beds, and tables---perhaps under the influence of too many action movies like The Matrix. We are watching to prevent her trying the ledge outside. :)

There's also been babbling, biting, the usual yellow little shits, crying when up past the bedtime. I forget whether I'm writing of my baby or of contemporary WP. ;)

April is the cruellest month, but May is the fool'est month. This exchange at DB's may interest you, particularly the risk of dislocating a shoulder by patting oneself on the back. (N.B. the quote from Dwight MacDonald, whose book is highly amusing. He has Sir Thopas and Skeat's parody of Chaucer.)

Kiefer.Wolfowitz 17:54, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

My shoulder is completely fucked and will require surgery. It's not from patting on the back: I blame the dog, years ago, who used to pull on the leash, and a summer's worth of vacuuming the green pool every day (pictures somewhere in my talk page archive). Thanks Kiefer, Drmies (talk) 17:48, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

I have ... a friend ... with a similar problem, called by the Greeks malakos, I think. The patting on the back was weird because you were involved with the resolution of the userbox problem, by discussion rather than ... baiting. Kiefer.Wolfowitz 17:56, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Actually, I love your pictures, especially your "man boobs" (as my niece calls them) or "chiselled pects worthy of Adonis"---much more natural than those of that Simon fellow destroying music.

I loved your work as the Doctor on that Star Trek spinoff. Then also your work on that Stargate spinoff. And your recent appearance on Justified (as the Hitler-painting hunter).

It took a while before I really recognized you, because you often use a toupee in other roles. I loved your "I will not enable you!" line in Sopranos, and of course understand now why you were able also to pursue graduate work in literature. Being squeamish and delicate, I avoided watch your recent film, where you gnawed your arm off---to get out of that landslide. But such devotion to your part. No wonder your shoulder aches. Kiefer.Wolfowitz 21:03, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. What I enjoy most is when my wife and I watch me on the Colbert Report. As for your "friend", it's my left arm. Drmies (talk) 03:33, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

In place of a taser or chains

• Perhaps you need to construct one of these devices. [1] (if that doesn't trigger a paternal response, nothing will) Dennis Brown - 2¢ - © - @ - Join WER 18:46, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

Ha! I think that every parent has considered that option. :) Kiefer.Wolfowitz 19:03, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

Art for Art's sake

The Physical Impossibility of Phil Manzanera Playing in the Mind of Someone Listening? Martinevans123 (talk) 21:31, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

That was an interesting article. The more I read about the commercialism and gutter Maoism of contemporary art, the more I am repelled. Today, one hopes that an artist would photoshop a shark rather than kill one for a monstrous artwork. Kiefer.Wolfowitz 11:35, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Yes, in the "olden days" sculptors would be expected to actually sculpt the animal they wished to depict. I guess a modern equivalent might be to produce a hologram, although I suspect a dead specimen might still be required for that. I find Hirst's work superficially interesting, but ultimately derivative and unsatisfying. That particular work, like his monstrous cow and calf, were inspired by the large work of real sculptor Henry Moore parts of which one can walk between. I even prefer Banksy to Hirst... and I don't even work for a local authority cleaning contractor... Martinevans123 (talk) 13:18, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

((Talk page stalker stalker)) If artists are supposed to reflect the age they live in, then we fully deserve the ironic superficiality provided by that money-grubbing billionaire Hirst. I do have some respect for the guy though, as he prevented a drunken Keith Allen from decking me once. -- Anthony Blunt

I neglected to applaud your TPS S link. Oh, the pain of George Smiley and his artist wife. I shall have to re-read The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, with Messrs. Bowie, Eno, and Fripp providing prefigurative pathos. Kiefer.Wolfowitz 20:05, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Heh heh. It's all Evanses fault. I recommend A Perfect Spy, a semi-autobiographical tour de france from le Carre. -- Hillbillyholiday ^talk 20:09, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Thank you, Your Grace. I have to read more Gaiman, Stephenson, Elmore Leonard, Zelazny, and Martin before returning to le Carre's cheerful tales of buggers, testicle crunching and being machine gunned. I did learn the name of frisea from The Night Manager, which may be the anti-particle to the hateful petulie. Kiefer.Wolfowitz 20:22, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Have to admit the last sentence left me floundering. Perhaps a bogon meats cluon annihilation situation? Zelazny I find impenetrable hippy nonsense, much better are the early Red Dwarf books, the more sci-fi I read, the more I think "you cheeky buggers you've ripped that off from x" -- Hillbillyholiday ^talk 20:42, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Remember this? -- Hillbillyholiday ^talk 21:11, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Frisea (perhaps misspelled) is a flower used in fragrances. Petulie is the noxious hippie scent, even worse than the Axe body spray that has been documented in at least one case of a teacher being hospitalized from anaphylactic shock.

You should read the Amber series, which has a riff on the Three Stooges's "slowly he turned, step by step", etc. "This Immortal" is good, but his best is likely "Lord of Light", from which the first paragraph

His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god, but then he never claimed not to be a god.

rivals the first paragraph of David Lodge's Small World according to horselaughometry. Kiefer.Wolfowitz 21:14, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Couldn't get on with Lord of Light, just dug my spider-covered copy off the shelf, that opening sentence reads like something out of Spinal Tap! I did chuckle, not sure if it was a horse laugh though. -- Hillbillyholiday ^talk 21:21, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Ahh, right, my mistake. Was looking above that para, at this bit from the Dhammapada:

It is said that fifty-three years after his liberation he returned from the Golden Cloud, to take up once again the gauntlet of Heaven, to oppose the Order of Life and the gods who ordained it so.

Gorseinon's finest!!? .. watch out for that Rinka tatoo ....liberal dog-lover

"Rinka tatoo".... Isn't that from the goodnight song by The Schnoz? Kiefer.Wolfowitz 19:42, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

No, it Inka Dinka Don't! lol Martinevans123 (talk) 19:54, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

"If you are wise you'll listen to me" Kiefer.Wolfowitz 20:01, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Future RfAs

"There's also been babbling, biting, the usual yellow little shits, crying when up past the bedtime." - so when's her RFA then? ;-) -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 23:40, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

Unless the family converts to Buddhism or Quakerism, our daughter will be unlikely to develop the Cavalier charms predictive of success at RfAs. She probably will be lucky to get most of her smarts from her mother, and that would be an even bigger handicap! Kiefer.Wolfowitz 11:35, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Hehe :-) Do enjoy these days, tough though they may be at times - my wife's getting into it all over again with grandmother duties now, and loving every minute. Very best -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 13:50, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

As I mentioned previously, my little Angel is almost 10 now - I'm going to have to prep her for RFA before she gets just too old, I think. Like you, though, I worry she may be too smart. Nice to see you back amongst the undeadbanned. Begoon ^talk 13:56, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

After an hour of screaming, I have sometimes considered that it would be easier to be a grandparent! My grandparent friends always look well rested and happy. Kiefer.Wolfowitz 20:07, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Foundation, 2nd foundation, and empire

Gotta ask, how does Asimov feature on Wikipediocracy? Darkness Shines (talk) 19:33, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Frankly, the edit-description "The Foundation was not mentioned" was too dull for me. :)

Wikipedia's mission (Pillars I-IV) is similar to the First Foundation. The Blocking Heads are similar to the Mule, although without his Adonis-like physique and sparkling personality. Perhaps Wikipediocracy can reflect hopes for a Second Foundation?  :)

Kiefer.Wolfowitz 19:40, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

I thank you, first time today I have laughed, and you did that in it a very good way, I must agree of course on those blocking being like the mule, I believe Maunus mentioned it recently on ANI. Darkness Shines (talk) 19:51, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Maunus is honest, and hence doomed. I forget whether I have been blocked for using "unctuous", or whether I edited it away before pressing "save". I did use "those of who were not raised from birth to be catamites" when I was young and full of fire. "Catamite" is a better phrase than "eunuch", by half imho. Kiefer.Wolfowitz 19:57, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

I disagree with the blocking. Maunus was behaving correctly. He removed his personal attack, showing understanding, before he was blocked. It would have been superfluous to warn him, even, given his having fixed the PA. People at ANI must decide whether WP is in the business of writing an encyclopedia or whether we are hosting Barnie's Friends. Kiefer.Wolfowitz 20:53, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

I think that decision was made some time ago. Intothatdarkness 20:57, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

David Russell

See 2:35 [2], this guy is one of the most beautiful sounding guitarists ever, in my top 5 list of greatest guitarists.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 21:57, 21 May 2013 (UTC).

Yes, he is wonderful. Here's a guy I discovered about 2 years ago. He has some lovely stuff. And he's really into bat boxes!! [3] Martinevans123 (talk) 22:16, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

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Yo Kenard, you tell it like it be

I was not raised to be a coward or equivocator. Kiefer.Wolfowitz 09:35, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

The same could be said about Volunteer Marek :) Some words of wisdom Hillbillyholiday ^talk 09:47, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Please do not abuse edit summaries in this fashion. That goes for AutomaticStrikeout as well. Thanks. — Scott • talk 22:41, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Your "do not" goes first to AS, who has acknowledged (thank you) his error. AS had left an edit summary suggesting that ... (appropriate caveats and wishy-washy phrases) ... I had inserted a pro-drugs image. How would you have corrected that error, which jeopardizes my security clearance and future employment as a Max von Sydow 3 Days of the Condor Swedish doer of dirty deeds..., e.g., on behalf of the Greek government? How would you? Seriously.... Kiefer.Wolfowitz 23:15, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Wikipediocracy

I've lost track of how many reverts you have made to this article in the past 24 hours, not to mention WP:OWNership issues. This needs to stop. Now. Otherwise you will probably find yourself at AN/EW. - MrX 14:58, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

Take it to ANI if you want. My quality and NPOV edits speak for themselves, as has my record of seeking consensus on the talk page. Please review WP:Ownership, which you seem to misunderstand. You also need to review WP:Lede, given your moving the (reasonable) primary-source backed information about ownership from the bottom to the Lede.Kiefer.Wolfowitz 15:00, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

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