The StreetEasy Poetry Slam Thread

Goodnight all - hope this will all be long gone by tomorrow.

I'm only here for truth, so to speak.

shall I go further?

Good Nite all!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egX9N8yOgaU

Sorry guys, but this is unequivocally terrible poetry. Maybe I shouldn't have been so lax on handing out poetic license...

Upper west side, you're not the best side!
Back in the 70s, the junkies wouldn't even hide.
Ok, you've got parks and subway lines - envy!
But too many Starbucks; who really drinks a venti?
Young tykes running round when they're not in school,
But eventually forced to join their parents at shul.
Make sure you vote Dem,
Lest you be labeled one of "them"
Pretty much no way the Beresford board'll let you in.
Upper west side, you're not the best side!

uwsmom: Hilarious. I think i love you.

btw, did truth reveal name of disputed client in her poem? I saw a vibrant, intimate production of Hedda Gabler last night. Hedda got nothin' on SE. Big drama, Big guns all firing on SE. Hedda's got nothin.

This "friend" and "client" stuff is getting confusing. Could we use real names, please?

oh, bjw2103, at last, what I've been longing to read
thank you so much

I was afraid I was going to have to continue my trope of Swann's Way by troping sentence #3 (which is a full page long), in order to punish these waysliders

Hmmmm............... maybe I should anyway

Do it. I think we can at least make it to Guermantes Way, no?

well, I estimate that three posts per page of the English translations would put the entire novel at something like 20,000 posts, which, according to Streeteasy, would set a record for frequent forum fingers, but only if I can complete the task in one month.

It took Proust 13 years, but Streeteasy regulars manage it in a month or two.

ph41: This is directed to you: We can meet, and I will show and give you various DVDs, books, etc.
With my credit on them :"Publicity provided by". Well known writers and entertainers. They need a publicist to coordinate the requests for interviews. To work with their managers and agents.

Three zeros on the check amount. Just a few hours of work. It was work well done. Could have been more checks to come, but it's not gonna happen.

My clients don't mind being mentioned on SE. They enjoy SE. There are great writers here. We enjoy talented people. Even if we knew their names, we wouldn't research them. We are too busy doing real work. We don't care what's in the public record about them. We don't compile files on the people we meet.

Spinny is the most creative. His parody wasn't met with anger. Spinny doesn't care. He's fearless.

A real research project would be revealing my B.F.s identity. Just from what I commented about him here.
Take that info, and find out who he is. Discuss him, and his business deals. He doesn't mind.

Just please start a new discussion thread. bjw has been patient. Thanks, bjw.
Gotta go. Have real work to do.

So we're talking $90.00? That's three zeroes.

B.F.: Are the initials "N.P.D."?

Nope. Got to do better research. Check amount, and B.F. initials. Please start new thread if you ever figure it out.

BPD? BD? Am I getting warmer? DSM IV?

slam dunk for sure. the truth hurts.

alan's attempts at humor often make me cringe.

columbiacounty, no offense, but your poems suck.

nothing funny here. truth is a train wreck.

LICComment, yours too.

slam dunk / for sure / the truth / hurts / burma-shave

bjw, I haven't written a poem.

I thought yours was excellent.

bjw: You are good with the poetry.

Alanhart: Nope. And check was for 3 figures. More than that friend had before, for only a few hours of work.

The part we just love the best: A major international law-firm, is prevented from making a mistake potentially costing their client millions -- by the wife of a partner!

LOL,
By the way, most spouses of dentists can't do fillings.

Riversider: Yes. And she brags about it on SE. The husband thinks it's all funny?!

how come you can't seem to let go of this? why do you keep interrupting with this nonsense? what is your motive? who are you? are you nuts or just pretending?

True, but please don't instigate. It has been peaceful.

please don't instigate? are you kidding, you hypocrite?

This is for truth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExSlyoVTX3I

most spouses of dentists? please don't instigate? are you kidding or completely delusional?

and you complain that this site is degraded? and you post stupid you tubes? is that degrading?

Truth, I had some hope for you, sort of. No longer. Keep it up.

You have no idea about legal issues, except how to file frivolous law suits. I'm suprised your attorney wasn't sanctioned.

Really, intentional infliction of emotional distress for failing to remove a lightbulb for four days? But it did amuse us, tremendously.

I didn't prevent a mistake. I suggested that my husband request leave to file a supplemental pleading that resulted in summary judgment, a very novel approach under the circumstances. You know all about summary judgment, don't you.

Keep it up.

That does it!

Back to page 1 of Swann's Way:

"Then it began to grow incomprehensible to me, as after bankruptcy do the thoughts of an ealier windfall; the amenities promised in the ads detached themselves from me, I was free to invest in them or not; immediately I recovered my senses and I was amazed to find rent stabilization around me cheap and manageable for my income, but perhaps even more so for my family, to which it appeared a thing without prestige, embarrassing, a thing truly pitiful."

I'm warning you..... 7,000 pages more!

Wow, who knew that being a litigator was this easy.

You don't even need a law degree to request leave to file a supplemental pleading that resulted in summary judgment, a very novel approach. All you need is a BA in bad spelling (irregardless) and to be married to someone who has a law degree.

Just think, our nation's perceived lawyer shortage can be solved simply by granting lawyer status to the spouses of existing lawyers.

Sustained!

intentional infliction of emotional abuse for failure to remove a lightbulb for four days.

trumps my toilet seat any day.

lowery, sorry. will try to muster up the will to contribute something in penance on my way back out.

True, long ago your toilet seat has been trumped by the fact that your husband's father died and you just continued on your merry vacation like nothing happened.

And actually I prefer the story about the Christmas Eve you spent with the toilet plunger, in the late 1980s, over the more recent toilet seat story.

you'll be gone tomorrow. bye.

Perhaps, but I am not gone now.

There is nothing ingenius about supplemental pleadings. Any decent litigator would know how to use them as part of litigation strategy.

Interesting spelling, licc. I said in this context it was. and it was. I'm well known for my lack of "truth"

Your dad would be so proud of you.

Could someone copy in the light bulb case if it is available.

pleading i mean....i guess...This story gets confusing with such brief allusions.

ar, if that is what you want to tell yourself to feel good about it, by all means . . .

Nope, that wasn't the reason for the lawsuit. Just part of the board's tactics for trying to refuse services. I won the lawsuit. Not frivolous.

If you live in a coop, you should get the same services/repairs given to other shareholders. If not, you have a legit issue with the board.

If you aren't able to flush your toilet, because of problems with the plumbing in your apartment line; which the board refuses to fix; you have legit issues with the board.

If the super hires an unlicensed plumber to install a new flushometer which you don't need, and gets a kick-back from the money you wasted on the bill; you have a legit issue with the board.

If you try to sell your apartment, without disclosing the issues to the buyer; you are dishonest. If the buyer doesn't get an inspection done before buying it (and some people don't) you are hoping to unload it on them, along with the need for repairs. If an inspection is done; those problems will be found -- and the sale won't go through.

The lawsuit was filed; and the repairs were done. The board finally settled out of court with me. The residents living in that line of apartments were happy to finally have the repairs made. It's good to be able to finally flush your toilet. Not everybody has the money to take legal action. Many residents benefit from the results. New procedures for getting repairs, etc.

If you are a renter, and have a broken toilet seat; just get it repaired by the super. Or, buy a new one and install it yourself. It's not like you need to get behind the walls and into the plumbing pipe system. If you aren't happy with the services -- you are free to move out. It's a rental.

Most important to know is: If you give your name to a.r. she will compile information about you. And you see what she does with it. If you don't have the time to answer her e-mails promptly. If you are not interested in hearing about the husband of another SE poster. If you aren't interested in receiving an e-mail containing the identity of her husband's client. If you have work to do, and not enough time to pay attention to her.

Obsess much?

I had no idea how may apartment issues revolve around the bathroom. Interesting.

this is an informative thread. i also had no idea that ph41 was "a lady in a penthouse". i always thought he/she was some crazy chemist bragging about the discovery of some mutant base compound. the things you learn.

Liar.

I didn't do a thing with the info until you wouldn't stop with your virulent nastiness. Anyone with half a brain would try to find outmore about someone who has threatened to sue them. Something you might want toconsider in your future.

Swann's Way's next excerpt needs to be longer, I can see.

sorry lowery, i have an idea, though.

I never threatened to sue you, a r. Merely mentioned what could be had in discovery.
You and your lawyer husband can spend all of the time and money that you want, researching people.
Compiling information.

I have a real life, in the real world; with real friends. Things to do, of real importance. Work to do.
Life to live.

Streeteasy is not the place where I need to go, in order to meet friends. I'm not a puppet on a string, for you or anybody else.

My real friends don't care if you like me, or not. My clients don't care what you think of me. The people on SE who like me and/or agree with my opinions; don't do so because I have done research on them.

What does one do when on cannot flush a toilet? Neutral question.

Truth, it's not worth it.
There are better things to talk about.

your clients? like levon?

you think discovery occurs over tea? bullshit.

I don't care what your "real friends" think. I don't care what you think. just quit posting your foul diatribe. hypocrite. and for someone who doesn't need se to make friends you've been trying awfully hard to do so.

I'm sensing that I may have a different definition of "farewell" than may be found in the dictionary.

Agree HFS, these boards were so much more pleasant when AR's nastiness and BS weren't on it.

Are you really endorsing the troll?

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

-Paul Valery

Most poems are kaput.

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You know what's funny, back in the days when I worked at 2 WTC,

Holy Shit, the investment banking job you got was at Dean Witter Reynolds?
What a loser. Let me guess, you tell people you were at Morgan Stanley because they merged and dropped the Dean Witter name.
But every time you go into a Sears, you feel the urge to jump behind the counter.

Every nite you come on. Every morning you get erased.

"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."

That's the beauty of adapting a 7-volume, several-thousand-page novel as a streeteasy polemic agonizing over the pros and cons of renting versus buying. The trick is to stay focused ;)