RoR: Forum

Thanks for the stirring words, Linz.
I hope this won't sound like petty pettifogging,
but I long ago decided that the phrase
'Life's too short' was simply wrong.

It's because life is long that we should
enjoy everything we can.
If it were short, the pains would be
equally short and it wouldn't matter as much.

Something to think about ... when you recover from the hangover.

Post 1

Saturday, April 30, 2005 - 6:09pm

Nor, as Barbara Branden eloquently reminded me in private, should I of all people jeopardise SOLO's unique sense-of-life stature by such behaviour.

Bravo Lindsay, and thank you Barbara, for this. Frankly, I feel deeply relieved to hear you say these words.

Post 2

Saturday, April 30, 2005 - 6:16pm

Oh and by the way, I thought I already was in SOLO Purgatory...? Surely there's not an even lower place than that?

Anyway, it was all the Vissers' fault! I nominate them for the delectable pleasing.

Post 3

Saturday, April 30, 2005 - 6:36pm

On learning that she had eaten all the macaroons so lovingly whipped up by Regina Iannolo for all SOLOC 4 attendees to devour, I revoked her title of Her Majesty and banished her forthwith to SOLO Hell.

Blasphemy!!

Those were made specifically for Barbara!!

Marcus sat in my kitchen as I made them with my two little hands, then he transported them with great care to the beach house, where they were secretly ensconced in her refrigerator. Alec, Garin, and Jason then joined him for a strict watch over the morsels so no one would touch them.

What fantastic heroism! My troops did a stellar job of protecting the sacred goods, and I am most thankful to them.

It's a damn good thing too, or all you vultures would have devoured them! Hmmph. :)

(I'll make more next year, don't worry. Hopefully this time I will be able to do it in person, so you can have them fresh as can be.)

Post 4

Saturday, April 30, 2005 - 6:49pm

I refuse to let facts get in the way of a good denunciation. Moreover, the gleeful cackle with which the gluttonous Ms Branden rhapsodised over these goddam macaroons to me, Hospers & Kilbourne, knowing that we could merely drool at her odes, in itself deserved banishment to Hell.

As for you being there next year, Iannolo ... well, we've heard it all before.

:-)

Linz

Post 5

Saturday, April 30, 2005 - 6:55pm

Perhaps you've also heard the term "Bite me."

Post 6

Saturday, April 30, 2005 - 7:13pm

Linz,

I just read this article, drooling over the fact that I was not there and what I missed, and then this popped out at me:

John Cage and Marcel Duchamp undoubtedly deserve such categorisations; Michael Newberry assuredly does not.

The sense of relief I felt was even greater than going to the bathroom when you really have to go. I heartily commend you for upholding the exalted sense of life of SOLO - both through the conference and through this particular attitude.

Thank you very much.

And thank you Barbara for pointing that out in private. (btw - I hope you enjoyed every last crumb of every last one of those macaroons - you deserve it all, even the gloating. How I would have given almost anything just to see you gloat - but I intend to meet you way before next year. So save one little gloat for me, if you are not all gloated out.)

To all - watch for Kat and me next year.

Michael

Post 7

Saturday, April 30, 2005 - 8:36pm

>> Perhaps you've also heard the term "Bite me."

I've heard it, but I've never *understood* it!

Post 8

Saturday, April 30, 2005 - 10:58pm

One thing I didn't mention that would be worth an article in itself: the presentations. I'm hoping to have a couple at least in the upcoming FreeRad, but I want here to mention Joe's speech on the "all or nothing" fallacy. It was such a heavy swipe at rationalism�obsessive deduction based on a priori & removed from reality�that I thought it might frighten the horses, touched by rationalism as even some SOLOists might be. Surprisingly, perhaps�encouragingly perhaps!�it seemed to cause no consternation at all! Anyway, good job, Joe!

Linz

Post 9

Saturday, April 30, 2005 - 11:38pm

Well. I haven't heard a word from Ms. Branden since she left the other night. Perhaps she is consumed with guilt over her shameless macaroon pilfering, or perhaps, more justly, she choked on the last hidden one.
The virtue of selfishness is true only when I have the macaroons.

Linz, I noted this morning that there were five bottles of unopened red wine on a side table in my dining room, and while cleaning up in the music room, I saw that I neglected to play for you my Lanza/ Moffo complete Otello....
The nubile youths await you in your downstairs suite, and I have turned the sauna up to "smoldering"... your steed snorts restlessly, tethered outside your door. The weight of the grapes bends the vines to your window...

Post 10

Saturday, April 30, 2005 - 11:40pm

P.S. Barbara - the hot tub is turned on also, and still available for the bargain price of two macaroons..

Post 11

Saturday, April 30, 2005 - 11:47pm

Can't you read? Ms. Branden was sent to SOLO Hell, where the hot tub is very, *very* hot! The macaroons would melt before you could say "macaroon-moocher."

Linz

On my way back to LA for the nubile young men, Lanza/Moffo, etc.. If you're lying, Kilbourne ...

Post 12

Sunday, May 1, 2005 - 7:27pm

Linz, second only to the Solo conference, I appreciate the results of our private conversation. Thank you, my friend.

But you should know that I am beyond guilt. The macaroons have transported me to a higher realm that is, in the words of a great philosopher,"beyond good and evil." Excommunication is a small price to pay.

James. I can't pay your price of two macaroons. They are GONE! -- GONE I TELL YOU! I finished the last two this morning. The Great Macaroon Caper is over. So suffer.

Michael K, consider one gloat saved for you.

Jennifer, I told no one what was in my refrigerator. I knew what the consequences would be. And I forgive you for the pound I have gained; it was in a worthy cause.

Barbara

Post 13

Sunday, May 1, 2005 - 7:31pm

One pound for all that - yes, seems like a fair trade....

Post 14

Sunday, May 1, 2005 - 9:53pm

"I want to withdraw and apologise for the specific epithets I hurled his way."

I want to second Tim's strongly positive reaction to this.

Having seen how seldom Objectivists 'back down' or say 'I was wrong' and how often they fight a teeth- and butt-clenched battle to never retract anything, it raises Lindsay enormously in my appreciation.

(In a similar spirit of maganamity, I'm hoping that both he and Barbara will some day come to forgive my recent defense of Peikoff which caught fire and boiling pitch from every single cannon at the beach house.)

Post 15

Sunday, May 1, 2005 - 10:16pm

Barbara, didn't you have even a little bit of indigestion? Huh? Huh?

--Brant

Post 16

Sunday, May 1, 2005 - 10:53pm

Phillip: "'I'm hoping that both he and Barbara will some day come to forgive my recent defense of Peikoff."

Of course. Today.

Brant: "Didn't you have even a little bit of indigestion?"

Nope.

Barbara

Post 17

Monday, May 2, 2005 - 1:22am

Phil - you know that even Peikovians are welcome here. We're very optimistic at SOLO. We hold high hopes that folk can recover from almost anything. :-)

Linz

Post 18

Monday, May 2, 2005 - 10:38am

Okay, Jennifer, after reading all these posts about your macaroons, I feel you MUST share the recipe. I am drooling. Please, from one foodie to another --

Thanks.

Ginny

Post 19

Monday, May 2, 2005 - 10:47am