From: cbertsch	Date: March 14th, 2006 03:47 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

But where? I prefer wood floors, but those are hard to come by. You look tall. Are you tall?

From: ex_benlinus	Date: March 14th, 2006 04:29 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

Maybe a school or somethin? I'm guessing we wouldn't have much luck finding wood floors though.
I'm just over 6 feet, but I'm way out of practice. My fg% will be an embarrassment. I remember back when I played pickup games I overheard these kids talking about me as we were running back up the court after I missed a shot. I heard, "The kid's got good form, but he can't hit a fucking shot to save his life."
Since then, I've taken it on as sort of a mantra - I'm all style, no substance. It's one of those charmingly sad things about me. Haha.

	From: cbertsch	Date: March 14th, 2006 04:47 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

I never could shoot to begin with. I can set a nice screen, but that's about it. The other problem with outdoors is the sun. I try to avoid burning my bald head and playing in a cap can seem a little ridiculous. Still, I'd be willing. Where in the OV are you?

From: ex_benlinus	Date: March 14th, 2006 05:18 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

Maybe we could play at CDO High? That's close to you, right? I'm up off Palisades.
Don't forget the party Saturday, yo!

	From: cbertsch	Date: March 14th, 2006 05:30 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

Do I have directions? I'll be there 10-something.

	From: cbertsch	Date: March 14th, 2006 05:31 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

Oh, and are there courts at CDO? I've never seen any when I go to James T. Kriegh Park next door.

	From: cbertsch	Date: March 14th, 2006 04:23 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)
	Re: dinner. mmmmm

The beef part would keep in an Express Mail envelope. But I think there are customs restrictions... :-)

It's so easy. A wok works best. I start by searing some bell pepper pieces, then add onions. I like to get them both a little scorched before adding oil, but that's not necessary. Last night I chopped up celery root with ginger, spicy chile peppers, and garlic, then added that to the bell pepper and onions prior to the beef. The beef I'd pre-drizzled with soy sauce and a little vinegar. I added the beef and sliced mushrooms together. Once the beef was about half-cooked, I added enough chicken broth to keep stuff from sticking to the bottom of the wok and to generate the steam necessary to cook the beef the rest of the way. Sometimes I'll use wine instead of stock. It depends. Or I can use both. The idea is to get a starch-free "gravy" to ladle over the rice. Mmmmm.

From: e4q	Date: March 15th, 2006 09:25 am (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)
Re: dinner. mmmmm

tease!

	From: cbertsch	Date: March 14th, 2006 06:04 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

Good idea. I wonder how long the snow will last. I have photos from our trip to post later too.

	From: cbertsch	Date: March 14th, 2006 09:49 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)
	Re: Eros, Eros, Eros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thanatos

My petits-morts come in more
than four, I ate them to and fro
yet find another plate galore
and know I'll never sated slough.

	From: elizabeg	Date: March 15th, 2006 06:00 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)
	Re: Eros, Eros, Eros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thanatos

I once read significant portions of an entire book devoted to Ben Jonson's digestive tracts. It was interesting. The guy was cracked out on Deleuze. That was interesting.

Sometimes I wonder if (and what that means) the point of no return can only really look like no return in retrospect. And then I wonder what it is to reincorporate that in the looking in the now. And then I think about the way trying to find the point of no return is always also about trying to find not just the point when doom or bliss began to more than seem a given but also the last point when it didn't quite so fully seem so. Does it ever fully seem so? Is it ever last or does the question simply last.

Anyway.

From: bobo_amargo	Date: March 15th, 2006 06:52 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)
Fear Death by Drowning

I have to confess that Charlie's response to my response embarrassed my comparative sobriety on this matter.

Usually I'm about as open as the next goof to the lurking sexual pun in, or use of, a phrase, but it didn't even occur to me that Charlie was actually talking there about male orgasm.

I guess because Friday past was the memorial service of a friend of mine who actually jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge, the idea of the point of no return seemed ineluctably wrapped in the ominous. It's synchronic of you to have tokened the name of Deleuze, theorist par excellence of the point of no return (1001 plateaus) and a jumper himself.

What is the relation between little deaths and death proper? What is death "proper"? When Derrida died, I kept saying to myself "Derrida is more, Derrida is more, Derrida is more." Stevens said it best when he said, "A pip of life amid a mort (amour) of tails."

There's a lighter note. To continue it, I like the idea of Ben Jonson's being cracked out on Deleuze (in my mourning, I want "the guy" in your post above to refer to its nearest antecedent).

	From: cbertsch	Date: March 15th, 2006 02:18 am (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

Sadly, no group. I think I'll fill one out online regardless, though.