The Sweet Smith
There
was a place where a sweet smith lived, who made sweets for children and
adults. He made sweets as yellow as sunshine, and as dark as earth.
Sweets as finely carved as insects, and as crudely shaped as rocks. Some
were small like raindrops, others large as millstones. Some were as
thin as a spider’s web, others as brittle as a wasp nest. But all were
as sweet as the honey bee’s home, as sweet as your first secret kiss, as
sweet as a baby’s ten toes. The sweet smith delighted everyone with his
creations, but especially himself.
Now
in this same place was a woman who knew all the names of everything,
and all the words ever written, and all the ways that this becomes that,
and that becomes this. But one thing always eluded the woman, one thing
she could not learn. What was inside her own heart? At last the woman
decided that perhaps someone else could see what eluded her, so she
found the sweet smith and gave him a request. "Make me a sweet that is
filled the same as my own heart."
The
sweet smith looked in his recipe books, and searched through his
shelves. He went a great distance for the things he needed, and spent a
long time perfecting his plan. At last he made the sweet, and called the
woman in.
"Here it is," said the sweet smith. "Here is the sweet, filled the same as your own heart."
"Ah," said the woman who picked it up, then put it down, then turned around and left.
"Wait," cried the sweet smith, "don’t you want to taste?"
"You eat it," smiled the woman, walking away.
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On the Wearing of Bolo Ties
On The Wearing of Bolo Ties
A Bolo Tie is not a necktie, it is a shoelace
with delusions of grandeur. Unless one has at least 500 head of cattle, or
sells turquoise jewelry for a living, one should avoid this affectation.
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On Dealing With Unwanted Guests
When dealing with unwanted Party Guests, there is only one sure method to make them depart - offer them Raclette Cheese.
Here is the recipe for success:
1) Announce gaily that you have a special treat you are going to serve. Try not to smirk at the expectant smiles of your inebriated
guests.
2) Unwrap the Raclette Cheese. It will smell impossibly bad, like the toes of a filthy hobo, or a long unattended infection. Let the
cheese rest on the counter, while your more delicate guests begin to find their coats.
3) Prepare the condiments for the cheese; cubed bread, gherkin pickles, small boiled potatoes. The more adventurous eaters will now draw closer to you - and the fatal blow.
4) Melt the cheese over low heat in a saucepan. The previously condensed malodorous stench will be unbound from the cheese, and expand in the air like a chemical weapon of biblical proportions. Do not worry about guests who are soiling your bedroom in furtive encounters, or are looting your medicine cabinet behind a locked door, the stench will reach even the farthest reaches of one’s home.
5) Exchange your hurried good-byes with the remaining guests, who all suddenly realized that they left an iron on, or a baby sitter unpaid, or had just received an urgent call from an ill relative and just had to leave.
6) Minutes later, with everyone gone, go back to the kitchen, where the cheese has now released its toxic smell and turned into an
appetizing treat both unctuous and quite delicious. Enjoy the sublime vindication of eating it all by yourself.
- From A Vile Old Queen’s Guide To Etiquette And Proper Living
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Here is the recipe for success:
1) Announce gaily that you have a special treat you are going to serve. Try not to smirk at the expectant smiles of your inebriated
guests.
2) Unwrap the Raclette Cheese. It will smell impossibly bad, like the toes of a filthy hobo, or a long unattended infection. Let the
cheese rest on the counter, while your more delicate guests begin to find their coats.
3) Prepare the condiments for the cheese; cubed bread, gherkin pickles, small boiled potatoes. The more adventurous eaters will now draw closer to you - and the fatal blow.
4) Melt the cheese over low heat in a saucepan. The previously condensed malodorous stench will be unbound from the cheese, and expand in the air like a chemical weapon of biblical proportions. Do not worry about guests who are soiling your bedroom in furtive encounters, or are looting your medicine cabinet behind a locked door, the stench will reach even the farthest reaches of one’s home.
5) Exchange your hurried good-byes with the remaining guests, who all suddenly realized that they left an iron on, or a baby sitter unpaid, or had just received an urgent call from an ill relative and just had to leave.
6) Minutes later, with everyone gone, go back to the kitchen, where the cheese has now released its toxic smell and turned into an
appetizing treat both unctuous and quite delicious. Enjoy the sublime vindication of eating it all by yourself.
- From A Vile Old Queen’s Guide To Etiquette And Proper Living
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On Weddings
Few things are more loathsome in life than a wedding; the pompous invitation, the terribly forced and unnatural schedule, the uncomfortable and unattractive attire. A guest list that rarely includes anyone you want to talk to. The gaucherie of a gift registry. The horrific music and dancing. All covered with the slickly sickening sheen of religious piety and social necessity.
A Vile Old Queen suggests one avoid attending all weddings if at all possible. For gifts, despite all indications to the contrary, everyone prefers cash. If your own wedding is in development, elopement may prove a saner course.
If one has a sadistic trait, however, your own marriage can make sweet retribution for all the weddings you felt obligated to attend. There is no better vengeance than being the Bride and selecting the Bridesmaid’s gowns. If one has the misfortune to be the Best Man, the toast is your time for revenge. If one is the Groom, remember that, like in surgery, the right amount of anesthesia can make it all go away.
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On Hats
Hats are best left to professionals, unless one is attending Church or a Sunday Brunch, in which case there are no wrong choices, merely less heroic ones.
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3/20/13
Hopeless
Hopeless
If you still have hanging
a Christmas stocking
on the first day of Spring,
you need to know;
Santa
isn't
coming.
If you still have hanging
a Christmas stocking
on the first day of Spring,
you need to know;
Santa
isn't
coming.
from "Storytelling" by Jason Messinger
2/11/13
On Body Odor
On Body Odor
Body odor is very much like hair; in the right place it’s a sexual stimulant that is captivating to the senses and a signifier of beauty and allure. In the wrong place it’s a disgusting and repulsive insult that can cause grown men to gag in reflex. A Vile Old Queen suggests these small tips for keeping one’s body odor pleasant and agreeable.
– Avoid strenuous exercise if at all possible. Perspiration is merely the tip of disagreeableness of this iceberg.
– If one uses cologne, remember the idea is to create an intimate whiff of a subtle scent for someone standing a hand’s breadth apart from you. It is not to cause people three feet away to tear up and gasp for breath. If people wince as you enter an elevator, it is a clue that you have applied too much.
– When seeking to purchase a personal scent, anything excreted by a small mammal is only appropriate if one wishes to attract the same small mammal. AVOQ suggests psychological counseling if that is one’s true inclination.
– When considering a scent endorsed by a musical celebrity, remember that their actual bodily secretions were not used to create it.
– If you encounter the girl offering a free sample spray at the fragrance station in a department store, remember that anything given away is usually worth exactly what you paid for it.
– Lastly, but most importantly, unless one is a Lesbian Hippie with a terrible sense of personal boundaries, the wearing of Patchouli Oil should be avoided at all times. No other scent lingers so long, nor causes such nausea. Patchouli Oil has been implicated in the death of the Sixties.
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The Aviary
If God is a Dove
cooing our law,
then are Humans an Eagle
entrails in claw?
If Honor is a Crane
poised on one leg,
then is Pride a Peacock
atop a cracked egg?
If Joy is the Rooster
crowing the morn,
then is Dread the Raven
cawing forlorn?
If Wishes are Starlings
both weaving and fleet,
then are Curses Vultures
that chew out our sweet?
If Fate is an Albatross
hung huge cross our flight,
then is Luck an Owl,
both wisdom and fright?
If Love is the Robin
hope burnt with each cheep,
then is Loss the Nightingale
who sings us to weep?
And am I the Crow;
the trickster, the wit?
Or I am the Dodo;
fat, foolish, unfit?
Will You be the Falcon,
hearts pierced with your dive?
Or are You the Canary,
who warns our demise?
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