List the season

[Nuzzolese]

Each year, with every new season, I like to sit down and write a list of words that come to mind when I think of that time of the year. I started out doing it just in the Fall, maybe because it's my favorite, and because it always seems to go by so quickly. It helps get me in the mood for the changing weather. Fall is almost over and winter is almost beginning here, so I'm going to make a list of fall/winter things. It feels really festive. And you can add to it to help me.

apples
ginger
nutmeg
toffee
cider
acorns
evergreen trees
cranberries
holly
pumpkin
maple
clove
frost
leaves
cinnamon

[Rock]

sweatshirts
orange
red
yellow
beanies, skullies, or toques
warm beds in the morning that call you back into them

[Bob]

fall is interesting, and i like it too, but i realized something about it that i hadn't thought about before. it's the smell. fall has a smell, that fallen leaf smell that everyone likes (until they have to rake, anyway), and it smells fresh and exuberant and it invokes all these positive images, but i realized that it's really just the smell of death. the leaves fall and die (ok, leaves aren't organisms per se, but they're parts of living things, they carry the essence of life in them is what i'm saying) and begin to rot and smell, and we find that smell pleasant. the smell of fall is the smell of the rotting flesh of trees. i'm not trying to go goth on you or anything, i'm just saying that everything's so relative.

anyway
apple pie
warm coats
pretty leaves
fireplaces
chimney smoke
indoor heating
apple fritters

[Qdrop]

this thread is FAR too wholesome and lighthearted for this board...

[mickill]

Button down shirts with sweaters over them under light wool jackets and colorful scarves; unkempt hair, listening to Tony Bennett while enjoying a chai latte and flipping through the latest issue of Esquire.

[Qdrop]

Button down shirts with sweaters over them under light wool jackets and colorful scarves; unkempt hair, listening to Tony Bennett while enjoying a chai latte and flipping through the latest issue of Esquire.

you just copied and pasted an old PM from Echewta, didn't you?

[Bob]

Button down shirts with sweaters over them under light wool jackets and colorful scarves; unkempt hair, listening to Tony Bennett while enjoying a chai latte and flipping through the latest issue of Esquire.

is the collar popped?

[Echewta]

cooking with Mexican chocolate.

Qdrop, we can pm each other if you would like. MicKill and I have truely wonderful conversations between each other.

[paul jones]

swan
cochise
rembrandt
cleon
ajax
snow
fox
cowboy
vermin

[Rock]

swan
cochise
rembrandt
cleon
ajax
snow
fox
cowboy
vermin
(y)

[mickill]

is the collar popped?
Dammit. I forgit to mention that.

Yeah, this is the kinda stuff me and Echewta just gab for hours and hours about.

[ms.peachy]

Excellent sunsets this time of year.

Of course, they start too damn early, but they sure are purty.

[Nuzzolese]

fall is interesting, and i like it too, but i realized something about it that i hadn't thought about before. it's the smell. fall has a smell, that fallen leaf smell that everyone likes (until they have to rake, anyway), and it smells fresh and exuberant and it invokes all these positive images, but i realized that it's really just the smell of death. the leaves fall and die (ok, leaves aren't organisms per se, but they're parts of living things, they carry the essence of life in them is what i'm saying) and begin to rot and smell, and we find that smell pleasant. the smell of fall is the smell of the rotting flesh of trees. i'm not trying to go goth on you or anything, i'm just saying that everything's so relative.

It's the smell of life renewing too though. Nature is a cycle and death and decomposition are just as beautiful as birth. The one necessitates the other.

[Nuzzolese]

this thread is FAR too wholesome and lighthearted for this board...

This board is playskool and if you don't think so you're a goddamn pussy, get your naysaying the fuck out of my pleasantries.

[paul jones]

This board is playskool and if you don't think so you're a goddamn pussy, get your naysaying the fuck out of my pleasantries.


^ fucking classic! :D (y)

[mickill]

I saw the craziest sunset ever on Friday. It wasn't the kind where there's a bunch of puffy clouds everywhere with pink shades bursting everywhere. There was just this giant wall of light in the sky. It went from yellow to bright orange at the top and just stopped. It was framed by a charcoal colored mass of grey cloud. Everything was just smooth an defined. It looked fake.

[Nuzzolese]

Crisp frosty mornings when the peachy sunrise is slanting in through the windows and the steam from your coffee looks like grey chiffon, and the butter melts into your cinnamon raison swirl toast.

Keeping a large, oversized, fraying ragged knit wool sweater around to pull on when you get too chilly in that one corner of the house, the one with the honey-colored leather arm chair and matching foot stool, the one near the basket full of spicy tangy pine needles you set out as potourri, where you go with an old musty book with a cracked spine and faded cover, a volume of Robert Frost or Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

[hpdrifter]

This is a pretty wholesome thread, but I like it. I think we can take a break from the sex talk and be red staters for a few minutes

In Seattle fall is an absolutely gorgeous time of year. Contrary to popular belief there are plenty of deciduous trees around here. Its not quite new england but its still plenty nice.

This whole weekend the sky was dark and gray all day and it rained a lot. It was like the sun never really came up. This may not sound like a day you would enjoy but it really can be. Its the kind of day you don't feel guilty spending the whole time curled up on the couch drinking cocoa and watching your favorite two or three movies that you've seen about a million times with your boyfriend and snoozing and making out and snoozing some more. It rules.

[Bob]

Excellent sunsets this time of year.

Of course, they start too damn early, but they sure are purty.

yes they are and yes they do. i woke up at sunset yesterday, true story. it was beautiful and depressing at the same time

It's the smell of life renewing too though. Nature is a cycle and death and decomposition are just as beautiful as birth. The one necessitates the other.

i guess. death is generally pretty nasty-smelling though. that's why we bury corpses. i just think it's interesting that we enjoy the smell of one decomposing thing, but hate the smell of other decomposing things and never think about it.

although to be fair, i've never smelled a birth, either. birth looks like it might smell bad too.

[Nuzzolese]

Last night I went for a walk in the park with my special boy, and we shuffled along through the dry leaves, under the pink-to-violet-to-bluegrey sky which was sliced through with the veiny silhouettes of skeletal black branches. My nose and fingers were cold and he leant me his jacket. That's another nice aspect of chilly evenings, the nice boy can let you borrow his jacket.

[mickill]

.....and watching your favorite two or three movies that you've seen about a million times with your boyfriend and snoozing and making out and snoozing some more. It rules.

Police Academy 6 and Joe Dirt aren't really Fall kinda movies, though.

[Qdrop]

This board is playskool and if you don't think so you're a goddamn pussy, get your naysaying the fuck out of my pleasantries.

that's more like it...

[hpdrifter]

Police Academy 6 and Joe Dirt aren't really Fall kinda movies, though.

I didn't say your boyfriend.

It was City Slickers and A Few Good Men.

[mickill]

I didn't say your boyfriend.

It was City Slickers and A Few Good Men.

Be specific next time.

And like those movies are much better...psssh.

[hpdrifter]

Was the weather similar where you are? I figure we usually have the same types of weather.

Hey, do you ski or snowboard? I think some friends of mine are going to plan a Whistler trip. You and Jenny should come if you can, or we can meet for a drink or something. I can meet you and then testify to what a tool you are on the board when I get back. It'll be fun!

[Nuzzolese]

sweaters and corduroys
hats, scarves, gloves
thick rag socks

[mickill]

Was the weather similar where you are? I figure we usually have the same types of weather.

Hey, do you ski or snowboard? I think some friends of mine are going to plan a Whistler trip. You and Jenny should come if you can, or we can meet for a drink or something. I can meet you and then testify to what a tool you are on the board when I get back. It'll be fun!
Yeah, we get the same weather more or less. Don't ask stupid questions like that.

Try not to sound so Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction when you post, mang. I don't hit the slopes often, no. But on your way up, yeah, skid by my hood and we'll all go to Starbuck's or something like that. Your treat.

[Nuzzolese]

I usually go see the Nutcracker every year, it gets me into a Holiday mood.
Reading children's Christmas books does too. Or children's Thanksgiving books.

There aren't many good Thanksgiving movies. Home For The Holidays, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Pieces of April


Peppermint
Spice Tea
Oatmeal
Mulled Wine

[instigator7022]

PUMPKINS!
and
the brisk air

[mickill]

Cottage cheese and tree bark.

[hpdrifter]

what would you call the smell of rain soaked cement, grass, and trees. It doesn't sound like it would be a good smell but it really is. Its like what clean would smell like. It reminds me of being in school and going on Christmas break.

Hugging your family members as they come over for dinner and the smell of their wet hair and scarves, and my gramma's lipstick and hairspray when she kisses me on the cheek.

Ah Thanksgiving.

Okay, mickey, I was just wondering if you and Jenny enjoyed the gloomy weather the same as I did. Don't jump all over me.

Fatal Attraction my ass, you may think your rabbit died of natural causes...

[Bob]

i like the smell of a cold day. there's just something about the way the air smells when it's cold out that i can't pin down. smoke from chimneys is nice, but even on days when nobody's got a fire going, there's just something about the way it smells out there that i like.

[mickill]

Okay, mickey, I was just wondering if you and Jenny enjoyed the gloomy weather the same as I did. Don't jump all over me.

Fatal Attraction my ass, you may think your rabbit died of natural causes...
That was just cruel bringing up the bunny, C. What'd my poor Davie ever do to you?


I really enjoy this (http://www.celestialseasonings.com/products/product/532.php) tea during the winter months. Must be the roasted chicory root. I like to add a drop of honey and let the teabag steep for a good 5 minutes. Okay, I'm going to go put my testicles back on now.

[cosmo105]

spiced apple cider
hot mexican chocolate (ho ho! double meaning!)
COOKIES. tons of them. gingerbread, oatmeal, chocolate chips, mexican wedding cake, chocolate crinkles, springer-lee (or however you spell those rock-hard biscuits)
being too excited to sleep on christmas eve
my dad waking us all up at 6 a.m. christmas morning and lining us up in the hall, youngest to oldest, in our pajamas as we're still groggy as hell and then videotaping us walking to the living room and acting REALLY surprised that presents are there
trimming the tree. god, trimming the tree. i love doing that.

i'm getting ahead of myself though, this is fall we're talking about...guess i'm just excited. this'll be my first christmas away from home, and i'm really looking forward to the trip.

at thanksgiving i always bring sparkling pear cider. it's a big hit, especially for those of us that don't care for wine.

layering sweaters
playing nerf football on grandma's lawn
laughing at the weather forecasts everywhere else
grandpa saying grace
homemade cranberry sauce, cranberry relish
green beans with almond slivers
tangerines from grandma's tree
that relaxed, semester's-almost-over-and-i-don't-give-a-crap-anymore feeling
warm fuzzies
curling up and cuddling on rainy weekend mornings
seeing your breath in the air

great thread, nuzz. (y)

[miss soul fire]

It's Spring here:

Flowers
Green
Fruits


In my country seasons don't have much meaning other than the natural one, especially when it's Spring or Fall. I don't think I ever heard someone saying "oh, fall is coming". Only Summer and Winter.

[hpdrifter]

That would suck. Fall and Spring are so awesome.

[miss soul fire]

That would suck. Fall and Spring are so awesome.
Well, we still got it, but we just don't care. I really don't know why. :p

[voltanapricot]

Beautiful skies.
Crisp air.
Soup.
Wrapping up.

I love being cosy when the weather is bright.

[Nuzzolese]

I love soup, and snow peas, and I love the outdoors. I love talking and not talking.

[Nuzzolese]

the smell of cedar
wool mittens dampened by snow
the dry, nose tickling aroma of electric heat
Brandy-soaked baked goods
strings of tiny white lights, fallen off their decorative position and blowing loose in the wind.

[zippo]

oh god, i knew it wouldnt be long till nuzzolese would break out her guitar and start playing Kumbaya

[Nuzzolese]

What? You don't enjoy the changing seasons? You didn't know shit. Why must we be dead inside? You do recall the colorful light-filled world beyond the dark sweaty tangle of board cliches and flirting implications?

[zippo]

What? You don't enjoy the changing seasons? You didn't know shit. Why must we be dead inside?

i cant do it, its like the first day i went to my acting class and we had to share deep emotional stories with strangers and then hug them and take it all seriously (i couldnt do it), or when i was showed around a gym and we got to the weight lifting room where the guys would be dressed in spandex and headbands and doing their thing and look at them all without cracking up(impossible).
and i enjoy the changing seasons dammit nuzzolese, i just cant hold hands and talk about my seasonal feelings without laughing, and what the fuck is mickill talking about cottage cheese and bark CMON you guys are killing me here ok hold on

pencils
tire tracks
bedtime
Oprah Winfrey

[miss soul fire]

Hahahaha!:D


Oh, damn, summer is coming and I gained weight. To make the situation even worst, my sister got me a lovely blue bikini! :o

[Nuzzolese]

i cant do it, its like the first day i went to my acting class and we had to share deep emotional stories with strangers and then hug them and take it all seriously (i couldnt do it), or when i was showed around a gym and we got to the weight lifting room where the guys would be dressed in spandex and headbands and doing their thing and look at them all without cracking up(impossible).
and i enjoy the changing seasons dammit nuzzolese, i just cant hold hands and talk about my seasonal feelings without laughing, and what the fuck is mickill talking about cottage cheese and bark CMON you guys are killing me here ok hold on

pencils
tire tracks
bedtime
Oprah Winfrey

mickill's path is a strange and difficult one. You think it's cheesy? Rock was the first one to reply. He listed it. Can you believe he was the first one?! I loved it. He's not afraid to sing about these are a few of my favorite things. Sometimes you have to be cozy and cute. Life's too short not to decorate it with glitter and macaroni. Now that was cheesy.

[miss soul fire]

I know what she means, but it's not so bad to make a list about the things that come to your mind when changing seasons. It's not like we're writing huge posts discussing about the definition of love and how the love of your family is gonna kill you someday because you'll be incapable to handle so much happiness. Oh loooove. But agreed on the Oprah thing. We have one here just like her, but she's older and...well, she's been around for quite sometime. She might be 115 years old these days.:D

[zippo]

mickill's path is a strange and difficult one. You think it's cheesy? Rock was the first one to reply. He listed it. Can you believe he was the first one?! I loved it. He's not afraid to sing about these are a few of my favorite things. Sometimes you have to be cozy and cute. Life's too short not to decorate it with glitter and macaroni. Now that was cheesy.

ha! you could have picked anything except The Sound of Music, im telling you, i do the complete repertoire on a monthly basis for my friends, and i sware on the sugarplum fairy that im not kidding. i do the cheese, i do.

sauteed onions
Adidas
exit signs
Cover Girl makeup

[thegoodmrbrodie!]

a brisk walk to work along the river. hands in pockets. newspaper under one arm. scarf over the mouth. mi & l'au on the headphones.

[mickill]

During the Fall, I like to invite friends and people I may have met recently over to my home and surprise them by reading some of my poetry for them by the fireplace while we enjoy miso soup and oysters on unsalted crackers

[zippo]

http://216.36.178.46/inthecity/dec03/graphics_dec03/christmas_fireplace.jpg

http://www.expandinglight.org/yoga/images/Christmas-fireplace-4.jpg

http://www.glendasplace.com/holiday/Christmas/eddie_eggnog2.jpg

*christmas choir*



seriously though, i adore those childrens christmas choirs, i seriously adore the christmas season

[cosmo105]

that second one is going to haunt my dreams.

[CrankItUp!]

penguins
polar bears
sex/cozy cuddle/slumber all day (y)

[yeahwho]

MUSHROOMS
Muck
Mud
Honey
Puddles
Slugs
Streaks
Wool
Led
Zeppelin
Played
Loud!

Fall Rocks!

[Nuzzolese]

God bless us every one