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From: Patricia
Date: Thu Feb 17 14:21:00 MST 2005
Subject: what's in a name

Responses
Karen: Hibernating?? (2/17/05)

Patricia: oops (2/18/05)

derek: yeah (2/18/05)

benjipark: Blacksmith (2/18/05)

derek: a lack of idiots (2/18/05)

MaryKay: Part of the Village (2/19/05)
KeithB: idiot (2/19/05)
benjipark: I've got it! (2/20/05)

mike: ME! ME! (2/23/05)
derek: Blacksmith Blues (2/25/05)

Patricia: help (2/25/05)

Suki: Mad Hatter (2/28/05)

KeithB: a vote for our future (2/28/05)

derek: Ta'ang (3/2/05)

emily: what? (3/4/05)

Karen: Hatter madness (3/4/05)

Responses (sorted by date)
Karen: Hatter madness (3/4/05)
emily: what? (3/4/05)
derek: Ta'ang (3/2/05)
KeithB: a vote for our future (2/28/05)
Suki: Mad Hatter (2/28/05)
Patricia: help (2/25/05)
derek: Blacksmith Blues (2/25/05)
mike: ME! ME! (2/23/05)
benjipark: I've got it! (2/20/05)
KeithB: idiot (2/19/05)
MaryKay: Part of the Village (2/19/05)
derek: a lack of idiots (2/18/05)
benjipark: Blacksmith (2/18/05)
derek: yeah (2/18/05)
Patricia: oops (2/18/05)
Karen: Hibernating?? (2/17/05)

We call our little community the Village. We call our worship Vespers. If we just stick with these two metaphors we won't have to necessarily watch them fall apart.
Take a small rural village for example. It may have a garage, a general store, a school, and a church. Note: the church is in the village - not the village in the church.
Our Village is a community of people, much like the residents of a rural village. And in our Village community we have a garage, guitar class, pelates (sp?) class, translating services, moving services, counseling services, workshops, child care, computer care, a (currently hybernating) band, and a church - Vespers.
I really do believe that our Village community is much larger than the crowd we see at Vespers. Just about every one of the "residents" of the Village has close enough relations with "non-vesperers" to consider them part of the Village.
How would I explain that concept to someone? Maybe with the help of a Tucson map. South Tucson is a city within a city. The Village is, too. In a spread out sort of way...

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From: Karen
Date: Thu Feb 17 14:52:35 MST 2005
Subject: Hibernating??

Which band are you talking about?
We've been rehearsing for two hours (or more) every week since G & K left. In November, our new guitarist started meeting w/Craig & me to learn our songs. And we've had a drummer for a month now, soooooo.... have drummer, will gig.
We played four songs at Berky's last Monday. (I would have been louder about the "gig" if I'd been sure we'd even be playing.) They played w/out me (I was in CA) at Vaudeville last Saturday night. And we're scheduled to play after the Wyatts at Frog & Firkin on Saturday March 5. We'll be playing late, so most folks will be hibernating when we're playing....
OK, maybe it's some other band you're talking about? ;-)

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From: Patricia
Date: Thu Feb 17 17:19:16 MST 2005
Subject: oops

I stand corrected.
1 - 'hibernating' is spelled with an i
2 - Karen's band is complete ...
3 - and perfoming
Sorry, Karen. I really had not heard about any of this.
CONGRATULATIONS

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From: derek
Date: Thu Feb 17 21:57:54 MST 2005
Subject: yeah

yeah, the Village is definitely a lot bigger than the people we see at the Muse. For instance, I'm a member of the Village, and I never show up at church. :)
Okay, don't worry, my priviliges are thoroughly abused and are being taken away from me. So, I'll be there.
I'm also brainstorming a used bookstore and coffee shop for our village. We'll see if that looks like a go. Technically, we still need a blacksmith.

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From: benjipark
Date: Fri Feb 18 00:40:22 MST 2005
Subject: Blacksmith

Blacksmith I can do in my spare time, it's village idiot we lack... that or an astronaut. Hmm, makes me think of doughnuts.

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From: derek
Date: Fri Feb 18 13:53:20 MST 2005
Subject: a lack of idiots

I believe astronauts have very little to do with doughnuts. Mostly they are associated with Taang. Maybe they make Taang doughnuts. Or doughnut flavored Taang. Isn't that just called grease? Who says we lack idiots? I will proudly offer my services. My idiocy can be your idiocy. I would, however, appreciate a jester's cap. They are cool.

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	From: MaryKay Date: Sat Feb 19 07:16:59 MST 2005 Subject: Part of the Village I'd love to become the official Village seamstress and perhaps sew that jesters cap. Edit this response Write a response Email the author
	From: KeithB Date: Sat Feb 19 10:22:32 MST 2005 Subject: idiot I was a court jester once, in my 2nd grade play. I wore a jester hat. I had two lines and I did them perfectly. Edit this response Write a response
	From: benjipark Date: Sun Feb 20 02:01:40 MST 2005 Subject: I've got it! I've got it all figured out. We are all idiots and we need the blacksmith to be the one "normal" in the village to set the contrast to the rest of us. Mary Kay I'll take a four spiked jester hat in purple and yellow. Let me know how many sheep that will be. Edit this response Write a response Email the author From: mike Date: Wed Feb 23 08:26:33 MST 2005 Subject: ME! ME! I wanna be the court jester untill Benji comes back. Let silliness abound. Edit this response Write a response Email the author From: derek Date: Thu Feb 24 19:27:25 MST 2005 Subject: Blacksmith Blues Why does the blacksmith get to be the sane one? What's so special about the blacksmith? Or maybe, in some Socratic way, we who claim to be idiots are truly wise because we know ourselves as idiots. The blacksmith, then, becomes a true idiot. Of course, no offense, Benji. I'm just saying that you are a senseless half-wit who holds less meaning than a tick. You smell bad, too. It's not personal, I just don't like you for who you are as a person. Also, late March I'll visit you up in Bellingham. We need to brainstorm over Skype for an arrival time and date. And sorry, we can't all just be idiots. Some of us are more idiots than others of us. It's just like in Highlander. Eventually, there can be only one idiot. Except we don't have swords. If only we had a better blacksmith who could clear these errors up . . . Yup . . . If only . . . Edit this response Write a response Email the author From: Patricia Date: Thu Feb 24 22:57:49 MST 2005 Subject: help who - oh - who will be the voice of reason ??? Edit this response Write a response Email the author From: Suki Date: Sun Feb 27 22:42:06 MST 2005 Subject: Mad Hatter The blacksmith is only considered sane in comparison to the hatter, who lost it bad a long time ago. Edit this response Write a response Email the author

From: KeithB
Date: Sun Feb 27 23:17:36 MST 2005
Subject: a vote for our future

I, for one, support you, Patricia, fully in your spelling of "hybernating"... I personally wish that you had stuck to your guns on that point. It gives me shivering thoughts of "cyber" and "bifurcating" and such...(the possibilities, actually, are nearly limitless...)powerful entities unto themselves, and synergistically tidal in effect when latticed communally. And Derek: if you're going to take such gaudy liberties with the spelling of that space drink, for God's sake please bifurcate the "a's" with an apostrophe. Makes it look...I don't know...Mongolian or something. Exotic, that is.
Love,
Kb

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From: derek
Date: Wed Mar  2 00:02:23 MST 2005
Subject: Ta'ang

How come I get kicked on my grammer and you defend Patricia on hers? I didn't do the apostrophe for that reason. I was having visions of large foreheads and phasers on stun. Perhaps my misspellings will save us from copyright infringement on either loose reference. Did we have a Hatter? My quick mental scan of Village craniums find only Joel and Eric with consistant head covering (despite sermons which strongly urged contrary). Yet, even these two seem to be guilty only of knit caps and of bandanas. Of course, I could be wrong on this . . . Mad Hatters are, in fact, mad, thus one can never be too sure on these things.

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From: emily
Date: Fri Mar  4 09:21:58 MST 2005
Subject: what?

I am shocked !SHOCKED! at the level of silliness that this blog train has reached! Hatter's are the makers of hats not the wearers. So far only one person has signed up for that job. And so I believe the Mad Hatter refers to someone who makes hats for the mad.
And stop slandering ticks!
EmilyM

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From: Karen
Date: Fri Mar  4 09:51:23 MST 2005
Subject: Hatter madness

The hat-maker is definitely mad *if* the hatter is mad.
Check out this link for explanation of the origin of the term: http://www.snopes.com/language/phrases/hatter.htm

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