Ask The Club

Eh I see some technical errors there with your answers Mr Nalley...allow me

How many clubs on the site have you been in?

Michael has been in them all, and it's a little known fact he started most of them, like that dude in the stones song "sympathy for the devil"...you know..Satan. He has many eyes..and many eyes make many spies. He is Legion.

How long have you been a member of P&Q?

Michael and Dainz dreamed up P and Q over morning crumpets and lemon flavoured earl grey, if you know what I mean....

What was your very first P&Q s/n?

ManGod of the ManSpear as I recall..but I prefer Michael D Nalley..it's more..raw..more visual than his old one.

And what professional poet do you feel embodies your preference of such literature/ you the best?

I don't have the bandwidth to upload all the essays Micheal has written about his adoration of MY work..but suffice to say if I were to copy them to parchment, and lay that parchmont upon the ground..and then walk along it...I'd die of starvatioon before I reached the end..

Male club members: Do you/Have you openly shared your poetry in school/ with family /friends etc.

Michael shared his poetry with Jesus, his father..his brother and his Gangsta G homie...

Sibyllene says that she's been writing since the tender age of 7. I think that's where she gets her skill from...have you read her stuff?

According to her, only the coolest and most talented people are allowed in the club. And yeah, a MOD might be allowed in, depending on if they meet our criteria.

"MODs are okay, as long as they don't kill our buzz."
^^^
Her exact words.

Musicality, to answer your great question, I heard Sibby saying this yesterday:

"There was this one time back in high school that I really liked a guy. I didn't know how to tell him, so I wrote a poem for him expressing just how I felt, and how magestically beautiful I thought he was.

He got the poem and as he read it, I was hiding in the locker next to his. All I heard him say was 'hey Johnny, that kid in the remedial class wrote me a poem. Hahah. Poor kid.' I jumped out of the locker and ran away. He thought that I was one of the special needs students. I have never looked at guys the same way since."

Also, Sibs and I have been in 2 clubs. EOP and THE Club.

"Michael shared his poetry with Jesus, his father..his brother and his Gangsta G homie..."

I think it was Jesus that called Kevin to be a mod after that thing with Judas I think he was looking for someone he could trust

Although I know I'm a piece of work Kevin never gave up on me.

Don't tell Kevin about Jesus because Keven likes to think every thing is his idea

Gangsta G homie? Is that what you call Bob Shank?

I know the homie that made the youtube vid is an imposter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQcxLFdMTAk

How long have you all been writing?

Since I learned to write, I suppose. Abby says that was about 3 years ago... but I swear I've been writing since I was 5 or 6. Memories can't be trusted.

Who do you allow in your club? Would any of us MODs be allowed in?

Anyone. Well, that depends (about mods). Do you think the mods can handle it? What mods would like to join? We would likely discuss it, but may not bother discussing it if it's a hypothetical question and no mods are actually considering joining :\
I don't know how else to answer such a question.

The quality of the person would be held higher than disputes or writing abilities, I should think.
If we could believe that the mods would anticipate anything they might see in the club, as we would anticipate that a mod would go back in threads and read anything relating to his or herself.. for curiosity overrules sensibility.. then most of the mods would be gladly accepted into our club.
So basically, if a mod can come into our club and stick to the rule of "What happens in the club, stays in the club," and understand that sacrificing a bit of pride is necessary to do so -- then said mod can join.
You know what I mean?

My Question is for Michael D Nalley.

Are you the famous author that i googled??

Michael will be back in a week or two at most. He'll answer your question upon return :)

Interesting questions.

It was successful enough. I wasn't hoping for anything huge, just some fun. I had fun.

I can't speak for "us," but I don't think I've learned anything worthy. That wasn't the point of this thread. People could be asking if blue is a prettier color than green, for all I care, and I don't think my opinions on whether blue is prettier than green is something "worthy" to learn. You know what I mean? It's just a thread, not a revolution.

We're not that unique. We're just a group of people and the audience we drew is the audience we drew. I don't know what else to say!

I'm not sure how to answer this one either... I can't speak for other people. I think I've grown with the group I'm in, if not poetically, the imagination and story writes we've done have helped me with the books I'm working on. And if poetically, I can say that Kevin encouraged me to write more poems that have lines flowing into each other, playing on words, and not rhyming. He inspired me to write "Astronomical Reckoning." Besides me - I think Jamie would be the most obvious pick. She didn't write at all until joining our club and even if she's only posted ONE poem... one poem is a long way from no poems :)

Hm... I don't think we care if you're a good poet or not. Whoever said we do care was likely joking.
I'm prejudice against people who write poetry in text message form, besides that, anything goes.

We goof around a lot, but we're actually nice people and I think most newcomers feel welcome. At least I hope.
I can't remember the last person who applied that we didn't give a trial run in the least.

Lol, how about we do a cultural exchange?

We let a Mod into the club, and you all make a club member a Mod. I vote Sibby.

As to the person who asked Michael if he is the famous michael on google, I can answer that.

No, he is not. He is the famous Micheal D nalley of America's most wanted, Britains crimewatch and Interpols "we must track these scum down".

His crime? Being "death by sexy"...yeah you know it. When Michael gets his groove on, it's like Chunk from the goonies doing the truffle shuffle, but sexy. h

he is too sexy to live. He must be stopped before he turns me into a gay.

*ponders Michael as a Mod*

That would be interesting...DO IT!!

Bob, as we speak, Jane is chucking a hissy and throwing up all over the walls of THE CLUB.

Please, be more careful in future when you begin a sentence with "Not being sexiest or anything..."
Cos you are. You are the sexiest and you know it. Jane cannot abide your low self-esteem any longer.

Also, she has wanted to be a mod all her online life. A little bit of consideration for her would be nice. You guys are meant to be buddies.

Excuse me, I have to return to my club now to take care of insane Jane. I hope we have medical insurance, for mercy's sake.

Plus, I'm technically a man. I can change my name to John if it helps my qualifications?

Yes. Then yes again.

Now Rikki what is your question please....

Common sense ...lacking in some, not others

Ha! Common! We unsheath our swords at Common.

Rikki, what a welcome change to your avatar! Also, I find your slightly excessive use of punctuation marks quite endearing. It makes me picture you with frizzy hair and spectacles.

Oh yes, we have actually created comic characters for ourselves within our club. Many of them. I remember one where we designed our own superhero characters with special powers. I remember I was Plasmaphagloria, a radiant flame that could harness the power of the most abundant state of matter in the universe. Can't remember the rest of us. Oh yes! Jane was Princess Pansy. Her power was that she was very pretty and could shoot rainbows from her mouth and glitter from her hair. I kicked her ass very, very soundly.

Oh, I thought you were the pink tutu-wearing, three-breasted mutant ape in the super hero story and I, Princess Pansy, liquified you with my glitter bombs.
That must've been a later story.
Wait no.. that was the first time we met in person. I was actually me, Jane - no glitter bombs, sorry to say - and you were... well I don't know how you escaped the zoo, quite frankly.
But back to that superhero story. Now it's all coming back to me. Michael was a short, fat leprechaun that pwned opponents with lucky charms. Kevin was a male nurse. I don't think he had any super powers...his character was devastatingly boring. Sibby was a unicorn. Jordan may have been a homosexual chili pepper with legs, wearing a sombrero. He played Spanish lullabies to male opponents, lulling them to sleep, then god knows what would happen.
I can't remember the rest.

Oh that's right, I was a male nurse in that story!!

As I recall jane, my character was uber exciting and sexual, until he had to give your character a full medical examination.

I think it was the rectal warts that finally stole his powers of speech and the desire to open his eyes and interact with anything..ever again.

Might have been the head lice using the cranial tape worms as surf boards to traverse hair so greasy you could strain it and fry fish.

Or was that another story?

Common sense, eh? Don't let Jordan hear you talking about that. He just spent a few months in Russia, studying under someone who used to be assistant to a Czar. He heard aaaaall about the "common people," proletariat, whatever you want to call them. Pretty much won't shut up about it. Anyway, that's the reason he wears his hair that long - in Russia I guess it's a sign of authority, to separate oneself from the "common" masses. Who knew?

Kevin, first of all... I wouldn't have contracted anal warts if not for you insisting on always taking me from behind like Heath Ledger in Bendover Mountain. Use a hand mirror and check your own nasty warts out, you big baby..yeah, you sorry excuse for a male nurse!
Secondly, that wasn't lice.. that was glitter. I'm covered in it, it's part of my costume, ok!?

Go prep some patients and strike check-marks on your little clipboard, lame-o.

I'm starting to remember even more characters in the super-hero story!
Let's see, Sarah was an imitation of the Hulk, only she turned orange, not green. She only got angry once in the entire story, when Nicko, the uni-boobed tarantula man made a dirty comment about her good friend, Karl.. Karl was some kind of Neanderthal, in fact, I think he was playing himself in the story. Sarah blew up into a great, orange giant and squashed Nicko with her thumb. That was the end of Nicko's fat, furry body... but his wiry 8 legs kept twitching around for some time.
Jamie was a mermaid with a woman's body and a fish head. Her "power" was trapping opponent's heads in her giant fish mouth and suffocating them. She ended up doing this to Kevin at some point because he was boring her to death.. but nobody noticed he was gone. Wait, I think that WAS Kevin's super power. Boring opponent's to death.
And the last hero I remember, at least for now, is Mo. Mo was the Sexual Slayer with penis fingers, 6 sets of boobs, stumps for legs, and.... she had no head. She couldn't speak. God, it was refreshing.

Too much going on.

My chili pepper senses say "PUT THEM ALL TO SLEEP"

Then you'll never know what goes on here.

Ahhhh, I loved that comic strip.

And COMMON SENSE? Hahaha! Our common sense runs so deep that it works magic on itself, causing it to bare resemblance to insanity! Our responses are nothing but perfection and apparently of such high calibur that not even you can understand them, Rikki.

Sibs once told me exactly what it was like in Ireland. The things that she told me were so poetic and made so much (common) sense that I understood without even having to think about what she was saying.

Jane! How come you never told me you were a man? I would've worked my sombrero magic on you loooong ago.

Lordy lordy I remember too, twas so long ago, so insane yet so life like, all fluffy and boobified, baby oil and plastic sheets, portals and pot holes.

Arrrhhh tis good to be in The Club....

That sounded a bit too much like a poem, Nicko.

Bahahahah.

Hahaha, but he didn't rhyme! I think he's safe.

My mom's vagina some 21 years ago.

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.

I'd think it terrible were she to be cooked to death.
PS you're really mean, y'know that, Rikki? Forrrtunately, I'me too insanely sane to give a damn. May we say the same for you? I think you're just as much of a loon...you've just got to let yourself loo(n)se!

Jordan a poem...The Club will do that to ya...know what i mean...

Oh, do I ever!

"When did they open the gates to the asylumn to set you all free??"

Dog gone it, why didn't you all tell me the gates are open?

Oooohh yeah

Rikki you bring out the worst in us (or best if you make common sense of above) why is that?

Open the portals of your mind and let the breeze in, all mellow and pollen filled, with the scent of yesteryear and the blossom of tomorrow, the joint of life. we are with you not against

Rikki, I think being mean is pretty fun, too.

Seriously, though...please don't fry my mom or whatever.

When have you ever been mean, Jordan?

I don't like mean.
Playfulness.. good... meanness.. bad..

- Cavewoman Jane

Yeah, I guess you're right, Jane. I'm not really mean.

Jarred, I don't think that ego is a very new fad.

Or they saw the wisdom in following?

Just a theory...

So yeah... ego. Ego is kind of like an egg but with one less 'g' and an 'o' like all Australian nouns.

People wouldn't have followed if they didn't have ego as well.

Often... or always? Now I feel like we're playing "who can point out the obvious... more obviously." I'm good at this game.

Bob:

Can't answer for the rest of the Club, but I can put in my own 2 cents.

First, I'm not sure what is meant "by status-wise," in your question, so I'll just leave that apart for now. As far as intellectually, it would be going too far to give a straight out yes or no. I definitely think there's bound to be someone (or someoneS) on the site who are bound to be more intelligent than people in the Club. But it's hard to work out what "intelligence" is. Is it knowledge of philosophical maxims? The ability to write thoughtful and well-crafted poetry? The skill of being able to argue a thought, or sit down and find answers to a problem? We'd have to clarify how to measure intelligence, in order to find out how the Club lined up.

I think in general, though, we could look at P & Q as a little microcosmic analogy to the real world. You can look around the forums (of the poems, I'm afraid to say), and it quickly becomes clear that, while there are spots and points of thoughtfulness and clarity and creativity, many people don't really stop to wonder about some of the big questions of life, or even worry the little curiosities. This isn't necessarily bad or good, it's just how it is. "Whats ur fav color?!" will always illicit more responses than "what does it mean for a human to live a good life?"

The Club seems to be a concentration of (to us) some interesting people. The glib arrogance is a game and an amusement. We're not actually douchebags. But as a whole, we are inquisitive, familiar, well-traveled, thoughtful, talkative, messy, argumentative, philosophical, passionate, and interested in lots of things. We have doctors and linguists and philosophy students and law students and parents and high-schoolers and musicians and crazy old farts. It doesn't necessarily imply intelligence, but it's a nice and colourful refuge.

There have been some sad and confusing and complicated times inside the Club - from most of us at some point, but mostly over the past year. I'm glad we're getting a bit of our spunk back. : )

To answer your question, Bob, she's ^ the intelligent one.

Hahaha.

I really do hope that we've made p&q much more fun as of late! I know (for me) in the past two years, this place has been boring, long gone down hill compared to when I first joined.

Nobody in the club will ever seriously come out and say "I'm smarter than you" but I do think it's safe to say that we have secured a wide array of (as Sib put it) colorful and definitely insightful people in our little commune.

As for the arrogance, most of our members just do it to get the ball rolling and have some fun. We do enjoy our sarcasm and we just loooove to get under peoples skin when we know they can handle it.

Lol!

I think Bob, or pumpkin..whatever you call yourself these days you are mistaking the club members confidence and certainly in how they write for a superior attitude.

We know we're good, at writing in general, that much is true but smarter than others?

It's impossible to judge that from just text.

That being said, I wouldn't be surprised if the Club's members were some of the smartest, most insightful, cultured and inspiring people on this website.