And “The Real Jannie” is…?
Rooftop Yodeling, Seriously Weird 63 Comments
Posted by Jannie on 16 November 2008
photo credit: air liquide
As I’ve mentioned in e-mails to a couple of you lately, how can you be sure who Jannie Funster really is? Or if I even exist at all?
Am I actually an 89-year-old man living in a drafty hut with 17 cats in Eastern Mongolia? Or a former champion mig welder putting myself through the University of Nevada law school by working part-time as a Cirque de Soleil contortionist? Could I be a spy with a penchant for munching raw carrots while flinging my bra in the moonlight, who couldn’t sing a note (let alone write a song,) if my double agent life depended on it? (Darn, I swore I wouldn’t mention the word “bra” in a post again for at least a week. Whoops.)
But … here’s your chance to know The Real Jannie. Ask me anything you’d like about me. Anything! Serious or silly, I will answer all queries to the best of my knowledge and my somewhat limited intellectual abilitites.
Fire away!
– Jannie. (Or am I?)
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On 16 November 2008 at 10:20 pm Heather (How to be a Woman..?) said,
This is like, totally awesome of you.
1) Are you really a Nigerian princess and will you really be able to put the $10,000 money order I mailed to your PO Box to good use for your people?
2) Were you always fun, or was there a turning point at which you slipped out of your sensible shoes and became Funster?
3) When you say small is beautiful (right side of your screen by the leaf) are you referring to anatomy or scope?
Thanks. I may have more later.
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On 16 November 2008 at 10:40 pm Sheila said,
Okay Jannie Funster, if that’s your reeeeal name…lol.
1.) Why do “you call you” ‘funster’… are you really fun?
2.) How many cats do you really have in your ‘hut’?
3.) Are there stacks of old newspapers there in your hut? (this would attest to your real age! lol)
Sheila’s last blog post..Sears. Above and beyond!
On 16 November 2008 at 11:21 pm Lisa said,
I’ve been wondering something since I first saw your name (and it’s probably a really stupid question) — do you pronounce it “Jane-ee” or “Jan-ee”? I’ve realized that in my mind, I’ve been thinking of you as “Jane-ee,” but you may actually be “Jan-ee.” (Then again, maybe the J is silent, and you’re actually “Annie.”
)
Lisa’s last blog post..What’s that noise?
On 16 November 2008 at 11:35 pm Erin Monahan said,
damn it, wouldn’t ya just know it? I can’t come up with a single witty damned question… You’re obviously more funsterer than I am
Erin Monahan’s last blog post..I need your help!
On 17 November 2008 at 12:13 am Lane Savant said,
Have you monbreamstone?
Or Hellfeurersteyn?
Or Van Diemen’s coral pearl?
Careful with your answers.
Lane Savant’s last blog post..More story
On 17 November 2008 at 12:18 am Shay said,
3 eternal questions for you, Jannie:
1.What is life?
2.What is the nature of God?
3.Why do two tank tops look sexier than one?
I apologize in advance. I realize that that last one may in fact be an unanswerable mystery, that’s why I tossed in the two gimme’s beforehand.
Shay’s last blog post..Glasgow
On 17 November 2008 at 12:29 am Georgie B said,
Okay, how about one serious question?
(sorry, it’s the parent in me doing this)
How long have you been doing music, both creating and playing?
On 17 November 2008 at 1:12 am Jannie said,
Sheila: I have actually never cracked a joke in my life — Jon Stewart of “The Daily Show” does all my writing. And with the $3.77 average weekly I now make with my Google ads, I am only in the hole to him $456,000 since I began this shennanigans on Sept. 22th. I have 62 cats (and 4 llamas.) I have no newspapers but do have 4 Field & Streams from early 1917.
Lisa: It completely rhymes with Frannie. Or Banannie. (Or dumpster diver on every fifth Friday.)
Erin:
I wouldn’t have you any other way.
Lane: Yes I did have all 3 at one time in a Rigagnolina to Mountagnone dream.
Shay: Life is RNA & DNA partying down. The nature of God is love. And two tank tops look sexier than one because the added barrier to “the vault” makes the heart grow so much fonder.
Georgie B: I guess I kind of always sang since I was a wee bairn, much to the chagrin of a lot of people, I believe it was a way of self-comfort a lot of the time. Linda Ellis pointed out when I was 10 and she 11 that I could write a song about anything. And I usually did. I guess as a kid I dreamed of becoming a singer but lost it somewhere along the way. Didn’t really have it nurtured, yada – yada. And later when I grew up I thought music was for “other people,” no confidence in myself. Plus I figured it was “too late.” But – when I was 30 my neighbor, Leigh, taught me a few chords on her guitar and I started writing bad songs immediately. Started singing lessons when I was 34 and performance clases soon after, more guitar lessons. When Kelly started pre-school when she was two I had 3 hours day to myself and started in earnest learning to write songs, taking guitar lessons again. And a couple years later I began tinkering with some intitial recordings at home on a little digital recording system I set up. Over the past 2 years (Gosh, or has it been 3 now,) I went into a Real Studio, and bit by bit recorded 12 songs, plus one of Kelly’s, as time and money permitted. Wasn’t going to at first (had written the songs via Band-In-A-Box,) use real musicians but as my ear developed, I redid all the songs. And eventually had real guitarists, a bassist and drummer play on them. Awesome! And really had to learn to sing along the way — every vocal session in that studio I was wracked with nerves, actually re-did some songs 3 times until they got acceptable. Oh, and took lessons to learn harmony singing during the course of the Real Studio recordings and actually recorded my own back-up vocals on the songs too. I’m still not the greatest singer but I slide by a lot of the time. Only 7 of the 12 songs I recorded are going to be in My Musical and I was thinking of writing another 8 or so more to add to that 7 and then releasing a CD for The “I Need A Man” Musical only. But just last week I had an epiphany to go ahead and press a few hundred of the CDs of the recorded 12 and have a release party & such. After all, those songs are a reflection of where I was musically when I recorded them. Just need to get a date and a venue! And corrall some friends to play along with me, as at this very moment I cannot play all my songs on guitar. Probably late winter, early spring, for said release, give me more time to get the guitar down. Press the Easy Button and make this sucker happen! Stop being so freaking afraid of success. And take it from there.
On 17 November 2008 at 1:30 am Aunt LoLo said,
Thanks for stopping by Bubba Bubbles! (I’d LOVE to have your e-mail so I didn’t keep bumbling into your blog to thank you for comments.
)
However…since I love your blog anyhow, I will now come up with an insightful and deep question for you:
Potatoes: mashed, hashed, french fried or baked?
Aunt LoLo’s last blog post..Oh, The Things You Will Eat
On 17 November 2008 at 1:46 am Jannie said,
On 17 November 2008 at 2:11 am Rhett said,
Describe Jannie in no more than hundred words. Bugging that I know, but you asked for it!
Rhett’s last blog post..Secret Fantasy
On 17 November 2008 at 3:14 am Glenn Buttkus said,
Are you really the fun-loving fast-fingered minx that you appear to be, dropping on on unsuspecting blogs and leaving the most delicious comments, always intriguing and mysterious?
Are you really Dannie who masques as Jannie, a frustrated high school music teacher, not make that junior high school, who starred as Lancelot in a community theater production of CAMELOT, and this depressed you for 3 months because you secretly hoped to be cast as Guinvere?
Are you an Indian princess who has dyed her hair blond and now will never admit your Native American heritage?
Are you the woman who was behind me in the line at the QFC making rude comments about my cane and my long gray hair?
Are you the sprite at heart who loves to feel free to laugh and read and other such patriotic and artistic endeavors?
Are you the obese woman who stood next to her car parked along the freeway with a flat tire in the rain without an umbrella in the pre-dawn morning that I did not stop to help and felt crappy about it all day?
Are you the derelict who sits on the concrete bench near the port of Tacoma staring at the ships all day and muttering, “No, that’s not the one,” and, “Whiskey is not milk, but it goes good on corn flakes.” ?
Are you the motorist who flicked a lit cigarette out of her Lexus and was angry because it landed in wet leaves and did not start a brush fire?
Are you the girl I was afraid to ask to the high school prom because i came from an upper lower class family who could not afford to front me dough for flowers and limos, who played flute in the marching band, who had long golden locks that shined like burnished copper when the sun hit it full on?
Are you the old Jew that worked for one summer who ran a wholesale hardware business out of a first floor space in the old Pioneer Square, who called everyone a prick after you hung up on them with the phone?
Are you the English professor who told me that my first finished manuscript, an existential Western , was unmarketable because it had graphic sex scenes, free verse, science fiction, and I killed off the protagonist? “It is like Vonnegut wrote a Western!” you said?
Glenn
Glenn Buttkus’s last blog post..Autumnal
On 17 November 2008 at 3:43 am Thomma Lyn said,
Oh, fun!
Okay, here’s my question — how did you get started in music? Were you a singer first, a musician first, or both? And what kind of music do you most like to play, and what kind of music do you most like to write?
Thomma Lyn’s last blog post..Sublime Writing Music
On 17 November 2008 at 3:53 am Mama Zen said,
Why a musical? Don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with a musical. It just sounds so damned hard!
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On 17 November 2008 at 4:51 am Heather (How to be a Woman..?) said,
You slay me!
One more thing… I’be been afraid to venture into your song tab zone lest I should discover that you are a big-haired Tammy Faye Baker type with a casio and a bottle of Courvosier.
Is it safe to check out those tabs or was I right on the money?
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On 17 November 2008 at 5:20 am TheWeyrd1 said,
I was just wondering how young you are and how long you’ve been writing…
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On 17 November 2008 at 5:41 am Jannie said,
Thomma: For answers to the first part of your wonderful query, see my very long-winded response to Georgie B. above. I don’t really know how to play any songs other than my own but I love most of the songs they play on BobFM, Silly Love Songs, Manic Monday, Jungle Love, et al. I’d say my music is “Freakish Modern With A Twist of Impish Nostalgia.”
Mama Zen: Great question, it does seem a right strange proposal, doesn’t it? When I take my songs to critique sessions, friends often say I write my lines with little scenes they could acually see, some even said “musical”. And when Kalyani heard them she said – totally a musical, with one main character and things revolving around her. So, I guess it’s my style. And rather than trying to bend myself into a pop style or write for the ever illusive Nashvile Dream, I’ve decided to really go with what I seem to gravitate to. Plus, I’ve been advised to keep my cast small on a first project, so I’m looking at just 4 characters for this one, centered in a coffee shop. Mm-kay?
Heather: no worries, you’ll come out alive if you click on my MP3 links, I swear! Alive, yes, changed forever -perhaps.
Now, I have to go see about that offensive Motrin ad post you’ve done…
On 17 November 2008 at 5:43 am Lane Savant said,
Good thing you got all three right, missing just one means another 390 pages of unreadable prose.
Lane Savant’s last blog post..Just making it up as we goes along
On 17 November 2008 at 5:58 am Robin said,
ha ha – well… what sort of recording set-up have you got? We have ProTools with a 002 rack, with garageband as a backup – and we often use Sound Studio for finishing tracks off
Robin’s last blog post..Bloggers’ Recording Project
On 17 November 2008 at 5:58 am Bee said,
If you could choose between having chocolate disappear forever or coffee, which one would go bye bye?
Bee’s last blog post..Spending quality time with the husband..
On 17 November 2008 at 6:12 am Jannie said,
Fellow Weird1: Alas I fear I am fast approaching the halfway point on this earthly plane and I was so naughty in first grade (and beyond,) and frittered away so much time on absolutely nothing while stoned on stupidity and general life idiocy. I’ll be 45 in April. But am a child really. And I plan on making it to 103, with only the last two years of those in dementia.
Lane: I am prepared to read 391.
Robin: I have quite an “entry level” system called Adobe Audition, (was originally called Cool Edit,) but I for the most part know how to work it and it gets done what I need it to. Sounds like you’ve got some awesome stuff! It’s going to be fun checking out your site further.
Bee: Regrettably, I’d kiss chocolate good-bye over coffee. But then I’d surely start leaning heavily, very heavily on glazed donuts, Italian cream cake, lemon meringue pie, pumpkin pie with whipped cream et al. No chocolate, the horror. The shame. How ’bout you, Bee?
On 17 November 2008 at 6:43 am Patricia said,
Jannie,
What fun and now will the real you really stand up? What is my line?
My friend Tom Hunter just died – a young man,minister, who wrote songs and made everyone feel better and better about themselves, the world and the spirit among us – oh those old fast growing tumors. I cherish his CD’s…he kept telling me to write my own song about broccoli, but I never did. I could not sing one now maybe next year the notes will return.
Thank you for your joy and sprite thoughts. Glenn is giving you a hard time…I like scotch myself and skip the cereal and I am always on the bench at Pike Street Market..
Great reply – How do you share your music?
Patricia’s last blog post..Factoid Friday: A Thank You Note to Lambie
On 17 November 2008 at 8:52 am ella said,
Have you heard of the Musical [title of show]?
It’s about trying to write a musical…
If you’re not homophobic or adverse to some heavy swearing, I’d totally recommend it.
ella’s last blog post..How to change your life with 2 loaves of Wonder bread
On 17 November 2008 at 9:21 am Carla said,
Oh…I’m past my thinking point for the day. I’ll have to come back with some questions. Sounds like way too much fun.
Carla’s last blog post..Resilience
On 17 November 2008 at 9:50 am Mike said,
Is Jannie short for a longer name, or is it a personalized acronym like Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac? I see from the earlier Q&A we’re the same age – it feels a lot younger when you get here, doesn’t it? I’ll have to check out the tunes next. -Mike
Mike’s last blog post..Auto Industry Bailout? Hold on. Let me check with my sales manager…
On 17 November 2008 at 3:02 pm Miladysa said,
What is your star sign?
[Oh & it's my pen name
]
On 17 November 2008 at 5:28 pm Diana Rupert said,
Hi! This my first time to visit your site. So the question I’m going to ask is: Who is Jannie Funster?
Thanks
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On 17 November 2008 at 6:16 pm Glenn Buttkus said,
Gosh, after sniffing around on your site a bit I have discovered that damn, YOU are many things, and one of them is a poet, or poetess, or poet of the female persuasion. You only have posted a few poems going back a couple months. Are there more? I really liked them. I re-posted several of them on my site, FEEL FREE TO READ, I liked them so much, to share them, to get them out there for more folks to see, to read, to contemplate. “Sometimes in Dreams”, The (dreaded) Guitar Lesson, “1994″, and “the Librarian” are now residing over to my place. Thanks for your creativity,
and as to the bra flinging, that is way beyond cool and it implies a ton of good stuff about your “real” character, or it implies you ARE a real character.
I have not had time to peruse all the Catagories yet. Ass-Kicking does intrigue me though.
Glenn
Glenn Buttkus’s last blog post..The Librarian
On 17 November 2008 at 6:31 pm Glenn Buttkus said,
Are you the love child of Shelley Duvall and Harvey Keitel? You have the look, as they say, and there are all those damned “talents” of yours!
Are you the sweetheart that works at 7-11 in Puyallup, where I drop in some mornings to get some strong coffee; you now the thin blond with the cat’s eye glasses wearing two sweaters and no bra?
Are you related somehow to Emily Dickinson, what with your flare for things poetic, and your obvious faciltiy with verbage and verve?
Are you really Jewish? My practice wife was a JAP, Jewish American Princess. I was learning to speak Hebrew when we divorced.
Are you the woman who bikes past my place every Sunday morning in the shortest bike shorts imaginable? One can see things as you pedal that some guys would pay money to see, or not to see depending on their tastes.
Are you that mother who pushes the perambalator past my window at the office at noon most days? And the two critters in the pushcart are so bundled up they might be Pugs or Marmots?
Are you the East Indian who runs the Chevron that I like to stop at on the way to work? The one with the turbin and the beard so long it has to tuck into your shirt?
Are you the topless dancer that I spent way too much money on ten years ago when I was single, working over at Night Moves in Lakewood?
Are you the woman who stands by the exit to the freeway with the hand-painted sign saying that you are the victim of battering, rape, and drug abuse, and that you will work for food?
Are you the transvestite that runs that Mexican restaurant in Tacoma where I like to stop and have a late dinner at, and who never stocks milk when I ask for it?
Are you the black woman with blond hair that works at the Chinese joint I stop at for lunch on Fridays, the only day I don’t eat at my desk?
Are you that good-looking babe who always drives your Acura convertible with the top down, even in winter, who screams around the Hill District in skimpy tops wearing a Seahawks ballcap and Ray-bans?
Are you the torch singer that makes surprise appearances at Jazz Bones, who can sing like Billie Holiday and Janis Joplin, and who looks like Joni Mitchell on a good day?
Glenn
Glenn Buttkus’s last blog post..The Librarian
On 17 November 2008 at 7:50 pm Suzie said,
hats your favorate reality show?
Suzie’s last blog post..A Very Very Bad Weekend
On 17 November 2008 at 8:12 pm Dot said,
@Jannie – Do we need to know?
@Glenn – Commenting on your longer-than-her-post comments makes me feel like I’m intruding, so perhaps you two have a relationship I don’t understand. Relationship or not, though, doesn’t one ask permission before reposting someone else’s poems on one’s own site?
Dot’s last blog post..Featured Reader
On 17 November 2008 at 10:21 pm Jannie said,
Ella: What a thing worth Googling! Thank you!! I’ve never heard of it. Gays and strong cussing fine with me. Actually I live for strong cussing.
Carla: I was actually expecting questions like “What was your childhood like?” “Do you like codfish and if so, what’s your favorite way to prepare it?” “Why don’t you have the date and time stamp on your comments section?” “What, in your opinion, is the greatest challenge of our time?” So, any question will suffice.
Mike: Welcome! I’m really Fannie Junster. Once I wrote a post about how Jannie Funster came into being. The name that is. (I came into being pretty-much the same way we all did.) http://www.janniefunster.com/?p=1295 There’s said post, like, I’m sure you’re absolutely dying to rush Right Now from this comment box to read it before another second of your life elapses.
Miladysa: I am an Aries. Built ram tough. (I kinda thought that was your pen name, as in “My Lady Sa, is waiting in the carriage?”
Diana Rupert: The magic question!! Jannie Funster is an elfin woman-child with one freakishly large eye and built-in “peanut holders” above her collar bone, which have also proved ideal for serving jelly beans on occasion. Jannie is as real as rain. Loves to do cartwheels in produce aisles. Loves organic fair-trade coffee, at least one cup, sometimes 2 a day. Has dessert for breakfast. Is happy 99% of the time. Is quick to get ticked off but cools off as quickly again. Jannie is about 5′3″ tall, weighs about 120 lbs and wears size 7 shoes, 7 in North American size, that is, not sure how that size equates on other continents. Jannie is hopelessly in love with her cat.
Glenn, Glenn, Glenn: My old buddy, I fancied myself a poet 20 years ago – please if anybody still has any of those would you kindly burn them. Once in a while I write something I like, like last night I wrote…
That Crazy Girl
I could be that crazy girl
the flashy one who dances
on benches in bars.
But what for?
That is not very good, but 20 years better than the ones I wrote long long ago. Yes I suppose I, like all of us, have many facets to my scintillating personality. I do not mind that you have posted those on your site, assuming you identified me as the author of such.
I am afraid Ass Kicking will probably disappoint, I think it’s more about my Wordpress triumphs, than actual boots to buttocks.
“Are you the torch singer that makes surprise appearances at Jazz Bones, who can sing like Billie Holiday and Janis Joplin, and who looks like Joni Mitchell on a good day?”
THAT’S ME!!! Yes, and on the last guess!!!!!
Not Jewish, no, no that I know of. Well, back somewhere of course, I am. I think. I must be.
Suzie: Good one! Now that our living room is torn up for remodeling I can’t go in there because for me it’s so not a feng shui locale. But when American Idol starts up again, I’m sure I’ll brave the chaos of no carpet, drywall dust and general torn-up-ed-ness everywhere to start watching it again. I just love the reality of singing, and okay I’m shallow and get a kick out of those poor saps who do sound pretty bad, the ones they showcase in the “weeding out” portion those first few weeks or so. And its’ great because Kelly likes watching it with her dad and me too. What’s your fav reality show?
Dot: This is true, do we really need to KNOW who any of us is? Our writing speaks for itself and to souls anyway.
You brought up a very good point of asking permission before re-posting content on one’s own site. I think that is not only common courtesy, but perhaps even web-legally correct? At any rate, had Kooky Glenn and I not been buddies for such a long time I probably would’ve given him a rap on the knuckles with my Caps Lock key.
On 17 November 2008 at 11:22 pm Rhett said,
You are very funny. I lub ppl like you. You remind me of me, too. I finally meet a person who has the appetite for my kind-a jokes, and vice versa!
Rhett’s last blog post..Secret Fantasy
On 17 November 2008 at 11:56 pm Glenn Buttkus said,
Jannie & Dot: I guess I was a bad boy because I was so excited about Jannie’s poetry that I glommed onto it. I should have “asked permission” of course. There are half dozen blog sites that I frequent that are set up by poets, and we all share out stuff; great exposure. Sure, Jannie, only your name appears at the bottom of the poems. Check it out when you get a chance. I found a great pic to accompany The Librarian.
Glenn
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On 18 November 2008 at 12:38 am Tom Volkar / Delightful Work said,
What gets you enthused and excited every time you think about doing it?
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On 18 November 2008 at 1:31 am Jannie said,
Tom: Hi and thanks for dropping by this nutty post. I get so excited when I think about downhill skiing, ice skating, and seeing my hubby walk in the house at the end of the day.
On 18 November 2008 at 4:20 am Vered - MomGrind said,
Why do you blog?
On 18 November 2008 at 6:07 am Georgie B said,
Jannie,
Fantastic answers you’ve given. Glad we were all able to flesh out the real you.
Let me know when you make your c.d. available to the general public, I would love to purchase one.
Georgie B’s last blog post..Why Did You Become A Writer And What Did You Do In Order To Get Where You Are Today?
On 18 November 2008 at 6:26 am Jannie said,
Not quite. Two long lonely years passed.
Now I blog because…
1. I can. (and think this technology was invented especially for me.)
2. I love it.
3. I want to become really really famous and have people ’round the world now and far in the future think I’m wonderful and maybe someday I’ll get a bumper sticker fashioned in my honor that says “Jannie Funster Rocked!”
Thanks Sweet Georgie B: And it’s only going to cost $11.11 plus $2.00 shipping and handling in the U.S. and $3.50 S&H internationally. Shipping deals on multiple CDs, apply. (Offer void where prohibited. Must be between 0.8 and 118 years of age to purchase. Some restrictions will not apply. Batteries not included.)
On 18 November 2008 at 8:29 am Mia said,
I wish I wasn’t so tired and behind or I’d come up with something fun, witty and cleaver that would make me look like the Goddess of words…alas, I’m not and it’s shining through. Whatever.
No questions, though I love the possibilities. I like you just the way you are…with glimpses of what you want us to see.
Mia’s last blog post..Now Something Light…Twilight
On 18 November 2008 at 9:43 am Pink Ink said,
Which famous celebrities have you worked with before?
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On 18 November 2008 at 9:45 am Pink Ink said,
If I am repeating a question already, sorry.
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On 18 November 2008 at 12:11 pm Barbara Swafford - Blogging Without A Blog said,
Hi Jannie – This is a very revealing post about yourself. However, I have to ask, is this really YOU answering the questions? Or is it the mig welder or the 89 year old?
Barbara Swafford – Blogging Without A Blog’s last blog post..NBOTW – For The Love Of Words
On 18 November 2008 at 1:21 pm SnaggleTooth said,
Hmmm, I’ve never doubted your song writing ability since you suggested I skip thru the forest making up silly songs…
Do you eat mushrooms on your pizza, or pick them off?
SnaggleTooth’s last blog post..Filed Pilings
On 18 November 2008 at 4:08 pm Jannie said,
Pink Ink: No – yours was a unique question! I’ve worked with the guy on the corner who plays alto sax for coins in his hat. And I can see a Russian violinist from my house.
Barbara: We’ll never really know, will we?! Today I am a Russian violinist named Boris.
Snag: Love them mushrooms, eat every last morsel. Green olives however, I pluck and have the mig welder eat – she loves them!! (And how’s that silly song forest skipping going for ya?)
On 18 November 2008 at 6:19 pm Glenn Buttkus said,
My God, woman, this is 46th comment already. Your blog rocks and that is a natural fact. Thank you for your gracious permission to post your poetry, and poetry it is, cuz you say it is, and there is a universe of room in the Land of Poems; room for all of us weirdos and wingnuts, philosophers and curmudgoens, good samaritans and assholes (pardon my Dutch). You are building a fan base like I have never witnessed before, and ground swell of interest that rivals the Big Obama hisself. I feel grateful to be a tiny fragment of this great Funster puzzle.
Glenn
Glenn Buttkus’s last blog post..A Good Poem
On 18 November 2008 at 10:00 pm Renee said,
Jannie: just one question:
Was that YOUR bra I found entwined in my crepe myrtle?
Renee’s last blog post..Finished Elves
On 19 November 2008 at 4:08 am Jannie said,
Renee: So THAT’S where it landed!! I knew I had one powerful arm but all the way to Tennessee, man, I’m good!
On 19 November 2008 at 7:28 pm Teacher Dude said,
Jannie, I just have to say something before I get to the question – You are a true “Funster”
Now, here is the question:
1. Do you prefer to write poems to a certain pattern, (sonnets, haikus…) or are you a free spirit and create your own style?
2. Do you write your poems to make songs or do you take songs and make them poems?
I know it was two questions, but at least I did not ask you if you really personal questions like do you shave your armpits…etc.
Teacher Dude’s last blog post..Lookie He’r – We in da driven seats naw!!!
On 19 November 2008 at 3:04 pm Tammy Warren said,
Hey Jannie,
Well, I have eaten my lunch while reading your comments. I ate the entire salad while reading. wow…you are so loved.
I see you as a beautiful mom that has a huge heart. You love to sing and you have the drive to achieve your goals.
I would like to know about Jannie….is there one person in your life that has truly inspired you to be who you are? Is your drive in life based upon your inner strength or do you gain your drive from others? Well, sorry that is a double question. You can handle it.
Tammy Warren’s last blog post..Let someone else pick up the slack
On 19 November 2008 at 4:19 pm Tammy said,
Hey, by the way, who started this bra obsession you or me?
On 19 November 2008 at 4:17 pm Tammy said,
Jannie
Girl you have a huge amount of friends here. I have only ventured out into cyberspace world with great caution. You never know what kinda nut you will run into. I may even be one of those nuts compared to other people who knows? Because of my leeriness I have only made a handful of friends on line.
So the beginning of your post here made me bust out laughing. You are funny.
Your daughter is adorable. How cool is that, she is reading. That would be an excellent photo for a library poster. She is well on her way to becoming a world famous poet there.
So my questions to you is do you really eat snakes? Cuz i have heard that it is a delicacy in Texas. Not just Texas, but lots of places are embracing that now days. Uhhhh you could count me out on that one. I don’t eat pork and i have a hard time sometimes choking down beef. Snake? Oh hell no! (sorry bout that language)
On 19 November 2008 at 5:34 pm Jannie said,
Tammy: Wow, you actually read all my comments? What’s happening here? I sure hope I can live up to all of you wonderful peoples’ kind expectations. In Wayne’s World words, “I’m not worthy, I’m not worthy.” Or maybe I dang well am! And you are loved too, Tammy – plenty of it to go around. Plenty of love everywhere. Time – not so much. Who has inspired me to be who I am? Wow, well God the most I guess, tho “person” doesn’t quite fit Him. But seriously, he put a little spunk and mischief in my soul I guess. A great love of words. And a love of running across late July fields of hay and in winter across iced-over ponds, or an iced-over parking lot will do in a pinch. Dad is probably my biggest influence for poems as he is a bit of a verse man himself with more than a little bit of a twinkle in his eye towards life. Mom instilled in me the joy of planting seeds and watching them grow (not that I have been doing any planting lately.) But I can sure appreciate the miracle of nature renewing itself and the joy of life reaching to be heard. My sister is a wonderful joy in my life, she is 13 years younger than I. Oh, and all my crazy wonderful ancestors who went before – mostly Irish, I believe. They had quite a bit of the twinkle in their eyes too. But basically I’m just an average gal getting along in the big old beautiful world.
Did that make any sense or at all answer your question?
TD: I just write whatever comes up, poemwise, so I’m a Free Spirit on that I guess. Songs usually come to me with words and melody together, with whatever thought seems to be on my mind — the best songs, anyway. The ones I have to force the words to usually turn out too complicated. Usually. I have about 200 melodies right now with lyrics I’ve not nailed down, and may never. Am actually working with the Shay-meister on a collaboration — see my post tomorrow, (damn this timestamp not yet on these comments.) That will be Nov. 20th. I am playing around with plugging her lyrics into some of my melodies to see if anything sticks. And maybe it will!
On 19 November 2008 at 8:19 pm robbi said,
Could I be a spy with a penchant for munching raw carrots while flinging my bra in the moonlight, who couldn’t sing a note (let alone write a song,)
Y’see here ya gives yerself away Now if you were an 89 year old man etc etc, then possibly you would not have a bra to throw away, or the strength to fling it far,perhaps even to go out into the moonlight for fear of bitey things or werewolves etc, I rest my case ..thus far at least
On 20 November 2008 at 10:29 am Danielle-lee said,
Hello! you are my swapper-person from Just A Girl’s Swapfest. Just stopped by to do my homework and ‘get to know’ you before I go buying for you!
I read all the comments, and I have just one question:
If I have old worn out bras, can I fling them into YOUR crepe mertles? Because, right now, they are piled in the corner of my closet, and they are just ACHING to be flung!
Danielle-lee’s last blog post..My Old Room
On 20 November 2008 at 2:41 pm Mys Lyke Meeh said,
1. Why are you asking this questions?
2. You’re not 89 years old, right?
3. Are you a man or woman, really? Only women can sacrifice those 17 cats? (Men hate cats)
Well—yah?
Take care!
On 20 November 2008 at 4:20 pm Jannie said,
Danilee-Lee! So nice to “meet you”! I will enjoy popping over to your site too. This swap thing is going to be FUN. Sorry, tt the moment my crepes are jam-packed full of bras. May I recommned shredding them and making a running path out of them, all the elastic makes for a nice bouncy surface.
Mys: At first I asked in the name of really letting people know about me, then it it just became silly. I will say overall – I asked for entertainment’s sake. I am 44. (Wow, how did that happen?)
3. I am a woman, happily married with a 7-year-old daughter.
Chris Angel loves his cat!
On 20 November 2008 at 8:43 pm Jannie said,
On 20 November 2008 at 9:00 pm Cricket/Tammy said,
Oops…there are two by the name of Tammy in here.
This was so beautifully said. You answers were just as I expected them. Full of love.
On 21 November 2008 at 6:58 pm robbi said,
Jannie,y’see tho, songstress person and poetess y’know I isn’t a shoe salesperson or at all nothing similar.In fact and although Des Moines might very well be an attractive destination for shoe sales folk I am safely ensconced in Paradise, and that place is actually where I reside. Whilst the selling of shoes must be an admirable occupation it is not one to which I have aspired, perhaps though in another life I shall.Meanwhile I shall continue to read your blog and also in the faint hope that you might read mine, here I shall refer to the poem that I sent you to which you have not said (a) yuck(b)gross(c) passable (d) don’t even think about it, I was in fact hoping for a c but anything at this point will do. That you are not a bra flinging 89 year old etc etc is a certainty.I will in fact go back and revisit the wedgie angle,or position, if that is grammatically correct.
On 21 November 2008 at 10:22 pm Stephanie said,
A great revealing post. So, with all of this bra talk, I have to know…. underwire or no underwire?
Stephanie’s last blog post..Photo Phriday
On 22 November 2008 at 12:52 am Jannie said,
Robbi: Hortense, the gelato awaits! And you were right, I had not responded to your poem but now have and all is well in the Jannie – Robbi (not to be confused with Robbie the Des Moines purveyor of fine family footwear.)
Stephanie: Mine? Sports bra (no wires,) all the way, extra-small for maximum retention and unliftingness. Yours???
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