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« Thread Started on Jan 18, 2004, 1:54pm » | |
Welcome to Cafe Lhasa. Most of you know the routine so let's get started. Please feel free to start a new story line or pick up from where we left off long ago.
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« Reply #1 on Jan 19, 2004, 4:19pm » | |
The cyber room had become an ancient cave
black, vast and silent.
The creeking of an old door
permitted a piercing shaft of light
to shatter the velvet sleep.
The Vinyl Lady slowly entered
and felt her way to the bar.
She fumbled for a lighter and used the tiny flame
to locate and light the ancient dust covered candles.
She grouped them together on the bar,
dusted off a stool and climbed on.
"When did this all go to sleep" she wondered.
"What happened to our fun?" she rubbed the back of her neck and leaned on the bar.
"It all began with that question.....
that question someone asked back in '94....."
Quietly she echoed aloud the question that had started it all:
"What is buddhist fun?"
As if a switch had been thrown,
the neon lights above the bar hissed and blinked to life.
The interior of the cafe seemed to spark and shiver
as it became manifest in all it's sparkling glory....
then lightning arched over head
the ceiling vanished
and a brilliant blue sky morphed with lovely white clouds
as the cafe faded
and a Japanese garden spread out in front of the astonished Vinyl Lady.
"What is Buddhist fun?"
a voice said as a hologram of the Vinyl Lady appeared.
The hologram yawned, stretched and sat up.
"I was just napping here in on the grass beside the pond." said the hologram, twisting her hair into a french knot.
The Vinyl Lady leaned back into her bar stool
and picked up the Blue Tara which had appeared.
"I love reruns" she thought
The hologram
of a self long gone
continued to answer the question:
"Perhaps it's when spontaneity, truth and
compassion collide in an explosion of color."
<Rising to feet, gossamar robes shift and glisten>
<Permitting glimpses of naked flesh below>
"And the Cosmic Glue giggles in perfect
sympathetic harmony."
<She walks to the bridge arching over the pond >
<and slides her hand along the smooth red lacquer>
<then sits on the railing , one toe pointing to the
water>
<Gown falls open and slips off shoulder>
<Revealing breast, torso and leg>
<In the water below, a perfect reflection)
"Buddhism seems like the only forum where we
really can have some fun because everyone
agrees on its illusory nature."
"If what we call "reality" is an illusion,
Than this virtual cyberspace is an illusion within
- Like a dream."
"And we are the Dreamers and Masters of these
cyber dreams."
<Snapping fingers, she jumps from the bridge>
<Landing on a perfectly smooth, black,
reflective floor>
<In a room with no discernable walls>
<Standing in a soft pool of light with no apparant
source>
<Wearing a black vinyl mini-dress and hi heels>
<Behind her is an ancient carved stone Mayan
sacraficial altar>
<She climbs onto the huge altar and sits erect, legs
neatly tucked beneath)
"In taming our minds, must we tame our creative
nature?"
<Silver grid lines spread across the black floor
and extend to infinity>
<A luminescent butterfly happily flutters past>
"This is our temple where we come to play - to
serve, to teach and to learn."
<From the dark distance a snow leopard
approaches>
<Soft paws silently stalking along the silver
grid>
<He leaps onto the alter>
<The Vinyl Lady runs her hand along his head and
shoulders>
<He rubs his cheek against her breast, turns and
flops down on the alter, purring loudly)
"Embracing Buddhism, we dance on the edge of
a razor blade."
"Let us dance like nobody is watching!"
"Let our laughter awaken us into each moment
as if it is all we will every have!"
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Suddenly the cafe bar vanishes...
the Blue tara vanishes...
the Vinyl Lady vanishes....
<Jumping to the floor, I come toward you>
<The leopard follows>
<Now I stand so close that you can feel>
<The heat of my body on your hands and face
and throat.)
Join me in this virtual cyber reality and we'll be
baptised together.
<The heavy scent of jungle rain buries your
senses>
Come and jump into the abyss.
We'll jump together!
<I extend my hand>
But before you can play, know this:
Bring your fears and tears, crimes and passion,
But leave your judgement and ego, expectations
and rules
Outside this special forum
Or you will find your delicate flesh
Vulnerable to the leopard's sharp and fatal
claws.
<The large cat moves between us, rubbing
against my legs, growling softly>
<And looking into your eyes>
Are we having fun yet?
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The Vinyl Lady awoke lying
flat on her back on the cafe floor.....
empty blue tara glass still in her hand.
Wow.
That is STILL the best drink in this reality.
She rolled her head and noticed the power was on.
The large flatscreen Maher Monitor above the bar
was showing favorite scenes from the sutras.
Hal, the laptop with the tiny satelite dish was
playing a game of chess,
scanning radio waves for signs of ET
and defragging himself.
Suddenly a blast of winter wind
blew the door wide open.
It was the sno leopard and he was dragging something big.
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« Reply #2 on Jan 23, 2004, 4:10pm » | |
What was he dragging? C'mon ... don't leave a brother hang'n. 
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« Reply #3 on Jan 23, 2004, 10:03pm » | |
What was he dragging? C'mon ... don't leave a brother hang'n.
Minh
Here's how it works,
brother Minh.....
You tell me what he's draggin in ....
and I'll take it from there.
If I'm gonna have to do this all by myself....
I might as well just watch it play out inside my head
and not bother with all this typing crap!
Put yourself in the story......
even a single sentence.....
PLEASE!
Thanks....
VL
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« Reply #4 on Jan 24, 2004, 4:50am » | |
It was the sno leapord dragging in a whole side of Nana's Boars Head peppered chicken with Lunamoon on his tail. "Scat, give it back" she yelled. Lunamoon stood in the doorway looking pretty rough, Vinyl hardly reconized her. "Huh, is that you Luna?" Luna knew how she must look in her dirty tattered pantaloons, Lacosse boots and fringed coat.
"It's me for sure, just got a little side tracked outside of town when this varmit decided we should be in business together bringing in the provisions for Cafe Lhasa. He was going after your Blue Tara ingredients, so i turned his attention elsewhere. Nana is just going to have to share. Where is she anyway?"
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« Reply #5 on Jan 24, 2004, 2:30pm » | |
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'Nana is at the beach today,' said the scruffy looking mongrel yogi in the corner.
'She said she was meeting her son there to do some introspective wave watching and sing to the moon as it sets. Not a bad way to spend a day.'
'Nana's always been a devoted Mom,' said Luna throwing a bit of chicken to the Snow Leopard.
The scruffy yogi stretches, scratches and says, 'I could cook some tofu for that cat - He'd never know the difference.'
'Ghana and his d'amn tofu,' said Vinyl. 'He'll have us all doing kegels and colon cleansing if we let him cook.'
Ghana laughed and opened the cavernous door to the spice cabinet. I'll cook tonight if you're up for Thai. I can do those snow peas in garlic and chili and deep fried tofu in Hot Chili Paste. Some Bhasmati rice and a nice Shiraz will go down good. - and the Leopard can try Thai. Be good for his meditation.'
'Cool,' said Vinyl. 'We have the Boars Head chicken in case that tofu goes down slower than your posts.'
'Well, we have time to do a mind meld and meditation before dinner,' said Luna. We might find some tread that has a great dance track for the evening.'
'Ahh, Music, Dance and the Buddha,' Ghana smiled. 'A Trinity I can get behind - and Push.'
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« Reply #6 on Jan 25, 2004, 1:09am » | |
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'Ahh, Music, Dance and the Buddha,' Ghana smiled. 'A Trinity I can get behind - and Push.'
The Vinyl One's contented smile was cut short by a sound of breaking glassware from behind the bar.
"Who let that cat in?" whined Sha Cha, squinting over the edge and sneezing three times in succession. "I'm allergic!"
"Pop a Clairitin and hush!" snarled the Cowgirl, in no mood to humor the flaky hippie. "Besides, who told you that you could sleep behind the bar?"
"Nana Belle did, before she left." Sha Cha wiped her nose on her grimy sleeve. "Some help you are. There isn't any Claritin way up here," she pouted.
Vinyl wasn't interested in allergies and such. "Sha Cha, where have you been, and what are you up to?"
"Nothing!" Sha Cha asserted, trying to appear innocent. "Just out scamming ... I mean, fundraising ... with Nana. We want to start branches of the No Wai Zendo and the Wich-Wei Chi Kung and Coffeehouse here in Lhasa."
Vinyl cackled loudly, startling the snow leopard into dropping what remained of the lemon chicken. "Yeah, sure. That'll be the day!"
"Wait 'till I tell Nana what you said! You'll be sorry!" Sha Cha yelled, ducking to avoid the soggy leftover pork steamed dumpling that Vinyl lobbed at her head.
Shaking his head, Ghana headed for the kitchen and ......
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« Reply #7 on Jan 25, 2004, 12:58pm » | |
Luna thought, "Ghana is right it's time for the Kitchen Dance. And, those brilliant broads need to leave the Scat Cat alone, he is in training". Gawd these people have been snozzing too long at the Cafe. If they would just give me a sec i will unload the cargo. I know i have Claridon(why would one need it here, only one with the sense god promised a road lizardd would know) in the provisions that took months to get here. i have exotic spices and herbs for Ghana's spice vault. Hydrogen Peroxide and all home remedies from Smithgall's Pharmacy who by the way is mayor somewhere in pa and from all the medicinal vendors along the silk road.
Every provision is here, help me unload and don't trust the cat!"
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« Reply #8 on Jan 27, 2004, 9:32pm » | |
"Every provision is here, help me unload and don't trust the cat!"
The Vinyl Lady had picked herself up off the floor
and was picking dust bunnies off her vinyl skirt
while engaging HAL in a conversation.
Delicious smells began to fill the room
and the door opened and closed several times as lurkers filed quietly in filling the booths around the perimeter.
Sha Cha had found some wood and was fiddling with the pot bellied stove as she mumbled
"Most complex antique piece of..."
The Cow Girl breezed past and reminded Sha Cha
"Remember the dragon that fell in love with the pot bellied stove?"
"Sort of" she replied
"You're fiddling with it's belly"
Cow Girl's warning came to late and
as Peter Dragon came to life, Sha Cha flew backwards
scrambling away.
"Holy nuts!" she screamed as the Dragon stood tall, his head in the ceiling beams,
stretching and yawning yellow flames that licked the cobwebs.
Ghana appeared in the kitchen door
in a chef's hat.....his wooden sthingy dripping delicious sauce. "Whattha....?" he wondered.
The Dragon was carefully sniffing Sha Cha,
his little blue investigation flames did no damage.
"I don't know
how I know...
but he's REALLY hungry" she said.
"One hungry dragon special" the Cow Girl called as she wizzed past with a tray of blue taras.
"What do dragons eat?" Ghana wondered out loud looking at the Vinyl Lady who was sitting with her hand rolled smoke ready for dragon's light.
"Christians?" she answered.
"Stop it" Cow Girl scolded, snapping her bar towel in the Vinyl Lady's direction. "Our dragon is very fond of tofu...
VERY spicy and flambe with lighter fluid"
Sha Cha and the Dragon had become friends.
She was stacking wood in the little pot bellied stove,
now fully recognizable....
and when she was done,
the Dragon blew a hot flame and fired it up.
She closed the door and the Dragon began rubbing his cheek against the stove pipe.
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Golly I'm hungry for spicy tofu!
Gotta pause and make some dinner!
Ghana....if you really do cook tofu.....would you mind sharing a recipe?
Thanks....
VL
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« Reply #9 on Jan 31, 2004, 1:28pm » | |
>She closed the door and the Dragon began rubbing his cheek against the stove pipe.
The VinylLady got up from the bar and went over to the Dragon,
unlit cigarette held high for his dutiful light.
He bent to accomodate,
knocking the stove pipe out of it's fitting
showering the Vinyl Lady in a rain of soot.
The Dragon looked apologetic but the Vinyl Lady
had not flinched.
Her cigarette was still held high,
so he blew a flame onto it.
Having not lit her cigarette in so many years,
he was out of practice
singeing half an eyebrow and a small patch of hair.
"Thank you." she said quietly
coughing a little puff of soot
and blinking her eyes to clear them.
She walked slowly back to the bar and sat at her Blue tara.
Peering into it from above
a few burnt eyebrows fell onto it's mirrored surface.
"I finally "get it" she said softly.
"Smoking CAN BE really dangerous."
VL
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« Reply #10 on Feb 1, 2004, 1:36pm » | |
I always wondered what you people did over here. 
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« Reply #11 on Feb 8, 2004, 4:09pm » | |
Luna was happy to see the Sha Cha woman tending to Peter and Vinyl extending old habits to new heights. It was good to be back.
Luna took the empty tray of Blue Taras back to the kitchen, and dished up a bowl of grub. "It's so good to have a man in the kitchen, especially one that can cook and do the Kitchen Dance".
Luna took a few bites from her bowel with the big ass cowgirl personlized sthingy that she carried in her specialized hand made holster. While eating she prepared another round of Blue Taras to help keep the peace. Vinyl had a way of including Luna in her back alley space invader fights. "We had some real dosies", she remembered.
Luna delivered the round of Blues and asked Pete for the key to her quarters. It didn't take him long to produce it to Luna's suprise even though it was the ususal hot as hell.
No one noticed Luna's accent up the Golden Stairs. Her key turned the lock perfectly after all the time away. Luna crossed her rooms without even looking at past remberences. She walked three quaters the length of her main room and placed her key in the lock of a connecting door. Luna knocked knowing there would be no answer and turned the lock and enterd the room of dim filtered late afternoon sunlight. She stood in the entrance, closed her eyes a breathed in Aromatic Elixer and Night Sented Stock. Luna took her boot hooks out of her holster and removed her boots, she looke at them carefully and thougt, "man, you could tell some tales eh". Luna walked directely to Nana's bed and fell into sweet dreams.
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