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humorlife 56M  
4929 posts
8/17/2015 7:02 am


“Doors and/or Bridges and/or Gates” was the blogosphere’s top choice for the upcoming virtual symposium’s topic. To those who pimped this vote, thank you!

For those new to the virtual symposium: In short, it’s a simultaneous act of blogging. Here’s how it works: Anybody with a blog on this site is welcome to join in. All choosing to participate will create something – an essay, a cartoon, an erotic story, a memoir, a series of one-line aphorisms, an image collage, a photo montage, a poem, or anything else – relating to “Doors and/or Bridges and/or Gates.” At a pre-arranged time and date (see below) all participants post their contributions.

Want a better sense of how it works – or just some good reads? Here’s a link to the participants’ list from the tenth symposium: Participants List For The Tenth Virtual Symposium On Slut

Feel free to take the basic idea of “Doors and/or Bridges and/or Gates” and stretch it to as wild an interpretation as you like -- the post should reflect you! The last thing we need is a dozen monotonous texts on the same topic. Anything goes, as long as there is a trace of the original idea in the post.

On the morning of August 23 (this Sunday, for those keeping score), all participants will post their creations. Please, please, post ‘em to your own blogs early: I do want to link to them in a central post here, but I don’t want to be stapled to my desk all day.

I'll be responsible for posting links to your blogs here – I want to make this as effortless for participants as possible! Once you’ve posted, leave a note in the comments section here so I know to link to your submission. I will, of course, post latecomers… people do check back to see whether new participants have joined the symposium. But after the morning of August 23, I may not be updating the list as obsessively.

Additionally, links sometimes take a while to become live. The sooner I can scoop up the link to your contribution, the faster (hopefully) others will be able to click through to it.

As for contributions themselves: The idea is to create something new, as opposed to using posts to respond to other posts (although the comments section will, of course, remain fair game). Leave a note in the blog comments, and I’ll use a post on this blog that day to link to all contributions.

A suggestion: Participants may want to refer to either the virtual symposium or the topic itself in their headline. Not a requirement – there are no requirements, save for originality and participation – but a suggestion which will let the wide blog community know what we’re doing.

This is not a contest. No souvenir mugs will be sent, nor ribbons awarded. The idea here is for those interested to, on a single day, offer an interpretation of a single topic for the sheer fun of it.

By all means, encourage other bloggers to participate – and to let me know they’re doing so through this post, so on the morning of August 23 I can link to their posts. Oh, and please consider this an invitation – if not a request – to the symposium both on your own blogs, and in individual requests to bloggers whom you’d like to see represented. The more the merrier, right? There are some folks with very distinct voices on this site who aren’t yet participating – let’s bring ‘em in and make ‘em one of us, one of us, one of us!

Remember, of course, to keep things in your voice!

Every symposium, there are a few newbies who contribute posts, and don’t let me know about their contributions (I catch some by watching the “recent posts” feed, but that’s hit or miss). So… once you post, please leave me a note on the master list post, or here! (I get messages about the symposium which are attached to the blog a little faster than the ones which are emailed to me.)

Can’t wait to see the results!

the symposium, the symposium, the symposium... the viewers you bring in may be your own. Can't get more (verbally) naked than that...

Final note: When the page with all the contributors goes live, please consider adding the link to your post, even if the contribution has already gone live. Doing so allows people to readily access all the other offerings… which is, after all, one of the purposes of this exercise.

the symposium, the symposium, the symposium... the viewers you bring in may be your own. Can't get more (verbally) naked than that...

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humorlife 56M  
5710 posts
8/17/2015 8:31 am

    Quoting  :

I have no clue what to write about either... but it certainly does have a lot of room for interpretation, doesn't it?

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humorlife 56M  
5710 posts
8/17/2015 8:32 am

    Quoting  :

There it is!

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humorlife 56M  
5710 posts
8/17/2015 8:59 am

    Quoting  :

Twice?

You're a Leo, not a Gemini... Glad there's a topic you're excited about!

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kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
8/17/2015 9:04 am

I made too many Doors references last Symposium when the topic was "On Slut". Now what would I do?

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humorlife 56M  
5710 posts
8/17/2015 9:07 am

    Quoting kzoopair:
    I made too many Doors references last Symposium when the topic was "On Slut". Now what would I do?
A man with your taste for "The Big Lebowski" should have no problem coming up with Bridges references.

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NaughtyInSO 113F
9755 posts
8/17/2015 9:22 am

    Quoting kzoopair:
    I made too many Doors references last Symposium when the topic was "On Slut". Now what would I do?
Doors opened by sluts maybe?

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humorlife 56M  
5710 posts
8/17/2015 9:28 am

    Quoting  :

Grumble, grumble... you're throwing off the curve for the rest of us...

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sweet_VM 65F
81699 posts
8/17/2015 9:28 am

Great topic see you then hugs V

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humorlife 56M  
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8/17/2015 9:34 am

    Quoting sweet_VM:
    Great topic see you then hugs V
Props to Gntilhom for initially suggesting "Doors and/or bridges," and LadyLuck2 for adding "and/or gates" to the topic... going to be interseting to see how people warp this one...

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kzoopair 73M/71F
25831 posts
8/17/2015 9:50 am

I sort of overdosed on slut.

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kzoopair 73M/71F
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8/17/2015 9:51 am

    Quoting humorlife:
    A man with your taste for "The Big Lebowski" should have no problem coming up with Bridges references.
Maybe I will think of something.

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humorlife 56M  
5710 posts
8/17/2015 9:57 am

    Quoting kzoopair:
    I sort of overdosed on slut.
One is too many, and a thousand isn't enough?

No, actually, that's wrong on both counts...

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KItkat1415 61F  
20051 posts
8/17/2015 10:28 am

I came here first, before my own blog, so I have no idea if you saw that I pimped it yesterday in my Sunday blog. Feel complimented on that, by the way, I rarely go to someone else's blog before my own...
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humorlife 56M  
5710 posts
8/17/2015 10:38 am

    Quoting KItkat1415:
    I came here first, before my own blog, so I have no idea if you saw that I pimped it yesterday in my Sunday blog. Feel complimented on that, by the way, I rarely go to someone else's blog before my own...
    (smiling)
    Kitkat
Ah, but the symposium is YOUR symposium, and therefore this post should be considered an extension of your blog...

Thank you!

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Gntillhom 68M
5906 posts
8/17/2015 11:15 am

Pimped in francoblogland I push french contibutors to start ealier, you know, that dead link affair.
With a week-end symposium over sea, we might double our number ... up to four contributors maybe, yay!

And, of course What a good choice ! Bravi to the electors
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humorlife 56M  
5710 posts
8/17/2015 11:29 am

    Quoting Gntillhom:
    Pimped in francoblogland I push french contibutors to start ealier, you know, that dead link affair.
    With a week-end symposium over sea, we might double our number ... up to four contributors maybe, yay!

    And, of course What a good choice ! Bravi to the electors
    I awit to see in which directions we'll all go, it ought to be astounding.. Let's be horny
Good choice, indeed -- since two-thirds of it (Doors and/or bridges) was yours, with an addendum ("gates") suggested by LadyLuck2!

More French contributors are welcome... as are more contributors in general! Just make sure they leave me a comment indicating that they are participating, as the list of recent posts doesn't seem to include non U.S. or Canadian bloggers...

Bon choix, en effet - puisque les deux tiers de celui-ci ( Portes et / ou ponts) a été le vôtre, avec un additif ( "portes" ) proposés par LadyLuck2!

Plus contributeurs français sont les bienvenus ... comme le sont plusieurs contributeurs en général! Assurez-vous qu'ils me laissent un commentaire indiquant qu'ils participent, comme la liste des messages récents ne semblent pas comprendre non américains ou canadiens blogueurs ...

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nightsoul1962 61F
17828 posts
8/17/2015 11:58 am

YES!!!! That's what I voted for!!!!!!

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humorlife 56M  
5710 posts
8/17/2015 12:11 pm

Play lotto! Play lotto!

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sweet_VM 65F
81699 posts
8/17/2015 3:37 pm

ok I posted on my blog today! It is Official now The topic has been picked

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Gntillhom 68M
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8/17/2015 4:20 pm

    Quoting humorlife:
    Good choice, indeed -- since two-thirds of it (Doors and/or bridges) was yours, with an addendum ("gates") suggested by LadyLuck2!

    More French contributors are welcome... as are more contributors in general! Just make sure they leave me a comment indicating that they are participating, as the list of recent posts doesn't seem to include non U.S. or Canadian bloggers...

    Bon choix, en effet - puisque les deux tiers de celui-ci ( Portes et / ou ponts) a été le vôtre, avec un additif ( "portes" ) proposés par LadyLuck2!

    Plus contributeurs français sont les bienvenus ... comme le sont plusieurs contributeurs en général! Assurez-vous qu'ils me laissent un commentaire indiquant qu'ils participent, comme la liste des messages récents ne semblent pas comprendre non américains ou canadiens blogueurs ...
2/3 ? Oh no ! A lot less. More than a half is yours. You created this splendid "let's work together" event
where people discover, visit other blogs. You made this proposal, can't remember which, with an alternative, and/or.
My idea came from it. And you finished by putting to the poll my suggestion. Don't be modest.
What's more, the topic grew wings with Ladyluck, "gates" lead to many interpretations ...
including informatics for those who wished to write about technology. Don't praise me that much.

Yet, of course, I have another proposal under my elbow for the future which I'll tell in the next poll.
A four letters word was adopted, I'll propose a three letters one heading to three directions minimum. Wait ...


humorlife 56M  
5710 posts
8/17/2015 5:27 pm

Whew, you mean you posted a pimping post... for which I am very grateful!

I thought you had posted an actual contribution... which would have been exceptionally early...

Thank you for the mention: I hope we pick up a few more newbies!

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humorlife 56M  
5710 posts
8/17/2015 5:29 pm

    Quoting Gntillhom:
    2/3 ? Oh no ! A lot less. More than a half is yours. You created this splendid "let's work together" event
    where people discover, visit other blogs. You made this proposal, can't remember which, with an alternative, and/or.
    My idea came from it. And you finished by putting to the poll my suggestion. Don't be modest.
    What's more, the topic grew wings with Ladyluck, "gates" lead to many interpretations ...
    including informatics for those who wished to write about technology. Don't praise me that much.

    Yet, of course, I have another proposal under my elbow for the future which I'll tell in the next poll.
    A four letters word was adopted, I'll propose a three letters one heading to three directions minimum. Wait ...
People are always welcome to contribute ideas for symposia... not saying I'll use all of them, but all suggestions are welcome! We've already had several topics suggested by participants chosen... but there's always room for more!

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SlenderGal88 57F  
10361 posts
8/18/2015 7:49 am

Will pimp in a few minutes

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humorlife 56M  
5710 posts
8/18/2015 8:28 am

Will tip my hat to you a few minutes after that!

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humorlife 56M  
5710 posts
8/20/2015 5:36 am

    Quoting Eros_Space:
    Here's an early post (I may be on the road this weekend. If not, I'll submit another entry at the requested deadline): [post 3681928]
Thank you! Will scoop up with the rest of the posts this Sunday!

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