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been playing my guitar latelytrying to write songs againdoing something creativea friend sent me a link to Steve Miller playing and singing The Joker:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LInnlb8e054since there's only four chords in the songall of which i knowi've started to practice itthe two lines i like the best are:i really love your peacheswhat to shake your treea very hooky rhythm after each line

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i'm putting up a couple of pictures to showJim and Janicehow easy and fun it would be to have their own blog.here are Slick and Jim with the catch of the day,bud lites in metal bottles. only in America? pity.where's Larry and his lobsters when you need him, eh?Janice having a coffee poolside.

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Last Call For Happiness #2 a poetry reading Canad Inns Playmaker's Lounge 1405 St.Matthews Ave. Sunday May 4/08 2:00 pmfeaturing: Dennis Cooley, Gloe Cormie, Ken Kowal, and Sandra Stechisen with music by Little Ken and The Late Night Embers

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Dave you lucky dog!

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Why Are You So Sad? by David W. McFadden today. Here's two lines from a ten page long poem called Nature:If God had intended elephants to rollerskatehe never would have sunk Atlantis.

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A Death in the Family by James Agee. Pick up a copy quick as you can. Have the biography by Laurence Bergreen. Nice to have too many books in the house.today is hair cut day.

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today, a woman wanting to know if i was Ken the poet. i told her yes because that's my name and making poems is what i do. she then asked if i had Olya Marko's phone number. i gave it to her. then i asked what's it all about. she's looking for someone to do some translation work. Ukrainian to English or the other way around i'm not sure. nice to see that the blog reaches people. Hey

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today i added a new link on the blog. it's on the sidebar under HOTELS. Playmakers Lounge at the Polo Park Canad Inns is my local watering hole. i'm what is called "a regular". it's also the host of my new reading series "Last Call For Happiness". Thought I should put the link up. Thinking of creating a site just for the series. i'm planning something for April.

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at McPhillips Street Station today. Rats. Playing video poker at a nickel a deal. Talked with a guy from the Manitoba Addictions Foundation. He gave me a good demo on the playoff and odds, etc of playing these games. video poker is one of the best games to play as far as getting some fun out of the money you are eventually going to lose. The guy told me about this site:http://

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Last Call For Happiness poetry reading by Group 97 Playmaker's Lounge Canad Inns 1405 St.Matthews Ave. Friday Feb. 22/08 8:00 pm featuring: Heather Boyd Phyllis Cherrett Gloe Cormie Faith Johnston Ken Kowal Les Mundwiler Ulrich Wendt with music by Little Ken and The Late Night Embers

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one of the things I planned to do during my week off from work was reread Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman. if you don't know this novel I suggest you pick it up soon. some of the funniest writing ever put down on paper in any language. it's really impossible to try to explain the plot. Here's my favourite sentence from page 90 (flamingo paperback): Great holy suffering indiarubber

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mixed baby greenscold chicken breastcucumberblack berrieshalf a bananacreamy caesar dressingMum's comment:Ya call that presentation.

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Charles Simic looking a little bit too Doctor Strangelove for my taste.

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George Arluk George is one of the regulars at the Westend's Playmaker's Lounge (my bar). It's nice for me to have another artist in the house. I haven't talked much with George yet and maybe I won't ever get around to it. He knows the other regulars much better and longer than me. He often comes by to hug one or two of 'the ladies' at our table and sometimes sits for a time before heading

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The novel I'm currently reading is The Pagan Wall by David Arnason. Enjoying it very much.

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Did you hear about the dog that thought he was Jesus?No I didn't, do tell.Yeah, his owner had him crucifixed.

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go out on a bro-ken limbsay Bombers by 5the ultimate banjo bowlmay never happenagainsure the roughriders or is it the rough riders?can never keep that one straighthave a team songbig dealthe bombers have a beerand what would a CFL fanrather doeh?

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the other day i came across some old lyrics i wrote back in 1994. started singing one of them again. haven't played guitar in such a long time that my fingers hurt after a while. working on something for Youtube. i remember how the melody goes and the chord changes although i'm making a few changes (improvements?) with the former. seem to have some creative sparks flying about, maybe in part

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came across this poem today when i accidentally opened The Broken World by Len Gasparini. i think it explains, in part at least, why there are so many terrible poetry collections being published today in Canada. Grievance - Len Gasparini Nowadays there are too many poets with degrees; most of them are professors in universities, moonlighting as true poets under the auspices of approved

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on the probable origin of the word desire because i had little else to do, i looked up the word desire, figuring it must be Latin or at least Old French, since no Anglo- Saxon would need two syllables when one will do me fine thanks was interested in the date of origin, the number of meanings, and how or if they've changed over time so i opened my Latin dictionary,

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before it begins what would we talk of in the grey hours of bright mornings, the small hours of glowing nights, when we've run out of nothings? i'll probably say yes when you ask, as you always do, is this one about me?

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nowif you see these boysstanding around confusion cornerdon't offer directionsthey know where they're goingtheir new recording Reunion Touris out

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this only works if you have speakers and they're turned up, eh?have to put the widget on the side bar soon. maybe find some Winnipeg music instead of B H.look, it's on the side bar.

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site todaywhile looking at a poetry sitemaybe you've come across it beforehttp://sonific.com/allows you to search & play their musicalso there's a way to put music on your blogme work on this soon want all the bells & whistles

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Gloe Cormie reads a fish poem for "Chuck theChannel Cat" in Selkirk, MB. Chuck was createdto honour the memory of Chuck Norquay (1955-1993)who successfully promoted Selkirk as the Catfish Capitol of the world.Rob Duncan experiences a Random Act of Poetry onPortage Avenue across from the University ofWinnipeg.Two men and a baby are poemed by Gloe Cormie in Selkirk, MB.Three generations of

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here we are at the lake, having dinner in the veranda. BBQ chicken i think. Ian hams it up for the camera, chugging the Little Penguin, while grandma rolls her eyes.

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aGift A day so happy. Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden. Hummingbirds were stopping over the honeysuckle flowers. There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess. I knew no one worth my envying him. Whatever evil I had suffered, I forgot. To think that once I was the same man did not embarrass me. In my body I felt no pain. When straightening up, I saw blue sea and sails.

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well, Thin Air is on again this year. no one i'd cross the street to listen to or see. of course this thing is meant for readers and not writers so i guess a lot of us feel this way. part of the marketing machine that forces us to eat our own culture because like vegetables they are good for you. maybe, the organizers would entertain changing the name of this Schmooze Fest. how about: Who

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photograph in the mail a few weeks ago from my cousin Doreen. it was taken in 1929. the small boy on the far right is my father at age 6. the only relative in the photograph who is still alive is my auntie Teena, the little girl in the white dress. so, of course, being a poet i'm writing a poem about the photo.

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doing "the guess who got his grant" dance for the next little bit.maybe, now that the project is funded, i will start ignoring it and begin posting again to this blog.still too damn hot to do anything.

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everything looks better when it's wet.i had this thought drift through my head tonight while driving home from work.and no, it was raining.

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doubtful if you can "get" how small this clump actually is. growing in a crack in the fence, just outside the back door.

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Perogies 2 cups flour 4 tablespoons oil 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup warm water (more or less) Mix with fork to make a soft ball and then knead with fingers to incorporate all the flour. Cover (with plastic wrap) in bowl and place in fridge to rest for about an hour or overnight. Then roll out quite thin with cookie cutter or suitable size glass. Filling Boil about five potatoes and mash

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black, brown, or grizzly "hey what are you looking at?" cameras—Disneyland

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Looks like The Martian Press will have Ripley Retreats out early next month. Looking forward to seeing it. A strange, nearly crazy piece of writing.

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Here's a picture, from about a month ago now, of one of Winnipeg's elms.The Trees-Philip LarkinThe trees are coming into leafLike something almost being said;The recent buds relax and spread,Their greenness is a kind of grief.Is it that they are born againAnd we grow old? No, they die too,Their yearly trick of looking newIs written down in rings of grain.Yet still the unresting castles threshIn

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giving me "the look" while getting another. Colin is the author of Multiple Poses (1997) Tsunami Editions. (I dug it up from my library and will reread it again this summer.)

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minutes after winning the first Lansdowne prize for the best book of poetry by a Manitoban. The award is named after the North end Winnipeg street that Livesay grew up on.Block: "Oh great the paparazzi have arrived!"

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http://www.clickclickclick.com/default.asp

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Here's a picture of our newly opened butterfly bistro. The idea comes from page 144 of the book Naturescape Manitoba. The next step is to plant some plants to attract some butterflies.

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Dear Ken,We are delighted to inform you that we have chosen to publish your poems 'Google Me' and 'Uncle Milty: the gospel according to' in our upcoming issue of NoD. If you have not yet provided one, we will require a three line bio introducing yourself/your work for the issue. We appreciate your interest in the magazine and we look forward to publishing your work. Best wishesJane

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I plan to enter my book fire work for this prize.AWARD: ACORN-PLANTOSAcorn-Plantos Award for People's Poetry, In memory of Milton Acorn and TedPlantos. Deadline: June 30, 2007The Acorn-Plantos Award for People's Poetry is presented annually to aCanadian poet based on a book published in the previous calendar year (inthe present case, 2006). The work should follow in the tradition of Acorn,Livesay

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signed up for this today.http://www.artschallenge.ca/HomePage.aspx

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McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award - Time out of Mind by Laurie Block, published by Oolichan Books. - Where the Rocks Say Your Name by Brenda Hasiuk, published by Thistledown Press. - The Moonlit Cage by Linda Holeman, published by Headline Publishers (UK)/McArthur Co. - A Great Restlessness: The Life and Politics of Dorise Nielsen by Faith Johnston, published by University of Manitoba

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once again, these are my mother's tomato plants. not as many as last year, but this crop seems to be healthier and stronger. looking forward to digging the garden, cutting the grass and BBQ-ing. what the garden needs this year is a rain barrel. if we have the roof of the house re-shingled and new eves put on this summer, i'll also invest in a rain barrel. free water sounds good to me.

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just finished reading this Canadian classic. someone in my writers' group mentioned that she loved it. picked up a few fishing tips and i may one day try to make a kind of coffee from dandelion roots but really the book is trash. can see why it was popular when it was first published. makes me wish that there had been a different outcome on the Plains of Abraham. Susanna Moodie had a cork up her

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i've been reading of late: Sideways (2004) by Rex Pickett is a funny road novel. I read it as part of my on going book and movie comparison essay series. I also ended up reading the screenplay. Interesting to compare the movie, the screenplay and the novel. Maybe this is best described as "summer reading". Answered Prayers (1987) by Truman Capote is his unfinished novel. I've read

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"We are writing to inform you that your application was not successful."so back to drawing board, not creatively but financially. and i so much wanted to put the Canada Council logo and link on my site. the good news is that while i was waiting to hear about the grant, i've been writing some interesting poems. my project is must clearer today than it was back in Oct 2006. the next step is

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yesterday afternoon, i had a nice visit form my nephew Ian. we had tea. we talked about life. his future, my past. at 21, he says he's beginning to wonder who he is. what he wants to do in his life. there's a sudden interest in his roots, family, blood. so we talked about my father and his father, of things that happened before he was born. family stories. of the poems i've written about

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at St. Peter's. this year the writers' retreat organized by the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild was for three straight weeks. since i didn't go this year i've been spending some time thinking of all the good people (and chickadees) i've met there over the years. rereading a few books and reviewing fond memories. some fun and productive times. (i should have sent a bottle.) for many who return

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for the group 97 meeting, will be a Wolf Blass Red Label Shiraz Cabernet Sauvignon 2004, 13.5%. a new one for me.

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i'll have one poem, what time does to beauty, in the forthcoming Home Place anthology. 39 local poets. it will be out in April, 2007. it will be launched April 27/2007, Friday 7:00 pm at the Grant Park McNally's. everyone gets to read one poem. my sixty seconds of fame. curious to see how my photo turned out.

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This Monday I received my very first Public Lending Right Commission check! This program is in place to help financially compensate writers for having their books in public libraries. The assumption is that a writer's book sales are affected negatively if their book is available to the public in a library. One of the reasons why Matt Cohen was given The Order of Canada was his work on

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i've put a new "movie" called correspondence chess: the movie on the side bar. it's simply the moves of a correspondence chess game i played early in the 90s. i found a funky hip hop loop for the soundtrack. a bit low quality visuals to keep the file size down. a wild game. there are plenty of improvements for both sides. here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X8cDjXg2o8

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Sideways I had heard good things about the movie Sideways (2004) long before I picked up the DVD in I believe late 2005. Eventually I ran into a copy of the novel Sideways (2004) at The Thrift Shop for $1.99, a bargain. So, I read the novel at least a year after having seen the movie a few times. The fact that the novel and the movie both came out in 2004 caused me to speculate that

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EARLY BIRD RITES OF SPRING A stellar Jazz & Poetry League ofCanadian Poets Fundraiser, Feb. 23.Tickets, just $5.00, are available from McNally's Grant Park, orDowntown, Robyn, at the Manitoba Writers' Guild, (or at the door).Please purchase your tickets early.Ken Gold on baritone sax and Gilles Fournier on upright bass featurearrangements of music giants including Charlie Parker and

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i meant to post this link eons ago but somehow never got around to it. it's my pick for the best superbowl add, 2007. not since "i'd like to buy the world a coke" have i felt this good about such a bad product. the video plays off the video game Grand Theft Auto and has a great hook: "you give a little love and it all comes back to you". it's kind of a blending of Christian and Buddhist

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my sister in law Susan sends along this link: http://www.scottmcleod.org/didyouknow.wmv it's a sort of updated Future Shock.

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Sea Salt, Red Oven Mitts and the BluesGloe Cormie86 pagesAugustine Hand Press, 200262 Walter Copp CrescentWinnipeg, MB R2K 4H7Reviewed by Ken KowalSea Salt, Red Oven Mitts and the Blues flows, with an oceanic strength, a playful wit and the sensual heat of freshly baked bread. Here is a brilliant debut of craft and skill. Sea Salt, Red Oven Mitts and the Blues is one of the most elegantly

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Recently I rediscovered a box of old chess scores from my chess playing days. This is a postal game against Ron Nelson from Paris Ontario. I'm not sure of the date, maybe the early 90s. I'll have to take a closer look at it one day. NELSON - KOWAL 1 c4 e5 2 Nc3 d6 3 g3 Nc6 4 Bg2 f5 5 d3 Nf6 6 Nf3 g6 7 Bg5 h6 8 Bd2 Bg7 9 Nh4 Ne7 10 Qa4 + c6 11 b4 Bd7 12 b5 g5 13 bc6 bc6 14

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LEAGUE OF CANADIAN POETS EARLY BIRD RITES OF SPRING FUNDRAISERWinnipeg has not had a Rites of Spring event for several years, so besure to circle Friday, February 23 on your calendar. The Early Bird Rites ofSpring League of Canadian Poets Fundraiser promises to be a lively eveningof fine poetry and live jazz, with accomplished musicians, Gilles Fournieron upright bass and Ken Gold on

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been getting so much spam of late that i've put up the filters on posting to the blog.so now i have to ok each post.i guess this is easier than deleting all the crap.maybe i should change to the new blogger?

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this is an image i captured the other day. sunlight reflected off a bathroom mirror created several primitive cave-like "drawings". the images changed quickly from moment to moment. would have made an interesting short film. is there such a thing in the visual art world as "a found drawing"?

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visited my dentist the other day. walked in to his office, and the doctor, the receptionist, the hygienist and his assistant were all hanging around, about the waiting room counter. not that unusual, the last time this happened i asked "okay, what's doing on?" and i think it was the assistant who said "we're having a white-off." "really, what's that?" i queried. "we're seeing which of us has

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The Bridge Over/On The River Kwai Lately I've been interested in reading novels that have been made into movies. I focus on novels that I own both a copy of the movie and the novel. I'm curious to see how many changes and what kind of changes have been made to the story in order bring the novel to the big screen. If there are differences then I start to wonder why they might have been made

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Yes, the weather is always a fine subject for a lengthy discussion. Oh I've often thought (when I'm not thinking about something else) that it is too bad that you cannot place a legal bet on the outcome of your local weather. I'm quite sure that betting on tomorrow's weather would quickly become a popular activity among the shut-ins of our city and the citizens of the other population

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Friday's wine will be Lulu B. a French pinot noir, 13 % alc/vol. This wine should go nicely with the novel I'm currently reading.(Reading Sideways is part of my on going mini-project to compare movies with the novels they were based on. This started with me rereading Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's. Felt so curious about the movie (1961) that I went out and bought a copy. Right now I'm

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Side viewBottom view

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blogorrheaTo write a blog entry just for the sake of posting an entry, not because you have done anything interesting today.I couldn't really think of anything good to blog about, so my last post was real blogorrhea......................................This is from The Urban Word Dictionary.

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the last whodunit poem you may ever read... it's sad but i know one of us will die before the poem ends ... you should play it safe stop right here right now ... i am not your murderer i am the author the one who types these oh so deadly words ... you can't say ididn't warn you... and theory says i'm dead so this leaves you my dearest reader as the number one suspect-weapon ...

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YOU SHALL ATTAIN GREAT WISDOM WITH THE PASSING YEARS. ...............Lucky Numbers: 2, 3, 17, 38, 40, 42

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here's a site that came to my attention, after the person who runs it was momentarily caught by my ego search list. as with fishing i'm mostly a catch and release kind of guy.http://questinggirl.blogspot.com/here's what she had to say:you got me! caught me googling my self to see if my blog came up! so since I am a sometimes poet, you must now check out my blog, which is not poetry, but

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Sea Salt, Red Oven Mitts and the BluesGloe Cormie86 pagesAugustine Hand Press, 200262 Walter Copp CrescentWinnipeg, MB R2K 4H7Reviewed by Ken Kowal Sea Salt, Red Oven Mitts and the Blues flows, with an oceanic strength, a playful wit and the sensual heat of freshly baked bread. Here is a brilliant debut of craft and skill. Sea Salt, Red Oven Mitts and the Blues is one of the most elegantly

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From: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bcash/breakfasthomepage.htmlThe Breakfast at Tiffny's Homepage:Capote was most upset with the changes Paramount made in the screen version of his novel. In particular with the change of the ending. Instead of a remembrance of Holly, the narrator ends up convincing Holly to stay in New York with him by making her realize that, like her and her cat, they belong

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YOUR COMMAND OF THE LANGUAGE WILL OPEN DOORS FOR YOU.........................................Lucky numbers: 2, 8, 9, 18, 31, 42 .

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Been reading a few books of late: The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud is a short story collection from 1959. I don't know how I managed to do it but this is the first time I've read the guy. 13 straight forward stories with beginnings, middles, and ends. Like most Jewish-American writers of his generation the theme of Jewish idenity or What does it mean to be a post-war Jew? is foremost in

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my new year's resolution is to be happier.

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my brother told me about this free download:http://www.finalemusic.com/a very easy to use program that allows you to compose music.

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BUTTERMILK LOCKSHIN KOOGEL... 1 PACKAGE OF MEDIUM NOODLES 1 LITRE OF BUTTERMILK 500 M. DRY COTTAGE CHEESE (OPTIONAL) 5 EGGS ½ TSP SALT AND A DASH OF PEPPER TOPPING – OPTIONAL ¾ CUP OF BROWN SUGAR 2 Tbsp. SOFT BUTTER 1 CUP CORN FLAKES COOK NOODLES, DRAIN VERY WELL. MIX WITH BUTTERMILK, EGGS, SALT AND PEPPER. POUR INTO WELL-WARMED GREASED PAN AND BAKE FOR 45 MINUTES AT 350 DEGREES

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ACCEPT THE NEXT PROPOSITION YOU HEARluck numbers: 3 5 7 8 16 39

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I'll be hosting the group this Friday. Already have the wine: 2 , yes I said 2 litres of Lindemans Cawarra, a Cabernet Merlot blend. You have to have priorities, right? The main plus of hosting your writers' group is you don't have to worry about getting home later that night/morning. One of the poems I plan to present is obliquely about this fact. Will serve the usual mixture of deadly

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came across this snow effect the other day. you can find the code over at:http://www.altan.hr/snow/index.htmlwho needs content when you can add flaky stuff like this?

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New MARTIAN PRESS Chapbooks! I am very pleased to announce SIX new(ish) MARTIAN PRESS chapbooks:Aberrant Lounges by Kimmy Beachon stealing lips by Lars Palmacts of barbarity and vandalism by Daniel TysdalDocument 1 by kevin mcpherson eckhoffOf Quixote’s Lap by ryan fitzpatrick generations by rob mclennanSome of these have been out for a while but I haven't had time to promote them, and

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After the game, rosey-cheeked Keith, Slick and Tom talk about the weather.

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i added the World Cat search thingy on the side bar today. to see how it works, try typing in your own name.

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Tom "The Strapper" buys a round.

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is now 100% spam free! I don't know about other bloggers out there but I've been getting more comment spam than usual. I heard a rumour a couple of weeks ago that there's a new type of spam making the rounds. A kind of superspam, that's able to leap over tall firewalls and see through visual type-in codes. I used to think that any comment is better than no comment but really that's pretty sad

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