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Ugh!
The only attention I've gotten from a man in literally a year was a facebook message from a random college acquaintance saying he "liked me," "thought of me often," and wanted to know how I felt about him.
A friend had gotten into his facebook account, picked my name at random, and sent that message.
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The 150,000 pound dog.
According to a BBC News Report, a couple in Florida have paid 150,000 pounds for a commercially cloned dog [the narrator clearly says pounds; that is $214,505 American -ed.]. Lancelot Encore* is reportedly an exact genetic copy of the family pet which died last year ( Read more... ) -
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Shine on Me - Chris Dane Owens
Just... wow. The guy behind it is earnest as a heart attack too.
And take a listen at that bridge. Someone's heard Roxy Music's "More Than This." Someone's also stolen Edgar Winter's hair. -
I've got to admit.
Things are always better than I say they are. It was a nice week that ended beautifully. I am busy. I am assertive. I am being productive. I will not beat myself up and an excellent weekend seems incipient ( Read more... ) -
TELL CONGRESS: Tax oil windfall profits and rebuild Gulf Coast wetlands!
I reached my tagging limit for a Facebook note, but please forward this to people with working hearts and heads. I hope that the rest of this day will go on like it has thus far: a large bullet dodged, a mythical End averted once more for my hometown of New Orleans. Hurricane Gustav made landfall today as a Category 1 hurricane, and for now the ( Read more... ) -
I'm in the LA Weekly (blog)! Shameless plug.
Now up on the LA Weekly Style Council Blog is my review of the Moth StorySLAM last night at the Tangier. Go read it and support me! Because you love me even more than you previously assumed! Click here, unless words make you frown.
The Moth, whose New York event is now a curated institution of the NYC literary scene with a fabulous podcast at ( Read more... ) -
Further evidence of (big-D) Depression?
Consider the mutual implications of those thoughts in the context of the state of our economy. Starbucks casts a wide net in both cities and suburbs, the concentrated centers of population and wealth compared to small towns and rural areas. If people in familiar service positions in the most robust parts of our country are at risk of losing jobs ( Read more... ) -
Old poem, rewritten.
jacaranda days
I heard you cradled in distant arms
with radar ping, metronome tick,
and lark's call sounding the proof
that you were not near anymore-
continental divide: divide us!
a fruitful dialectic bloomed
our straddling was a paradox
a joy that relished twilight
but stumbled in the dark
for hyperbole or fulfillment
laughing in the grocery store
at ( Read more... )
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