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What me / my hair looks like in the winter: 

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1.) I will absolutely skip any song by Bush (a band I didn't think was ever so horrible, but really is ( Read more... )

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This is Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, and I am writing this note to spread the word on a very special project I am doing, which is being generously funded by the National Endowment for ( Read more... )

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Hey, everybody! Check out my Write Bloody contest video and hit LIKE! A LIKE counts as a vote of approval and helps me get closer to getting my book AMERICAN BUCKEYE published!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5mCER4hfH0

The coffeehouse I work in the most in Austin has a fleet of baristas who un-ironically love Phil Collins. I think I've fallen under the same spell:

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I could listen to this song on repeat all day.

And this coffeehouse is answering that wish.

"TAKE A GOOD LOOK at me noooooOOOOoow! Because IIIIIIIIII'LL still be STANDING HERE!"

WEEBLE WOBBLE BUT THEY DON'T FALL DOWN

I know a woman about to lose her house. 
It's not missing, she's certain 
where the water shut-off valve is 
and which stair squeaks when she goes up 
at ten to rise at four. I promised myself 
I wasn't going to do this, no one listens 
to this kind of poem anyway, 
it might as well be a sermon or the side 
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I'm on year four (!!) of a New Year's Resolution to be more aggressively supportive of poets / poetry I love. One of my favorite ways to do this is reviewing books on Amazon.com, provided they fit into all my criteria (discussed in this LJ entry).

You can catch up on the reviews I did from the first half of the 2009 ( here), second half(ish) of ( Read more... )

In case, you think contemporary times have cornered the market with strange baby names, check out some of these names I've uncovered in my research. All of these names are all from one very established American family -- six generations worth -- whom I'm researching for my Mutter project:

Concurrence (girl)
Tryal (girl)                            
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