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Valente, Catherynne -- Silently and Very Fast, Part I: The Imitation Game
Valente, Catherynne -- Silently and Very Fast, Part II: Lady Lovelace's Objection
Valente, Catherynne -- Silently and Very Fast, Part III: The Elephant's SoulWalt Whitman's "Washington's Monument, February, 1885 ( Read more... )

Highlights of the Stock Show & Rodeo:

• Spend the day out with Jason and Earl. I don't usually get all involved with what Earl and his boyfriend do, but it was really nice to find our interests overlapping for more than a meal or thirty minutes. It was lovely and hilariously silly, and there were rides, and teasing of everyone, and sharings of food ( Read more... )

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Lunar Chronicles Prequel: "Glitches" by Marissa Meyer ( Read more... )

For alemara, who requested Music and singing, please!

Frequently I use the phrase "I think in music and I speak in poetry," and the first part is quite true. I am not so much obsessed with music, as sometimes I feel like it is obsessed with me, is a part of me I could no more control or move than the blood circulation in my system. I was in early ( Read more... )

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Tony Barstone's "Lamp or Mirror"
Natasha Saje's "Beauty Secrets, Revealed by the Queen in Snow White"
Rick Snyder's "Here City"
Sommer Browning's "The Whistler"
Geoffrey G. O'Brien's "From Honey to Ashes"
Robert Frost's "Dust of Snow"
Emily Dickinson's "Winter is good - his Hoar Delights (1316)"

TVBig Bang Theory 5.14, 5. ( Read more... )

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Paul Laurence Dunbar's "Sympathy"
Toi Derricotte's "Elegy for my husband"
Jane Hirshfield's "Many-Roofer Building in Moonlight"
Arthur Sze "Comet Hyakutate"
Charles Jensen's "Poem in Which Words Have Been Left Out"
Helen Hunt's "January"
Claude McKay's "The Snow Fairy"

Books
Green, John -- The Fault In Our StarsSundem, ( Read more... )

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You left a lovestain on my heart
And you left a bloodstain on the ground
But blood comes off easily
But blood comes off easily

You left a lovestain on my heart
You left a bloodstain on the ground

But blood comes off easily
But blood comes off easily

You left my heart stained

-- Jose Gonzalez

Articles/Stories/Poetry
Robert Louis Stevenson's "Winter-Time"
Robert Graves' "The Shivering Beggar"
Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Thursday"
John Clare's "The Old Year"
Lord Alfred Tennyson's "In Memoriam [Ring out, wild bells]"
Helen Hunt Jackson's "New Year's Morning"

ComicsBuffy Season 9 #2 ( Read more... )