By now you may have heard about the new direction that Peter is about to take ... After Newport Arms Hotel, Iceberg and Bondi Hotel sessions, I am the only one up at 8 am - Where is Timmy, Vietnamese Dave, Tammaramma Dave, Marcus, Grant ? ;-)
Whether you are techie, a politician, a campaign operative, a staffer or an activist, you can’t ignore the evolution—and revolution—happening all around us. Today, for almost no money, anyone can be a reporter, a community organizer, an ad-maker, a publisher, a money-raiser, or a leader. If what they have to say is compelling, it will spread ... Czech out Dan Gillmor: It’s time to learn how to adapt to, and even thrive in this new, inter-networked environment
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Is she now wrecking your home too?
I love strict poetic forms. I think creativity comes not from total freedom -- but from arbitrary structural limitations that compel artists to be concise, or to take the history of their media into account. That's why, for example, I love a tightly-structured pop song more than freeform jazz. In poetry, I think the single-coolest form is the nonrhyming petrarchan sonnet executed in a loose iambic pentameter: A perfect amalgam of structure and freedom.
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my Carlingford Baptist Church friends said I
couldn't be in my own life time.
And by the way, I want to thank everyone out there who has been helping me over the last seven months. You know who you are, and I really appreciate it! Fibs Everywhere: fibs affraid of three s’s spiders, sharks and sex ;-)
The Blog, The Press, The Media: A Blog can change the world: Doubt everything, find your own light
Before you get hooked on Bukowski, I would like to make this disclaimer. The following are my personal views. My personal views however are good only for me. You should not accept them but doubt them. You should doubt everyone of the 30 million bloggers posts and discover your own light:
Ken Parish has been reading literary and movie blogs recently. Not that I’m denying that Iraq and AWB are important or anything, it’s just that there’s only so many times you can say the same thing before outrage fatigue begins to set in. Chekhov’s Mistress is a tasty US literary blog by Bud Paar, and I especially liked his take on pseudo-Beat poet Charles Bukowski, who made Kerouac look like a limp-membered wooz. Bukowski wasn’t actually a great poet per se, think Eminem 30 years earlier:
Bukowski was an ornery ugly man who didn’t care what anyone thought of him (until he softened up just a little bit later in life). This it would seem was the key to his success, this ugliness and f***-you to the worldedness.
Born into this Into hospitals which are so expensive that it’s cheaper to die ...
Sociologist David Phillips calls it the “Werther” effect, named after a character in a Goethe novel who committed suicide, which itself prompted a rash of suicides in Europe over 200 years ago ...
• Social Proof: Herd it Through the Grapevine Change the world Or why get out of bed? [Whether you’re trying to sell something or build traffic to your blog, connecting with people is the key Blog Triggers: You Like Me . . . You Really, Really Like Me! ; If I could stick a knife in my heart, suicide right on stage, would it be enough … woluld it help to ease the pain? Ease your brain? Would it satisfy ya, would it slide on by ya. You are Here by Chance or Intelligence? (via Wasim) ; Forgotten lie the martyrs in their dusty catacombs - And the faiths, for which they died, are cold and dead - Life Beyond and the Single Blogging Principle Doubt everything, Because you need to find your own light ]
• · Hundreds of categories Great Affiliate Program ; In God or the Girl, four men ponder the celibate life Joe has already dropped out of seminary twice. At the beginning of the show, we see him, at age 28, bringing his dirty laundry back to his mom's place in Cleveland. His folks influence his thinking about the priesthood perhaps too heavily. You get this idea watching his mother call him selfish for considering other career options and also when you hear him say that he doesn't want to be celibate. Priest or No Priest?
• · · Italy's politician-cum-porn star Cicciolina tries to make Osama Bin Laden an offer he can't refuse. “I am ready to make a deal, he can have me in exchange for an end to his tyranny. My breasts have only ever helped people while Bin Laden has killed thousands of innocent victims Porn star's offer to Bin Laden ; It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end - So why not work in your pajamas? Learn to earn millions from home! You can work whenever you'd like, morning, noon, night .. midnight if you'd like .. it doesn't matter. You Look Dumb in a Suit
• · · · Can someone please, please, please tell me why there are always stories in the press about our glorious tax office going on compliance rampages and ‘discovering’ whole heaps of people who haven’t put in a tax return? Data matching; and cracking nuts with sledge hammers ; Man: "I want to give myself to you." Woman: "Sorry, I don't accept cheap gifts." Blogs and Books