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Friday, August 30, 2013

In search of the real thing

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  Novelist Sherman Alexie generated hundreds of tweets, puns, grammar jokes and arguments with the simple Twitter post embedded above: “Gr...
Thursday, August 29, 2013

The Voice Is All

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it occurred to me that poetry is a gate; and you might say that’s a given, considering we live in a world, fenced and narrow, harrowin...

Everybody Knows The Last Bookstore

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Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich g...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Power is in the hands of ill informed event organisers

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I don’t recall a time when our community has been abused so much by few thugs. A Sydney mother was allegedly threatened with legal action tw...
Tuesday, August 27, 2013

You’re Only As Good As Your Last Prolonged Period of Self-Loathing

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Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are. — Julio Cortá...
Sunday, August 25, 2013

From Another Tongue: the story of the human race is war

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"This evening heard Carmen on the radio, and reflected how hard it was to vamp a man while singing at the top of one's voice. That...
Friday, August 23, 2013

Your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace

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"Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first." — Steve I...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

I am a Dreamer on Rakhi Day

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"I intend to live forever. So far, so good!" ~ Steven Wright (Wrong Steve? It might have been the Godfather Steve M ;-) “Every...
Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Expanding Cultures: Google+: Kelly Saks' Story

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News from Google Blogger ... From time to time, we like to highlight bloggers who successfully use Blogger and other Google products. Toda...
Monday, August 19, 2013

Jeremy Outen: Top fraud investigator quits UK crime agency role

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Note to TF: Lou this is an amazing ship The man appointed to co-ordinate the fight against financial crime in the new National Crime Agenc...
Thursday, August 15, 2013

Creative Music For Soul: California rapper Raashan Ahmad and Bohemian Sarsha Simone

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“We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams. World-lose...
Tuesday, August 13, 2013

'This Did Something Powerful to Me

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The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it. --V. S. Naipaul, A Bend in the ...
Sunday, August 11, 2013

Among the Immortals

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The memorial involved piling between 50 and 60 tonnes of stone ~ Art of Rock This 12-year-old Egyptian boy is putting together some very ...
Thursday, August 08, 2013

Fallen Idols: Nothing Like Being Scared

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“You love the end product, but you don’t really want to know how it’s made.” “If we didn’t read people who were bastards, we’d never read...